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In the world of SaaS, social media, NoSQL and NodeJS, everything which has already been thought of and brought to maturity is suddenly new, shiny, incomplete, buggy and has a new n…

Oh, I'm sure it works. All I'm saying is that there are many ways to achieve a given neurotransmitter balance. A doctor might give a cancer patient morphine to numb the pain but th…

Why does the brainwave headset appear to include a pair of headphones?

Apologies if I sounded like I was criticising what you do - I'm sure that these made a lot more sense in the context of a presentation. I was questioning why the person who posted …

This is a terrible set of slides. The only new thing I gathered from it is "cabal sucks". Then the presentation came to a sudden end which left me thinking "what, that's it?" How d…

You do realise that you're doing something quite dangerous by turning to dopamine-influencing drugs to motivate you, right? This class of drugs can change brain structure, promote …

> benzodiazepines generally lower cognitive ability On the subject of a particular drug sometimes being useful and sometimes counter-productive, the missing link is that the brain …

Who wouldathunk that doing LSD could turn someone into a complete asshole with no regard for an open culture and a penchant for superficial things which don't matter in the least (…

So it's essentially a marketing problem. I get the feeling that you were trying to suggest that it's worthy because it's popular. If so, argumentum ad populum is irrational. If not…

Good to see that PR is on the job of trying to convince people that they don't really want what they really want. It's funny that even verbatim search asks me if I'm sure that I sp…

Society is shooting itself in the foot with the trend of dumbing everything down. While we sit here being presented with one button devices so that "we don't get confused", the res…

I'm not running a blog or expecting anyone to take what they read in a comment on some site on the internet seriously. Label me however you want, it's a free internet (for now, any…

facepalm All of the pain points that this supposedly solves have already been solved with tabs. Middle click compose and all of those problems are solved with the added bonus of ha…

Zynga has (up until now) made a lot of money and they write shit code. Hell, most of the companies I've seen have made money while writing shit code. Making money indicates that a …

I've outlined how we solved this problem in another comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717713 Incidentally, I'm not here to form relationships - personal or otherwise. …

Sorry, should have linked to previous evidence of the fact: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-ju...

Data should be backed up to staging nightly anyway . There should also be scripts in place to start this process at an arbitrary point in time and to import the data into the stagi…

Are you kidding me? If you run big sites like FogBugz then ofcourse you have cross-datacenter redundancy. It's not complicated to host your staging site in another physical locatio…

No redundancy what-so-ever? What an amateur operation. I still say Joel is a fraud. EDIT: this site is amazing - divergent opinions seem to be actively discouraged given how many "…

> Yeah, except I'm not the guy saying that somebody should just be quiet and move on. You're one of us too: > Why don't you just move on? And yes, I realise the irony of my first c…

> While I sympathize with these arguments, this isn't how the legal system works. The law doesn't work on absolutely provable certainty. It works on reasonable doubt, intent and (h…

> That's your opinion and you're entitled to it, but it is wrong. Surely an opinion, a wholly subjective point of view, cannot by it's very definition be wrong. Being insulted (or …

My first thought was that this is probably a virus.

The agile/lean idea is not to have your users bug test your code! It's a technique for gathering feedback early and often in order to make sure that the requirements are sufficient…

> That's pretty rude. He's entitled to his opinion and has the right to criticize whatever he wants, however he wants. If you don't like it, why not just move on. Positive feedback…