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I came here just to say “Fake Purse Ninjas is missing” but then I saw it immediately at the top of the Action category. Amazing.

I’d recommend reading this article[1] which goes into more depth than the article here with a detailed critique of the entropy theory.

1. https://link.medium.com/CGktsSNhcib

+1 to Manager's Path and Elegant Puzzle

One other point I'd add that isn't covered particularly well in this list: the process of becoming an engineering manager and interviewing for the job[1] are both challenging processes unto themselves.

[1] https://blog.tryexponent.com/how-to-prepare-for-an-engineeri...

Hey! Do you have any live demos or real(ish) apps made with Astro that we could check out?

Super interesting thanks for sharing.

I’ve been curious for a while as to why Boulder is so expensive relative to other places around Colorado, and surprised to see it so high on this list. Is it just one of the wealthier suburbs of Denver?

Just speaking from personal anecdotes, every time I’ve accidentally been charged for something on AWS that I didn’t intend, their support team has refunded me without much hassle. Things may have changed in recent times but I’ve found them to be pretty reasonable about it.

I meant token in the literal dictionary sense, as in a symbolic voucher

Just dropping by to say I actually did develop a NFT version of the Moon (back in 2017!). It was obviously somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but still very much alive and real:

https://lunartoken.co

I think your critique of NFTs is mostly valid. Until there is some legal validity to them recognized by governments, they are basically just, well, tokens of ownership. The same could be said about most property or IP at some point in time :)

Sounds like Yelp ;)

Before it was announced that uBiome was committing insurance fraud a few years back, my friend and I compared our test results and found that our very detailed, 10-page personalized biome reports were completely identical except for our names. So I believe they were also just completely fabricating their test results from the beginning, and some of the employees at the company must have known this.

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Hey Adam! I know the video's meant to be over the top but I'd be curious who/what you worked with to make the visuals and animation if you're willing to share :)

This is generally ok advice but it leaves out an important detail about making backwards compatible changes. If your backend doesn’t do anything, every change to your database will break your client unless they are updated simultaneously every time (impossible for mobile apps) or your client is aware of every backend change (very complex). Not to mention there is some data you simply don’t want to expose to a client in most situations, like user emails or hashed passwords.

This is really cool & you have a great website! The one thing I don’t quite understand is why this needs to be a React hook per se - couldn’t it just be a normal library function that you call inside your component?

The irony of seeing a popup ad on HBR immediately when clicking on this link.

Wonderful! I remember struggling to make it through linear algebra in college because the teaching style was so unapproachable and disconnected from real applications. It wasn't until I took computer graphics that I really grasped a lot of the concepts.

You misspelled obsolete :)

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Wow this is awesome. I bet they could design a different particle to fix some kinds of colorblindness, for example by blocking/converting the wavelengths of light that tend to be confused between red and green.

Even when you strip out those other concepts, which you probably shouldn't, there is an underlying element of conscious awareness that is not "nothing," but an awareness of nothing, like the "I" in "I think therefore I am."

My problem is that people confuse talking poetically about consciousness with actually coming to a conclusion about how this thing works.

Relevant: https://qz.com/369338/this-is-what-makes-dressing-down-a-sta...

I don’t disagree with the problems you describe, but I don’t think panpsychism explains any of these problems either. It’s a non-answer, and functionally equivalent to saying nothing about consciousness. The “evolutionary illusion” you describe is precisely what we’re trying to understand: the brain is doing an extraordinary magic trick and no one knows how.

I think opinions like these ignore the immense complexity of the animal brain compared to other natural materials. We are not made of the same stuff as the rest of the external world—living things have a very precise configuration of cells and connections, and the slightest deficiencies or disturbances lead to complete loss of consciousness

Python has some unusual performance behaviors. IIRC you can also speed up the performance of your program a lot by assigning intermediate variables instead of referencing properties, for example:

[A.b[i] for i in range(100)]

is a lot slower than:

B = A.b

[B[i] for i in range (100)]

This doesn't seem like a solution to me but rather a symptom of a much deeper problem in the way that we write and document code.

Amazing. I always thought it'd be useful to get one of those shirts that says "Staff" on it, but this is even better.

Sounds like an episode of black mirror

While I agree with the sentiment (it's become more cumbersome to create and access content on the web), it goes without saying that the vast majority of users find value in web apps and the platform-agnostic functionality they provide.