darkr

> until the train went off the rails

Ironically the core application is written in rails, which may be part of the issue

C is a weakly typed language. It’s statically typed, which is a different thing

For customers who repeatedly do this - put your prices up by 10%. Offer 10% discount for paying within net 15.

> iPad Air is a fantastic value

TIL American English treats “value” in the financial sense as a countable noun

It’d be nice to have in stdlib, but it’s pretty trivial to write a generic wrapper for it

air source heat pumps, though they're improving won't do well in extreme cold; even if they can operate they'll still be running at much lower efficiency.

For temperatures significantly into negative territory a ground source heat pump would perform far better, where it can draw on a source of heat that will always be at least above freezing.

A hybrid system doesn't seem like a bad trade-off though..

It’s not uncommon. Google AIP spec requires it for example. I think the main driver for it is implicit idempotency.

It's basically a long form linkedin article.

Incorrect

At least historically, google engineers had 20% of their time to spend on projects not related to their core role

> IMO the culling over managers over the past few years is really a way to make sure you don't have someone you can discuss career development, promotion, and pay increases with

That’s the point, surely

> those nuclear weapons quell a lot of our more violent habits, hasn't been a world war since

It’s only been 85 years, give it a bit more time…