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This article seems to focus mainly on Western civilization. Not saying they aren't wonders. There were many engineering feats in the South/East Asian subcontinents that are not cov…

I have a bunch of these pencil brands Tombow, Mitsubishi. I usually buy them on ebay. Its an amazing experience to write with them... I usually use the H, HB to write, and its fasc…

I bought a Dell 34 inch widescreen curved monitor 2 years ago for ~500. Somedays even that feels too narrow when I'm coding. 32 inch would feel restrictive.

Support for linux was there, since the very early days of Azure. But at the time this was clearly Nadella's baby. AWS was running away with market share, and Azure gained some dece…

Ballmer hated Linux & open source. He would've driven their cloud division to the ground trying to sell Windows servers in the cloud. It would've taken him another 20 years to acce…

Companies profiting off Open Source is a very common pattern. Look at AWS (amazon web services) long list of 'managed' services, and there are quite a few open-source candidates. I…

In my past non-profit we used WPEngine, that was about 10 years ago. Yes they were expensive but we didn't have people, nor did I (a backend python guy) want to mess with websites …

The question is why has that innovation of breakthrough ideas dried up. Past glory is small consolation, or none at all. How long will we keep sharing these 1000-year old memes in …

I guess the author, a historian, writes about ancient Indian mathematical contributions (a science of which he has no expertise presumably). These historical references I have lear…

You're likely as old as my kid, so I am sad to see this. Yes, take your health into your own hands. Medicate as little as possible - but this won't work for many people - in fact i…

Geeks who worked 24 hours straight to remedy the outage earned their cup of coffee. Uber is happy for sure.

Land of the free, home of the brave - doesn't come cheap. By definition "Leadership" in this capitalistic society is predatory - this style extends to the armed forces, where every…

She goes back to skydiving. I have mixed opinions about that. She should've not revealed that part.

I love info, and wish more developer docs where available on Info. Saves me from opening up a PDF - navigating an info-based reference manual is more ergonomic in comparison

Fermented foods, especially yogurt, kefir, buttermilk are vital for good health. People buy probiotic pills etc. But all it takes is to buy a tub/can of Greek yogurt. The best snac…

I stopped reading when he started talking set theory. there's a far simpler way to explain it and learn it. nice way to tie ourselves into knots. no thanks.

I find jq's syntax (and docs) kind of opaque, but I guess we have no other options. And I don't think this latest incarnation breaks any new ground there. But it'd be better if I j…

All these fads prevent us from producing simple maintainable code.

Give me a date when it will be done. That’s mgmt for you

Agile is evil

Employee surveillance under a different name. Pick your poison, i.e. sell your soul to a big player, or a toxic startup, or someone with a size in between. It also depends on how y…

Even if the accusations are true, India will not respond. To protect the lives of Indian nationals in Canada , and to protect the Indian high commission and ensure staff safety is …

The Khalistan movement found a fertile breeding ground in Canada about 40 years ago. They bombed an airline (AirIndia flight 182) in the 80s, the terrorists who plotted walk free i…