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For me, the right fit is Python and Javascript. However, my problems and your problems are not the same. Java EE might be the best choice for what you are tackling for all I know. …

For me, Anki reviews are a morning ritual. I do whatever it scheduled for the day. Then, I take time to review weaknesses. Then I move onto doing my actual projects. A combination …

The first thing that pops into my brain is how memory allocation works on a computer. In that context, indirection works really well. My program makes a general request for memory …

Morally, I agree with you. DRM is an exercise in futility. But you aren't really comparing apples to apples here. I radio ripped my share of music too when I was a kid. It was a pa…

Functional, yes. I can't think of too many cases where JQuery has every prevented me from mutating anything.

That's not exactly the way I think of it. I try to be pragmatic about my tech choices, even if I might be wrong at times. To pick on your NoSQL example. There was one project where…

Nope. jQuery came first. For me, it was a matter of spending a few years in Java shops. Most of the work was so server-side focused that I ended up forgetting a lot of my Javascrip…

I almost went down the event delegation route. The only thing that stopped me was having stumbled upon a tactic that happened to work where I just attached individualized event han…

>> Seems that SV and Stanford could do a lot more to fix the issues closer at hand in the Bay Area (homelessness, unaffordable living, rising inequality) and the US in general befo…

>> The true roots of liberal arts (which used to include everything from astronomy to mathematics to botany) lie in creating a well-rounded, educated, sophisticated person. That's …

> The fact that I didn’t really know where it would end up meant that I was perhaps more open to outside suggestions and influence than I would have been if I had a very good idea …

That is a problem. When I first joined Linkedin, one of the first questions I asked openly was about the difference between "pass by value" vs. "pass by reference". There were some…