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Vi folks used to make fun of Emacs as ‘Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping’!

Amen. Turn up when you say you will, deliver what you promised, on time, and generally give a minimal damn, and you’re already ahead of 95% of your co-workers. I don’t think it will ever stop amazing me.

Any age, as long as your skills are current. The demand here is savage enough to overcome most prejudice. There are many times more older engineers in the bay area than anywhere else I’ve worked.

Not to disagree with anything else you wrote, but anyone who says butchery is an unskilled job has definitely never tried it. What other C21st job has a legitimate need for chain mail?

This IS 'Azure Mobile Center' - mobile.azure.com redirects to this. ZERO communication about this change. MS might have changed but their legendarily-confusing branding is still the same.

I have a React Native app in App Center and it works great.

One of my favorite things about Shadowrun was rolling a 1/2 pound of D6s at once!

Not only can you, everyone who uses it does :)

At this point I think one has to assume there are more advanced machine-learning-based crawlers out there too. ML is very good at picking up 'anomalies'.

I actually am, but not about AI becoming smarter than us, or the 'singularity', for good reasons others have already stated.

I'm concerned what happens when human-sized combat robots become capable of defeating a trained and motivated human opponent. Such a thing is certainly a way off, but requires no fundamental advances in our understanding (very much unlike skynet/singularity-style general AI) so I see it as a certainty sooner or later, and the way everything is going probably sooner.

Throughout human history, the inherent power the rich have over the poor has had an equally-inherent counterpower: there are many more poor people, and if the rich make things too miserable for them, if they all rise up together, they will win. To my knowledge this is a universal in human history (please prove me wrong!), and in general tyrants and elites everywhere have to devote SOME of their resources at least to maintaining the 'general welfare', which is really a nice way of saying 'giving the poor enough to stop them rising up and taking our stuff'.

If robots become capable of beating serious human opponents one-on-one, then I think this age-old balance changes, because once you can build one such robot, you can build a hundred thousand, and what are the poor people going to do about that?

One of my favorite things about the Apple Watch is that it keeps uncannily good time. Put two next to each other and you'll see what I mean.

I always found it disappointing that even the best mechanical watches drift by around a second a day. I guess growing up with software has given me unrealistic mechanical expectations :)

Acking PagerDuty alerts from your wrist during a show feels like a superpower.

I like it. The initial UI is confusing, but also intriguing. The author reco it gave (David Liss) was good.

If you have 3 people working on this, presumably you have an actual product on the way, care to share more?

You don't actually need that good a credit score, since it's a charge card, not credit. You mainly just need the >$500/yr membership fee.

Learning Bash is both incredibly useful and will also make you richly appreciate more modern languages :)