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This makes more sense. "Replace bitters with vodka" and "replace sweet vermouth with dry vermouth" have the same edit distance currently.

Using the school analogy, imagine if schools had a private component and a public component. All kids got an education there, but there would be an incentive to charge more for a better education. And an incentive to blur the lines between what's a required fee and what is nickel and diming the parent.

That's interesting. I've wondered for a long time why non-healthcare industries don't lobby hard for universal healthcare. It's a huge cost and administrative nightmare.

There are definitely some (mostly) young, carefree people who actually opt-in to that lifestyle. They're probably overrepresented near a University. They have friends and family they could go stay with to get back into society at a moments notice. I feel like they get conflated with people who "choose" homelessness because they have an addiction, or because the church that runs the shelter abused them as a kid, or because their schizophrenia makes them paranoid about social service workers. They need help to function in society, the same way an asthmatic would need help running a 5K.

Mobile was obviously a big failure on their part, though I think their only misstep was being late to market.

On the other hand bing has been good for them (and it's great for consumers). Hard to call a multi-million dollar business unit a failure.

The idea that the investigation is coming up dry, or that there's no evidence, seems like willful ignorance.

34 people have been indicted, including the president's campaign chairman (Paul Manafort), campaign manager (Rick Gates), lawyer (Michael Cohen), and national security advisor (Michael Flynn). Just today Roger Stone was indicted. Many of these people have pled guilty.

WeWorks innovation is coming up with an office rental "product" that has high demand not being met by the market. Most property owners want long term leases because vacancies cost them money. Most freelancers and small businesses want short term, month-to-month, fully furnished office spaces.

I think they're overvalued, and they'll be in trouble if a recession hits. But coworking spaces do fill a need in the real estate market, one that's likely to grow, and WeWork is the market leader.

> GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network. What other product exists with that kind of crossover?

LinkedIn comes to mind, which was also aquired by Microsoft.

I agree that cable companies suck, but would like to add that taking it out on low level employees also sucks.

I was having a problem with fruit flies around my used pods and compost bin so I started keeping them in the freezer. Worked like a charm.

These kind of problems can be solved or avoided altogether by a decent editor.

At a micro level, taking money out of a deposit and investing it does not create inequality. At a macro level, the fact that simply having wealth begets more wealth in a way that labor cannot accomplish is a driving force behind inequality.

Sure I get that. It's just visually I know that when I'm taking screenshots of app windows, and I have said windows open, I confuse myself sometimes. If I were trying to mockup a mockup app I'd want to use a different, visually distinct, tool.

Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.

That was annoying me the entire time I was reading this, the entire article has an unspoken assumption that their interview process couldn't possibly be responsible for any discrepancy in the data.

I think learning to code as a teen or adult is really easy if you have strong abstract reasoning skills and literacy skills. I don't teach my kids about coding, I do hit them with logic puzzles, math questions, and teach them to read. If they nail those skills (in addition to the ones the author mentions) they'll be able to pick up programming in a few weeks.

> Public space isn't storage ground for private property.

Except cars, for some reason.

I hate them too. There are a number of things wrong with them, discoverability is one of them but what really gets me is tracking state. Why do I need to guess at the state of things inside my head as I'm running commands, or query the machine to tell me, when the actual state is sitting there in memory the whole time?

> Carlsen remains the better player, because he does better where it matters; time pressure.

I disagree. Carlsen is the better player under time pressure, but they appear evenly matched in what I'd consider "actual" chess. One of the things I love about the game is that it's a slow, pensive game.

I've heard similar proposals for soccer games, start with penalty kicks as a tiebreaker. Now, whomever lost the tiebreaker will have to play extra hard as they know a draw will be a loss.

This assumes you're healthy and have no other responsibilities. A minor health problem would lead to ruin with this lifestyle, and it's just not possible if you have to care for family members.

I've known people who quit heroin and struggled to quit cigs. Which one is "harder" to quit is probably subjective and depends on the person, but there is a lot more going on than physical withdrawal symptoms.

Use a css preprocessor, and define variables with the technical names but classes that end up in html should have descriptive names. Something like this:

  $accent_1_700: #e60000;
  $accent_2_900: #ff9999;

  @mixin button_border($color) {
    border: 1px solid $color;  
  }
  
  .alert-button {
    background-color: $accent_2_900;
    @include button_border($accent_1_700);  
  }

This makes your color palette defined explicitly and easy to change in one place, and makes which color on the palette you're using in a given context defined explicitly as well.

There are a lot of .NET engineers who assume they can't use docker or run on Linux, and simultaneously a lot of other engineers who think if they build on .NET they'll be married to Windows or Azure. So I can see why the cross platform nature of it gets harped on a lot. Personally I think the strongest case for .NET is the C# language and associated tooling, but the only way to really appreciate that is to dive in.

I don't have advice for your kids sleep problem, but the fact that you noticed this problem and care about it means you're not the worst parents. Parenting is hard, and it sounds like you're trying your best.

I think the language we'd use around person C depends on the context. "Gay" and "black" are fine to say at a bar but weird in a more formal setting like a courtroom or company-wide presentation. There's a ton of other language like this, nobody is upset that they can't tell fart jokes in a courtroom.

Replace "political correctness" with "being polite" and pearl-clutching about thoughtcrimes and the death of democracy seems absurd. Can someone explain how the two differ?

The youtube channel PBS Spacetime has some really great videos about how black holes work, I would start with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaEBbFbvcY

The US can also borrow at really good rates. If a business could borrow that cheaply it would be a no-brainer to take debt and build a new factory or whatever. Similarly, it makes a ton of sense for the government to borrow and then invest in future economic growth.

It changes the narrative of "liberal bullies are ruining our dongle jokes". The fact that a woman was fired for trying to make our industry more inclusive shows we're not a leftie monoculture. The fact that she was subjected to rape and death threats shows there's a lot of toxic misogyny in our industry. It can be simultaneously true that people are afraid to talk because of SJWs criticizing them, and also they can be afraid to talk because right wing trolls will target them for harassment. Who in their right mind would want to risk being the next Zoë Quinn?