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That's an insightful analysis. For me, the question is knowing what exactly I'd do differently. On a lot of crucial points, I don't know and don't know how to find out (except expe…

The weird thing about online communities is that at some point they transition from being promotional opportunities owned by the promoter to online communities owned by the users a…

Part of the role of Reddit, HN and other social media is to motivate you, the collected developers out there, to write your own version and fix all the problems you see in the syst…

Another option is a middle path: It will turn out, how it turns out. Sounds tautological, but it preserves the idea that multiple real world forces determine the outcome, not wishi…

I have learned distrust. I distrust anything that makes me feel good without having achieved something that merits that sensation. Alcohol is like being wrapped in a comforter. You…

Once, deep in a meditative trance, I channeled Perl. My friends took me to the hospital after I refused to stop speaking in regular expressions and hashes of hashes.

Keep pushing, Google. We're all waiting. Is the future of Gmail that it will be manipulative corporate bloatware, or a cool hacker innovation that changed email by streamlining it?…

Your second mistake might be assuming that rationality, logicality and common sense are one and the same.

> the structure of a persuasive essay is a non-fancy, workaday model that works just fine. I agree with this, but would like to point out that grey-area's point was that there are …

> the habit people have of making a list (as the OP does) as if this is a substitute for properly structuring their thoughts - to me that's a cop-out and not far above no structure…

> I object to a huge, creepy advertising company having that much access to me and my data, I think it’s unwise to use many proprietary, hard-to-replace services in such important …

> And who says that big government stifles entrepreneurial innovation? "A brilliant exploration of new ideas in business argues that government is behind the boldest risks and bigg…

BRB, need horses and guns.

This is great news. Thanks for posting it. To me, Perl represents the most organic language out there. It arose from a collection of traits in other languages and macro vocabularie…

You should come to one of our local PerlMongers meetings ( http://pm.org/ ). I think it would change your mind about a number of things!

> In my view, the "walled garden" of iOS is just the next step in what Apple had already intended to establish for the original Mac. I imagine this is a quandary that shows up not …

I agree. Perl is great and often the fastest way to git 'r done, especially across multiple operating systems. Perl got a bad rep for two reasons. First, writers of boutique langua…

> the Internet as a new Wild West I thought that idea died, was buried, exhumed, and reburied back in 1996.

> I don't know how to improvise in conversations. This is hard for everyone. It's why people make so many references to television, movies, music and sports in their small talk.

I wish they'd taken a middle path. Having BASIC (or another language) built into the machine was a big plus and encouraged people to see continuity between the OS, the hardware and…