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The trouble is that it all adds up to paint a picture of a corporate culture that's a little too comfortable being icky.

It's not about who has what data. It's about what's being done with it.

... 21 meals IS a week's supply.

No, but we have an opportunity to be a leader and not a follower. To be on the right side of history, so to speak.

It's a pretty icky thing to say, to be sure. This person set a new world record and she's receiving comments about her appearance? This woman performed an incredible feat of skill …

References to "source code" apply only to video games.

So when they say "game", do they really mean "video game"? This is a semantic shift that leaves me uncomfortable.

I don't remember when Barack Obama donated money to suppress gay rights.

Because it needs to be bigger.

"Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale." - Gastr Del Sol

> They are purposefully inserting themselves into a stream of information to implement a feature that's impossible to do any other way. They have a justification for doing this.

Web development in the 90s and early 00s was not a practical substitute for learning how to program. Now, it is. You make a claim that the low-level nature of the calculator progra…

Oh, it completely does. My niece this year is required to have a laptop for school. She has to have a PC with her. Now, she has no interest or aptitude for programming, but if any …

Is a graphing calculator really the most obvious way that a young and impressionable mind will find an inroads to programming in this day and age? I find that idea laughable. Tinke…

Do any of these games offer DLC? Who profits from that?

If only it was as simple to make a business out of a cockamamie idea as it is to come up with the cockamamie idea in the first place.

They are decided by single votes. Usually, there are several millions of single votes working together to make it happen. But it's not like anyone's voting in aggregate.

People are going to die. If it's not cancer, it'll be heart failure. I'm not convinced that what this world needs is research into keeping sick people alive longer. We have lots of…

Everyone I know who's left facebook - EVERYONE I know who's left facebook - has come crawling back. In most cases it's because they're tired of being left in the dark about events.…

"being more familiar with Scala than Java" is a few miles east from "cannot/will not write pseudocode comprehensible to people who don't grok functional languages".

Gypsy ninjas? Gypsy is a highly offensive ethnic slur practically everywhere in the world except America.

His mockup is hosted on a javascript-based sketchbook platform (which is nominally intended for sharing/developing javascript snippets), despite the fact that there's no javascript…