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"Orthogonal" in this context means "wholly and completely unrelated." It's not a buzzword.

I think you have a false dichotomy. Slack and email are for talking to people who I'm not on the phone/video conference with or are away from their desk when I'm working. That is a…

Fat chance of this changing anything. Berkeley is liberalism run amok. Unless you already own property in one of the shrinking "nice" parts it's not that nice of a place to live, a…

To me, there's an irony that the nationalist desire to sever Britain from the EU is the best way to hasten the dissolution of Great Britain. Now that Brexit is done with, reunifica…

Compilers seem to manage just fine with bootstrapping themselves. The trick is not to overwrite yourself

Why do you think they had an incentive to prevent it? The President was the one encouraging the insurrection!

I haven't seen these calls for surveillance. I have seen calls for sedition charges against the politicians that encouraged it and law enforcement that ignored the evidence of comi…

Interesting how the decline of child labor in Korea is followed by a booming high tech economy while regions that remain affixed to the practice havent

It's hard to lift the next generation out of poverty when children are working instead of going to school.

VSCode extensions are driven through "commands" that are exposed through the package.json of the plugin (which can be parsed by other plugins if you wanted) and issuable through an…

I'd question why you're running code in a meeting. That's some morning standup stuff for your team which can be done at your desk or placed in a gif in an email, not hauled off to …

All my presentation materials are in the cloud somewhere, I don't need to bring a computer anywhere these days.

You can do all that and more in vscode as well... you just have to "learn to master and config" it with your own plugins in JS. It's not that hard.

I don't know how this should be structured but there has to be some principle of "use it or lose it" for IP protections, and some limitations on transference of IP. Obviously there…

I think the answer is to look at things that can't be done by executing code from a library. In other words, think about something you can compile that isn't executable code. Some …

I don't think it's even technically true, they're fundamentally different circuit elements that just share a principle of operation. Diodes allow current to flow in one direction (…

The story I've heard is that the original lightbulbs filled with soot and darkened well before they burnt out. Edison guessed the soot was coming from the filament and was charged,…

Type inference is great and undeserving of the "bah humbug" type comments. Not a fan of it in function return types but that's easy to avoid in code review or linting (both of whic…

I don't think I've ever run into a "broken" API on MacOS. But I haven't seen a "well documented" one either. There's a lot of arcane knowledge in targeting MacOS.

Why ship a desktop app when you can ship a browser product? The business incentives often outweigh the technical benefits of desktop apps. DRM and payment processing are easy. Disc…

Phonetic alphabets tie the representation of information to human vocalization, which is only slightly more useful than tying it to human sight like pictographs. Without launching …

That growth isn't exponential. Mortgage debt isn't a bad thing, the equity you build through it means you essentially come out ahead or even, once adjusting for inflation. In other…

Consumers want one cable and connector for all devices regardless of the ridiculous notion that all devices should have similar enough electrical requirements that they could use o…

A question I like for non-tech businesses is: "do you see this as a software business or transitioning to become one?" Because these days every business has to be investing into so…

The federal government has identified semiconductor manufacturing as a critical piece of national infrastructure. If it comes to it, Intel can get subsidized like Boeing.