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If you see programming purely as a means to an end, then yeah, I get this perspective. But to many there is enjoyment in the _doing_ and the craft of it beyond the end result. It’s…

Purikura is not just taking photos of yourself in a photo booth. There is a strong cultural aspect to it, especially for school-aged girls, and I’m honestly surprised hasn’t really…

Proclaiming LA as “the center of the world’s creative and cultural output” feels like a very LA opinion to have. Literally billions of people exist outside of LA, and while LA does…

But the process _does_ matter. That is the whole point of life. Why else are we even here if not to enjoy the process of making? It’s why people get into woodworking or knitting as…

This is an extremely simplistic take that ironically ignores the human cultural context around these technologies. For one, you, like many, misunderstand the Luddite movement. They…

My current Bosch dishwasher that I bought almost 10 years ago does almost all of this (no eco mode or self-clean, though it does have a sanitize cycle which I would guess is effect…

Part of the problem is that when ops is doing their job well, nobody notices. You get a party when the regular devs ship a big new feature, but no-one really celebrates when you ha…

Beyond Panic, there’s even a surprisingly large community of Mac/iOS developers making their living selling “premium”software with traditional licensing models. Rogue Amoeba, Omnig…

The current best practice is to keep the token in memory only and store a refresh token in an HTTP-only cookie. In my experience though, if you’re only doing web-based auth and don…

Have you honestly heard any male colleague described as “too bitchy”? How did you listen to your female colleagues’ genuine experience of being unfairly labeled and come away from …

Claims that there is no gender pay gap based on clearly biased sources irks me. So firstly, you don’t know what the NYT tech guild analysis looked like, so why assume they didn’t c…

Wow I can only imagine how unwieldy that was to use. Was it just one big list by date published or did they did they try to order by title/author/publisher? Books in Print nowadays…

As someone who has subscribed to Bowker’s Books in Print data for the last four years, I’d take any stats based on their data with a huge grain of salt. Bowker does issue ISBNs (an…

For US/UK/NZ/Aus/SA, ISBNs are granted through Bowker who does maintain their "Books In Print" data set that, in theory, contains metadata for all of the ISBNs they've granted. In …

This is super cool! I actually have been working on a new book recommendation site ( https://braincandy.com ) that has a similar-ish (but much smaller scale) visualization for book…

Like another commenter said, many people are willing to put up with a lot just to work in games, even in a low prestige role. Also the bar for support/QA jobs in pay and treatment …

I unfortunately also have had the experience of being pushed towards management, even though I'd say I have only slightly above average social skills. At a former job I was told I …

The general consensus is it is at least somewhat due to socialization and gender norms for women, which strongly encourage agreeability, friendliness, and deference to authority (a…