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Nested ternaries, ungodly amounts of repetition, ZERO tests, hardcoded sensitive info... this code wouldn't pass code review anywhere. I don't care when it was written, any day it …

But... start ups still pay engineers salaries that dwarf teachers, retail, and many other industries. Should people in those industries not have kids? Are they being irresponsible …

What fundamental problems does it solve that layer 3 networking has been unable to tackle? Not pushing back - just ignorant and want to learn!

Campground host. Camp all day every day. Be nice to everyone. Rest for years...

Don't forget init.ai, Botkit, Chatfuel, Chatflow, Last Mile...

As a former teacher, who ran a programming club at a middle school and taught an advanced 8th-grade math class included programming, I have some perspective on this. I would say, b…

That relationship makes so much sense to me in the form Dog - ADHD ~= Cat - Autism. Brilliant!

A family member is a lawyer in the Worker's Comp, SS, and Family Law space. THE software for lawyers in this space is called A1 Law. It solves a lot of real problems lawyers in tha…

For contrast, I went the other direction. I taught middle and high school math, then got an MS in math (really enjoyed TAing) and started programming. I really appreciate the intel…

I only started using Hangouts a few months ago, and find the macOS experience acceptable and think the iOS implementation is dead on.

Has anyone used hook.io as an alternative? I have only built toy projects with it, nothing substantial, so I can't speak to important things like error handling, but so far I reall…

I will make that for you if you want

In the chart of trends in how people meet, there is a suspicious uptick in "at a restaurant/bar" in the last few years... that is totally just a cover for people who met on Tinder …

I am a big fan of Linear Algebra Done Right, if you are looking for an actual, dead-tree book with good explanations.

The "fundamental building blocks are too flawed" argument is so strange to me. Too flawed for what? To become, by far, the most popular platform in history for running applications…

Elementary education is mandatory, but the curriculum is only mandated for public schools. The rules vary from state to state, but here they are for California: 1. File an annual p…

Did you read the whole article? I was composing a similar comment in my head, but then got to "switching from conventional milk to organic milk would increase omega-3 intake by onl…

So, after "[announcing] $7.67 million in fresh funding... TinyOwl was reportedly offering post-dated checks to [the laid off employees], which concerned them as previously laid-off…

As a trained, but non-practicing, physicist, I would like you to elaborate about your first paragraph. I am used to using units where c=1, I think that is what you are referencing:…

I would like to point out that homeschooling and unschooling are not the same thing. From: http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/homeschooling/unschooli... "Unschooling is a branch …