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Before you know it we'll have re-invented LaTeX for a new generation.

1) Most software gets its timestamps from the system clock 2) If you have a mismatch between the system time and the application time, then you just have log timestamps that don't …

Common, but not universal - from 2005 to as late as 2014 I worked for companies that used Pacific time on their servers.

StageCraft WAS Unreal Engine; it is not anymore.

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Deaths are currently at around 2,000 PER DAY in the United States. That is not in any way, shape, or form "extremely lower" than earlier waves. The Omicron wave was equal to the in…

Dragging Anish Kapoor never, ever gets old.

That's nearly 1% of the population of San Francisco. It's already shockingly high.

Oh, the irony of publishing this on Medium.

2016 IS very recently. Three years ago does not count as "many years ago". Richard Stallman is 66 years old. To have only realized that pedophilia is bad at age 63, only when other…

How is that different than, well -- anything? In the United States all 50 states can make their own laws; it's a fundamental part of our legal system. As for every country making t…

> There's a big difference between standard styling and optional styling. THIS. This is not stated enough in the value of gofmt - it's the standard formatting style for everything …

This is true for every employee of every public company on the planet. We're discussing it here because Mr. Musk thinks the rules don't apply to him.

Paying a random consumer $20 does not make them a contractor. Do you think they all got 1099s?

Very cool. One minor usability suggestion - it would be fantastic if the adjusters didn't reset when the base color changes.

Go code compiles to compact, statically linked binaries with relatively compact memory usage and reasonably good concurrency support, and an excellent standard library for handling…

Datadog will cost you $165,600 a year for 600 hosts. That is objectively equal to a very well paid engineer. So no, the statement is not untrue. (I picked 600 because that was the …

Indeed - I'm working on integrating this into the static site generator I use, so it's only run offline.

Yes, however some features in TypeScript are only supported when targeting ES6 (such as "const"), so there's still some value in double-transpiling from TypeScript -> ES6 -> ES5 (I…

Thank goodness 60mph+ baseballs don't annihilate matter when they impact baseball bats!

Irrespective of the public back & forth between Docker and CoreOS, that's a completely reasonable stance to take. Standards need to be proven in the real world before being adopted…

Tessera ( https://github.com/urbanairship/tessera ) has pluggable renderers - I haven't checked out metricsgraphics suitability for rendering Graphite data yet, but it would likely…