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Recommendations and referrals strike me as one of the ways that groups with an unintentional diversity problem end up persisting it. The composition of the group gets carried forwa…

> Are we expected to be available 24/7/365 to act on Google's unforeseeable impulses? Almost all software nowadays involves some back-end with 24/7/365 availability, which means th…

> Pi comes from logic, not nature. What if logic is different in different universes? Logic is universal... but is it multiversal?

> Why is the startup trying to be a consulting company? This doesn’t sound like the story of any visionary startup I know of. Why does a successful software business need to be a "…

It's not really a WTF. In any disagreement about intellectual property, where some part of Amazon is working on a game and it happens to conflict with some other employee's persona…

> ...not eat and litter during the show. Historically in US movie theaters, there's so much popcorn grease and spilled soda on the floor that your shoes actually get stuck to it wh…

Moreover I don't see how free a society would be if cryptocurrencies became widely accepted and early adopters began to pass cryptocurrency inheritances from one generation to anot…

When you want to do something simple but you have to bring the entire philosophy of CSS into consideration to figure out what the right way to do it is.

As a meta-point, I'm kinda surprised how attitudes among programmers have reversed in the last 20 years, from phoning home being suspicious under any circumstances, to telemetry be…

The tone of the post from the Musescore developer at [0] is so bizarre I wonder if the people who manage the company's policies and communications even know about it.

Along those lines, this was an interesting statement: "You should learn how to use these commands, but they shouldn't be a regular part of your prod workflows. That will lead to a …

> What would make someone think that this applies to Audacity, the program, and not Audacity, the website? Because the first full sentence of the policy at https://www.audacityteam…

I think it was a reasonable point. Inter-generational wealth transfer is very durable over time. Whether or not someone inherits "house money" (and can plan their lifestyle and tol…