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tomrod used the term "anarcho-capitalism", which is a specific strain of political anarchy, and that is what I was responding to.

I'm not sure how you can say hierarchical organizations that use violence/coercion are in any way anarchist. Anarcho-capitalism requires voluntary engagement in a system of contrac…

I think they suggest that people can be made aware of their incompetence after feedback, but the right kind of feedback often isn't given because of cultural factors that make it u…

Anecdotal, but PostGIS is the reason I started using Postgres several years ago in some of my own projects, which later came in handy at different jobs. At one place, we standardiz…

Building your own is educational and maybe even fun (to a point), but it's not going to magically fix these kinds of issues. Most if not all frameworks support navigation and custo…

I think the argument is something along the lines of: the public hears that an engineer is making certain claims and then push for the laws to be changed. Running of yellow/red lig…

In Oregon, yellow essentially means stop. A lot of Oregon transplants (and apparently many commentators in this thread) aren't aware of this. http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/in…

This perfectly articulates something I tried to get across to upper management last time we hired a manager for our team. It seems so obvious and reasonable, but they wouldn't hear…

GIL removal? Are you sure about that?

> selecting CSS colors in other colorspace (eg. RGBA) as oppose to just hex I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but you can go into the dev tools config and change the default c…

Go is still a pile of abstractions built on top of another pile of abstractions that almost no one fully groks. It doesn't seem significantly less "magical" than any other commonly…

I thought `createClass` does/did something essentially similar to what `class` does in ES6. Not having to use a framework's custom class-creation machinery doesn't seem like a big …

I just tested some things in PyCharm. It has no problem with word_word or wordWord as variable names. It's even smart enough to flag just the non-word in word_ajsjasjasa . It will …

> I don't see what React offers... It sounds like the sites you've worked on didn't have enough UI complexity to make something like React necessary. Even for a relatively simple a…

It's true that you should think about what you're doing so you can avoid mistakes (and, as a side effect, type less), but you still end up typing quite a bit as a programmer, and y…

That sounds nice, but it seems like most if not all work relationships are based on at least dishonesty through omission if not outright lies. Employers rarely give a full and true…

As someone who smokes occasionally, it sounds to me like you're just making excuses. In the past 10 years or so, I don't recall ever having to throw a butt on the ground. There was…

It looks like the author prefers Django REST Framework (DRF) instead of Tastypie. I can't compare them on their technical merits as I've never used Tastypie, but I do know that DRF…

The one problem I have with this is that I want `mail.example.com` to always open in my work container, but `mail.example.com` redirects to `mail.google.com` and the latter is what…

Java EE != Java

5a. There are some genuinely shitty people out there that don't necessarily deserve a pass just because no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. Dealing with such situations …

One of the major causes of inefficiency is bad management--the cause behind many of the responses given here. Incompetent managers up the chain don't have a coherent vision that mo…

This applies to pretty much any institutional IT (non-profit, education, etc). We waste an incredible amount of time and money badly maintaining systems just for hosting websites, …

> Have you ever been backpacking in a desert, mountains, wilderness? I'm guessing that being on Mars isn't even remotely similar to being out in the harshest Earth environment.

One thing that's so confounding about this is that so many hierarchical organizations (companies, non-profits, universities, etc) encourage "initiative", but then when you take tha…