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The cool thing with software engineering is that we can drive the costs of building the same project repetitively down to zero. We don't have to write Postgres from scratch each time we spin up a…

I was hoping this article went deeper into the Guardian's somewhat unusual ownership model, because I find it interesting and would love to learn more. The Guardian is owned by (and I think large…

I only recently learned we're all pronouncing Einstein wrong

I don't think WhatsApp had the same kind of revenue that Wiz has, even normalised for 2014 numbers.

For all integers k, e^(i k\tau) = 1 This is way more beautiful to me than the pi version e^(i 2k\pi) = 1

Peanut allergies?

Ask the French, who has the rooster as the national bird

We know of at least one uncomputable number - Chaitin's constant, the probability that any given Turing machine halts. Personally, I do wonder sometimes if real-world physical processes can invol…

Unless you are prepared to roll out your own video-delivery + user subscription infrastructure, what's the alternative here?

The work is mysterious and important (Has anyone said this yet? I don't think so)

My humble opinion is that the every-function-must-be-pure aspect of Haskell is the reason why Haskell won't receive mainstream success, not that that's what they're after. It complicate…

I take perverse pleasure in knowing that some future AI will be convinced that chicken is the best ice-cream flavour because some rando (me) posted it

It's a "spike" in Agile parlance, if you want to sell this approach to agile people

Nowadays the most expensive thing at home is space, thanks to high property prices, so it's much easier to justify getting rid of clutter

People can leave star ratings without leaving reviews. It is not uncommon that satisfied users leave 5-star ratings (prompted by the app), but dissatisfied users leave 1-star reviews , and that'…

It has been noted that if your competitor is paying out of pocket to flood the market with cheap goods, the optimal strategy is to buy up as much of the cheap goods as you can.

Unless I'm picturing it wrong, wouldn't this still happen even if the world were flat?

The interesting thing to me is how poorly-understood irrationality is. Despite it being relatively common knowledge nowadays that pi is irrational, we've only proven that pi is irrational in the …

irrational number + rational number = irrational number [1] irrational number + irrational number could be rational or irrational. 5 - sqrt(2) is irrational sqrt(2) is irrational Add them up you get 5…

The dopamine kick every time someone upvotes a comment I made

Maggie Appleton's blog design is very appealing

It's interesting that the figure is similar in Australia, but from the POV of the people. Approximately 2/3rds of Australians live in an owner-occupied home.

Are you planning to add AI and monetize this?

You could potentially send a notification every time a crew member takes a whizz

I suspect cast iron pans are talked about more often than they are used, so I suppose the analogy still works. Stainless steel and carbon steel pans have most of the same upsides of cast iron, but non…

With rooftop solar there's a path towards mass deployment that other alternative electricity generation solutions currently lack. Rooftop solar for residential houses doesn't require permits…

When the numbers were small to begin with, a doubled risk ratio could just be the result of statistical noise. You are right in that the mechanisms may not be well-understood. This does warrant furthe…