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Yes - I just meant that we're going to see a ton of comments here from people who want to let it be know that they think Uber, Postmates, etc are super evil and everything the gove…

As an aside, is there a term for the kind of virtue signaling comment torrent this post is likely to elicit? Perhaps "Business Woke"?

Not the point of the story, but he didn’t do it though, right? It was probably this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965

Sort of, I guess. But it’s also the idea that most people receive a lot of information passively as a result of whatever ads are shown to them on tv, YouTube, Facebook, etc - so al…

You can absolutely fake this. There’s a huge difference between coming up with and implementing something vs understanding it enough to be convincing. Have you actually tested this…

“twelve different ways to spell the same damn thing” Sorry, what does that mean?

I secretly suspect this is everybody, and the people who claim to be coming up with real solutions in their sleep are back justifying what happened when they had enough time to sle…

Because that’s also what a brain is doing. The thoughts of a housefly may not be very apocalyptic, but there’s an evolutionary path from there to humans, which definitely could be.…

I worry that tech workers may be under-informed about what a union may mean. A union can be in many ways similar to a corporation with its own power structure and demands. Just 4 e…

Have you ever worked a unionized job before?

Why? I guess it's because some interpreted languages are also compiled? "Compiled" traditionally means "not interpreted", or rather "compiled to machine code".

That would remove rental units from the market and further increase cost of living for folks who can’t purchase. What would be the positive effects?

>>> If you made a viable investment in a property and are currently renting it out, wouldn't rent increases just need to equal inflation in order for you to maintain the same level…

This is common. Most places use their revision control system as backup for their source code and take backups of their database. This makes sense because the source code holds no …

Well, Linus is one of those people: https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3 >> I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to think about their problem…

Hey - good point! What does that even mean? I think , from reading that abstract, that they’re claiming it causes drug prices to rise and lower the overall rate of drug use. If the…

Good point - this was information leakage that, even if you had traded on it - would not be insider trading.

... I'm talking about before that. Netscape went from 90% to 6% once IE started bundling on Windows. Firefox "taking over like crazy" is a later comeback.

Netscape Navigator was something like 90% at one point. Netscape fell down to single digits against IE and then started climbing back up. That's the point at which the chart in the…

Can you explain this a little bit? Isn't there a big issue right now between India and Kasmir? You're saying it's actually under the administration of China? I'm sorry if this soun…

I'm a technically minded person. I've been using web browsers since NCSA Mosaic. I switch browsers probably once per decade (mosaic -> netscape navigator -> firefox -> chrome). At …

I used to work a hard labor job. People got injured. I got injured more than once. Some people died. It was part of the job and we knew what we were getting into in exchange for mo…

```--max-line-length=120``` passed to flake8 will switch it to 120. Use another number for a different length. Things like max line length should be something your org or your fell…

Is it possible for you to figure some idea out that could be your last chance moonshot for this company? Maybe it’s better to go out with one last boom or bust push instead of slow…

Everything you say is true, but I also remember every time slashdot would publish browser usage percentages it was something like 70% IE. visible perception did not match reality, …