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Yeah, I figured as much.

Care to expand on this implication?

Weird, joyless take. What do you get out of looking down on people appreciating a cute animal?

> It applies not just to access to information on the device, but information "which can be accessed by the use of that computer"

So... basically the entire internet, then?

Snide viewpoints like this are one of the main reasons people with mental illness often hide their conditions and suffer in silence.

Oh, you have the gall to mention how depression or anxiety manifests in your life? You better stop flaunting your psychological frailty!

How is providing a fake email "debugging"... ?

Researchers associated with UMN intentionally submitted patches to the Linux kernel with vulnerabilities in them as an experiment. OSS maintainers shouldn't have to be the unwitting test subjects of experiments and have their time wasted (or worse, have vulnerabilities make it into their source code) so that researchers can write a paper about it.

It makes sense for them to want to keep their customers happy, considering how goddamn expensive those little bits of plastic are

You can take anything and do it poorly. That's not the fault of the people who created it.

"brew fucking sucks" is just whining, not reasonable criticism IMHO

Your anecdote is also just an anecdote. You're making sweeping claims without evidence and are adding nothing of substance to the discussion.

> One thing I always try and vouch for is that you do need to go "all-in" on microservices

Did you mean "don't need"? I agree with the rest of your post, but this first sentence confuses me

Ah, but of course you are one of The Smart People whereas we plebians (and the NASA scientists who designed and launched the probe) are merely average.

By all means, provide us with reputable sources that claim "the Earth should currently be uninhabitable". We'll wait.

Interesting, then what is your alternative? It seems like hand-rolling all of your migrations would be an enormous pain on larger projects.

Not defending Medium here, but I do have an issue with this point:

> The web is meant for free speech. Your content shouldn’t be jailed for being controversial.

You mentioned your profile was taken offline after being mistakenly caught in their spam filter. Shouldn't spam blocking be a basic function of a publishing site? Obviously in a perfect world there wouldn't be false positives, but sometimes these things happen. Your content wasn't banned for being "controversial".

I sincerely appreciated that the technical portion of the interview for my current employer consisted of pair programming with their developers to improve on the pre-screening "take home" assignment I completed. It actually gave me a chance to explain my thought process and work through problems in a similar way to how it happens on the job. It was infinite preferable to white board algorithm questions.

Being downvoted is not being cancelled. If people don't agree with what you're saying, they're welcome to exercise their own right to speak and tell you so.

I've seen a fair number of naked lightbulbs in the last few years in hipster restaurants, coffee shops, etc. If done right, it can actually be a pleasing aesthetic.

I think your general point is right though, it's not terribly practical.

They did absolutely slow down their older phones, but it comes down to whether you believe that their explanation of why was the whole truth. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/02/apple-agrees-to-settlement...

I'm not an Apple hater or a fanboy. I've owned a number of Apple devices in the past. However, they have their issues just like any other tech company, but their devoted following does seem to be more cultish than that of, say, Microsoft or Google.

Check out "Gaming Careers" on YouTube, it's a channel dedicated to teaching all the various aspects of streaming from the ground up, assuming little or no previous knowledge.

IIRC, Pixlr has been around a long time. I last checked it out a few years ago, and it was _way_ different + had a very limited feature set. My guess is that they may have seen sites like Photopea and decided to copy that model... ?

I use Photopea all the time (found it via Reddit a year or so ago) and I just want to say -- THANK YOU!

It's amazing what you're able to accomplish in the browser.

I work at a company that does full-time pair programming whenever possible. There can be drawbacks for sure, but overall, I love it. However, one caveat is that our hiring process places emphasis on finding people that are collaborative and easy to work with as opposed to know-it-all "rockstar" developers. We also do test-driven development, so in addition to the most common pattern (driver / navigator) we sometimes do it a different way wherein one person writes the failing test, then their pair writes the implementation to get the test to pass along with the next failing test. Rinse, repeat.

I generally find the axiom "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." applicable to this context.

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Benefits of pair programming (IMHO):

* It eliminates the need for code review (most of the time) since another dev is providing input as you write.

* Pairing senior and junior developers is an excellent way to build the abilities and confidence of the latter.

* Pairing decreases siloing of knowledge and one individual's "ownership" of a particular feature or system. You much less frequently see things like "Oh, you have a question about our Widget Framework? Go ask Sally, she's the only one who touches that part of the code."

* You're less likely to implement hacky solutions just to get something to work because someone else is working alongside you. (At least, I am.)

* It's easier to find and fix bugs (in my personal experience) when you have two sets of eyes on the code.

* You have to slow down and explain your ideas before immediately jumping in and implementing them. I generally find that reaching consensus with my pair about the strategy to solve a problem helps surface edge cases I might not have thought of alone.