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I think you are poor moderator acting in bad faith, if you think I violated all those guidelines. Is that a personal attack? Is that against the guidelines? I'm not interested in b…

I've considered this, and I don't agree with you. This was not a personal attack (the guidelines you posted also don't forbid personal attacks, they discourage name-calling). Not m…

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> The HR department is going to say that’s out of policy and then the developer jumps ship. If you work for a company like this, you should jump ship.

As someone who has struggled with physical and mental addictions for my entire life: breaking a physical addiction is trivially easy compared to breaking a mental addiction. And br…

This makes no sense in Zuckerberg's case: he was never hired by the board and they've never had a chance to fire him. Investors can sell the stock if they don't like what he does, …

> For you (and me), switching browsers is annoying but doable. There was a time when I used Firefox, and then a time when I used Chrome, and someday I'll use something else. But fo…

If anything it's been replaced with a far more naive and gullible cohort, not a more skeptical one.

I love it when my counterparty's breach of contract is my fault because I foolishly trusted that they would do what they said they would in exchange for my money. I'm sure you also…

> This is the same thing as "you won't walk around all day with a calculator in your pocket so you need to learn math" People who can't do simple addition and multiplication withou…

I think we're talking past each other. > I took a small company that was living contract to contract into a world where they started making millions in annual recurring revenue. > …

> The value equation of a software development team isn't a product of their time and salary compared to the code/features/whatever-unit they produce. It's the theories and knowled…

This makes no sense at all. The business needs to make money to pay you. Your time is the development cost of the software. It is completely reasonable and rational for a company t…

> But let me tell you…last month I sent several hundred million requests to AI, as a single developer, and got exactly what I needed There are 2.6 million seconds in a month. You a…

Checks my notes from 3 years ago, 2.5 years ago, 2 years ago, 1.5 years ago, 1 year ago, and 6 months ago when we had this exact same discussion It says here that it'll only be ano…

> You're kind of glossing over the fact that a Republican hasn't won the popular vote since 1988 George W. Bush won the popular vote in 2004. There are several other factual errors…

It's not tricky at all. When you're the richest country in the world and you have a lower than average tax rate, there is one very simple trick that gets rid of the debt problem.

If you think that community needs a group of strangers to con them into coming together and being more than the sum of its parts, you are more cynical than I am.

A couple of thoughts: 1) The story of stone soup is the story of how some grifters got a free meal. I don't think it's moral instruction, or an example to be learned from, unless y…

You ask this as if there are no competing companies that are more aligned with artists. Tidal pays them more. Bandcamp pays them even more and lets them run their own storefront.

> I bemoan the fact that we must sometimes use a human language instead of a programming language. Human languages are imprecise and full of ambiguities. Using a human language to …

You can save one life for a lot cheaper than the countless billions poured into OpenAI. This might be the least efficient life-saving intervention in history, and that's before cal…

> I always felt like war rooms are a place for some leader to scream at you and not much else. The reality is that debugging some retry storm, resource exhaustion or whatever won't…

The author 1) created the ticket and its estimation 2) assigned it to Jerry without further comment 3) had another ticket created and assigned to Jerry without talking to Jerry abo…

If you think an executive that ignores court orders is going to survive for a long time in America, I am willing to bet any amount of dollars against you at any odds. It's a good b…