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A lack of accidents doesn’t make a vehicle safer. It just means that there aren’t as many on the road.

I don’t have the numbers, couldn’t really find anything online, but I’m sure the number of Tesla’s on the road is a fraction of Toyota’s

LKAndrewon Researchers: It takes 1.5 MB of data to store language information

How would it be possible that 40,000 words translates to 400,000 bits?! Am I missing something here?

LKAndrewon To fixate on finding work that makes us happy is a luxury

As someone who makes a great salary on doing what I love to do, I don't think it's all bullshit. Following your passion doesn't have to mean that you want to be a rock star. It's ridiculous to think that you can't find something you're passionate about in your work.

LKAndrewon To fixate on finding work that makes us happy is a luxury

Also posted on medium:

https://medium.com/@austinlchurch/8976ee275d85#.a493lr7j8

LKAndrewon Death to JIRA

The author clearly doesn't have the experience in agile development necessary to be commenting on this. As a software engineer turned scrum master, I can say that my company is a well oiled machine using JIRA and agile methodologies perfectly well. My engineers don't have these complaints. Clearly he's doing it wrong.

LKAndrewon Apple Deprecated All My Stuff

I really don't understand why there is such a complaint about Apple finally moving to an open standard.

I mean this is an age old cycle. People consistently complain about the changes in technology. Without these changes there would be no innovation. No updates. Do people want status quo for the rest of their lives!? What's the deal?

Also if you have the money to spend $2000+ on a new computer, is it not safe to assume that you can afford a couple dongles until the industries move to that standard?

LKAndrewon Elegant JSON WebService in Swift

This is awful looking Swift code. It looks like a JavaScript dev got into Swift and didn't fully understand the fundamentals of Swift. I know it's doable, but as someone who works entirely in Swift this project looks different than 99% of the frameworks that I use.

One of the major issues I have is with the module name and object names. import ws? I mean come on. What happened to verbosity? It seems like the go to these days is to shorten everything and just use acronyms everywhere. Terribly confusing in large projects.

Finally have a look at existing frameworks such as SwiftyJSON and ObjectMapper. Much more elegant.