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Care to elaborate, or are you just throwing mud?

neither of us is qualified That kind of thinking is how we got the government sanctioned food pyramid. I'd rather think for myself, thanks.

He's not the only anti-startup commenter here. I'm curious, have you ever worked at a startup as a programmer, not as a founder? Sometimes, it's easier to see the downside of a sys…

You're the only one in this thread talking about human automatons, outsourcing and broken corporate structures. I'm explaining why a healthy corporation would want to use a simpler…

I couldn't agree with the article more. I should have come up with a different tl;dr for the previous post, considering everything I wrote in this thread has specifically been abou…

tl;dr: there's a reason most startups prefer javascript to smalltalk. Which is a quality of a fundamentally broken organizational system No, it's a quality of a robust organization…

For corporations, consistant work is often more desirable than exceptional work. Amassing thousands of lines of code that only exceptional programmers can use, understand and modif…

This could revolutionize SCA combat (and let me keep all my teeth!)

Judging from these comments, it's already there.

Neither of which actually require going to a coffee shop. It's the human interaction that most people find appealing.

If you're a software engineer, you really ought to be living in the Bay Area. There's no other place like it. I agree there's no other place like it, but that's not necessarily a g…

Something in between would be ideal for me. A center console with a touch screen for configuring settings when you're not driving, but physical buttons, switches and knobs on the s…

I think the question the parent is trying to raise is, is HN the right place for gender discussions in the first place? I have a dotjs script that filters out any political or soci…

and he should give a damn about whether you agree or not because... ??

Have we gotten to the "threaten the dissenter with bodily harm" bit already?

I had no choice but to set up my computer in my dorm room at college for 4 years. By the end of the third year, my ability to sleep in that room was gone. I also work remotely and …

When women use the word "creepy" what they mean is they are not attracted to them and any attention received by them is unwanted. As a guy, there are two ways to avoid being labele…

... no. they make programmers feel like kings so they don't mind giving up their nights and weekends working for free.

Probably because these are mainstream news station and most people still don't know who Snowden is. And here's the kicker: they don't care who Snowden is or what he has to say. The…

Funny, my degrees can be described the same way. BS in CS and MFA in Creative Writing.

I agree completely, that's why I used the word "inconclusive." Still, it's the only real data we have on static vs dynamic typing. Until we get better data, everything is just opin…

All this talk about formal type theory, but where are the references to the relevant studies? Where's the data? The few studies[1][2][3][4] I've found are inconclusive one way or t…

You've never run an NVidia graphics card or had a broadcom wireless card? What about discrete graphics? My current peccadillo is the nouveau driver crashes my laptop if I try to pu…

Because not everybody wants to spend days or weeks figuring out why their video or wireless drivers aren't working. They want to get to work. Until OS X 10.7, it was a beautiful ve…

Thank you. I think I need to take a closer look at this. :)