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Where are they lacking?

I’m curious about the condition they’re usually in when they land.

It drives on everyday streets.

I think people are too quick to forget “Stanley” from Stanford.

“Required several coordinated actions” is the key moment for reflection.

Maybe they prioritized it low, assigned it to a group of 3 devs, and it functioned the first time they demoed it to management, so it shipped. All other devs would’ve been working on their in-house software.

I haven’t heard of a single software job in the last decade that offers anything resembling “training”. You sink or swim based on your previous knowledge, what you can glean from the codebase and coworkers, and how skilled you are at self-teaching.

Does Postgres no have online backup built in? All of the other major DBMSes do.

It’s the same as trying to tell everyone to stop buying gasoline for a day.

My phone is always with me when I drive and has a data connection that a car can tether to.

Everyone: Please stop using ‘#’ as an href placeholder. Don’t make your ‘<a>’ elements rely on events. If you want to replace their events with others, go for it. But please make them work at the base level.

If your MacBook battery is recent and lasting for less than 8 hours, you’re doing something very unusual.

When the encoding relies on differentiating between lowercase and capitalized characters, you’re hitting a high level of ambiguity. Hexadecimal UUIDs don’t have this problem.

128 bits versus 64 bits is a deal breaker?