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God, those "software is getting worse everywhere" takes are tedious. Let's have a look at a few rarely quoted examples from the last decade, shall we? Just six years ago, a big com…

Intelligence is absolutely a valuable addition to dexterity, but no, current industrial robots have nowhere near the dexterity of a human hand.

The article says nothing about “skilled people who work with their hands” specifically, so it’s unclear what is being refuted here. However there are people in the workforce who do…

“Scaling” as in “making sure the infrastructure can handle much higher load”, or as in “making sure the product remains genuinely useful to people, so that the user numbers go up a…

> real user pain point That is obvious from all the upvotes your comments get on here.

Oh dear, not again: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/brooks-law/ This one belongs to history books, not to the list of contemporary best practices.

The Nebraska guy’s block remains surprisingly stable, even when the whole thing above it collapses. Very symbolic.

That’s a lovely comment, thank you. If you’re keen to think about it more, consider the fact that the existing members of the project that’s being late are actually in not as much …

Several related reasons working at once. The nature of work changed. The boundary between accidental and incidental complexity shifted (and it’s unclear whether this distinction st…

That law (formulated in the 70s, I’ll remind the reader) wasn’t true for at least couple decades now.

Pages are snappy, terse, consistent, clear and unsurprising This is a fantastic summary. Also, when you switch to gov.uk after using literally any other modern website, it's always…

gov.uk has a tendancy to treat everyone like a 5 year old Which is not a bug, but a feature of the gov.uk website, and it's the best and the most important one. 89 year old you wou…

I like how the author correctly shown the cover image for the "The Sciences of the Artificial", with plural 's' in 'sciences', but then in the paragraph praising it gleefully ignor…

To be honest, in the pre-internet era, paid paper copy of FT had ads too. The delivery mechanisms for ads in the internet era are trillion times nastier and more annoying, of cours…

People who love thinking in false dichotomies like this one have absolutely no idea how much harder it is to “get paid for doing commercial/trendy art”. It’s so easy to be a starvi…

Well, fuel duty is a better example then

I need to think about this more, but the first thing that comes to my mind is not that this looks like “taxing the tool”, but that this can (ought to?) be similar to an alcohol or …

You could, but you’d be missing a big part of the picture. Humans are also (at least) symbol manipulators.

Oh, and there's also "grok" just few paragraphs later!

"Grabbed lunch" is an awful phrase

Yes

> I don’t know what IntelliJ is. “I never read The Economist” – Management Trainee, aged 42.

Don’t be a square

Some laptops clearly belong to the cheerful juniors celebrating their coding practices (git! npm! vim! Python!), and some are very political; once you filter those out, what remain…

I can only imagine how many similar places to see ancient ruins in everyday context are in Rome. Or Athens.