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Author seems to be blaming the hammer for the house not getting built right. Software is increasing in complexity, and perhaps is outpacing testing.

This article misses the point of frameworks like Angular. Its never been about whether a framework is qualitatively better that vanilla or some other framework. The issue is when y…

Some companies ate the cost of the tariffs. The whole thing is a mess.

"You are not going to convince anyone with facts." ... Lost me here. What kind of organization doesn't run on facts?

We need some kind of screening for these high-stress PTSD inducing roles ... a Voight-Kampff test. Or limit the number of years one can be in these roles.

New Acela trains represent a significant step toward national aspirations for faster and more reliable train service

I work for a large company, and I can say that context switching is also a problem here. I guess it comes down to the organization, or maybe the individual team. But yeah, there is…

>more willing to do the boring work that the older devs don't want to do No body wants to do the boring work. I think more experienced devs realize that a boring assignment isn't p…

typing fast has nothing to do with programming debugging errors has a lot to do with programming typos are a kind of bug When I was 10, I started programming in BASIC ... we're tal…

To put this in perspective, US daily oil consumption is 18 million barrels. So a 50 million barrel release from the strategic reserve is less than a 3 day supply.

> WAS THE CONSTRUCTION WORKER AT THE BOTTOM ASKED IF HE LIKED THE BUILDING? IF NOT, WHY NOT? SURELY HIS INPUT SHOULD HAVE MATTERED. A construction worker is strictly implementation…

Beside a swarm of your own, a Phalanx canon would come in handy.

Plot reminds me of Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

Nova does oversimplify things. Tho, I have yet to hear "golly gee whilikers" on it. Nova has become the science equivalent of 60 minutes, both of which are geared toward the public…

The US and others have fallen into the trap of preparing for the next big war by looking at the last (WWII). Did anyone see the recent opening ceremonies at the Olympics? It includ…

The mistake most people make, including this article, is thinking that Avatar was an "animated" movie. It was not animated, it was motion-captured. If you saw the making-of Avatar,…

Some countries should be disbanded. Their citizens should be given a passport to the country of their choice along with a 1-way ticket and a small stipend.

You can not hear and see the drones. That is what makes them such an effective weapon.

Totalitarianism is very efficient until the people realize material wealth without political freedom is hollow.

Scaling on the cheap: 1. Host all your static files (images,css,js) on Google App Engine 2. Avoid hitting your database. Cache everything possible.

The real twitter killer will be the proliferation of smartphones. Who needs SMS when you have HTTP?

Good clean code is the best documentation.