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Thank you! Happy to see a positive comment. Took a lot of effort. I like long-form writing. However, it takes a lot of effort. So, I end up not writing often. It is a hot topic esp…

... that is how you achieve a good design (for the time being).

> Avoid having five different services all write to the same table. Instead, have four of them send API requests (or emit events) to the first service, and keep the writing logic i…

move on.

A Reddit debate over C# vs. Java int, sparked by a Microsoft engineer’s claim that C#’s int is a primitive, revealed confusion amplified by `Type.IsPrimitive`. This led to the Lₐₓ/…

This looks cool. However, anybody interested in a cross-platform option can look at https://www.tagspaces.org/

Learning biology to understand software-system concepts is underrated. For example: - the way pain-killers work tells you a lot about how keyloggers or man-in-the-middle attacks wo…

there is nothing "basic" about this. something that seems pretty obvious to you may not be natural to someone else. i think the single-click navigation or opening of files was done…

WD screwed up. However, users must have a backup policy for when (not if) data hits the fan. For important data, having multiple onsite copies with few of them totally dumb (as opp…

I am not saying you are wrong; just providing another perspective. When every penny you *spend* or *save* is taxed, you end up paying more than 50% of what you made to The Man. Eit…

It will trickle down one day. You just have to wait for it.

Income tax is not the only tax one pays. Every penny one spends, saves and withdraws is taxed. It may add up to more than 50% in some instances.

I am Mechanical Engineering graduate pursuing my Masters in Software Systems after 10+ years of industry experience. Attack the Type System first. Do not read PhD research papers, …

I agree. The "set of premises and goals" we currently operate upon are not ours, but planted by someone else (parents, teachers, media...). Add to all this the fact that world may …

The "unfortunately" in your first sentence is an indicator of an emotion - sadness or unhappiness. >> It runs on emotion So, I think, you are right.

I do not mean to offend, but this is what schooling does to most humans - you commute to school, have clear distinction between home and school spaces, have clear distinction betwe…

Banning a word is pointless. The word itself has no power. It is the feeling piggybacking on the word that gives life to the word. The feeling will find another word as vehicle.

I am talking about efficient use of available space. A terabyte may store a lot of pictures, but if we can achieve the data density of DNA, we may be able to process (store, transm…

If we agree that a picture is worth 1000 words, then... Given the current state of information technology, I agree that we are most efficient at processing text. However, that can …

Is this is what is known as trickle-down economy? Down and up being perspectives, I am happy to announce that the system works.

This is a stupid deal: User gives away data for free to these corporations and they sell it to make insane profits. Those that pay for such data pass on the costs to their customer…