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> I feel like the odd one out. You're not. I have the late 2016 model. It replaced my ~2013-2014 model and I consider it an improvement. The Touch Bar / touch-id is a (mostly irrel…

> “Thank god Apple gave X a review copy before me” Ah yes. Excellent usage of quotation marks for your interpretation of Gruber’s thoughts. Nothing at all dishonest about that.

> I was in SV last year for a couple of months during the election, and everyone I met were all paid up members of the church of political correctness up front, but when you spoke …

> IMHO his best book is his first mass market one: "Fooled by Randomness". It contains all the big ideas of his subsequent books and is an east, entertaining read. Let me second th…

> Their 10-year old bottling is a bit nicer, but almost twice the price. I'm a bit confused by this statement. At least when I've seen it, the Quarter Cask is noticeably more expen…

> Have you ever worked in a government secure environment? Regardless of the politics, if anyone else other than her had done this they would have been fired on the spot, and had p…

Precipice - A java library providing monitoring and back pressure for task execution https://github.com/tbrooks8/Precipice Precipice allows you to plug in a variety of metrics to c…

Sure. Unsafe in terms of program correctness. By that measure, new Thread() is unsafe. But that's not a reasonable definition of "unsafe". This could crash the JVM is a reasonable …

Yes. Also there are many "safe" operations on "unsafe". Such as memory fences.

Confluent seems to be assembling a pretty impressive team. https://twitter.com/jaykreps/status/609408453920985088 https://twitter.com/nehanarkhede/status/615549407597989888 https:/…

I would be hesitant of this so easily accepting this view due to selection bias. Java and C++ are often found in huge, legacy, or enterprise oriented code bases. The are plenty of …