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It's sometimes seen as a security issue, especially if you are not provided with a company-issued laptop. Or your work may require specialized equipment like beefy machines for 3D rendering or local access to a server.

I wouldn't say that working efficiently with people directly counts as "meta". Productive cooperation with others sounds like a straightforward skill to improve, with no new rules being introduced. Maybe new company/team organizational approaches or methodologies (Waterfall, Kanban, etc.) can count as playing the meta and give you an edge over the competition.

There is also HATETRIS https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html

Both can be classified as 'anecdotes', I agree, but talking about your work conditions when asked, is a completely different anecdote as opposed to someone not actively complaining when they are with friends/acquaintances.

The difference between having a coding team manager that expects everyone should work 60+ hours and a non-coder who is against it, can be huge. I prefer the latter.

I vaguely remember all of those things as separate phases. - Moving away from IE, I fell in love with Opera (lots of built-in features), most others with Firefox - Chrome comes in, it's Google, it's lightweight, people try it and like it - Chrome gets really fast, it appeals to even more people - Meanwhile, Firefox has enough extension power to replace Opera for me (who can live with the tabs BELOW address bar or without mouse gestures?) - Chrome implements the aforementioned technical stuff (separate processes, etc.), appealing to power users (this may have happened before speed improvements or at the same time) - Chrome finally gets extensions and I start using it personally, but it's impossible to be a web dev without Firefox+Firebug. (IE6 still sucks, but combined with Visual Studio, feels superb for JS debugging) - Chrome's dev tools gradually get better at everything. I start living in Chrome.

... years later ...

- A year ago I often used Firefox for its great Canvas debugger. They broke it. I've since forgotten about Firefox.

... 2019 ...

- Microsoft is trying to drive people away from IE, hoping for Edge adoption. I don't care for Firefox. Opera is almost Chrome with extensions. Edge sounds like it wants to be Chrome. Chrome won on most battlefronts. I don't like that fact, because of the "free from corporate greed" reasons mentioned, but it's going to be hard to change the status quo.

Autocomplete from Xi probably.

If the guy examines Samsung Galaxy phones, it would almost be the same.

This is just guessing. If I have to bet, I'd as well bet that Google/Samsung/ISPs/Everyone is spying on you, but just guessing and shrugging it off is not helping.

We should be inspired to check even more devices and inform users about backdoor traffic.

Comparing is not judging or blaming. The GP suggests that both TPB and Google are in a gray area, which I partially agree with, but I think they are in different gray areas.

TPB, as described, is in a moral gray area - "We know some of the uploaded stuff is immoral" - so they delete what's immoral (their judgement - child porn/copyright stuff/anything between), they arbitrarily decide what you see

Google is in an algorithmic gray area - "The algorithm decides what's best for you, we want the best for you, but we won't judge what's best for you" - so they do nothing and hope for the best (and least damage), the algorithm arbitrarily decides what you see

Both seem like different routes to the same hell.

Edit: Spelling, clearer wording

Personally, I think unit tests shine best when you're designing an API. I can swing from hate to love and back about TDD in minutes, but when it comes to thinking about how your code will be used, unit tests (did we stop using that term?) are a tremendously useful tool I have.

I guess if all code written could be seen as an API, TDD would be great, but that's not the world I live in.

I read the article, but I haven't read the study. The article seems to show that the study is useless - it proves nothing, it's neither pro-TDD, nor anti-TDD. Taking a seemingly strong side of an argument supported by the study, but not commenting on the linked article itself, can explain the downvotes.

This is starting to sound dangerously close to doxing (esp. if anything found is shared), even if it's out of pure curiosity.

Can you please elaborate on that? As of now, it sounds like you left behind everyone you knew in order to change how your taxes are spent.

I guess it's a list that blocks similar things that are "under" ads and only show when you block ads. Soon, sites will just start adding more stuff to be revealed once you block those. It's an endless pit and no one has a solution.

I think the comparison got a bit diluted, because the initial mention of a 100 threshold sounds like "pretty much anyone", while LaDue comes out more like a 50 threshold or at least something that feels like middle ground - equally (dis)interested in cold violence and empathy.

LaDue is probably much less "normal" than the 99 threshold comparison near the end suggests, but I believe the idea, that this "threshold expansion" may continue and get worse, was well enough communicated throughout the article.

While joesoap's comment on the article page is hilarious, it made me think - are there any technological issues to providing (nearly) real-time low-res video feed? It would be scientifically useless, so this is more of a theoretical question about the tech/physics involved.

It feels like your last sentence defines what _why was, a beautiful creation.

Microsoft pays around $100 for every Xbox One system-on-chip to AMD

I think someone forgot to account for manufacturing costs, hence the error in the calculations. The savings will be much smaller, but I believe the real benefit will be putting Sony in a terrible situation - they'll have to pay to Microsoft for the production of the PS4 GPUs and for the next generation console, they may be left with only NVidia as an option (the article mentions other options, but currently these two are the main players, plus we never know what will happen in 5-10 years)

It is either complying with the censorship or being entirely banned from the country. Perhaps by keeping presence they may help slowly change things.

I know it's entirely a business decision, but simply saying "Ok, forget about China" won't help either.

Besides the second-class feeling that others mention, those hopes of release in other countries rarely become reality.

Did you just create an account to say a half of a negative sentence? o_O

I find constructs like isAwesome() && alert("yay"); confusing as well, but in our codebase it's pretty much standard to use a simple falsy check like 'callback && callback()' for optional callbacks, but we don't use it anywhere else.

To be honest, I like and use some of those, especially when writing experimental/disposable code, but otherwise I try to be gentle to less experienced developers and my future self.

As of #5 - I used to do and love this when writing unit tests. At the end of the work day, if I'm in the middle of implementing a feature, I'd commit and then write the next unit test (inevitably) sitting in my head and leave it failing. Really helps when it's Monday.

And I finally found a good reason to close my account. Thank you.

Now I hope for a follow-up post that explains what the east cost problem was.

He also says his wife is Japanese which makes me doubt it's "utterly wrong" to be honest. Care to elaborate/provide sources?