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I agree the economics here don’t make sense, but leave where? The rest of the world has increasingly strange, or at least unattractive, economics too. The US is a difficult and lon…

Apart from network latency, one of the behaviours I've seen with Redis is that reads/write latencies are fairly linearly proportional to the amount of keys queried - which seems to…

+1 on Jon Bernthal. I was very skeptical at first but he gets very unique guests such ex-gang members and policemen. Many popular podcasts just have guests who are obviously trying…

I’m constantly astonished “Thinking Fast and Slow” is so highly recommended - I question if the advocates actually read the book in depth. I remember reading most of the book and s…

Despite your name referencing insanity I love your comment and it's a beacon of rationality in the current tech interview bubble. So generally I agree, but unfortunately sometimes …

If people would like to support for this further, please spread this on other platforms. I made a dedicated Twitter account to track the progress of this petition: https://twitter.…

I have started a petition to restrict Russia's access to American cloud infrastructure. Existing sanctions against Russia don't go far enough symbolically, nor economically, to acc…

I work there currently and I agree - I can imagine frustration for a while after leaving and not having a good place to make a bunch of posts. Posts and work groups are actually a …

I have seen no indication of system design documents falling out fashion. If anything, the problem is the initial, pure document is used as a reference for too long instead of prop…

@ryanar - Good to hear but disappointing. I was planning to start the second book next year.

Fiction: "The Lies of Locke Lamora" I found this book because I just finished playing Dishonored 2 and I wanted to read a book with a dystopian steampunk alternative-Victorian vibe…

Yes, autopilot interrupt, and initially as a shame factor - shaming myself not to go through with it and stick out the rest of the day phone-free. However, now this is more of a me…

~The Triple Ziploc Bag method.~ I dedicate a few days a month to being absolutely phone-free. The key point is I'm allowed to use Reddit/IG but I have to use a laptop/desktop to ac…

I have ranted about the terrible quality of consumer telecommunications in Canada for years - I am terribly excited. I have lived in both the US and Canada, moving between both for…

How is this borderline racist? If you can't defend that accusation you should not add it. The point in question here was the choice of which countries to compare US to, and the oth…

I am a student of the university of Waterloo and I have lived in San Francisco on two separate occasions in both San Francisco / Mountain View. Are you seriously comparing SF livin…

TN-1 is because of NAFTA. (Source: http://www.canadiansinusa.com/Working-in-the-US/tn-visa.html ). Trump is well-known for being extremely against NAFTA.

I view this post as being a rant against this particular shop with potentially subpar management practices which is frustrating, and I sympathesize. However, if you intend this as …

Generally I agree with you. However I can provide a personal counter-example. I am a student with a modest sum saved away (with great help from my parents) in an index tracking mut…

I am hesitant to start the whole typed vs untyped debate here, but this is exactly what your comment is highlighting. Where does all this evidence come from? I have recently starte…

This is such a nice explanation I've never heard before and I too have been guilty of thinking like this.

This is a slipper slope if I've ever seen one. Aid to Syrian rebels is already known, one of the parties to which a proxy war might be a somewhat reasonable assumption. However, gi…

What? "America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin?". America's proxy war involvement is well known, but you picked the most ridiculous co…