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They should have made the bit about Boeing instead.

No one says you have to subscribe to ALL of the streaming platforms at once.

If cost is an issue, pick 1 or 2 services, watch the shows you’re interested in, then cancel those and pick 1 or 2. Rince and repeat.

You have choice with this approach and you don’t need every service offered.

Lord no I am not putting my financial information on that cesspool of a platform.

Teams is the result of Microsoft taking a look at Slack and saying, how can we make this feel more like Excel?

Ok, if you get into Harvard, go to Harvard. Your opportunities in the long run should outweigh any sort of student loans you have to pay back. If you're going to NoName Private College that's 90% of the cost of Harvard, go to state school instead.

And apply to scholarships. Lots and lots of scholarships.

JavaScript is a dynamically-typed language. Parallelizing the type checking with bundling gives you the best of both worlds: the speed when writing in a dynamic language and the type safety that comes with a static-typed language. For me, I like to write my code and not too concern myself with types until I’m close to committing; that’s when I fix type errors.

That “sink or float” metaphor was clumsily written and reminded me of someone wanting to convey something important, but didn’t know how or what to say. I’ve only watched one episode, but that episode was not good.

In contrast House of the Dragon is better written, equally gorgeous, and is far more interesting. At least it is 3 episodes in compared to the 1 RoP I’ve seen.

“This Naked Mind” by Annie Grace takes a similar approach with alcohol.

Yes, LaMDA is not sentient. But this begs the question: as these models become more sophisticated, and we did end up creating a sentient AI, how would we know?

As someone who lives in the US Northeast with its biting winters, San Diego and Los Angeles's yearlong climate seems like a dream.

Actions speak louder than words. If she were truly sorry, she would’ve reverted the PR and have it go through the normal process. Instead she wrote a really long message about how the .NET Foundation owns your project.

As someone who has a liberal arts background, software engineering has a lot more in common with writing than most admit. Sure there is grammar and syntax but good writing can be as varied from William Shakespeare to Stephen King. Same with software writing.

I live in the NYC area and I can tell you no one cares about jaywalking.

I was an early employee (#20-something) of a startup that was acquired. The founder received 1 billion, the 2 other founders received 100 million each.

I got about 80 grand that took 4 years to vest.

You have to be grateful for the opportunities and experiences you’ve acquired and be honest with yourself—-I didn’t take the risks they did and since I was pretty junior at the time, wasn’t as influential as others.

Now how would you do this with a wife that works and two young children in tow?

No.

Because it’s assumed those private methods’ usage happens within public methods, which should be tested. By testing the public methods and all of its use cases you are also testing private ones. That way you can arbitrarily modify private methods without touching the tests (presuming you’re refactoring and don’t need to modify behavior).

The introductory section talks about a 7 year old working on the quadratic formula. What?? At 7!

“Calculus for 7 Year Olds (Who Are Geniuses)” should be the title.

I agree with so much of this! I think it stems from so many software engineers have a quantitative background, where solving for x is either right or wrong. Much of “good” software engineering, however, is subjective and I think many of these folks have a difficult time reconciling that. So you get into these battles on which is the best way when, unless it’s something egregious, is probably good enough.

I have a writing and liberal arts background and so while bad writing is obvious, good writing comes in many stylistic forms. I think this has allowed me to see varying perspectives on “best practices.”

The author uses a small subset (positive psychology and its nebulous definition of happiness, although the he doesn’t address that those psychologists do define that term) of psychology to denounce the whole field as “not science.”

String theory deals with measurements that are mind-boggling small to the point where experimentation is impossible. String theory cannot be tested in a lab or in any sort of tactile experiment. Experimentation is a critical piece of a science and so since String Theory cannot be tested with the scientific method, all of physics is not a science.

Of course that argument is absurd and so is this article.

Is it an alien cat?

John Adams’ greatest contribution to the presidency was that after losing the election to Thomas Jefferson in 1800, he stepped down and power changed without bloodshed.

I’m not so sure that will happen should Trump lose this November.

It's easy to say that when you're afforded the comforts of a Western democracy.

While this does seem like a heartfelt apology from the CEO, this incident is a reminder of how much of our privacy we willingly hand over to companies and how much power they wield over us. It is immensely disturbing.

I will not be using Triplebyte’s services.

So where’s the free tier?

He didn’t really leave society though because his livelihood was entirely dependent on it, without contributing back.

He just pitched a tent and didn’t talk to anyone for 27 years. He really just claimed his own campground for a long time.

This. Holes in the conventional theory do not act as evidence for alternative theories because you end up inadvertently filling up those holes with presuppositions to support those theories. Case in point: a very plausible explanation for the Shakespeare example is that he was an absent father. You’re making the assumption that since he was a popular playwright and a master of the English language, he would want his children to at least be proficient in the language he loved. That presupposes the notion that all people who have a passion want to pass down that passion to their children. That’s not the case.

Hole h in conventional theory c exists, therefore c is invalid and alternative theory a is correct is the kind of illogical reasoning that is the underpinning of so many conspiracy theories. Alternative theories need to have their own support for them, not simply rely on missing gaps of knowledge in the conventional theories.

This is the world in which we live. A very select few feast while the rest fight over table scraps.

And then we argue over those table scraps while those who feast couldn't care less.

It's not "tricking", unless you're letting your toddler dictate whether you should leave the house. Toddlers don't have a choice over that; instead, you're giving the toddler a choice appropriate to their level. That helps build their cognitive abilities and takes the focus away from whether they want to leave the house (a choice they shouldn't make), to whether they want the sweater or coat (a choice reasonable for them).

Wow, a Microsoft product that doesn't reference other MS products! I'm so used to the 'click a button' in Visual Studio to publish your C# / ASP.NET code to access SQL Server in the cloud supported by Azure.