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Does it make sense to have special laws to protect endangered species? Why not protect all species? Does it make sense to have more severe punishment for cop killers? Why not have …

I can't comment about the framework since I don't speak Lua, but I want to congratulate the author for her work. Less than 1% of opensource contributors are women. Women are alread…

I am teaching a 12-year-old to program in Python. She has learned the basics: input and output, loops and conditionals, arrays, sorting, etc., and she is beginning to learn OOP. Th…

Regarding angular, please see this previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651641 There appears to be lots of things the 1000 contributors didn't get. They are a…

And what is it that you think is good in XAML? Two-way data binding? Angular and Ember tried that and are now moving away from it. XAML is poorly designed, especially those over-co…

Am I the only one who thinks Jony Ive is a fraud? Let's examine the evidence, shall we? Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent peop…

One solution is for Japan to start encouraging immigration. Maybe setup an H1-B program. This will increase the number of tax payers, while also increasing exports.

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I moved to another group immediately and doing well in the new group. The manager got demoted during a reorg several months later, likely because there was a lot of negative feedba…

"Microsoft uses bad performance reviews (“The How”) as a tool to eliminate the elder (40+) and senior ranked employees." Current Microsoft employee here. A few years ago my manager…

Trust is not a binary value. When large sums of money are involved you don't want to rely solely on trust.

I agree with you when you say ideas are actually worth something. When investors say ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything that's very self-serving. The idea wasn't thei…

This lecture is from YCombinator and may be a bit self serving. I would take it with a grain of salt. I have noticed that YCombinator prefers multiple cofounders, and in this video…