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Stories like this make me glad my company has yet to accept VC money. We're a five-person legal tech startup and the work environment is far and away the best I've ever experienced…

I tend to open multiple windows instead. Though, to be fair, I usually do that on a per project basis. I try to close tabs once I realize I'm not going to be using them in the near…

I wonder what it would take to get us to the point where we can oxygenate sufficiently without needing to use our lungs at all. Tons of applications there.

I think this is only partially true. There are aspects of coding which can be abstracted away, either because they're essentially boilerplate or because a simpler description of th…

> That's where the volume is. There's a big demand for programmers to do web stuff. That demand may or may not continue. It's so stylized that it should have been automated by now.…

Funny point, but I assume they mean ten years for a problem they throw whole, enormous teams at.

Fascinating. I'll do some research; appreciate the input.

Huh, fascinating. Re: the salmon roe, do you take a supplement which contains the lysophosphatidylcholine, or do you just down the eggs? Ice baths: that's for mental acuity, or ove…

I actually decided to try vaping nicotine to test whether it indeed was a cognition enhancer, and here I am months later addicted like it's nobody's business. Turns out trying this…

Only tangentially related, but: has anyone found a drug/supplement/etc which aids them in memory retention, cognition, alertness etc? The only thing I've found effective is modafin…

I'm pushing back on describing them as 'mental self-gratification', as that seems like it implies a lack of value in them, potential if not immediate.

> until there is confirming evidence that assertion is just mental self-gratification. I'd say this is a bit overly negative. There's value in developing theories and frameworks wh…

I had a feeling it might be a very off putting style for some people. However, for me, I found it absolutely hilarious and very intelligent despite being obviously extremely... I'm…

> If you laid all the people I contacted end to end along the equator, they would die, and you would be arrested. Possibly the best line in an article full of really fantastic line…

Aaand now I can't un-hear it. Thanks a lot.

Gonna disagree there: green circuits (and their descendents) are needed often enough and in high enough volumes that it absolutely makes sense to bus them. I've got four full lanes…

> Don't leave valuables in your car, don't lock your doors - they'll just open, rifle through, and leave. I've had my car rifled through tens of times and the most they ever got wa…

This was my experience as well. When I started as a developer, my team was fully remote (I was the only developer in NYC, most of the rest were in Portugal or elsewhere in the US.)…

No clue how important they are in the ecosystem, but from the perspective of insects which piss me off, I'm on board 100%.

I've heard that mosquitoes are believed to be completely replaceable in the food chain of the various species which prey upon them. Considering how mosquitoes are a vector for _num…

Oh hey, just saw your response =) Not something I'm likely to be looking at in the nearish future, but the next time I need to do some refactoring/rolling out a new Stripe feature,…

> - There seemed to be 3 or so quickstarts/tutorials for the same developer flow, at varying levels of detail (good), but they all had similar names and were difficult to distingui…

That's really cool. I wonder what would have happened if you'd called that number.

I know AE offers different types of soles, including some very weather resistant ones. You probably know this, but just in case; and you might have more options for different soles…

Not only that, but it blindsided European leaders. You'd think one would want to communicate an incoming travel ban to our allies before announcing it on live television... https:/…