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I wish we responded to situations more proportionally. In this case, someone made a joke about women not liking to reveal their true age as they get older. It's a boring cliched jo…

> One of the most amazing things about suicide is that over the past 80 years or so in the United States, suicide rates have been extremely flat. The fact that suicide rates have n…

Hi Sid, Thanks for the follow-up. I appreciate it and I'm glad that my feedback might help improve your hiring process. I don't mind your comment, and I hope you understand that th…

My recent experience with Gitlab: Went through several interviews with them, including their technical interview and had a blast. Met some nice folks and was having a lot of fun in…

As a thought exercise, suppose I have my User class and now I would like to write it as json. Do you think it would be strange if the established solution were this? class User Whe…

Nostalgia warning: I also grew frustrated with Rails / ActiveRecord and jumped to Merb / DataMapper with excitement. Perhaps it will sound like a small thing, but I remember feelin…

I read somewhere recently that replacing the dollar bill with a dollar coin would save about $5 billion over something like 30 years. The trick is no one actually wants a dollar co…

I hate to be unhelpful, but I think this problem is intractable. The fact that these meta discussions predictably offer a wide array of solutions -- many of which are at odds with …

Earnings are important, I'm sure -- but don't mistake them for wealth. I've known people with ludicrous earnings who still lived pay check to pay check. In fact, I suspect it's all…

This is not so much a possibility as an inevitability. Chances are you will fall in love and it will disrupt your life whether you're starting up or doing something else entirely. …

I don't think this article is making a claim about whether or not these phrases indicate that someone is about to lie to you. The phrases themselves are often untrue. For example, …

- Write a video game emulator (any old console or computer platform) - Create a programming language - Restore an old broken down pinball machine - Build a mame arcade cabinet - Wr…

The quote is fine. I worry about this glorification of violence. The original article and this thread seem to be filled with adolescent fantasies of revenge against bullies past an…

I don't necessarily disagree with the original article or this sentiment. However, I have a hard time reconciling telling your child to stick up for him or herself when bullied vs …

My use of fvwm has become so minimal that I'd probably be better off switching to one of the tiling window managers. I have chromium occupying an entire page of my virtual desktop …

I've noticed that the more time I spend focused on work the more out of date I get with the cutting edge. I'm on a 3 or 4 year old thinkpad (love the keyboard!) running gentoo linu…

This is a great post from a publicity standpoint. It's never a bad thing to put a human face on your business, especially if you're still small. But, I'm afraid, the only real long…

I was just thinking today how wonderful it would be if my web browser let me navigate tabs with the same key bindings as screen. If I had a nickel for every time I've done "select …

I'd have preferred to see a more detailed breakdown of apps. It may be a terrible market for utility apps. Or, for apps that are more feature than product. How many apps are truly …

The liquidity of Facebook Credits is a major problem. They are asking game developers to give up control of their virtual currencies. When you control your virtual currency you can…

Some of the stats are kind of self-explanatory. For example, "#8 seeds often upset higher ranked teams. In the four match-ups against #2 teams, #8 teams won twice. They have also b…

I think this observation is very true with respect to sharing with the internet at large. It's easy to dismiss some new (personal) discovery as unremarkable or obvious -- but, ther…

Yes, they are different. For example: def ex1 a = 5 if a puts "a: #{a}" end end def ex2 if a = 5 puts "a: #{a}" end end def ex3 puts "a: #{a}" if a = 5 end If we start with the cod…