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AGI is a faith based proposition like “the sufficiently smart compiler” - it turns all technical discussion into drivel.

“Genius” comes from genus meaning source/give birth/produce, a genius is a prolific source of original work. If you are only prolific, or only original, or neither, you may be a cl…

Performance reviews are similar. My company did a bi-yearly performance review one year and my manager wrote up their views of where I did bad on each thing through that half of th…

The dramatic irony is highly overrated. Deepness before Fire is way more enjoyable.

Pandoc markdown had footnotes in 2008 when I was blogging with it.

To some degree it overlaps with Inflex https://twitter.com/inflexhq But the inspirations differ https://inflex.io/blog/bibliography

Be careful with these grip strength thingies. If your finger tendons are overworked, using those will exacerbate the problem. I tell from experience. It’s brutal. Tendons aren’t mu…

Your comment shows you didn’t read the page fully. I miss when people had time to read a whole page. The author already wrote about blogs that are trying to get views with various …

There are literally a hundred startups that GRIDS is like, don’t be ridiculous.

You should also add blank text until the pointless web font loads.

For a modern take on this you might like Paul Chiusiano’s work http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-future-of-software... And that culminated in https://www.unisonweb.org/ Ess…

All CEOs are contrite when they respond to being publicly shamed on Hacker News. It’s somewhat of a Hacker News trope at this point. It’s amusing, but it doesn’t mean anything. I’v…

Observable does. So does Julia’s Pluto.jl. You’re not paying attention to the space but recalculating notebooks are gaining popularity.

Relations don’t provide sum types in a first-class way. If you want a list of employees each of which have different roles, and depending on the role you have different fields guar…

C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup who is Danish. But otherwise your list is mostly accurate.