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programmers are introduced to CS history, it's just mostly irrelevant or poorly contextualized so there are no useful lessons

This has been going on forever. That just means the people that "worked it out" were shitty teachers and/or bad at spreading their work.

That's not true. Significant amounts of lobbying and palm greasing happen in person, explicitly off of cell phones. It's not a coincidence that all of the companies that receive ma…

>What neighborhoods are there where rich people reside who have no more social or political influence than people living in The Projects? Compared to this one? Nearly all of them. …

The navy was in a conflict with illiterate goat herders?

Rust and Go pull in some stuff from functional programming (first class functions) but are not really designed around functional programming as the way to get things done. Most go …

didn't dark sky used to show these uncertainty ranges?

>When the towers were first built, one of the design questions was whether or not they could survive being hit by a 747 no, it was a 707 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE8d94qGPo…

It's not difficult, it's reckless bordering on incompetence. The shared kernel is just way to much attack space and shared resources to make it tenable in the face of adversaries.

candidates != qualified candidates A shit ton of people apply to FAANG companies because of the money on the table despite having no professional experience as a software engineer …

Not everyone is selling a product nor do they care about catering to the lowest common denominator.

no it's not "identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."

I love these idiom screw-ups. One of my coworkers once tried to use an English idiom and it came out, "let's not beat a horse to death."

Those are based on the assumption that votes are equal. There are a lot of people I just don't have any interest in hearing from. No automated system is going to fix eternal Septem…

Right, and GPL is making all of us open source devs rich. I can't fathom getting into open source and then getting mad when people use your tools to great success.

>hyper programmable middleware to stitch together multiple vendor solutions well if that doesn't stir excitement I don't know what does!

>My guess is that they would reset your isolation duration You do know that quarantine isn't supposed to be a punishment, right? Resetting your isolation duration is punitive and h…

"democratize" is double-speak for "closed source".

> So how would a scientist prove conclusively that other humans are conscious and self-aware and not just very advanced automata that behave in ways which mimic consciousness and s…

Selling unsecured credit default swaps.

>Main reason being this: Most schools teach basic nutrition, i.e that eating less/more food than you need, can/will result in losing/gaining weight. In this day and age, it is comm…

Financial literacy means not losing your paycheck to payday lenders, pawn shops, etc. Knowing how to invest when you have spare money is only a tiny portion of it. Dollar stores su…

> got charged an overdraft and then a convenience fee for an account below minimum balance and then and then and then and it all turned out to be way worse than just paying for a s…

Arrested for what? "Climate activist" seems like emotional manipulation.

>Between the mass pollution tainting our world, impending global warming and increased civil unrest, I figure the odds that my animal reaches 70 are not very high. You are living i…