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That code is doing a lot more than just layout and styling.

It may be a useful sanity check to simulate the experiment multiple times to see the result: def choose_coin rand 0, :tails => 0 } 1000000.times do coin = choose_coin next unless a…

It's hard to imagine that even those could total more than a small fraction of the purported 500 MLOC. The JDK is only a few million lines of code.

I'm having a really hard time believing that figure.

Why would having multiple cores make the event loop cycle faster? Maybe I misunderstood and he was using "Moore's law" to refer to exponential increase in processor speed rather th…

Yes, but that doesn't give you a great way to deal with attaching and canceling multiple callbacks simultaneously. If you want to perform several independent asynchronous actions a…

That's a really good point. I hadn't been completely sold on the value of promises over callbacks before, but this seems like a very unambiguous advantage. I can't think of an obvi…

How's that? JS is single-threaded.

I haven't really studied algorithmic information theory, but I'd assume that Kolmogorov complexity isn't defined for uncomputable/undefinable numbers. Or maybe it's defined as "inf…

There's only a countable number of formulas of ZFC. Therefore, there's only a countable number ways of writing out a formula of ZFC that uniquely specifies a real number. Therefore…

The key phrases there are "almost surely" and "most irrational numbers." There are irrational numbers like pi which can be defined algorithmically, but taken together as a set they…

I wouldn't include their pricing structure as part of their marketing, though it doubtless attracts many users. (So do their algorithms, but those aren't included in their marketin…

It's an awesome motto that's served them extremely well. Google's ability to frame themselves as the "good guys" is the only real marketing advantage they have.

I don't see how he's being scapegoated. What failure is he being held personally responsible for?

Not trying to defend the viability of FB ads here, but this analysis seems a little shallow. Falling within a certain demographic may not "make" you click an ad, but the same could…

I agree with the author that getting a ridiculously generous counter offer is a red flag about the company's management, and this alone constitutes a reason to reject the proposal.…