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Run a fake version of the API server, and then connect the real client to it. It is usually a mistake to make the "unit" of your unit test too small.

There's a third choice, though. It's bad when speed limits are much lower than the natural speed of the road, for the reason you describe. And it's good when the natural speed of t…

Honestly in most genres you're hosed, but if you're into Japanese nerd stuff, j-novel club sells light novels (and a few manga) with no DRM.

The old meaning of the word "deprecate" meant to "pray against," or "to pray for deliverance from". As a software developer, I have always found this fact amusing. Software becomes…

From what I can tell, the polls were just really bad. Less than 1% response rates. This provided hope for various sides at various times but at the end of the day they basically ar…

When you see really goofy progressive taxes, if you look behind them, you'll usually see a strong legal or political barrier behind more sensible ones. This is why you are always h…

I think you're holding some of these to too high of a bar. This is a one-page article intended to be posted in company bathrooms. Of course it's less comprehensive than a longer bl…

Universal broadband access is a governmental program supported by Democrats to give Internet access to Republicans. Hard-nosed politics would suggest the program should not have a …

I do think insurance is probably the right tool if you want people with more dangerous vehicles to have to pay more. However, the limits are too low. I live in New York, which requ…

This is a non sequitur. "Investors might buy senior debt in a defunct crypto marketplace" is not actually a problem facing labor as a class.

Indeed, moral dimensions in board games go back to ancient times. The Egyptian game "Senet", which is over four thousand years old, seems to have religious significance, reenacting…

This is Georgism, of course. There's a lot to recommend it; I was convinced by Henry George that land ownership is uniquely difficult to defend ethically compared to other forms of…

As an amateur who does have it, yes, it's super awesome for transcription. However, I don't think it's very useful for anything else.

Er, what exactly do you think "freely pooling together with other employees" looks like? A group of employees that negotiates together is a union. You can negotiate alone, but you …

When workers don't negotiate together, it's trivial for employers to reset compensation expectations like this. If you work for a company like Amazon, and you don't want to be laid…

There's a funny passage in one of Al Franken's books about this. Franken was a comedian who ran for the U.S. Senate and was successfully elected. (He later escaped in celestial dis…

The tide is turning; tech owners are attempting to curtail the high costs of labor in the software industry. The only way for labor to fight back is to stand together and form a un…

The AGPL is not a non-commercial license, but it essentially functions as one, as most companies aren't willing to comply with it. There are some projects that make their code avai…

I was expecting this post, asking the best ways to match HTML tags with regular expressions. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... Sadly the page is curre…

My position is that Cloudflare's hosting of websites and forums where attackers coordinate and organize (what you refer to as "websites [I] do not like") contributes to an Internet…

There is a lot of "work-to-rule" in the NYPD; when they resent the mayor or the people of the city, even things like murder clearance rates plummet, much less crimes like these.

As mentioned in the article, this technique is used in New York City's subways, too. I have a lot of problems with the MTA, but they're still stellar by American standards.

It's not a red herring. If I think my taxes are too high, and I hear "California has the highest taxes in the country!", I will think, "Oh, California should spend less money so my…

My experience differs. I once had a legal dispute in which I was asked to sign away some additional rights in order to receive some money that I was owed anyway. My lawyer said, es…