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She's saying it's a bad book, and she did not enjoy reading it. What it talks about could be considered misuse of language or lack of skill. Most people telling a story will try to…

As far as I can tell, you're only missing two things: 1. It's five "Unicode scalars," that's the name for the top-level logical unit. The term "code points" technically refers to a…

This article has no "hint claim" that China is the sole lender. In fact, there's no such thing as "the front of the line" when you're the sole lender. It's an article about Chinese…

"Scrum shortens planning horizons by limiting batch-sizes to two week sprints. . . Still, because Scrum is a push-based system, it still requires you to do some form of estimation …

I recently did an OAuth integration with an API that documented its OAuth endpoints like all its other endpoints: including a mention of OAuth in the description but giving explana…

See, for me this is an example of how the hyper-empirical, sciencify-everything mindset is great for getting at truth but less great at giving advice. The default, intuitive approa…

I don't know about the article's theorizing, but it inspired me to have a conversation I enjoyed with ChatGPT, where I focused on telling it not to discuss polar bears. (It helpful…

Those sound like non-arbitrary restrictions to make everything actually be stable and legit.

Might as well link to the reference. I thought it was funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung >

So far, I've only read the abstract, but I see two problems with this approach. One is that they are looking specifically at open source projects, which, as other comments have poi…

It's new and bad that unknown authors can face massive backlash while they're still unknown. You can sell twenty copies of your first book and get twenty million calls for a boycot…

First, thank you for implementing and promoting this approach to collections. I did see that link, because I liked the concept enough to read it all the way through without knowing…

Fair enough and absolutely true in principle, but I don't think "here are its pros and cons" is the message being conveyed. Rich Hickey might be very humble in person, and I don't …

It seems like everything I read about Closure gives me a reason to use it, but a slightly stronger reason not to. I'm happy to see a language putting this approach to collections i…

I think computer models just mean you do replication the other way around. Of course anyone who runs the same program gets the same results, so ordinary replication is pointless--i…

He set up separate hosting for some static splash pages and got some information for us from vendors. I never did get a clear explanation of his role, and he stayed at another site…