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I'm not certain that I agree with this because a URL makes no claims about idempotency or side-effects or many other behaviors that we take for granted when building systems. While…

I like the idea of an e-bike but in South Africa I’d be worried that it would easily be stolen. We also have grid challenges here but that can be dealt with by planning one’s charg…

Agree that saying "intimate understanding" is a bit off the mark. Had the author written "intuitive understanding", it would have made a bit more sense. However, given the prevalen…

I think society, collectively, puts a lot of currency is "knowing what you're going to do". It's a question that adults ask children, especially precocious ones. But, frankly, it's…

I had the interesting experience to work at Palm in the early 2000's on a project that was to compete with the Blackberry. Needless to say, it never saw the light of day but I stil…

Interesting narrative - all we need is Bruce Willis at the controls and we’re gold ;) I’m sure it was all planned and coordinated with their marketing team. After all, they need to…

Definitely experienced this as well playing music in public. I also experienced a variation of it when I did karate. During sparring, once my sparring partners hit me for the first…

Helping and mentoring the next generation of coders to be successful.

I remember taking a graduate level networking course at NYU in the early 1990s. The instructor was an IBM consultant. We studied token ring, FDDI, SNA, HDLC/SDLC and several other …

I worked at Sun Microsystems in the late 90s/early 2000s and at the World Trade Center offices, pretty much everyone had to hot desk. I was in a group that, unlike our "pure" sales…

Wouldn't the Victorians have used 'enquiry' and not 'inquiry'? (Asked in all honesty and w/o an ounce of snarkiness because to this day I still struggle with the difference)

This behavior always reminds me of book "The World Without Us"[0] in which the author points out that, of all our domesticated animals, cats would definitely survive due to their e…

My experience with eSIM has been with my Apple phone. I have an app that basically does this - it's Ubigi and I've generally been happy with it. I installed it from the App Store. …

I'm 58 and feel like I still have a lot to offer. But my focus in these days is to help my team (most of whom are easily half my age) be successful. I find that their success gives…

This is a great idea. Any chance you can back port it to older versions of macOS? My laptop is running Big Sur (11.6.7) and I see it requires Monterey (12.3+).

First of all, that sounds like a shit situation. If you think it'll be valuable, you could ask them why it's important that you hit their date. Most likely they're being pressured …

The Pascal compiler on our CDC Cyber (used by undergraduate courses when I went to NYU) would do this, too. Yeah, was a long time ago :)

I think part of it is that while this may be a win for your customers and maybe for the founders, the payoff for the startup’s employees may not be that lucrative, based purely on …

I’ve meditated on and off for a few decades and have only ever experienced a sense of calm and clarity. Is the author’s experience common for other people?

JUST_SAY_NO? :)