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I love this article and the pluralist worldview harking back to 2015/16. I'd love to tell my team "Hey we're going to build this small separate use case in Svelte". But the evaluat…

Fun but I prefer the previous version about a bridge building team https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks - Second section

Nothing soured my (already negative) opinion of Crypto as much as regular conversations with a Crypto VC. Every time we spoke they were either sceptical or very excited about somet…

I would suggest because the sentiment is a trite misrepresentation of people's experiences across multiple facets. Throughout the summer you'll smell weed constantly if you're out …

We drive on the left, which means we walk on the right (to see traffic coming), so I guess it stems from the latter

Depends what you mean by "the remainder of the world". Most mid-tier companies I've worked at or know people who work at in London started moving on from microservices some time ag…

Leaving them in the room to complete the tasks was an early red flag here. If you have no insight into how people think about and complete tasks then you are testing the product of…

This is great, I would upvote it more if I could. Also very accurate on the lack of required empathy. The combination of your last points and "hard work does not pay off" are somet…

I feel a bit of this every time there are pushes to get everyone to code, it's very weird. Sort of related is the expectation that you should just be able to switch into a programm…

Consdering the state of learning materials for the remainder of my educational (and professional, I'm looking at you compliance courses) life, it really is mindblowing what they ac…

My experience of two games going free to play, PUBG and Rocket League, is that in the former 100% of games now have cheaters in and in the latter ~25-40% games have people playing …

For me the biggest negative to F2P is in competitive games, so especially Rocket League in this case, because being F2P means that the competitive element and matchmaking system is…

It feels like some of the more agile publishers reacted to this sentiment some years ago, in that they started publishing 5,000 word articles about EVERYTHING and subsequently even…

It's so satisfying to see these streams getting massive attention and loving it when they must go through insane peaks of traffic but mostly trundle on with a smaller dedicated cor…

I'd be interested to know what drives these differences, whether it can be measured, and why there seems to be limited crossover of "circles". In the UK, I've had WhatsApp for abou…

I think it would be charitable to assume the author meant "fulfilling" by "cool stuff". I am looking for a company right now that fits into either "cool stuff" or "positive impact"…

Cheaper for sure but the underlying complexity is completely hidden on consoles. There are many justifications for why PCs "can be simple" if you just buy pre-built, but that only …

This article seems to present a strange collection of information. "Young people and porn" as a heading really came from nowhere.

I'm no expert in anything relevant, but this comment and the parent strike me as great examples of Western Individualism and Eastern Collectivism; the idea that da Vinci as an indi…

Your second quote conveniently chops out the main point of the article, which is that Apple abuse their dominance to force developers into having no choice.

Analogies tend to remove any meaningful detail from a situation, as in this case

I feel this about anything I read about empire in the last few years. I enjoyed Paxman's book Empire for the very reason that he mocks the self-righteousness of the "heroes of Empi…

I don't see that anything in your comment precludes reciprocation of unnecessarily conservative limitations on one's life. It could be argued that keeping everyone home instead of …

Seems like a question of reciprocity and solidarity. I'm not sure if I agree with the sentiment of OP but I do understand frustration that those of us who had an inconsequentially …

I always try this if I accidentally press a button, or enter an empty lift with a few buttons pressed. One glorious day in a hotel in Penang, I double-pressed a button and my dream…