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I don't know what the reason is, but I would love to read a truly satisfactory explanation for this. There's too many of us. And most of the good land has been taken and/or ruined.…

In my case, not so much as a harsh word between us-- and yet: Still pretty happy to be rid of her.

Maybe they wanted an easy way to tell people no. Either way -- in tech (and for some reason more so than in other industries) -- when it comes to hiring, it's head games all up and…

If you look at another perspective though, of people whose economies are collapsing, or people living under authoritarian regimes, it serves a need. Or in a broader sense: "De-regu…

So the question was: "What problem does X solve?" And your answer is: "Well, problem Y. Except it doesn't solve it." Or am I missing something?

This article indicts Amazon of the following cruelties: It seems we were reading different articles, then. In any case your synopsis provides a very skewed representation of what t…

Am I being too difficult? Nothing of the sort. Hopefully you'll stick to your guns.

Because it's a perfect language. And hence there's no need to improve (or whine and moan) about it. Which is what language conferences are normally for.

TODO: write a counter-compiler that recognizes resumes based on the stylistic "improvements" suggested by this tool - and mark them for rejection accordingly.

Well, yeah. And they should probably be having discussions based on something beside snarky retorts and popcorn-throwing too, I guess. But I guess those discussions will need to ha…

A NYC Subway that’s 40% worse than it was 10 years ago is still by far the best transit system in North America. But compared to just about any major city in Europe... seriously, i…

That's fine - non-quantitative (a.k.a. "gut") reasoning is a valid and useful cognitive tool (in certain contexts), in fact. If I was to give a "gut" estimate for the overall deter…

except start-up cost Which is, well, hugely significant when you think about it.

No one would consider suggesting it as a "replacement" for surface transport. However, it is a valuable augment to the surface system. The point is that it helps "connect the dots"…

Hence why the NYC mayor is so intent on funding worthless ferries; Worthless? The ferries are one of the few unequivocally positive things to have happened to the city in recent de…

Agreed - I don't need numbers to tell me how unpleasant the daily experience of riding the subway in NYC has become. I was merely responding to someone else who brought up a number…

Numbers, please. (That's what "metric" means, btw).

Thanks very much for the link. But eyeballing that chart suggests an average deterioration significantly worse than 20 percent.

A NYC Subway that's 20% worse than it was 10 years ago By what metric?

Apparently the commenter isn't much of a city person, and may have overreacted a bit. But they shouldn't have been downvoted for expressing that sentiment.

10 years ago I was asked how to tell if an integer is divisible by two without using division or modulus. What they expected was to bit mask the 1s place in the integer and check f…

No, it isn't simply bad or unworkable. It's a tradeoff , with both positive and negative aspects to consider.

FizzBuzz is just an icon, of course. And by itself not such a bad filter - even if it's just basically a test of memorization (a lot people actually can't remember a simple trick l…