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All caps are great! They make your message more compelling. Please keep defending America with your caps lock key on the internet.

This entire article creeps me out. The whole system described is to encourage people to have no life outside of work. No family, no community engagement, nothing like that. Come to…

I have no idea of what you're trying to say... ... it appears that your only statement is that there are bad people. I would agree; it seems that quite a number of them have found …

Ooh, low class... like those filthy manual workers, right? Or sailors... they swear all the time. Not to forget those filthy colonials from the antipodes and their gutter mouth. Th…

If sharing this in your organisation is a career limiting move, may I suggest that your organisation is irretrievably fucked (see what I did there) and only cares about superficial…

From the article: "While using more than 256 colors in GIF is in most cases a bad practice, and should be limited to certain technical cases where extreme size can be tolerated" Wh…

In CA where I live, I suspect they're not going to any effort to analyse addresses at all beyond what the automatic system provides. My parents live in Australia, where apartment n…

Utter rot. Babies should be eating 'crap' (nice pejorative by the way) that comes in a package if their mother is unable to breast feed. Many many women are physically unable to br…

Utterly useless and completely ignorant advice for a mother with an infant who is unable to breast feed. Small babies can't eat 'foods' as we know them; they can only drink. It's a…

The words "fooled by randomness" come to mind. He got lucky, and thinks that he didn't.

Works fine for me here in CA.

Still dead as a dodo here in the Bay Area. Edit: ... and it's back as of 23:00 PDT.

Wow, almost 40 minutes of total outage now. They're going to be having one helluva '5-whys' tomorrow ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys ).

Expect further irrational responses like the Boston Lockdown, while factors that kill several orders of magnitude more people continue to be ignored. What is worse is that the cond…

Life must be especially complicated for you, considering that each of your assertions are flat out wrong. Facebook, Google, and Microsft not profitable? Seriously dude, just google…

I advise meditating on 'force HTTPS everywhere' for a little while. The idea has a great number of pros, and almost no cons. In general, leaking information to intermediate parties…

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression "In their 1963 book A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Milton Friedman and Anna Schwart…

"And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's being paid." That is classic circular logic. …

One thing missing in this debate is any mention of the precautionary principle. I suspect that this type of problem (in which a large number of factors, none of which cause major p…

Also, do not be deceived by "data science": it's mostly a bullshit term, and translates roughly to "programmer who knows basic statistics" This is utter rubbish; I really wish peop…