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Seems like a poorly chosen example, since you could simply "lookup" the last bit of the integer to see if it is even or odd, which should be instant for any integer?

Any source on react being one of the slower frameworks and recommendations for alternatives? Just asking out of curiosity. I've been using Angular at work and always heard that React was a more performant framework.

And it gets much worse. Seeing how he didn't need a ventilator, this is only slightly worse than the "mild" cases we hear about.

It's a difficult problem for sure. But I don't think we'll ever come up with a truly "clean" personal vehicle like the cars we know today. I think the solution would have to be something like better, cleaner public transit, encouraging people to live in walking/biking distance from their work, encouraging remote work, and reducing car usage overall as much as possible.

Electric cars are better than regular fossil fuel cars, yes. But the article talks about "stopping" climate change, not just making it slightly less bad.

Building millions of electric cars and shipping them around the world is extremely energy intensive. Many countries where those cars are shipped to use fossil fuels as their main source of electricity too. Nothing about it is green or will "stop climate change", but it gives them good marketing.

> If the summer heat, followed by Hurricane Dorian, hasn’t convinced you that climate change is real, probably nothing will.

Saying that is as dumb as saying global warming isn't real because there's still snow in winter.

Electric cars are not much greener than normal cars if they use electricity produced in coal plants. I think it makes a lot of sense to push for solar power when you are in the electric car business. Without renewable energy they are really not that green after all.

Kafka was a genius writer and his work has my highest respect.

The anguish that he felt, in writing as well as in life, is exactly what made his work so great. The absurd eagerness to continually perform and deliver, in a world which makes so little sense and where all meaning is relative, is what made his books so human.

I'm not surprised that his books were difficult to write. They are also difficult to read. They feel like swimming in mud with no clear direction, under immense pressure from others arbitrarily chosen, only to realize in the end you were going in circles. That is what makes them profoundly human. I don't think his work would have had the same impact if it was not imprinted by the same kind of anguish that made writing it so difficult.

He almost seems surprised that going into complete social isolation in order to win internet points made him less happy.

The way I see it, it's not that people don't like Slack, it's that people don't like online chatting in general as the official way of communicating inside a company. I don't think that the solution to that problem could ever be another chatting tool.

There's a big difference between apps and restaurants. One chinese restaurant can only serve so many customers, but one well made website can serve the entire market, making other solutions of lesser quality almost worthless.

That being said, I agree with the point of your comment in general, and we shouldn't stop ourselves from creating something we value just because it exists already. Working on something we care about gives meaning to our life, and who knows, maybe your solution will turn out to be the best one out there.

Why? Aren't all merge requests a WIP until they are merged?