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SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast) Full stack Ruby and Javascript/Typescript developer with experience as a lead dev, a…

I'm already a freelancer and posted in the most recent monthly freelance thread.

I asked this once here before and had some positive responses, it's now been 7 years so I hope it's ok to ask once again as things have changed a lot since then. I'm a developer an…

SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast) Full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with experience as a lead dev, as well as a…

Sort of agree though I would argue "joining an exercise group" is a healthy way to create shallow connections with the aim that one or more of them becomes deeper. Finding deep con…

The post I was replying to asked if he could play against 1800's and gain rating. Players in the 2500s are much more capable of forcing a draw. It'd be unlikely he'd gain much rati…

Technically he could, I believe FIDE has a minimum rating increase of 1 point for the winner of a game with > 400 ELO advantage on their opponent. But if he broke 2900 by playing i…

Secret Hitler is a board game the writer is referring to. They're not actually talking about Hitler.

Actually right now in Europe most (maybe all?) flights can be rescheduled for free in response to the pandemic. Is that not the case elsewhere?

"World champion" is also a bit of a title.

Tangential but it’s always amusing to me to see Kasparov mentioned as a “chess grandmaster” when there are over 1000 grandmasters while Kasparov was the longest reigning world cham…

The CIA backed American abstract expressionists, which is a different, more visually complex style of abstract painting that is distinct from minimalist abstract painting.

It's perfectly reasonable to appreciate a piece of art, recognize its importance and subjectively dislike it. I believe it's going in the wrong direction to try to completely disco…

It's really not that anyone prefers an abstract dot on a white canvas over the Sistine Chapel. It helps to think of art as a historical dialogue with other art, as well as an explo…

I think it’s subjective. I learned Haskell early on in university and I’ve learned Lisps and it still feels like extra work to reason about programs or model domains in functional …

He's lived a different life than nearly anyone else. Certainly so caught up in his responsibilities to Facebook that he's been unable to grow and change and branch out and fail, an…

He’s certainly determined whatever his true self is, it’s not good for business.

Why does the reader need to read this blog post? We don’t but we think we might learn something or be entertained. Withholding a piece of information that lots of readers are natur…

You estimate it’s rated 3400-ish and it loses games????

Agree it’s not a great or neutral look for all audiences. Why not set it to private?

Real estate and flat purchase prices have been rising faster in Berlin than anywhere else in the world over the last five or so years. The rental market is also rising, there's a g…

One of the tough lessons of my years as a developer is many developers love to adopt Google scale solutions and Google practices because they’re from Google and they come with pres…

I agree and having a missing word in your text often leads to confusion :) Honestly you could drop the "bits" which is a bit redundant and use the phrase "Uses CSS selectors to ext…

It's more than fair to say in technical documentation you intend others to use having a grammatical error or missing word is confusing and a problem. It's the writing equivalent of…

As web developer for over a decade "bits content" doesn't mean anything to me. But I understand what the tool does from the rest of the description. Try running a google search for…