(Reddit comments here)

Reddit discussion here and here.

I’ve used windows since win95 and linux for a decade, but my latest mac was my parent’s old Macintosh SE growing up. When I got a 2018 macbook pro for work, I decided to keep a notebook with my thoughts on the experience [footnote]I largely never bought macs because I think they’re overpriced for the hardware specs.[/footnote].

Matt Stoller has a widely read economics newsletter, and is the research director of an institute with economics in its name. That said, Stoller is as much an economist as I am a vascular surgeon[footnote]I am not a vascular surgeon[/footnote] and I would say we share our level of knowledge in those respective fields[footnote]I know absolutely nothing about vascular surgery. That said, I don’t host a newsletter on the subject[/footnote].

Software engineering doctrines (object oriented, functional, etc.) act more like religions than anythings else. There are some good ideas in each of those design philosophies, but odds are if you work in enterprise software, you’ll be at one point subjected to the orthodox church of objected oriented (OO) programming: hardcore GangOfFour patterns.

A few days ago, I came across this list of the top grossing franchises on Wikipedia. They have an estimate of the sources of the revenue, which I thought would be nice to visualize:

This post is the new FAQ article on automation for the reddit r/economics forum.

Reddit started sorting comments by a method they call “best”[footnote]I won’t stop putting quotation marks around it. It’s not “the best” scoring method and having it call itself that makes it too big for its britches and makes me want to take it down a notch.[/footnote] around a decade ago.

Background: A long time ago, I wrote the FAQ section for reddit’s economics forum on automation and its effects on the labor force. I still sometimes get questions about it and sometimes go way over the top in answering them.

Daniel Khaneman is a psychologist who somehow won the Nobel prize in economics. That’s remarkable! His best known book is Thinking Fast and Slow, and you should read it.