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Crack cocaine, in moderation. Snorting detergent, in moderation. Inhaling strawberry-scented RCs because it's "probably" healthier than LA air - okay, in moderation.

Walking isn't exercise. Not surprised you don't mind walking to the grocery store.

If you need an origin story to make you eat healthily, your life is probably better if you do tell yourself your heritage is mostly caveman, cavemen had peak fitness, cavemen had p…

On this subject, I recommend The End of Overeating by David Kessler.

what an unfortunate metaphor

I didn't finish the book. Even for a young adults sci-fi novel, it's very badly written.

if you can't just build your Go binary and run it on your Linux box, is it even, like, worth knowing? I'll bet the author hasn't even heard of Go or Linux boxes, like. "very advanc…

Admittedly, I'd never heard of this "forced relocation" as I imagine you hadn't either since you quote verbatim from the wiki article, so I don't know too much about it, but you ca…

Javascript """engineer"""

>A rational billionaire would realize that he have nothing to gain from more wealth and would live the rest of his life in lavish and luxury (while donating 99.9% of it if he cares…

The BBC has a similar mandate in the UK to the state broadcaster in Uppsala. It is more concerned with managing community relations by presenting a unified history than straight re…

I think the implication is that Californian students (along with students in at least 12 other states) got stupider "unmagically".

lol, this book is being shilled to death because one of the examples used is a (very superficial) analysis of twitter's scaling problem. try the art of computer systems performance…

wow, thanks, wouldn't have known how to google that without the link

the corollary to this question is more interesting - when you split the person, do you split the brain? the answer is not necessarily. for example, you may split the person horizon…

is it feasible to do this protocol reverse engineering without mitmproxy?

idiotic advice

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weed dood

for (j = 0; j somebody can explain how the author managed to work this bit out?

thank you for sharing your suspicions

I didn't think they'd be a word I dislike more than "architecting". Hats off to the author for using "over-architecting" in his insightful blogpost.

i am interested to know the particulars of any routines people have for reading and reviewing a codebase, as the author talks about doing in his spare time. do you take notes? add …

That's right, you're not an engineer.