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Well now you're shifting the goal posts to a different topic. I was responding to your claim of this set of companies being random and your concern about some not being included

The size of these companies is irrelevant to that point

And who are these companies you keep mentioning? They don't even come up when I search them on DuckDuckGo. That's how small they are in comparison to the companies the author included as "big tech"

> Why have we chosen these 13 random publications? I'm assuming that the NYT is included literally just because the people who did this study don't like the NYT?

These are some of the biggest media publications that write about tech issues, these aren't just "random" choices. This author seems to focus on "big tech media" as is mentioned in the article multiple times, these are big tech media, independent journalists are not.

Anecdotal, but I know every one of them off the top of my head, I've personally never heard of AnandTech and had to google it.

Perhaps if they were to remove the concept of nil in golang, but since they are all about backwards compatibility (which is nice to be fair), I don't think there's much change of seeing mainstream adoption because of how many existing projects will rely on default value in certain circumstances

I'd love to be proven wrong, but even with generics if you start using option types, it's going to be like JS and TypeScript where you'll have some parts nicely typed and others are the wild west

Most project management systems have methods for dealing with checklists, this is definitely not what slack is designed to do no matter how much they market it as a "productivity tool"

So if you're not using something for project management first you need one of those, but just about everyone does, and once you have one you can start using it's checklist features

Then it depends on what that specific software offers, but even if it doesn't have a true feature for creating "templatized checklists" which I assume people want so they can repeat the same list, most have duplication functionality so you can just create one as a template and duplicate it as needed.

Legitimate question, is there enough interesting information in this book worth reading if you already agree with the premise, that in complex situations checklists can be good?

I've known about it for awhile and this review does a good job at providing a real-world example of where it's useful, so other than ideas of how to make good checklists I'm not sure if actually reading it is something I should do

I think it's hard for me to say exactly without a side by side comparison, partially because this one had different toppings than my normal burgers do, but it seems fairly comparable in flavor and I would buy these again. I've also had an impossible burger a few years back at a nicer restaurant and that was good too.

I think both are to the point that if I didn't know what I was eating and didn't deeply try to analyze and compare, I could eat one without any idea that it's not meat.

I'm now somewhat interested the next time I see my family to see if I can pull off a ruse of making burgers for dinner from these and see if anyone even notices, particularly my brother who would say there's no way you could trick him XD

lol thanks. I read that totally backwards, and after having that burger tonight i concur with the commenter. They're pretty damn good, I'd happily eat another

This was said as a current meat eater, but if I keep down this recent ethical veganism youtube rabbit hole i might not be that much longer

ahhh comeee onnn i'm about to make one of these for dinner since blue apron veggie plan has em. I was hoping it'd be good

Why would you possibly want YouTube without the comments? They are one of the fun parts!

it recommended me (to rent) what I thought was a science documentary about space and the cosmos once and i just trusted it wouldn't recommend me some crazy conspiracy theory and rented it... NOPE.

It was about how ancient aliens mined out the moon and control us or some other crazy pills kind of idea

My actual normal video recommendations are quite good and shift alongside my interests over time quite well without prolific use of "not interested" or incognito shrugs. Rented movies seems bad though, especially since I'm already a paying premium user!

oh i forgot we aren't allowed to joke here

I see you're an economics professor with an interest in computation, and perhaps learning to program? Awesome!

Ask any experienced programmer how often they use StackOverflow, and they'll tell you daily. It's an invaluable resource to our community and we often wonder how we got along without it before.

In particular, it's great for highly specific questions about very niche things. Like, with this version of this library and in this stack, this very odd behavior is happening and I only see it in IE8, what could it be? That's not something you'll find and answer for on MDN. MDN is a fantastic reference resource when you know what you're looking for and need the details, but it's not a Q&A platform about anything.

SO is not perfect, sometimes you have to dig for the right information (something this change is trying to improve), and perhaps it's not ideal for beginners, but I wouldn't want to live in a world without something like StackOverflow, and would be significantly less productive