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> Thought experiment. If we assume that "alien intelligence is here" in some form like UFO sightings, why not also assume they are on the internet? Bingo. AMA.

Yep, but the other way around. Open source was Microsoft's fiercest enemy, and now it's managed to root deep inside the company, eating it from the inside out, turning Microsoft in…

> Ask at the onset whether or not people would pay for the product you intend to develop. This is the Willingness-to-Pay talk,” Ramanujam argues. “Frontloading this question is pow…

Tech leadership is extremely hard. You either get at one extreme the MBA trained to think producing sugared beverages is equivalent to producing software, and at the other the form…

Please don't refer to those as "movies". They're really documentaries, just like Terminator et al.

I fully agree, unlike many others that are voting down this and other criticisms. The amount of boiler plate that go-kit adds is crazy.

It's still, also by many indexes, one of the safest countries in the world, despite the objectively isolated issues you see in the media... Unless you come from another top OECD, c…

Following that reasoning we could say everything is a continuum, and that wouldn't be a useful observation.

Considering there's a shortage of labour supply in this industry, if you're good enough, at some point it is you who is screening candidate companies you'd like to work with and no…

I just want an web-based email client that allows me to filter out emails that are not from my contacts. AFAIK gmail can't do that. I hope this does.

Very French for them to require a masters degree for employees. Contrast that to the more welcoming working permit in Germany[1]. Also currently the startup scene in Berlin looks p…

That's nice, thanks!

The separation of concerns inherent to microservices is such a great advantage, that in my opinion it's critical even for small teams. You can bring an extra hand into the team wit…

Because whenever they go low you should always stay high.

Given the popularity of frivolous media, ain't most people just frivolous consumers?

The Blub Paradox argument basically states that you must use the most powerful language because it's the only one that'll let you have a broader perspective to judge all the other …

So true. Unfortunately bullshitting ability usually correlates to success.

The finance industry is indeed one of the top scourges of humanity. Hopefully decentralised money à la bitcoin would some day replace it.