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I am in fact a bear at this very moment.

Ok - bear mode activated: I'll add 'The Star Bear' by Michael Swanwick, where a man's series of encounters with a bear in Paris echo his feelings about being a Russian emigre. http…

Similar to when someone said that the rule of thumb should not be DRY (don't repeat yourself) but WET (write everything twice) - that is, be happy to repeat similar code once or tw…

I'm pretty sure I've seen that one in a list, by a French person, of things they wish other people wouldn't say!

> I don’t believe it. There are just as many variables involved in writing a short story. Surely you're not implying that writing a good short story is a solved problem for compute…

Or because they're shy and antisocial but it's nice to think that they're part of the gang - as the original article was all about.

For me the followup was the most obviously AI bit of writing - it's exactly the tone you get when the AI admits it's been utterly wasting your time.

My ex boss read too much Ray Dalio and it ate his brain.

Yes! The number of lousy articles and blog posts I've seen that talk about "imperative, oo and functional programming"...

Oh a bug, surely. How is the quiz supposed to give you insights when it's unanswerable?

Cron is definitely not the biggest problem in my life. I've never had a problem with its format. I think this is a solution to a problem I don't have - and I tend to find that "Eng…

I remember how much I liked my old iPhone 4. I liked the straight edges and crisp look and feel. I upgraded eventually to an iPhone 6 and hated the roundness - the design language …

I'm closing in on 62 and I've been saying for a while now that as soon as I turned 60 my body sent me a note saying "That's it - I'm done now. The rest is up to you". I feel valida…

The comments on the apple insider piece are quite something - apple fans have the most amazing cases of Stockholm syndrome.

Yeah. Bloody Apple. Google too. Like (I'm sure) plenty of other people here I've written an app and put it up on the Apple and Google app stores. It does what it does with no probl…

> We attacked Iraq because we were attacked on 9/11 Yes, by 15 Saudis, 2 from the United Arab Emirates, one Lebanese and one Egyptian. Funny old world.

Thanks - I got annoyed with their site for not (as far as I noticed anyway) mention what their gadget actually was .

I got a nice numpadless mechanical keyboard to conserve my deskspace, and because I never used the numpad anyway. Then I promptly got into Blender, which makes great use of the num…

"A product should be owned by a lean team of experts, focused primarily on the architecture of their code rather than the implementation details." Sheesh! The Lizard People walk am…

"Ayn Rand exists as a roundabout litmus test for assholes" is a pretty widely held idea. I've never read a book of hers, but the extracts I've read... well, I can see why people sa…

Though not as dull. Rand's writing can send you off to sleep in no time - and then if you're reading in bed you risk having the book fall on your head.

I believe you'll find that's a direct quote from Winston Churchill. Or was it Dorothy Parker?

Australia too.

This is a non-answer in a way, because it's set in the past. I think it might have been in the early '90s - certainly it was when mobile phones were new and faddish and the provinc…

That's rather evasive. The broccoli must have done something quite traumatic.