jasonpeacock

Search for "Facebook Lite", it's their lightweight frontend for lower-bandwidth connections.

I disagree with the premise that the following are contradictory: 1. “It tests CS fundamentals.” 2. “It tests reasoning through a new problem.” Both can be measured in an interview togeth…

Fixing a typo as you work on something else is not bad - that's called Boy Scouting[1] and it's totally acceptable to sprinkle small improvements/cleanups in a change. As for getting di…

You're making an assumption that RMS is the only person who can be a champion of free software. That's incorrect, there are many people who can and do vigorously support free software but be…

> I believe RMS is the only person around that can prevent a full corporate take over of Linux. How? What has he actually done - what have been his successes? What can he do? He can't stop c…

What about all the women who have come forward, talking about what a massive creep he is? This isn't about some technicality about what he said, but a culmination of 30 years of horrible behavior…

Many, many people have come forward, especially women, relating horrible experiences with RMS covering the last 30 years - which you are promptly disregarding as "alleged". If you do more re…

Basically, "we've waited long enough for people to forget, we're bringing him back and we have no issue with his behavior which we hope will continue the same as before." RMS doesn…

> when not i always get a comment during a code review. Why during CR? Is the error not obvious to you? You should be able to check the results of your changes before pushing, right?

What's crazy is that any taxi company (and there are some large ones which have the resources) could have done this. Then, after Uber launched, instead of jumping on the bandwagon and doing they …

It was both magical and instantly obvious, the best kind of change.

This is a good summary of the lack of conclusion and actual risks: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-the... …

Back in the day I remember stories about candidates who would get an offer from Amazon and then Google/MS would just automatically counter-offer without interviewing as it was assumed that if the…

Yeah, when it was really cold (<= 0F) were were required to wear facemasks (those neoprene masks with the nose fold, paper-punch holes at the mouth, and velcro in the back[1]) to prevent frostbite …

Huh. I grew up racing XC skiing in Alaska, and usually during the first week of practice in the winter you'd "burn" your lungs from the cold (or apparently, the dryness). You'd cou…

It's a poorly written, pseudo-intellectual screed whining about their treatment after being held accountable for their actions, which they don't even get to until halfway through the article…

This was the author's estate, not a publisher, and they made a request that was apparently granted. You're correct that due to First Sale Doctrine that by law the request didn't have to…

They can request anything they want, but nobody has to agree :) In this case, it appears that Ebay and Amazon agreed to the request.

Ebay is a company, they can choose to sell (or not) whatever they wish (within legal bounds). That doesn't violate First Sale Principle, nobody is stopping you from selling the book, Ebay just …

The estate requested that sales be ceased, in addition to their decision to stop publishing. This was likely coordinated with requests to Amazon and other sellers/resellers to pull the books from…

Totally agree. You can avoid lots of this by using Bash built-ins, but that's more advanced/esoteric Bash development that most people aren't familiar with. Thankfully, with the officia…

This is beautiful, I love it. So much passion, grit, and skill!

My point is that Bash is already installed almost everywhere, including across WSL, Linux, and OSX. Yes, when working with sub-processes you need to account for platform differences...which is also tr…

For everyone who's saying "if you need unit tests then you should rewrite it in a different language", you're not wrong but you're not right either. Bash is a lowest-common-de…

And to keep going...car manufacturers do use engines from other brands, but that's when they are owned by the same company. For example, you'll find Ford engines in Mazdas because Ford owned…

To follow that analogy, it'd be like BMW using an engine from Ford. Their whole selling point is the engines, and how they are different from other manufacturers. I'm sure there are many bac…

Why stop there? Why doesn't Mozilla switch to using Chrome? :)

I'm always annoyed by articles like this which never include a link to the actual web/app that's being discussed. I see many Wired articles do the same thing. Is there some publishing r…

Aha, thanks! Probably obvious to an actual tech :)