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Peoples inability to come up with a better alternative doesn’t mean there aren’t issues with capitalism. Fossil fuels are the easiest and most effective way of powering transport a…

I can’t remember the source, but there’s a quote that goes “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. I’ve yet to read any kind of optimistic sci-fi …

The Windows API is no longer the focus for .Net. They are very clearly pushing large scale web apps. I’d be curious to know what percentage of people are still writing windows clie…

Minor correction: Q3 came out in 99, so it was probably written in either VC++ 97 or VC6. Otherwise, carry on.

> Tom Waits did have a point that I think today's content creators need to take onboard. With music it was not always about money for everyone, the love of music was motivating eno…

Deciding not to do “normal” things is fine. You don’t want to drink or smoke or watch TV? Good for you. But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can enjoy some really great TV…

Horses for courses.. If you want to build a shed, go to your local hardware store and buy a kit set. If you want to build a skyscraper, get an architect, some engineers and a compe…

Just don’t generalise about massive groups of people? “Eastern” and “western” culture are not monoblocs.

> Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not, it's still not safe to be a leftist in the USA. I don’t disagree. Remember that “shocking” scene from the Newsroom years ago where the …

Depends on how socialist you want your socialism to be. Most countries aren’t purely socialist in the same way the US isn’t purely capitalist. Who would want to live in a purely so…

Yes, unfettered market forces have a fantastic track record in solving problems of wealth disparity. Btw, I have this amazing bridge for sale….

I have to say I literally laughed when I saw the headline. Housing in NZ is still ridiculous. It’s dropped a bit in the last 6 months, but NZ easily ranks in the top 10 least affor…

Your software probably won’t be running in 100 years, but in 10 years? 15? Absolutely possible. In fact, after 20 years writing software with various companies, the only ones that …

I think this is the key point. Asking how you can get into gamedev is kinda like asking how can you be a professional musician. Sure, you need to know and like music as a base, but…

This was a fairly common position when I was programming C++ over a decade ago. Performance critical code like game engines, etc used to avoid exceptions like the plague. Not entir…

The title is poorly chosen at best and misleading at worst. They’re not abandoning JavaScript, they’re just abandoning client side rendering (angular, etc)

Even if we are to take the propositions in the article at face value (some of those studies are dubious), it still leaves you with a simple equation. MHLs make it more likely that …

> It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it…

Merriam Webster - Indigenous: of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group Wikipedia - Indigenou…

> Firstly, the article has zero example of the "native knowledge" in question. You mean apart from this link that specifically talks about use tradition harvesting practices and lo…

And? It's not exactly news that European attitudes and practices don't necessarily work that well when transposed to a different ecosystem. Look at Australia for example. The indig…

> it might be a cultural difference: I'd expect all of those to be handled by HR. Possibly. Generally, I'd only involve HR as a last resort. Go to them for guidance, certainly, but…

I'm sure they do. But my response to any employer who did that would be to start polishing my CV.

It’s not just about “asking someone to be less sick”, you need to ascertain if there are other factors: are they over worked? is there a serious condition that you might need to su…

While I agree that encouraging a sick employee to work is all kinds of messed up, most countries impose a limit on sick days. At that point, you need to talk to the employee and fi…