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Incisive, well-written.

> I came here meaning to be all snarky and cynical. I was going to say there's no way Apple trained him to do that, and they'd probably fire him when they caught on to what he was …

Keep Kosher by Eating Pork Through a Hole in a Sheet

Mysterious, indeed...

Much easier to get away with when it's a small thing for developers. I'm guessing slid.es shows a little more deference to IE. Just a guess, though.

Of course it's the first amendment! Just don't protest any wars near where Important People are trying to do business, like some kind of gross hippie.

Bans just happen, try not to ask yourself why. For example, I bet you will never see this comment!

Who exactly are the members of this cult? Seems to me the members of the "A/B test everything" cult are much more prevalent. I wonder if the author just works with a designer who's…

Sweet sanity.

He's ultimately right, but few will listen. And those that do are "fanbois", of course. That's just how it is.

This guy is such a clown, and I am really tired of internet people lionizing him because they think copyright infringement is super-cool and patents are super-dumb, or whatever.

Yeah, why take a pay cut or cut something you as a board member personally care about, when you can just cut something stupid peon employees care about. Engineers in such an organi…

While I sympathize with the situation MailChimp is in, I am getting tired of this anti-elitist attitude of PHPers. Of course, part of the reason why I feel that way is because I th…

I completely agree, though it is a good place to see what's going on. An incredible amount of bozos, though.

How is leaving SF any different? You're doing the same thing but at a greater step of remove. Instead of the homeless people being down the block, they're safely away from you in a…

To each his own. I don't work for the world's largest anything, and while programming is only one thing I do, it's the only one I'm interested in doing professionally. How quaint, …

I thought the whole idea of arbitrage is that it's risk-free! :)

This doesn't seem to actually do anything...

Shouldn't be too hard, all it really needs is "SMARTEST DUDE EVER" and maybe a few links.

I work for a company that offers unlimited vacation. It works, and I think it's great, and it's a major hurdle for me leaving to work somewhere else. It seems that even top compani…

I recommend having accounts not linked with your real identity, where you can say what you actually think. It can be a pain because you have to be careful, but as noted philosopher…

Way to take a decent (if prosaic) point, crumple it up, and toss it in the garbage. You say all this stuff as a preamble to implying that Apple, specifically Apple, lacks confidenc…

Yeah, no kidding. Rationality isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway.

From everything I can tell, he wasn't doing a good job. Department stores are a nightmare to shop in, and JCP didn't change that, not even close.

I'll second the Rich Hickey shoutout at the end. I've been listening to everything I can get my hands on from him recently. He is brilliant.