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> It's really every category of commercial activity. I'm not going to defend capital's ability to ruin things, but this is framing is not helpful. Enshittification as it was descri…

It's the same story with Express as a web server framework for Node. I've always felt that the biggest problem with the Javascript ecosystem is that it's entirely too preoccupied w…

Yes.

For a very informal tour, The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu is a science fiction novel where the history of mathematics, physics, and computation play a large role. So much so th…

Did you all ever open source your emacs tooling? I’d like to see that.

I work on a similar team, with a mix of people who want to use functional styles and those who want something more imperative. I lean toward the pro-functional style, but I also pu…

Thanks. Ok, so is he creating strawmen everywhere, then? I know people working in government, biotech, climate research, and none of them seem to think that the normal distribution…

Can somebody please ELI5 his whole phenomenon? I don't really understand who are the targets (other than Nate Silver) of all his polemic. From my limited exposure, he's basically m…

Five Books just published a list this week. https://fivebooks.com/best-books/dr-patrick-porter-on-the-ri...

100% agree with this here. I have had to push for leveraging postgres for data validation (including typing columns with enums where applicable), and sometimes it's hard to convinc…

That's the website's stock in trade! https://fivebooks.com/?s=russia&post_type=interview

No, that hasn't really become necessary yet. We'll see once we do a house remodel. :)

No, that hasn't really become necessary yet. We'll see once we do a house remodel. :)

Totally fine, so long as you know that makes you an "advanced user". I can't imagine you'll find a sane place to work where senior people are only capable of learning something aft…

I'm always surprised that reading source code is such a rare occurrence or suggestion in this world. If you consider yourself even in the vicinity of "advanced", I think you're cap…

Very similar story here. We got married a month ago. We did everything ourselves (plus friends & family), and we started too late. We started using Asana so that we could stop havi…

Any chance your school makes its exercises available? I've been trying to go through CS:APP myself, but the exercises aren't included and I believe I'd need a .edu email address to…

I was, um, inspired to make this one: https://imgur.com/a/cKC4f

Not even close. The only contender is Deadwood (RIP).

Hey there — AT is a well-known brand (surprised to hear you support it well with such a small team!) so I imagine HR will get a lot of applications. Would you be open to me sending…

Hey there — the careers page doesn't have any indications which (or any) positions are remote friendly. Do you know which of the engineering positions could be filled by US-based r…

Thank you for illustrating my point by conflating the political spectrum with the epistemological spectrum. :) As for "self-congratulatory", I was responding to the old chestnut th…

I think the main problem is that we conflate the political spectrum (what are the responsibilities of the State?) and the epistemological spectrum (how do we determine what is true…

I for one would be interested in seeing the C book even in draft. :)