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When you bill by the hour, what you’re really saying is “I have no idea if what I’m doing will have any value, and I honestly don’t care — all that matters is that I am not exposed…

In this particular case the author is using a controversial headline to drum up attention for his business, which he plugs about 2/3rds of a way through the article. I think web de…

Jonathan Grey, a current US intelligence official at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (Nasic), confirmed the existence of “exotic materials” to the Debrief, adding: “…

> "But I Have No Choice!" > I see this argument pop-up frequently when taking to design leaders or developers. I call bullshit on this excuse. You absolutely have the choice to avo…

OP is working in a dysfunctional workplace and has conflated that with "developer estimates are bad": > 1. Give a very wide estimate with a lot of padding > 2. Get pressured to be …

The Big Bounce[1] hypothesis is a model that "suggests that we could be living at any point in an infinite sequence of universes". So while our current universe may not be infinite…

DoIT estimates the project will take at least 5 years to make the necessary changes resulting in a total state general fund cost of approximately $1.47 Billion .... Total Annual Co…

It's possible the complaint is using a trivial example to illustrate the type of argument plaintiffs want to make during any trial. A 200-line example is too unwieldy for non-progr…

But ... the examples on the right are short, concise, and effectively communicate the problem. The left examples contain no actionable information, wasting the time and attention o…

> So, Middle Earth had coal, but did it need coal? I don’t think so. The author focuses on energy sources for machine power. But what about generating high heat for metallurgy? Coa…

On Firefox 97.0 (64-bit) macOS 10.15.7 (19H2) - pressing "/" opens up "Quick Find"

You'd have a point if it was just git. Issue tracker, PR interface, wiki / documentation tools, actions/webhooks, etc. - that's where Github demonstrates its utility.

Hmmm...Maybe I just tune out the business stuff, but I mostly see topics relating to programming, science, and technology, with a smattering of pure business stuff and product/star…

Super Mario 64 and The Ocarina of Time elevated open-world 3D game play. So much of gaming to this point, even 3D gaming, was dungeon crawling, or traversing linear paths and story…

> She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth. 1) If they take false content down that will reinforce her beliefs. 2) If they leave false con…

> I was, again, technically stronger. A thousand-string pull request was littered with 200 comments, not leaving the person even a faint hope in his competency. Great. That's way t…

Love the concept. My only blocker for adoption is being able to import bookmarks from Firefox into Bonsai. Feedback and ideas: 1) On macOS Catalina - can't Cmd+Tab out of full-scre…

Sharing freely and embracing open source has been an unalloyed good for encouraging the development of software; so there is some insight to your comment. But participation in open…

Does it though? It seems instead the incentive might be to create broad and accessible works that will appeal to the widest audience. Marvel movies are produced and performed with …

I've always been fascinated by people who spend huge chunks of time creating and maintaining Wikipedia articles. Are they driven by a simple love research and curating information?…

Another possibility is that chances of advanced civilizations developing are extraordinarily rare. It could be so rare that even if anatomically modern humans exist for one to two …

Note - this method requires the element have a height defined; or a height derived from a declaration like `aspect-ratio` That's because `inset: 0rem` is equivalent to `top: 0rem; …

Noticed no problems today, west coast, I have their web mail interface always running in an open tab

It's a false equivalence. Here's the AOC quote being referenced: > "The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & a…