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Exporting spreadsheets from JS always seemed such a chore. It's difficult to declaratively define even though it's so obviously similar to a plain old table. With custom renderers …

The number of organizations that continue to use tedious languages like Java 8 and Golang... Like, they hadn't realized they were turning humans into compilers for abstract concept…

Isn't that scarier, knowing that you're using a state-sanctioned exit node?

The same erra

It probably allowed their engineers to code the design bits in an easier language (imagine, HTML vs C++!), allowing them to iterate and customise the design more quickly. It's prob…

Literally, fentanyl is legal and regulated. It's used as an anaesthetic.

there's no market clearing price in the market for concert tickets. the scalpers would exercise perfect price discrimination if they could.

1/ attending a concert is not a civil right 2/ can't emphasize enough, but _get an ID_. While ID posession was used to discriminate against groups of people, the real problem here …

unpopular opinion in this US-centric forum, but just burn the bags when they end up in the trash. Much of Europe does that. Bags are just hydrocarbons and burning them completely r…

The book Pathogenesis published this year has a hypothesis -- diseases from the Neanderthals and other hominids who populated the regions outside Africa earlier wiped out the earli…

So, Americans decided to make their language as difficult to read as Chinese?!? Well done...

/++ are spontaneous. Any time your colleague makes a great presentation, does you a favour, you /++ them. If there are regular weekly kudos, it'd be a team-specific thing. /++ were…

exactly. Captchas should just ask the user to design... CAPTCHAS

Doesn't matter what minimum wage was used for if we agree that it works for us today .

They are still doing contact tracing, and even doubling down on it