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It sounds like you are making a lot of rationalizations for not investing the time to practice live-coding and whiteboarding. Those are skills that can be learned, like any other.

> What `ncurses` is to you, computers are for normal people. That is a really dumb analogy, that makes a really good point. Try piping a program that uses ncurses. Ncurses is a shi…

First ARPANET connection went up in 1969, Ted Nelson's _Computer Lib/Dream Machines_ was published in 1974. Steve Jobs was just repeating things that people had been talking about …

> Men approaching women in real life is now rarer than it was in favor of online meeting through Apps. Ask your female friends (if you have any) about this. You might be surprised.…

> But I'd actually use Amazon. Amazon book recommendations and keyword search are garbage. Sometimes even a direct search for title and author name will put the result halfway down…

> a left-leaning Sunday paper (WaPo/NYT)/news magazine. The fact that either the Washington Post or the New York Times is considered left-leaning is one of the problems in US media…

> However, we also know that the difficulties of typing these languages without special keyboard support have led to a variety of more English in ASCII language successors such as …

> The problem is that the only programming language I know of that tried to be its own language-language was APL and thoughts of coding in that give me nightmares. Have you ever ac…

Tor bridges do not have this problem, do not consume a lot of bandwidth, and are very useful for people who need to circumvent firewalls. I have been running one for years without …

The only thing anyone outside of the US needs to see to understand the insane situation we have with gun ownership can be found in this news story about Waymo driverless cars: http…

> Seriously, email these days isn't the greatest communication tool any more, thanks to the spammers. Do you have any better alternatives? > GMail does a pretty decent job of filte…

There were Visual Basic boot-camps during the dot-com boom.

> Take into considering that while the wages for software engineers were high, they weren't as high as they are now. That is a common misconception when people do not take inflatio…

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Amazon is a trust, not yet a monopoly. There is an inherent conflict of interest, and lack of recourse (forced arbitration), between Amazon marketplace sellers and Amazon the e-com…

I don't understand why people are not pointing out the obvious: there is a correlation with rising obesity rates. https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti... 40…

> I don't know anything about John Zerzan but Stop right there. You know nothing about the "modern left" if you have never heard of John Zerzan. And if you think that he is some ki…

> That's pretty much what my copy does. I'm grateful the profession has TAOCP as a resource, but the reality for the majority of workaday engineers is that most of the sort of art …

> The keybindings it does have are terrible and give RSI, and crucially because there's a whole ecosystem of addons that try not to collide, they can never be changed, which is why…

> I mean, if you're too conservative to use modern technology, this doesn't seem like the right field to work in. That kind of attitude ("why aren't you using ?") is just as obnoxi…

> There obviously is a modern left and feminism is a central tenet of it. Since you seem to be so well-informed on the subject, maybe you can help me with a question about the "mod…

> you can't really "improve" your looks after possibly weight loss and personal care without a doctor. An appropriate hair cut (which might be going totally bald for some people) i…

> This is a bit myopic with respect to how normal people view university education. For a typical person, the point of education is not to learn things, but to obtain a degree. The…

There is no such thing as the "modern left," except as a straw-man used by various people in US corporate television and radio. Mary Daly was a Catholic professor of theology and p…

> Move forward to today: a large percentage of men are totally removed from the dating market (not by choice), they do not have sex, they have no hope of getting into a relationshi…