Updated 2020-09-03: Statement on coupling

I was recently blown away by watching some of Uncle Bob's Clean Code presentations (make sure to check out his blog). Of particular focus was his demo of Test-Driven Development, which when done right, reduces defects, development cost, and maintenance cost of software.

In …

In my review of cryptocurrencies, I mentioned that Bitcoin Cash offers "relatively less security compared to Bitcoin".

What did I mean by that?

What are the various kinds of security that a cryptocurrency offers? How to enhance them and avoid compromising them?

I will address the following questions:

I argue that VPNs are bad for the user, especially if the user is a dissenter from the status quo.

Knowing that the next Bitcoin "halvening" will shrink inflation to half yet again next month (I estimate it'll be the 23rd of May), I was curious to see what's in store for the price of Bitcoin.

Currently, the supply inflation is below 4% per year, according to this pretty chart …

A search engine has an immense influence upon the searcher. Let's explore the story of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong was a UK colony before being ceded back to China, who declared it will let Hong Kong "enjoy a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs which are …

When disaster strikes, like a fire, flood, hurricane, or an epidemic, and utilities and supply chains get disrupted, you might see much higher prices for goods that yesterday were cheap. This is called price gouging.

For instance, in 2017 after hurricane Harvey struck Texas, in some locations gas prices shot …

I shared my previous post on Reddit, and I got some very useful feedback which pointed out the irrelevance of what I was measuring (and also a scientific paper pointing out many statistical errors in a "real" GitHub study).

So, I figured I'd measure something more relevant: bugs.

Caveats

Sadly …

I decided to review some programming languages, by comparing their popularity with their Rosetta Code implementation terseness.

I measured terseness as the average of implementations' estimated zipped code filesize.

Update 2021-01-17: After another enlightening Reddit discussion, I realized an even worse caveat of just looking at Rosetta Code snippets is …

Să zicem că vrei să lucrezi în România. Ce forme legale sunt, și ce impozitare au?

În aceste calcule am presupus că:

• ești un neplătitor de TVA (deci nu poți nici deduce TVA din achiziții)
• nu ai cheltuieli deductibile (care ar reduce impozitul pe venit)
• salariul minim e de 2080 RON/lună
• impozit pe venit de 10% (sau 3% pt. SRL)
• CAS e de 10%
• CASS e de 25%
• impozitul pe dividende e de 5%
• se aplică deducerea personală fără persoane în întreținere, conform Art. 77 al Codului Fiscal.

On the surface, CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) present a great way of speeding up the loading of websites.

Without a CDN, requests take longer for users that are far away network-wise, but not a lot longer if users are near the server (perhaps on the same continent). Here are some …