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New comment by alirobe in "More than 1/3 of American adults take prescription drugs linked to depression"

alirobe — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:35:50 +0000

Not incorrect, just clickbait.

New comment by alirobe in "More than 1/3 of American adults take prescription drugs linked to depression"

alirobe — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:58:19 +0000

Clickbait headline. Not article refers drugs which may have some correlative relationship with depression (e.g. side effects may include), not drugs associated with treatment of depression.

New comment by alirobe in "Things I Regret About Node.js [video]"

alirobe — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:03:29 +0000

Which complexity is actually necessary? Does it change when you have 400gbit, SSDs, and watchOSes? How about 1TB of core memory? If we aren't wrangling with handling 75 spinning disk's connected to a 10mbit network with 13" blurry CRT monitors, perhaps we don't need to discuss the finer points of engineering efficient client/server LOB applications? Perhaps we ought to discuss MDM, RF, ML, and lifestyle impacts.

This is all just the process of evolution at play. What seems obvious today wasn't yesterday - applies to biology, material science, medicine, engineering, art, music, architecture, design, taxi services, marketing, government, politics, and so why shouldn't it be so in computing?

Sidenote: I love the humility of this video. I remember the days when node was first unleashed. I could not have imagined how it has changed the way we all work. It all seemed so obvious from day one, and here we are today. What a brilliant contribution.