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of course it's a concern because kids don't know that there's going to be a big gap between what they create and what they envision so it's disheartening for them

Update: Today 01/05 the account was finally reactivated with no explanation. I only ever received templated emails from their support department demanding “proof of all payments ma…

I know this happens somewhat often here but now I am completely out of options so I will try this. I have a side business unrelated to tech, and have ran some Google Ads for it in …

Funny how Brooks’ Law is still something people are learning: “ And counter-intuitively, adding more people to an early-stage project doesn't make it go faster.”

Shouldn't you feel "bad" for Meta then? They apparently both "picked the name out of the dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist" _and_ knew about Threads Software Limited…

Hear hear. I've been a Premium subscriber for awhile.

You're talking about this right? > I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software? Are you …

The headline is dismal. Now writers can’t even be bothered to write what the improvement is? 40% of ______? “…Just trust us, 40% of something is ‘shaved’ …it’s good we promise.”

There is r/ExperiencedDevs but some people join with a definition of "experienced" as two or three years.

Doesn't that have the drawback, though, that you aren't able to share the playlist? My biggest complaint about Airplay (and also Bluetooth) is that someone might put their music on…

> Pareto's law really isn't a law. No "law" of software or business is technically a law in the same rigorous sense that a scientific law is. But that's not why we call them laws a…

Shout out for the open source option: Snapcast - https://mjaggard.github.io/snapcast/

I'm unclear of the exact problem. Are you having a problem with powering two passive speakers from the same amplifier? Or you have two active speakers (each with its own internal a…

MPD works great for non-tech-savvy friends over, you just need to install a web-based client and they can point their smartphone browser to it. To make it even easier for friends a…

Donald Knuth was such a surprise!!

Another reason is that imperative languages are all that's necessary for many (maybe even the majority) of business use cases. Really a lot of it boils down to if this else that, a…

And yet today we only have partially-OOP languages being mostly used in procedural ways.

> why make a free DDNS service? > because we can, because before we started we couldn't, learning is fun That last line about learning has the right spirit!

Taxes on cigarettes, in the US, at least, are not driven primarily by Christian moralists. I was part of a prominent US non-profit that is behind both higher cigarette taxes and la…

> I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money. > It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it. Yes, but a publ…

This is old news, right? Did they not change this yet?

> This is like claiming David Beckham uses advanced physics to kick his free kick David Beckham is in a highly-specialized field (professional soccer player) and this is about thin…

Totally! Reminds me of Foundation by Isaac Asimov where scientists turn into the equivalent of priests in some cultures.

> The point of the question is that it's posed by the people who aren't going to go on to create weather reports, credit card payment systems, video games, etc. I don't think so. I…

Correction: his tone is adjacent to personally attacking people who USE Java :P