> In general, I think some worries about removing "every trace" are overblown, though.

It's impossible to overstate how little I want random crap on my machine.

> And I'm pretty sure that many of them do.

My AppData disagrees with you.

> The problem with that is there are women that will scoff at a man trying to do something casual like coffee, tea, or ice cream for a first date.

You're using the casual meeting as a filter for certain personalities.

There are plenty of people out there who prefer a more formalized approach to dating, and good for them. You have a different preference. Being selective is good because it saves both of you time and there are no hard feelings.

> They want to be wined and dined and treated like a princess right off the bat. They think they're a prize to be won simply by being a woman.

Thinking about people you aren't interested in will just grind your gears.

Especially imaginary people fitting a caricature

There's something about the responsibility of raising a child that differentiates adults, and I don't think there's an analog to that experience.

Personally, the older I get the more `adult` just means you have an empathetic understanding of causality.

I mean at this point we should just grab the first person to post an "it's not environmental" comment and find out who he works for.

>We don't bother doing that because it's a waste of time.

It literally isn't. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.

Everything south of San Francisco is either leaf-shaded or a shithole, and anyone who drives through California can see this stark discrepancy for themselves.

> Exploring whether there's a business here — structured legislation API for legaltech/compliance, or just a useful open dataset. Curious what HN would build with this data.

Compiling legal data for specific domains and then selling processes that rely on your private compilation is a battle-tested business plan, but there's a lot of manual work involved and the cost of that work becomes a barrier to entry.

Generally speaking, the people who'd like to cross that barrier are both open to ideas and funded well enough to run little experiments.

> Debugger puts me into a context where I have to figure out what `p` stands for.

`p` stands for "the process in question".

I like to think of single-character vars as idea or topic headers that track the single thing I'm currently up to. I'm rarely working with more than one at a time, frequently it's the only variable, and there are contexts where I wouldn't use them at all.

IMHO if you're in a situation where `p` isn't obvious to you, "something has gone wrong".

“All of my interviews involve premature optimization”?