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I imagine The Mythical Man Month would have been much more entertaining if written by Mel Brooks ;-)

Many years ago I visited some lava tube caves in Hawaii. I had to call and get directions, write them down and follow them... No address I could out into a navigation device, no co…

The main thing I find missing with hurl is an rc file.

While I like the article and agree with the sentiment, I do feel it would have been nice to at least mention the GNU project and not leave the impression that we have free software…

Ah, now that I see this comment, I'm guessing you're one of the ones that flagged the post. You're surely more knowledgeable than the author about America and Europe, but he's not …

This is exactly what I wanted to say... Lacking credentials, but still accurate observations.

I totally agree with this! So much of what we've come to think as American culture emerged from the political success of the car. It's the main thing I notice that aggravates me wh…

So many assumptions here that it's hard to know where to start. The fact that I prefer a mindset which prioritizes time with friends and family is extrapolated into a caricature of…

I'm curious how the author has much experience with the American mindset, since he didn't mention living in America when describing his background. Having said that, as an American…

This cannot be right. I've known multiple people in my life whose working shifts do not correspond to the seven-day week. I know of no illness from which they suffer.

This reminds me of the discover and defend modes from Jonathan Haidt's latest book The Anxious Generation. On taking a break, I've often found it difficult to stick to the pomodoro…

I lived in Hong Kong for nearly a year and our building underwent renovation on the facade at the time. We could open our windows and go up to the roof on the scaffolding. Good tim…

I'm pretty sure the parent comment is pointing out that the quoted sentence from the main page ought to be present in the rationale page that is linked.

My teacher did the peanut butter and jelly problem with us in the fourth grade, but we were given the time to write the instructions as homework and she picked a few to execute the…

I know this is nitpicking and perhaps a dumb thing to say, but in my view the simple case of drink spilling does not apply. Have you been around children who spill a drink? The one…

It is the bane of my existence that in German you cannot just put things in places. The word you would use for "put" depends on the physical relation of the objects involved. Is it…

Isn't this more of a cultural thing, that Germans seem to agree that it is authoritative and use it as a reference? I'm not sure what would even make a dictionary prescriptive othe…

I get the sentiment but I've never really understood why this saying is so popular. A tax is a specific word with a real meaning. It is not voluntary. By this logic alcohol and cig…

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Looks nice but here's some feedback on what is not nice: - breaks the back button pretty badly - when I filter jobs it says seven results but really there are only two

I cannot help but think of Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven... "Deserve ain't got nothin' to do with it".

I sometimes feel this way even about Google maps. On some level when I make a small contribution I'm aware that everyone doing so profits Google quite nicely. But then again, I thi…

Same here! I thought when I saw it, "ah, so that's what Jeff Atwood looks like".

I think you value their work too little. I worked as a realtor for a time and admittedly not a good one. A good realtor has knowledge of current values in the local market, issues …