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Is it fair to blame all of OOP for C++?

The Middle East is less safe because the US made an example of Saddam when he offered to sell oil for Euros instead of US dollars. That's a classic example of an empire ensuring th…

Not charity - they are paying tribute

I feel like there's a whole new generation of tech workers that need to read _Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance_

I don't really want to increase the amount of time I spend doing code reviews. It's not the fun part of programming for me. Now, if you could switch it around so that I write the c…

When I was younger and poorer they made a decent speaker (amplifier? echo chamber?) in a pinch, if you taped an earbud into the open end, facing the bottom of the tube.

Are you able to ride a bike to work?

There's the BioLite stoves: https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/basecamp They are high-efficiency, low-smoke wood stoves and the company actually tries to make a difference to p…

You could probably do just as well with random selection as relying on a heuristic. Most people with relevant training and experience are capable of doing the job, most of those ar…

Factory-farmed meat is bad for humans and bad for the environment, true, but any industrial-scale monoculture crop has huge negative impacts, and that includes vegetables too. Bett…

My personal experience has been that the live coding aspect makes a huge difference to my development speed. A while ago I was going through Project Euler in less-mainstream langua…

I don't have a problem with their hardware design, just how they handle support. I'm specifically avoiding their hardware in the future because of the customer experience I've had,…

+1. I'll never buy Google hardware again. 6 weeks ago, my Pixel C tablet bricked itself playing Minecraft: Pocket Edition (my guess is that the heat corrupted some of the flash mem…