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FYI: As of the time of this reply, https://dixonary.co.uk/cabal-2020 returns a 404.

Every single question of that form is impossible to answer with mere words. Luckily, people CAN answer it through aggregate choice, so we don't have to worry about it. ...but since…

Come to Homer's BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB.

Man it would be funny if this was just a single link to a suicide hotline.

True, but there may also be a national interest in him not being in charge anymore.

And then displayed them in the worst way you could think of? Why does it instantly produce two-way scrolling? How do you even advance to the next slide? Why does Facebook's pitch d…

Now apologize for spamming my inbox without an unsubscribe link.

...also, the existing frameworks are either unmaintained or god-awful (I'm lookin' at you, web development community).

Or to put it mathematically, the optimal amount of exploration time in this explore/exploit problem is far less than you might think.

I can't put my finger on it, but this seems less like a helpful incremental improvement and more like sowing the seeds of our own destruction. Like it's obviously bad to only write…

Your argument here seems to be that even if the majority of programmers find Lisp and all its derivatives to be difficult to read, we're wrong.

Says the guy named "crazygringo".

...any comments about the actual content of my post, or are we just going to talk about my odd use of SoCal surfer idioms for a while?

Surprisingly, nobody jumped on "crazygringo" when he attacked my usage of a word with a negative connotation. By the way, if anyone's inclined to fucking ASK why I used that word a…

I'm mocking the situation: - Promotion is largely driven by launches - Erego, people launch unnecessary shit - That's ridiculous - ??? - The New Hangouts

I think the fact that I worked there for over 5 and a half years should afford my opinion a bit more weight, but as I despise the Argument By Authority fallacy, I'll concede that a…

Thank you for the benefit of the doubt. Admittedly, if I cared about being taken seriously, I would've chosen my words more carefully. However, I just felt like dashing off a quick…

>Calling her a "chick" is like calling Larry Page a "boy toy" -- the word is used largely in sexual situations ("picking up chicks"), and is incredibly unprofessional and demeaning…

If you're a PC douchebag who actively seeks out opportunities to be offended by things, then, sure. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.

Or let's just not put words in my fucking mouth by declaring what connotation I had in mind by my use of the word "chick".

Maybe you should be more open-minded then.

It's hard to get promoted at Google unless you launch things, and the Internal Tools team never launched shit. So they just latch onto any excuse to launch whatever they can, even …

No, it's not. It's the truth.

The chick in charge of the Internal Tools team? That shit is widely regarded within Google as a dead-end ghetto, devoid of opportunities for promotion and looked down on by the oth…

And if you do DOM manipulation inside an eval... god help you.