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Ah, yes, purposefully waste people's time. Fuck them, right? I've seen this kind of attitude before, and it's usually justified with something about how the companies don't respect…

I would argue that you understand the relationship between an alligator and a water buffalo immediately... Now your brain is turning it into language to come up with words like "pr…

I'm multilingual. Growing up, friends asked me which language I think in. The answer is "neither". I can produce sentences in my brain in either language if I want, but it's strang…

Is this your idea of a positive comment? "It's happening no matter what!"

Speak for yourself. My family is busy, and we don't like to plan -- we just decide to do something and do it. So a scheduled routine would feel like a horrible anchor to us.

I'd have thought that I'd have heard of this if there were legit evidence Changes to DNA would be the long term changes, not RNA. But yes, look up epigenetics, and especially DNA m…

The fallacy is the god-of-the-gaps "logic" of assuming there's some hand-wavey phenomenon that's qualitatively different from anything we currently understand, just because reality…

Undoubtedly. But saying conflicts with France significantly affected the outcome of the American Revolution is a far cry from saying the Revolution was essentially part of the conf…

What's incorrect about the American "founding myth"? Please explain what role France played in the disagreement about taxes between the colonists and the crown?

I'm curious to see the curricula that are teaching this incorrect rubbish. What role did France play in the Boston Tea Party? I'm not aware of any at all. Certainly France jumped i…

Also define "computational statistics". It'll be fun to try and fail to draw a clear line between the two.

I'm not the OP but I couldn't agree more with them. To answer your question... no they don't. Or perhaps very, very rarely. It doesn't make sense to spend hours at a time on any of…

It's rather a non sequitur, as no one ever said immutability was enough. You also need design, rigor, error handling, common sense, some caffeine, testing, and fast builds. All tog…

You've missed my point. When you get your first yacht, you'll start to notice all the better yachts with mini yachts. It's never ending.

If you ever made it to Google, you'd immediately see the stratification within. The elites with their lake houses... the people operating at levels you never will be able to... the…

The other problem here is that unit tests never break (since you've mocked everything that can break) and therefore aren't worth running; it might be more productive to write them …

Weirdly aggressive? What's aggressive about it? The thin skin around here is ridiculous.

Pretty sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are exchanging ideas in the same way Jefferson and Madison did. These people all have something in common, though, even across time -- the…

That kind of ad hoc WFH is very common, but it's different from a policy that permits N days a week WFH.

That's what it is not why. For most people the response to this will be "why would I want to do that?" There may be good reasons. But they'll need to be explicitly spelled out for …

Money. The most common bottleneck is money and customers. Use whatever helps you get new customers faster. Don't be scared of having to make changes in the future. Do the small amo…

What am I missing? With your description, nothing ever sets expire to 0. Can't look at the code comfortably as I'm on mobile.

But if we always do what's easiest, then we will make a bunch of horrible choices. Other things that matter, often more than what's easiest: * Flexibility. If you aren't 100% sure …

pg did not talk about riches in this essay, and especially in this paragraph. He talked about doing interesting work. Yeah it make sense to focus on interesting projects when you a…

"was to remember" doesn't imply causality any more than "remembered" does. "could not help but remember" would've been a much better translation, and even has the similarity that t…