githulhu

I don't use tests, and I find that when I need to make a change to some code that has, say, four or five different paths through the logic, a lot of times one of the paths will break. Testing all of the paths manually each time there is a change is incredibly tedious and time-consuming. I feel like if I had unit tests I would be able to just see instantly if anything was broken. But, I never can seem to find the time to write them...

Sure, but then you have to live in St. Louis, Missouri.

I'm sure I could move to a third world country and have an even lower cost of living. As though it were otherwise equivalent to living in a top US city.

The complexity makes it look like we are going to great lengths to minimize the pain of the condemned, supporting the pretense of a "humane" execution and undermining the claims of opponents that the punishment is cruel and unusual.

This isn't my experience, at least for YouTube. If I'm not logged into Google I only see "recommended for you" video links when I'm not in private browsing mode.

Harder to tell for Google Search - unlike YouTube I never see any indication that search results are based on my history, so any manipulation that's happening is opaque (I never search while logged in, so I don't know if the behavior is different in that case)

If they told you the company, what would stop you from just bypassing the recruiter and going straight to the company?

My anecdata: a former colleague of mine, over 50, just left his enterprise IT development job to make a ton more money with a Salesforce consulting firm. He didn't go to Stanford, he never studied computer science, he didn't start coding until he was in his 30s, and he's only been developing Salesforce for maybe 2 years. He also doesn't have the benefit of a large network or a reputation that preceeds him, but he tells me that he's still getting offers even a week after he accepted his new job. So I'm not sure the picture is so bleak - as long as you're good and you put in a minimum amount of time learning a relevant technology.

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I believe NoScript will pop up a message asking if you want to take the redirect, in that case.

Bitcoin transactions won't always be free though, as the block reward decreases and transaction fees become necessary to incent the network to verify transactions. The fees for bitcoin may end up being roughly the same as traditional banking fees.

Huh. Why did the explosion produce two distinct, different-colored smoke clouds?

Also, what's the environmental impact of this kind of accident?