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The two URLs I provided don't convince you that this isn't a fad? Of all the SWEs I know, every single one who previously used Eclipse, Atom, or Sublime is now using VSCode. Some o…

I'm a long-time Emacs user, but VSCode is definitely not a fad. Microsoft is all-in on it, and it appears to be by far the most popular text editor. https://survey.stackoverflow.co…

Nice! Years ago I added home row chording to a simple text editor I was writing. It worked so well that I wondered why it's not common practice. You should write more about your pr…

The tournament Carlsen withdrew from today isn't an online event. All the games are played in person at the St. Louis Chess Club.

For time management, the rough approach is to allocate a fixed % of the remaining time and increase or reduce it, mostly depending on the stability of the evaluation with increasin…

Capablanca preferred playing quiet, positional chess, often patiently nursing tiny endgame advantages into a win. It's generally much easier to play accurately in simple endgames t…

Just wanted to say thanks for many years of fantastic work on both Stockfish and Leela. The computer chess community owes you a huge debt of gratitude!

Possibly Craig Silverstein, but my guess is Urs Hölzle. He was Google's first VP of engineering and a huge advocate for everything mentioned in the article: "design docs, audited c…

There was a recent thread about challenging projects every programmer should try, and I think writing a chess engine would be a nice addition to that list. Chess programming is a r…

Digital Ocean, probably.

He wrote about this more detail in an earlier blog post (about halfway down the page). http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161

He evaluated Rust and Go a few years ago and strongly preferred Go. https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/01/18/rust-vs-go.html

The chess channels you're visiting are grossly overstating Alpha Zero's impact. AFAICT, it hasn't made any impact on opening theory at all. AZ's strength is in the middlegame, wher…

One use case I haven't seen mentioned is note-taking. Apple Pencil is a truly amazing device. I use it at work all the time, especially in meetings. It's quieter than typing and be…

I can't remember what Senior VP equates to on the tech ladder, but in terms of his overall impact on the company, Urs is definitely an 11.

You definitely can't force a draw against a higher rated player, but you can make one more likely by choosing quiet openings and simplifying in the middlegame. But it's often trick…

Svidler and Grischuk at chess24.com are fantastic, but they're both world class players and beginners will find their commentary and analysis difficult to follow. I'd recommend che…

Urs Hölzle (engineering VP) and Eric Veach (AdWords) also don't get nearly as much recognition as they deserve.

I have a similar Google lunch story. A guy sat down, introduced himself as Rob, and told me it was his first day at Google. We had a nice chat, and later I told my office mate that…