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Help me. I'm being oppressed.

Shhh. Poe's law is getting me upvotes.

I think most programmers don't realize how much vision holds them back. I've been coding blindfolded for over a month and I'm never going back. If you are a touch typist what do yo…

None of the things in that list were themselves decisions. They were causes of poor decisions. Do you dispute that mental illness can be a cause of poor decision making?

I wouldn't recommend hanging out on Facebook, but if it puts you in touch with lost acquaintances that can be valuable.

In theory the market should balance this. Workers should be willing to accept less money for more rewarding work.

It also ignores that the probability can change over time. Past frequency is not always a good predictor for future probability.

There's the related example of the segfault termination message that was changed in a hex editor to "thank you for playing!" Wing Commander, maybe.

Insurance rates usually go up after a claim even if it's obvious that the claim doesn't reflect a higher future risk, though.

I personally only take placebos.

If he could have proven the theorem in a week despite its having a counterexample, that is impressive.

But in some languages bloat is a best practice.

Programmers, yo don't neda lemma.

Your rhetorical style here is off-putting. I don't think he's committed any logical fallacy. It's perfectly possible to do charitable work selfishly. For example, if you were offer…

Lol @ C++

It happened once out of how many "tries"? What if there are an infinity of parallel universes?

But 10^23 could be vanishingly small compared to what's in the denominator of that probability. How do you have any idea what the odds are on the formation of life?

Why do so many people on forums like this expect intelligent life in space?

And Bridget, et al, with cardholder services.

cliché.

print "This sentence was written by a computer."

So do I understand correctly that in this metaphor the poor quality of software is mostly because the practitioners are morons? I need to revisit the creeping complexity in my own …

Rain?