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This reminds me of a time when I had become jaded as a camera store employee. I got in the habit of telling people that the cameras they were hoping to buy were essentially landfil…

A few years ago I made the decision to go back to school (for two years) to be a web dev. It cost me approximately $25k. Immediately after graduation I added $25k to my yearly inco…

This probably applies more to homes with an East to West facing pitch, but I find it really odd that it isn't standard issue to have a track system that moves the solar panels from…

As someone who developed parnosmia later in life (I can only smell certain things), I found this article very interesting. Living without the ability to smell is somewhat more isol…

We definitely need to give Swiffer an honorable mention. Dust in your house? Why not clean it up and create an enormous pile of trash at the same time!!!

I always appreciate commit messages that are informative and well structured. That said, I'm not a fan of specific formats for commits. The commit messages in a project are where a…

This whole article seems like an offhand way to get people to stockpile aquarium antibiotics. This guy is obviously on Big Aquarium Pharma's payrol.

“It’s like salmon,” he said. “They’ll return to the place where they were spawned.”

Mark my words, someone is going to memorize the entire thing and use it as a party trick.

The company I work for pays for Ag-Grid, which makes me sad. Overall I find it has been fairly difficult to work with, and there are a lot of breaking changes when upgrading from o…

Anyone have comments on how this might stack up against AG-Grid?

"Start with a phone screen interview" I have to disagree with this point. Phone and screen interviews are awkwardly paced and some individuals simply don't come across well in this…

I feel like this essentially exists for the sole purpose of generating a large training set for some sort of drawing analysis. I wonder if google has some new use case where they w…

Semantic pedantics and the developers who love them

I've witnessed this first hand. After having a sleep study and finding that I have mild OSA my ENT suggested removing my tonsils, uvula, and part of my palate to open up my airway.…

There is a secondary solution to CPAP machines that may apply to some people who find their breathing/sleep improves with sleeping position. About a year ago I got a Mandibular Adv…

Wait, dogs can get cancer? Fuck. That is super depressing.

As far as I know I made it up. It's the term I typically use to give potential employers (and other devs) a general sense of where my competencies are.

The way this works out at the shop I'm currently at is that you get a bunch of devs who are, for lack of a better description, 3/4 stack developers (back-end, database, anything on…

What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? Start an economical catastrophe. We need to immediately, and meaningfully, move away from oil, gas, and other carbon heavy indust…

Ooh, what about a laser on the space side of the debris that heats it, causing the release of gases that propel it towards earth? You would have to be able dynamically re-target th…

I'm guessing this thing is going to run all the time and send Apple a continuous stream of what music is actually playing around people, so they can use the data to better market m…

That's exactly the point I'm trying to make to OP. Think about the future and opt out! It's a super tough sell for most people though, so the majority is likely going to just opt i…

I think it's important to take time and think about some of the potential outcomes of bulk data collection. Take this for example: there is currently a trend in the insurance indus…