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"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." –Alan Perlis

A friend of mine made a fun (upcoming) cooperative party game based on this: - BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408945/boubakiki - Kickstarter (Funded): https://www.kicksta…

If you're interested in property-based testing, I highly recommend "How to Specify It!" by John Hughes, which is available both as a talk and as a paper. https://research.chalmers.…

I made a Swift library, Logician ( https://github.com/mdiep/Logician ), based on microKanren with the help of these links. I also wrote about how it works with Swift: https://matt.…

ScreenHero. Slack built it their app, but made it way slower and ruined the simple UI. What used to take 3-5s now takes 30-60s.

What we've done with GitHub Desktop is very different than the write-an-entire-app-in-JS approach that a lot of apps have taken. There's a small piece of custom UI that's built wit…

This actually has nothing to do with our startup performance, at least on OS X. The comparison graph doesn't have a substantial impact on it. :) Also, any similarities to Atom are …

That is something that we've considered. Both Mac and Windows clients predate Electron (but maybe not the initial versions of Atom). Rewriting from scratch in an unfamiliar environ…

I really liked the sound of Crashlytics. Then Twitter bought it. Now it's free. I don't trust Twitter and I don't trust free, so I'm less likely to use this. If I don't understand …

I think the argument is that if Apple made a calculator that looked like the Braun one it would be stealing. But since it's not the same type of device, it's a tribute. I'm not sur…

I think we can all agree that Marco overreacted: he says as much in his blog post. But this doesn't affect my confidence in the Instapaper service. I think it says a lot about Marc…

The article does not say that downloading it over your wi-fi connection will result in $2.58 in delivery fees. It says that the average delivery fee for the book was $2.58.

Is there a reason I should care about GCC anymore? Admittedly, I mostly code ObjC on OS X, where GCC is no longer relevant, but LLVM seems to have leapfrogged GCC so dramatically t…

Absolutely. I read GEB in high school, and have often thought of reading it again, but it's a hefty book to carry around. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see an eBook edition to…

As a tea neophyte, I strongly suggest that you add a link to recommended equipment for brewing loose-leaf tea. I have considered trying to get into tea several times, but could nev…

Very cool! A few things for you to consider: 1. Consider putting preferences in their own window. This is the standard Mac behavior, and it's a little confusing to have your app do…

I'd love to see a full list of all the books you read and the order in which you read them. I recently started reading The Story of Civilization and augmenting it with other works …

Ha! Remarkable because I know Seun. He's not dangerous, but he does have a thick Nigerian accent. I can't help but wonder if his accent helped him get through security and on the p…

I don't think that's really a fair treatment of the issue. It probably doesn't make sense, from a business standpoint, for Amazon to maintain their facilities there if Texas can ma…

For a long time, that was also my impression. But it's wrong. Mostly. It turns out that there isn't a single definition for the word species—there are multiple definitions that lea…

Not only that, but airports don't need to use the TSA: they can opt to use a private security firm. (Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/11/amid-airport-... ) Maybe…

If HP made an iPod Touch competitor, I would buy one in a heartbeat. I don't want to buy another phone, but I'd love to have a WebOS device to play with.

Okay, I know hating on Republicans is fun, but is that really necessary? Why sow the seeds of discord?

These aren't unique to Metro Detroit. Portions of the East Beltline (M-44) in Grand Rapids, one of the busiest streets in the area, make use of the Michigan Left.

Google likes to hire women. They go out of their way to do so. (So does Microsoft.) That substantially raised her chance of getting an interview and a job.