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I have been programming for 37 years now. Kotlin is just a joy to read and write. Usually when working on a new non-trivial task, I first think of the solution, then write it down in pseudo code. Read…

Censorship and privacy are important issues. So is civilised online debate, and communities learning to work together in a nice way. I admire the people that put in time and energy to create a safer f…

> On the other side, probably this is the reason why it's quite hard to find mediocre food in Italy. If you only had a chance to fall into the tourist traps around Piazza Navona I stumbled int…

Just ran it on a VirtualBox. This is beyond amazing. How long have you been working on this for?

Homebrew is great! I love it. My only complaint is that I never remember 'brew upgrade' from my 'brew update'. which is which.

>Meanwhile providing money for no reason to Homebrew >wouldn't make business sense. As far Apple is concerned, >Homebrew works, and providing financial support wouldn't >make it …

Visual C++ v6 was a classic. Don't you feel IntelliJ is the spiritual successor of Borland?

Curious here. if you factor in cost of living differences, what is the resulting uplift?

Almost agree. I would say that if this is the case, Pay is local optimisation. On the long run, if you stay in such a company your market value will by reduced as it is (a) psychological very difficul…

Team mates, usually know who is a good engineer, and who's not - much more accurately than management. When I was in Google, Perf process was based on peers feedback, and it worked well.

If you're willing to buy out his share, I would approach the investor, explain the current dead lock, and get his support to force your partner to do a BMBY (Buy Me Buy You), where you offer him …

“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. “No”, I replied. “I just spent $600,000 training him – why would I want somebody to hire hi…

I think there's a lot of merit on dwelling on death. Death can put your current life in laser like focus and perspective. Is what you're doing now really important? Is that what you want to …

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional" - attributed to various buddhist leaders / other thinkers.

Sounds a lot like mindfulness mediation.

... It's not the same company. The "HotBot" name and domain were sold for $155k in 2016 to an unnamed buyer[0] 0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotBot …

... they also had the "I'm feeling lucky" button which took you the the first search result. Hinting it was intelligent, but still not fully so.

1) Google was the only search engine at that time that understood the power of search. Yahoo pushed its search box below the fold. Lycos, AV tried to bring more "content" to the search page.…

Its much more difficult to take this stance when you live in a part of the world where such services are not available to you, just because of your LAT/LNG. Several times already I found myself …

Microsoft could manufacture their own hardware providing free Windows updates while charging for services such as Office, Drive, Store, Music, Photos - and their biggest advantage over Mac - Games.

What's true to the US and HN "bubble" right now, will be the norm for the rest of the world a few years from now. no?

This is a very interesting idea to me. Over the years I noticed that reviewing the same code knowing a bug is there will increase my chances of finding it comparing to not knowing a bug exists. It wou…

... just like you explain it to a... rubber duck? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging …

very interesting. can you give a few examples ?

hmm. that's exactly what stayed with me as well. Each birthday is another victory. You made it another year. some don't. rejoice.