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Leave it to programmers to assume human nature must exist within a binary modality of "apathetic amoral workhorse" and "messy emotional beast of terror" Naturally, this assumption …

You made pixels, therefore, you lose your job. Stalin called. He wants his regime back.

For the same reason characters in your apps don't look like Icelandic sea birds: you aren't the one making the purchase. It's your parents. Your app's fictional characters that don…

>There is no wall, no chasm, no separation between "the real world" and "the online world" Like I said, middle class moral panic.

Why do you care? My posts are just pixels.

And did you read the article with the precise number of "people" doing this? Oh, thats right. No number on that. But let's celebrate the "justice" of 9 people and their mean pixels…

HEEERE COMES THE NARRATIVE DOWNVOTE, ALL ABOARD!!!!

Too many people seem to think they are the moral authority on what reprocussions are appropriate.

As a father, I have warned my daughter about the Ring of Gyges. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges Look, at the end of the day, it's pixels. You can't even prove that pos…

I'm very interested if these theories-via-media used to explain women's participation in tech are universal enough to apply to waste management and construction industries as well.…

“I think that nobody deserves what she went through,” he replied. VS. “Not too bad,” she said. She thought more and shook her head decisively. “He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewis…

I study philosophy and history primarily. Human Swarm by Gregory Rawlins is a huge inspiration. (The book was never released, but you can read it here: https://web.archive.org/web/…

Then you look at the cash reserves of the titans (Apple comes to mind) and you see it's not in circulation, which proves there are large sums of liquidity on the sidelines not inve…

I bet this is about liquidity. ( reads article ) Yep, it's about liquidity. I bet the HN comments don't mention liquidity categories. ( reads comments ) Nope, not a single one. How…

It always fascinates me when those who are self-styled representatives of the public good fail to see how their empathic desires inevitably become infantilization and then outright…

Why not do both? http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/134097/why-sh...

Currently rewriting every single line of UI code a pile of duct tape programmer spewed out over the span of two years. Writing functional tests so I know when I break the UI. Docum…

Indeed. This mass behavior has the interface of Mao's Culture Revolution ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution ) while serving the purpose of a Stalinist purge. ( http…

As Chris Hedges says, "They love helping the unfortunate, they just hate the smell." Just think of all of the up votes and netcred you'll gather with your widely broadcasted semi-r…