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Late to the party, but here's an eclectic mix: - Logbook of your work, plans, thoughts; use whatever tool that you know will be around the longest. Be it git, apple notes, or any o…

The author has one opinion, here's mine: The OLPC designers, developers, engineers, educators (and whoever contributed to the project) have done a fantastic job. I got an OLPC for …

Depends on the people involved. Some are likely to be sharing screen in a presentation at any given time, then it is the expected way of starting a chat. Others would be unlikely t…

Logged in to say kudos. This is a fantastic idea. Driving around in Antalya now, and I am transported mentally.

A lot of the children's stories I heard growing up included violence of sorts. Not saying it was necessarily good, but it is very common, hence perhaps is either harmless or maybe …

It is hard for one to appreciate the value of a process that helps teams operate well in the long run, in the face of disruptions, pivots, failures, growth, etc. If you can do with…

You usually do not even want a global optimum with a high capacity model such as a DNN anyway (SVMs memorize only a small number of data points), because that possibly means that y…

Meeting room switch does take time, and it is a cost, cannot argue with facts. However, real estate cost is not high only if the company is located in the woods. If one is looking …

Given your requirements, I would suggest a consultant/contract developer position for large/established companies building enterprise solutions. Large, because they will have chall…

I had an office (in the company which pioneered individual offices for their dedicated building for creatives many decades ago), and I have worked in open office settings. There ar…

Fantastic story! Looking forward to following the new breed of aviation pioneers and adventures in space!

US cities are amazing for libraries as well. I don't know much about the history of libraries, but it feels as if having a nice library was a prerequisite to being called a town. I…

The problem is symmetric, and observations will match expectations if you can treat it as such. Put yourself in the place of the interviewer, who needs to decide on the person they…

Many will only read the image captions and will miss this buried "info" bit: "Conduent, in another twist, has begun competing with the start-up. The business services outsourcer, w…

He could have gone up to the top of Burj Khalifa instead. But, that wouldn't have placed him on the headlines. Also, he is running for governor. As far as I can tell from recent ex…

Thank you for this table. Yet, the footprint size you measure will depend on what you are counting. We eat meat mostly for protein; and for that beef is about 10x more efficient th…

OK sure, do we also put carbon tax on wheat, and other vegetables? ~750 million tons of wheat is produced yearly, vs ~260 million tons of beef. Excepting the case of perennial plan…

Thank you for pointing this out. I heard about this series but never watched it, and didn't know the plot. Amazing how the scifi writers leapfrog their times in understanding of sc…

Fantastic thought experiment. Not sure if it was already covered in a scifi story before, my scifi literature is pretty weak. If not, somebody should turn this into one.

This points to a fundamental problem in the understanding of planetary systems. Planets do not come to being out of nothing; enourmous amounts of matter have to come together to ma…