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Better insulation makes cost savings sense regardless of what type of energy is used for heat

There are regular security patches for basically everything these days, including OSs. Why does this notice stand out to you? The post suggests that they're being proactive, and discovered and patched these before they were exploited. Rather they take this transparent approach, as opposed to being silent and/or doing nothing.

Circuit Maker 2000, for designing descrete circuits. I've tried to move to LTSpice a number of times, but it's interface is less intuitive. CM200 has a really clean UI for design and simulation. Doesn't run as well on Windows as it used to, but still good enough

I don't feel like the OP makes a compelling argument for NOT running your own mailserver, but instead lists some good things to watch out for. Seems to me that some alternative solutions or design decisions, could mitigate a number of the points made

This is a neat idea. It opens up a whole new way to make a web app into a native app, while also adding native features not available in web views

A local web server would be fine for me; save yourself the time of creating another version of the same thing

Love this. +1 to the explaining part

You would be foolish to completely avoid AI, but you are also right to be careful. AI is best used for boring stuff that's non-critical, and for stopping you from having to reinvent the wheel.

For example for a game, you could use AI to finish a sprite sheet based on a couple frames you provide, or to give you a pathfinding algorithm.

AI is a resource, and a startup has a better chance of success the better it leverages the few resources it has.

Frankly I think serving dynamic HTML at all is a problem in an SPA. Use a service worker to cache structure, control, and styling, then use an API to fetch dynamic data in a more efficient manner.

Attention to details that matter and knowing what to pass on, is what's important. If they did poorly on the important stuff but then point out the typo, clearly they were putting their efforts in the wrong places

Sadly I've seen this kind of interviewing from lots of places; maybe it's a technique they teach in college or something.

Interview questions like this are useless as they are not an accurate approximation of a real work scenario. I've frozen up at a whiteboard in an interview before, and then figured it out on the drive home.

The best approach I've found is to do a send home quiz, and then ask them questions about the quiz to test understanding. The test also shows coding habits, which tells you a lot right there.

Bonus: put some typos in the quiz that don't matter. Red flag for the people that get hung up on that.

Very cool. Probably pointless but it's so neat I feel compelled to try to find a use for it :)

Any framework that requires me to learn custom syntax, is a problem in my opinion. I agree with the author that the browser is already the framework, and a powerful one at that. I don't really struggle with views and dom thanks to my own libraries, so maybe those without appreciate thw guilded gardens of these frameworks. Problem is that if these frameworks fall out of favour or stray from their original quality, you're stuck with worthless knowledge and maybe code as well

Interesting; good to know.