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I feel like any argument that begins by asserting a dichotomy is almost certain to be circular and will proceed as if the dichotomy were a fact rather than an unproven hypothesis. …

I'm agnostic, but ... "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had ple…

When I was in university I took a lot of courses in management science, which is basically a lot of applied psychology, and learned a lot of stuff like this. Then I went out into i…

The power of narrative made personal. If we aren't plucked chickens we are storytellers. The venue and media have changed, from oral tradition around a fire to photons sliding down…

Swiping felt like the death of dating apps. Dating has always been a numbers game (the more potential partners one interacts with and dates the higher the chances of forming succes…

The Internet has become a carrier signal for advertising.

Anyone actually recommend the book from which the article is taken? I also tried to read the wa v. ga blog post on the site to get a further sense of the author's approach, but the…

Emotionally and quite illogically. You can take the kid out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the man.

I think it is the feeling that you can't mess up that this references and which persists. My past was a single mother, deadbeat dad, welfare and food banks. Now I have a comfortabl…

If you have five architects in a room, you'll get six opposing opinions on architecture.

1) Culture must evolve with other elements of the company and at certain stages of growth and transition a company may need to intentionally hire to provoke and shape cultural chan…

Vancouver spends too much time in movies masquerading as an American city to ever be iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_t... With the current exchan…

DE has meaning outside of Microsoft. I recognize it, and am not in Microsoft's orbit. Generally it's one step above Senior Principal Engineer and considered an executive position. …

Yes, wear your opponents out, Thunderbolt. It only takes getting up one more time than they knock you down.

The title is provocative (it's a numbered list, and a rant!) but the author would have been better served with "Seven Ways to Make Agile Better", for no other reason than taking a …

This seems to weaken the captcha for bots, since a simple Google search for (for instance) 'do you know we are going' completes the sentence. No need to defeat the obsfucated OCR t…

Large parts of the Internet are simply a media clearinghouse, used to transmit and store information between parties with little value add beyond providing interfaces. Who controls…

My experience is the opposite. The simplest solution is harder and takes longer. I think easiest or quickest is what is really meant in this formulation, but rarely do either of th…

Seattle.

An example from my code: /// - parse an HTTP input stream as XML /// - requires a progressive parser (currently xpat, which is distributed with /// Apache) /// - the XML in turn is…

In this specific case, the dashboard-page function is actually sequencing operations, not performing them (except for 5, and I'd wonder why that couldn't be moved to a separate fun…

. . . and one of the plenty of good reasons being producing API documentation automatically via javadoc, doxygen, etc. Having the API documentation source and code live together is…

At least nobody is making movies and songs about Twitter. Endless references in popular media, yes. Songs and movies, no. "Breaker, breaker, looks like we got ourselves a convoy."