mrblampo

Sorry, I may have been making unfair assumptions about your intent with your comment about the definition of "song." Let's assume that you are just eager to help me understand proper usage of the term. Thank you for pointing this out. I'm aware of the distinction, but was making a choice to ignore it, because I think most people ignore it. And when I was a kid playing around with Windows 3.1 I definitely would have called it a song.

Boooo.

Thanks for sharing this! My sister and I used to love listening to this song on our Gateway 2000 when we were kids.

"Frauds $200M to AT&T" should be something like "defrauds AT&T of $200M." The "to" is particularly confusing, I thought the headline was saying AT&T _gained_ $200M.

Oof, that sounds like such a terrible interview experience, I'm sorry to hear it. I'm glad to say my Google interview wasn't like that at all. In my experience working at Google, code reviewers are more likely to communicate their expectations clearly, and less likely to request arbitrary style changes, than at my previous startup job.

That was very stirring. Thank you.

This article describes the kind of person who launches things, meets deadlines, and is comfortable creating lots of tech debt in the process. Perhaps it _is_ a good idea to hire lots of these people at a startup, but I definitely prefer working on a team with more of a balance.

Interesting! Is there a more direct link to a particular talk? I'm curious about this, and I see there is a single slide that shows a few bullet points in support of OCaml, but I don't see more than that in this link.

I definitely thought this would be philosophical, not technical, based on the title, and I got excited. "Modeling mutual friendship" is definitely something I want to do for my kids, for example.

> Even editing simple text documents has become painfully slow on my 2013 Macbook Pro.

I just installed Linux Mint on my 2013 MacBook Air, and now it's fast enough that you wouldn't know it's an old computer. Really amazing, it seems like Mac OS in particular is just super resource heavy. I realize Linux pretty much defeats the purpose of owning a Mac, but I'm just glad not to have to throw out an old computer that has seen me through my entire career shift into programming so far.

Maybe my debugger skills aren't strong enough, but I find that when I'm trying to reason about how some complicated code is executing, a debugger statement forces me to wade through tons of internals in libraries I don't care about. Some well-placed console logs give me much less information overload.

Huh, why do you think you do that? Do you forget about the debugger statement, or is there some other reason you think console logging might work well?

Not so sure about this: "An example of a gentle environment is software development. Outcomes are clearly specified, frameworks are common and work well, and your actions receive instant and accurate feedback."

Clever! It would be better for the intended behavior to be supported, though, right?

> The medium doesn't allow for stalking.

Huh. Are you sure? I don't know anything about how podcast advertising works, but it sounds like you're assuming the full audio track, complete with ads, is the same everywhere and always.

It sounds like you would be happier to see the next sentence get into greater detail about how targets ads impact privacy today. But the article does in fact do so (look at the paragraph that starts "This model has some major drawbacks..."), and the next paragraph you refer to ("Most products are a much better fit...") builds to that point by explaining why targeted ads exist at all.