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no citation, but I wanted one of these as a kid and remember them being around $100-150 USD in the early 00s

Not sure this is what GP was referencing, but TMS is approved[0] for treatment-resistant OCD, depression, and migraine headaches. [0]: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announc…

James Carse has a theory[0] about this: “There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, …

While I appreciate the “middle” metaphor, I think it’s unwise to generalize business (and real life situations, more broadly) as a chess game — life doesn’t often come with symmetr…

+1. I can also recommend his new book “Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track”.

That’s almost exactly what happened on Southwest 1380[0] a few years ago. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

To split this hair a bit, I think “code quality” has two definitions: 1. the degree to which the code can be trusted to operate correctly and in a fault-tolerant way (i.e. “yeah th…

Out of curiosity, how long is the term on the lease?

> why aren't most messaging apps peer to peer [...] it's literally the point of messages: sending from one person to another. Messaging apps are more like postal services — "please…

I don’t know much more than you on this, but I’ve seen this explained as such: inflation requires the injected money to actually be circulated in the economy in order to dilute the…

OTOH, optimizing for a highly-compliant police force could set you up for trouble if they end up executing orders that a less compliant force would refuse to follow on moral ground…

Sleep Like The Dead[0] is a fantastic, independent site for mattress reviews that relies more on quantitative data[1] than commentary. [0]: https://www.sleeplikethedead.com [1]: ht…

Button ( https://usebutton.com/ ) | Full-time | ONSITE in NYC (New York, NY) Button is building a better way to do business in mobile — one that doesn't rely on antiquated, ineffec…

> calls a 1 hour meeting, [...] but now they feel the need to pad the remaining half hour with whatever that's a wild way to run meetings — in my current organization, finishing a …

@justsaysinmice[0] would like to have a word... [0]: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice

Are software engineers in the Bay Area required to be onsite much more than other industries?

Check out Beeminder[0], this is exactly what their product does. [0]: https://beeminder.com/

It goes deeper than anecdotal "I wish my client hadn't said anything", there are concrete reasons for this advice. For example, according to rules of evidence, any exculpatory stat…

Financial stability doesn't mean much to the end-user if the product ends up getting killed off regardless.

I've been a full-stack/frontend engineer for about five years (and I love it!) but I have a growing curiosity in tangential topics like hardware, robotics, and ML. Would love to he…

> In a truly free market, companies aren't supposed to do anything [...] In a regulated market though... Free market !== unregulated market. In order for an unregulated market to b…