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Copypasta source material. You know. I can guarantee that for most, it is getting more difficult to ignore this to the point that questions like this pop up every now and then. So …

This is super cool! Love it. Love that the layout is responsive and has mobile, tablet and desktop versions in good web UI style. (FYI, if you close the sidebar and resize to deskt…

Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/zF4ei Great read. The real labor market is more complex than a simple model of supply and demand. It's like the old physics joke, "I have a solutio…

Because other months went to 30 or 31 already, so there was room for it in calendars and people never assumed months are always the same length. 60 seconds in a minute, OTOH, is a …

...well actually... representing an n-dimensional shape as a 2-dimensional line is precisely what the mathematical term "projection" means. My apologies. Accurate phrasing had less…

This is a revealing peek at the complexity of merged history. You can't project a "git space" onto a line, so a (linear) listing of commits just misleads you into thinking that you…

The company defaults to polite silence to avoid legal liability. They can't risk saying anything which might be construed as discrimination against a protected class.

Our company had two Angular codebases, the public site and our internal site. Experience in one taught you nothing about the other because there was no "Angular way" to structure y…