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I see some comments comparing C++ to COBOL, given similar articles in the past. However, this is where I think COBOL is much better than C++! Most developers could jump into a 40 y…

Ahh, I just reread _Soul_! One thing I noticed this time through was the politics and (mostly absent?) leadership from the executives. E.g., the input from the CEO was basically "n…

Contango! Great word. For a fun explanation, check out Planet Money’s “Negative Oil”, https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/842095406/episode-993-negativ... .

Coming from the Pixel 6 Pro, I feel the same. The camera is comparatively very slow with even daytime indoor lighting. Half the photos I take of a child at play end up in the trash…

Press release tried so hard to not say "ads" that it's conspicuous.

Fredrik was an important contributor to YouTube over the years and truly one of a kind. In particular, he was critical to the internationalization efforts. Whenever I ran into him …

Anyone who has watched "Minority Report" or "Neon Genesis Evangelion" knows you need 3 computers.

In my experience the author avoids animal/mouse based studies if at all possible. He mentions only those that are frequently cited so as to address their results.

If you're looking to make dietary choices based on the results of high-quality dietary studies, my goto is "How Not to Die"[1] and the author's non-profit website at, http://nutrit…

I'm reminded of the long-form Wired article, "Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened" (Ratliff 2009). "Along the way they’d also proven my privacy to be a modern…

The Sedgewick text is quite good but even better are his classes on Coursera! Very accessible and built around practical exercises.

Is this where Myhrvold did his research for the recently published "Modernist Bread"? https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982761058/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_dC-D...

Yes! It includes a great track called "Palo Alto". As someone who lives in the area I've always been curious how it came about, especially circa 1996/97.

Google's ErrorProne, https://github.com/google/error-prone/tree/master/core/src/m... Bill Pugh's FindBugs, http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html

Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in th…

My favorite chess lecturer analyzes a Korchnoi win from each of the previous 6 decades. https://youtu.be/1n6yLPNj_Pk "The Legend: Victor Korchnoi - Ben Finegold" If you've never se…

Ironically, the secondary payload that launched with Hitomi was a micro-sat which monitors space debris. https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusa...

"I’m looking at a new model, where the whole sort of vocabularity is different" Impressive! Creating a new word in the same sentence you declare you'll be using new words. Assuming…

"There is a cost to installing security, particularly at the higher levels of FIPS certification. Let no one dispute that." Completely agree. Which is why I say at the end of my or…

Hidden amongst the frothing rant are some good considerations. Unfortunately most of the article is FUD. A couple points I'll mention, "DISECONOMY of SCALE #1: CERTIFICATE MANAGEME…