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This isn't "statistical whataboutery", it is basic ethical reporting. The French media got it mostly right; The US media got it mostly wrong. We must have a zero tolerance policy f…

I'm referring to the US media - they covered it very differently from the French media.

Should we also shut down schools, scouting programs, day cares, adoption, camping, etc? All of these have had almost exactly the same size and scope of scandal.

I don't disagree with you - the church has major problems some of which still need correction. But there is a clear media bias in the US - compare the American articles to a much m…

I'm not doubting major abuse occurred, and the church needs major reforms. But we should hold the numbers up to the same standard that we hold all other numbers to. There should be…

First off, I'm not doubting that abuse occurred and it is terrible for the victims involved. What sampling method did they use to arrive at this estimate? What is the error range a…

We don't know yet if there is anything special about human intelligence, or what the limitations of general intelligence might be. Are animal and plants a slower form of the same i…

The truth is that artificial intelligence and machine learning today are still aspirational titles - the current tech simple does not learn or reason in any way that is similar to …

In my experience the most useful part of DDD is to have a common vocabulary for your projects - developers and end users should have some common terminology. For complex business d…

This is yet another paper where the title exaggerates the importance of the conclusion. I found a copy of the original paper - there are several risks to the model that the authors…

Unfortunately the marketing has gotten ahead of the actual engineering - the features can be useful but it does take an adjustment period to learn its limitations. I have Toyota Sa…

I'm not expert is any of this, but what worries me is that political pressures, conflicts of interest, profit motives, rushed timelines, experts who have misled to get a reaction, …

"No Silver Bullet" is similar to "Moore's law" - an observation rather than an absolute rule. In both cases, the authors were only projecting into the future 10 years. It is just m…

> Tor has done more harm than good for human rights Sad but true - it seems like every technology that is made to promote free speech, anonymity, or non-centralization ultimately l…

> So, maybe age-ism is a thing, but I'd also argue a lot of age-ism can be reduced to "I never even tried keeping up and hyper-specialized myself into a dying corner even when the …

I agree with a lot of the points, however at most large companies solution architect is a significantly higher paygrade than developer. (I don't agree with this, but it is the case…

This is why I now use tools like SonarQube (commercial static code analyzer) to drive most code quality reviews. SonarQube also gives justifications for all of it's recommendations…

Lol, spoken like a true corporate slave. Sad thing is anyone who works in McKinsey has more than enough talent to succeed without sacrificing their personal life. I guess the sayin…

The paper does not specify message passing or reflection, both of which are essential to OOP. I think OOP lost its way as soon as C++ reinterpreted it in terms of only encapsulatio…

Lol, I've been using Windows for a long time and had no idea these shortcuts exist - I will probably use them all the time going forwards.

It seems unlikely that your co-workers have low IQ, but it does go to show that doing well on algorithms and toy puzzles doesn't necessarily lead to an interesting job. It seems od…

With Spring this is actually true - there are better alternatives for Java, and there is too much magic under the covers. I use plain servlets, jsp and a handful of libraries for c…

Every quality job I've had consisted of 6-8 different interviews. However, all of those jobs also send me a schedule and list of job titles of who I will be interviewing with, and …

I'm fine with having 6-8 interview - every