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Too many {} and "" for rapid prototyping for me. I've always considered forking it to use yaml instead.

I've had freelance recruiters ghost me. It makes me wonder if it was more convenient for them or if they were themselves ghosted by the company they applied me to.

There's this perception in the corporate world that telling a candidate why they were rejected opens up the company to a potential lawsuit. I have no idea if there's any truth to t…

> If, however, you're not sensitized to small details, switching to PC is a pretty painless process. There's another category to consider: Those who use mostly open source apps and…

I miss the MacOS software ecosystem in general. Beautiful, easy to use native apps that you're happy to pay for because they just work. I fear that culture will be lost with no pla…

From what I've seen, it's 'do what the cops say or go to jail.' https://nypost.com/2017/09/01/nurse-arrested-after-refusing-...

Patton said, word for word, "We defeated the wrong enemy" when he was relieved of his command. Which is trivial to find had you spent 10 seconds in google.

By whom?

> they could've fairly easily taken the rest of the exhausted Europe. From Patton's journal, taken from The Patton Papers, 1940–1945 , edited by Martin Blumenson: > 18 May > In my …

Hollywood Party by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley should be required reading for all social studies classes in the US. It's staggering to consider how much of hollywood was funded by th…

Patton's letter to his wife made it clear he thought we were fighting the wrong enemy. edit: also, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtinTlx7yo

Doh! Sorry about that. :)

Those aren't even close to the only two issues reported. They're just the most visible.

I bet you support Safari. ;)

Context is everything. We're talking about desktop computers. We already know laptop users dwarf desktop users these days. My question implied I was curious about what percentage o…

> I don't want to have to depend on a 3rd party for my built-in hardware to just work. You mean like you depend on Apple to maintain their drivers? What difference does it make if …

I wouldn't. Say what you want about Windows and MacOS, there hasn't been a single problem on either of those OS's that I couldn't fix in a couple of hours. I routinely spend days a…

What kind of pro computer doesn't come with top notch support? "Apple REFUSED to fix our iMac pro" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-NU7yOSElE "The Apple Store Genius Bar broke my …

Do you have a source on that? The mac users I know are especially worried about data loss because of the high rate of other failures on their new MBPs. One of my co-workers tempora…