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The best high-GI food I have found is Welch's fruit snacks. They are superior to glucose tablets: (1) Can be swallowed whole quickly and easily, or dissolved by saliva. (2) More co…

The sound is more like that of a kayagŭm (a Korean traditional instrument) than violin pizzicato.

In 2020, the Amazon Principal Engineer community added a ninth tenet. Much effort went into crafting the new tenet, as was the case with the others. The new tenet may be my favorit…

I got a lot of mileage out of the x modifier, too, until I bumped into the Composed Regex pattern. https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ComposedRegex.html

Nitpick: The talk by Dr Cliff Click is dated February 2007, closer to 13 years ago than six years ago.

I’ve performed Jean-Marie Leclair in recital — the violin sonata, op. 9 no. 3 in D major (see https://imslp.org/wiki/12_Violin_Sonatas%2C_Op.9_(Leclair%2C... ). There are beautiful…

Simpler, yes, in the sense that just one instrument (the soloist) would have to play notes they were not prepared to play. But a concerto (typically a long piece for one or more so…

“Solvitur ambulando.”

The size of S is k .

It only applies to procedural knowledge, of course, but there’s a similarity here between “teaching it to a toddler” and writing a program that does it. I often find huge gaps in m…

Unless they chose the ternary path. It’s closer to base e and therefore closer to optimal than binary.

Unless I’m mistaken, if Alice pays 9% of $117,000 (i.e., $10,530), then Bob pays 11.7% of $234,000 (i.e., $27,400). An 18% tax rate would apply to earners of $1,170,000 (i.e., $210…

This calls to mind the office scene in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash in which Y.T.’s mother reads a directive from her employer. She self-consciously scrolls through the dull text —…

I’d love to see a permalink feature. If you don’t want to store poster definitions, put them in the URL.

DIY biotech. Bespoke pets for the risk-averse, and bespoke personal physiology for the rest.

It strikes me that an hourly rate that increases over the life of a project might be a way for a freelancer to skew his billable hours toward new development and away from maintena…

I had an elevated Lp(a) level and was able to reduce it dramatically by taking niacin, under the supervision of my cardiologist. YMMV?

I have to admit that the “OVER!” scene from “Portlandia” came to mind as I read Tom’s post. http://youtu.be/YlGqN3AKOsA

Plus, in the history of the world, he said, is there one thing you can think of that has been hand-made, and on such a large scale as software, that was as complex? [I cannot not.]…

All decent suggestions. I quibble with this, though: // Don't do this: function getData() { } // Do this instead: var getData = function() { }; The assignment is righteous, but by …

Making semantic line breaks (such as for bullets) is understandable, but it still feels wrong that we’re otherwise doing the job of `fold`. I started breaking lines in commit messa…

There’s an irreverent wagging tongue in there, too. greetings to AAPL GOOG :) :P :) MSFT Was it prophetic of iCloud and Google Drive??

That’s the most compelling argument I’ve heard for regularly paying down technical debt, and/or for acquiring it with great care. The craftsmanship argument — made by Uncle Bob and…

An amusing quip, but the comparison only serves to beg the question. McDonald’s is ostensibly in the hamburger business, but the engine room of the company is real estate. See http…