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It's very different from what the article is concluding. Knuth's outcome was a "good life", not a "great life".

The premise doesn't hold up when you think about it. If to be great is to be good repeatably, then what does it mean to be great repeatably? Is that also great or do we need a new …

Isn’t cache invalidation the hardest part of the feed? Once a user with millions of followers tweets, doesn’t that essentially invalidate millions of caches? That doesn’t sound lik…

WhatsApp and twitter’s latency calculations are on different things. Twitter’s latency stems from calculating what tweets should show on a given request. Even if you try to show tw…

I think affordable was implied by "state". > This stuff is staggeringly, mind-wreckingly expensive for people who aren't in tech, and yet functionally required because of the struc…

> I'm graduating with my master's in CS now and still haven't been taught in class many of the things I had to figure out to make what I wanted to make. Maybe the fact that you fig…

I'm surprised the author's takeaway from the Joyce quote was disillusionment. He's actually quite close to the secret sauce. I don't think writing more code and ending up with less…

I think I get it, but I'd suggest sticking with the same example when explaining the confrontational aspect of it. When you switch contexts it makes it hard to imagine the inverse.…

> Depriving people of their livelihood for expressing political views is absolutely a free speech issue. I don't think free speech is the issue here. There's a difference between e…

Audio books help a lot. It makes reading a more passive activity that you can do while doing other things that are less taxing on the mind. If you have a long commute and you can k…

> valid certificate trusted by a fake CA I don't think that's possible. A fake CA can't issue out valid certificates because you wouldn't trust their certs to begin with -- it's al…

> Something that was previously complicated enough to consider a product may now be trivial enough to become a feature. Mp3 players for example.

I was thinking the same thing about those sortBy code snippets. I use shorthand for lambdas all the time because the individual item names are implied by the collection.

> when you actually want to know when the component was put into the DOM You can use componentDidMount for that and its semantics are still the same.

Oh that sucks..How about "yarnish"? It's available on npm, sticks to your roots, and you can play on varnish if you like. Or you can always go the thesaurus route and use fleece, w…

Another pro for wireless is that you get more space inside the phone, which means more room for chips, batteries, etc. And you have to consider things like headphone jack make it h…

Honestly I'm glad they're moving towards wireless. I replace way more headphones than I care to admit just from them wearing out with normal use. It's usually just the wire itself …

It might look more familiar, but it's not better than JSX. It gets really tedious to write the pure JavaScript versions of components especially when specifying lots of attributes …

That's an easy one, just have to restate it differently and it works: (not dead) == alive. So, is there any evidence that you are alive? Well, yes, there is. Unfortunately, proving…

That seems like it would take longer than just manually labeling the things to begin with, especially with edge cases (what happens when there are 2 items in the picture? how do yo…

I think you are right in that other inputs are needed to decipher meaning. Humans for example tend to have quite a lot of different sources of input -- as when we are children and …

Actually no, in most professional leagues the rookie of the year/season award is handed out to the best rookie whether that rookie performed below, above, or at the same level as t…

Competition is a tricky concept. If there is competition, that can be seen as verification of the concept, but at the same time it offers valid counterpoints. If there is no compet…

An initial config object would probably be ideal, and then you could have the chaining to supplement those values. You could have the initial method take in the config and use the …

A bus station is also where a bus starts. Ditto for trains and train stations. ;)