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I'm trying to figure out how to keep mindful in how I spend my time and I can't figure out how to deal with Youtube. With many potential distractions, it's very easy to just block …

A few years ago Neo4j seemed to all the hype. Now noone seems to be talking about it anymore. The tech seemed so promising and made so much sense, so why did graph databases fail t…

> They shouldn't be making Firefox worse with advertising in order to subsidize their flailing around trying to find traction in mobile or VR. Ofc no one likes adds, but you have t…

I wonder when the next article like this will reappear... I mean it seems to be the case in AI that periods of hype and periods of winter regularly change and it seems we’re reachi…

I never really understood how such buggy software can have such crazy high valuation. Seems like just a matter of time before someone does the same thing but better.

I tried to pay my Indian contractor through Paypal. Their system flagged the transaction, so I contacted support. After several days of trying to get anyone to respond, I was liter…

It’s really interesting how the lines between imperative and functional languages are becoming more and more blurred overtime as they’re borrowing features from one another.

“Let them view users’ passwords”... sigh

Are Macbooks still king or is there a reasonable alternative?

“some people don't give animals enough credit (...) Animals are often very smart.” preach

Another sad fact is the widely used Python libraries such as pandas are very poorly written from a usability perspective, it seems like all the naming conventions went out the wind…

If it's true I'm really curious how they did this. Probably they got the private key somehow?

Yes I'd be quite keen to see that also, I wasn't aware there was a decline already (although it's obvious the interest can't just keep going up forever).