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Is or was? The article explicitly mentions several of her tracks as having come from the pop production machine.

Thank you for posting this. Fine work. I need to give it another read later, but for now, I find Thomas' iambs a little heavyweight. Every line has the same 4x(ba-DUM, ba-DUM) rhyt…

A nasty workaround for a problem which should not exist in the first place. Ditto dependencies on private repositories.

> Is it hard essentially, or is it hard accidentally? Not exactly either, but certainly a bit of both. Programming is hard primarily because it is so poorly understood. The entire …

That's fantastic! If you don't mind me asking, how old is she? University student or younger?

If you didn't catch The Economist's biases on a cursory reading of one issue, that's on you. Simply skimming one of the leader opinion pieces and comparing it to, e.g., a Krugman c…

The obituaries are brilliant. One of the best things I read every week.

Recently? The Times has been acquiring credibility question marks since before it unquestioningly published the nonsense about aluminum tubes in Iraq.

Your comment simply says that your politics don't align with The Economist's. I personally find the "he said, she said" style of reporting that purports to give a fair account of a…

Not entirely. Team control is a major part of it for companies, and history makes a huge difference to the experience. Slack servers allow the use of IRC clients, but I gave up on …

On the subject of IRC: it wasn't fading all that strongly, IMO, at least for open-source and free software discussions. Then Slack came along. Startling to see a proprietary clone …

Your surgeon is lazy. He wants you as a patient for 2 days for his fee, not for two weeks. All my research indicates that PRK is substantially better.

One thing about this case puzzles me, and none of the news coverage I found explains it: what code did he actually take?! Details matter. Was it a tweak of something like Samba (ob…

English has an equivalent: "it is what it is". It also stops solution-seeking dead in its tracks. A hateful little phrase.

Sure. I added some reading material links to my comment. The Rane document has an OSHA safe sound levels table at the end, a good reference. Keep in mind that the dB scale is logar…

The rules of thumb about "60% of maximum volume for 60 minutes" and "if you can't hear your surroundings, it's too loud" are nonsense. Dangerous volume settings depend on a headpho…

A huge number of soldiers returning from the war had been handed 25-year (in most cases equivalent to life-long) sentences under the 58th article of the Soviet penal code (see http…

Instead of banning specific tools, try promoting officers and enlisted personnel who do a good job, including public speaking and presenting ideas.