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"One thing that helped me immensely in my career is understanding that my relationship with a company is a business relationship" That is just a culture thing. Most prominently in …

It always boggles my mind that python is so popular while being so unfriendly and hard to use. Terrible package management. Poor typing system. Useless stack traces. Unintuitive sy…

This. In German the word for "video-calling" is "Skyping". Similar to MSN, the strength of the brand and goodwill that it has in some geographies is on-par with Google for search, …

Interesting read. Maybe a replica, high-quality poster or glass print would be a cool ornament in the kitchen or dining room :)

Senegal only 5%? I thought it was a well educated country. Maybe something wrong with the data?

Here's a European perspective that is somewhat pro-Trump, surprising as it may sound. I am Dutch and if someone would come along and promise the following: "We're gonna lower your …

This is cool. I don't watch so many movies anymore, so there must be many good ones i've missed. Is there a functioning natural language query somewhere? "I want to watch a science…

I really wanted windows phone to be a success and am still sad it wasn't. I loved the interface. The native integration between my desktop/laptop and phone would have been great. N…

At home I have a book telling stories of Dutch WW2 survivors still living today. One of them was an eye witness account of the Hiroshima bomb. He was a POW and worked in a quarry o…

We aren't far from Diamondillium!

I would say when it comes to free will you have no choice but to believe in it.

One positive note: I think the name "undefined" is actually very fitting for what it represents.

I would love to have your advice. What tool would you recommend to do straightforward ETL's as a single developer? Think of tasks like ETL-ing data from Production to Test or Local…

Super-interesting side-tangent: There is a theory that the clicking sounds present in many African languages originate from taboos like these. Basically they would use a click as "…

If this works it is life-changing for me. Eyestrain is now one of the biggest threats to my career and killjoys in my life. I backed the EazeEye kickstarter (which was backlit LCD)…

Fun read! It still surprises me no predator has been able to somehow take advantage of this evolutionary gap. You'd think one of the predators mentioned in the article would evolve…

True for every employer i've ever been at. Your career is mostly steered by exposure, rather than reputation or ability. Design docs are very visible to those above you. At yvery c…

From the perspective of a hunter gatherer, we already live in this future. Our skills have nothing to do with theirs. From their perspective we are phenomenally dumb because we cou…