Funny how that short article has a sentence where an article that should be there is omitted. "The word starts with vowel letter..."

When I see this, I always assume the author to be Russian.

There are tons of languages that don't use indefinite articles. Russian is a big one, sure.

I remember finally getting what closures and reduce are when I learned Ruby in 2008 for my first Rails job.

A pivotal moment on the same level as when I finally understood how recursion and pointers work in 1995 in my first semester CS classes (taught in Modula 2), two concepts I had only ever read about in programming books, but not been able to understand on my own.

In 2024 I did Advent of Code in Swift, without using mutable state, custom data types or loops, and used reduce rahther generously. [1]

[1] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aantfarm%2FAdventOfCode202...

Reverse centaur at an organizational scale.

Judging by what people who worked closely witb Sam Altman say about him, you should not trust an organisation led by him.

Sprint is a terrible misnomer, it should be iteration. It's about seeing work as a series of opportunities to gather feedback and apply the learnings to the way future work is done.

What part exactly? I hope not the one about DHH publishing essays promoting far-right talking points.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

If despicable individuals start hating on somebody, reasonable people will have a positive view by default and will be more compelled to try what crazies are trying to ban.

"I don't care what you hate, since I have have seen what you cheer". Quite the opposite: "oh, you hate it, must be good and worthy"

It works fine for me, I use the column view (unless I want to sort) and don't use groups (uncheck Edit > Use Groups). Back in the MacOS 7.5 days I had a system extension that gave me the column view I knew from my university's NeXT workstations. For more complex file operations, there is Terminal.

Why not just use the original title of the blog post? It's "Merchants of Insecurity".

Because on a general purpose tech forum, that title tells the reader absolutely nothing about the content of the post.

Not to forget the fact that websites nowadays can be real memory hogs, are dynamically assembled on your machine and burn cycles on pure eye candy UX like animations and transparency. The web's focus on design and cleverness over content and functionality is partly to blame.

n=1 but my macbook pro constantly runs out of hard disk and memory and the two biggest culprits are jira/confluence/docs and other web apps (like 1gb+ of real memory consumed by a single instance), and the other is dev tools which litters my disk with 100s of gb of caches...

its crazy how our devices have become basically dumping grounds for terribly optimized software

Why do intelligent people still use X? Thanks for the xcancel.com link!