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Everyone should experience the x220 keyboard. It's probably the best laptop keyboard I've experienced. The x230 onward is also extremely good. The trick for me is key travel. I bou…

I posted something along the lines of "games are too easy to make" on reddit and got expectedly lambasted. My fault, don't tell people with new found ability that the only reason t…

Mailinator of course still works this way too. It has private domains, but it still fully supports public,free,disposable addresses @mailinator.com. Just enter any inbox you want a…

Oh yes - Our system ended up being good for several hundred or several thousand (don't recall) transactions per second. Bob called me after Zuck's announcement that the system hit …

People loved Bob, it was truly just a magic he had. In 2010, Zuck gave a lot of money to NJ schools. For reasons completely unknown to me, Bob, who was at Square at the time, was g…

Last year I upgraded to a Thinkpad Carbon. Almost immediately, I couldn't stand the keyboard. This sent me down a rabbit-hole of what was wrong with the keyboard (as it looked almo…

The human is starting to look like the weakest link. For such a closed track (known route to the centimeter, guaranteed no obstacles, etc) - a Self-Driving version of this could do…

A Ph.D. really is about the journey. I'd be surprised if anyone ever thought it represented more money. It's unlikely to matter for that. The time I spent getting a Ph.D. was one o…

>I don’t think many of these people will have trouble finding a job. After all - they most likely grinded the fuck out of leetcode and system design to get in. That type of persona…

In the context of "History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes", this is just what happened when Java appeared. Everyone noting it was written in Java (as, believe it or not, it was the …

Edit: My bad - unfortunate wording. I didn't mean this as negative at all. It's cool (if niche) ability.

Indeed. Shutoff Garbage collection completely and it can work. (And make sure your Java code creates no garbage - which is a new type of programming in and of itself)

To be fair, Mailinator https://www.mailinator.com has been around since it's inception in 2003. It offers other services now, but the "disposable email" part is still there as it w…