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It would be horrifying to have meticulously documented notes on every thing you ever said that may or may not be true, and may or may not have been a joke. If his career had been a…

This would be a perfectly reasonable argument for almost anyone in the world, but most certainly not for Donald Trump due to his position and his track record of statements on publ…

It's rare to see the usage of the phrase `optimize [..] quality` with a negative implication. Does this qualify as Newspeak?

All completers will be able to utilize floating windows immediately, so it's not a special feature of coc.nvim. Using LSP is also not unique to coc.nvim. Deoplete, for instance, su…

I'm honestly tired of the personal anecdotes in scientific articles. I don't want to have to scan 3 paragraphs through before I get the gist of the article.

They're also generally faster to launch and surf (unless you're doing a lot of updates, which requires double buffering and is still very dependent on your terminal's performance).…

It doesn't work very well. I got SEGFAULTs every time I tried; filed a bug report; no resolution. So, while it does exist, it's not a high priority for the Julia team, so I wouldn'…

I've never understood this. JSON is really not that difficult to work with manually. I tend to write my config files as JSON for utilities I write. What is it with peoples' innate …

I use the same technique (and I'm 26 now, so relatively young) and it's how I've always interviewed others. Granted, I've only worked at smallish startups, but, either way, the com…

The regret metric is different for a false "no" compared to a false "yes." I'd rather say "no" to someone who could've been great than "yes" to someone who wasn't, so I would say t…

Before I read the article, I thought this was a trite comment, but instead it's an apt analogy. It really is a distributed system of components whose byproducts can propagate betwe…

But if I managed to compromise a single machine on your subnet, then that means all Intel machines I can touch are also vulnerable, no?

I feel like there is some astroturfing going on with this post...

It's weird that more time was spent on the logo design and the background than writing a simple summary, which is vastly more important.