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Was it ever fun? I lament the death of fat-client applications developed in real programming languages. Somehow we've decided that building our livelihoods on top of a scripting la…

Women are terrible, you should avoid any professional interactions with them. Unfortunately, this is the reality.

Sandboxy games definitely have more replayability. If I look at my steam stats, Medieval Total War 2 is in the lead, followed by Paradox grand strategy games, Mount & Blade, Skyrim…

Mass Effect 1, at least, was most fun when you said to hell with the official objectives and just started treating it as a sandbox. I had so much fun using the sniper rifle from as…

Quite possibly we would have been saved the pain of the start screen, "Metro" apps, and maybe Cortana.

Maybe this is changing, but in my generation, gamers are typically more proficient in a lot of the low-level nuts and bolts. Modding was such a big force in pc gaming, and typicall…

Hmm, I submitted this yesterday, but it got lost in the scrum. It's always interesting to hear real reports from the trenches that aren't essentially ads for technology XYZ. I'm af…

Once in a great while, unicorns are found.I

I'm still using Linq-to-SQL in the .net world. For 99% of what I need it to do, it works golden. Once in a while I've got to go in and profile and rewrite a query when somebody tha…

Quite likely, the people that are capable of doing that sort of hard technical work are not capable of doing the soft, identity-politics ridden outreach functions, and vice versa. …

Maybe there's some magical place where you can actually learn how to program from someone else, but for the rest of us, there's no substitute for solitary hours grinding away actua…

In Bavaria, I've seen beer carts going along factory production lines at noon time, handing out a couple lagers with lunch. Didn't seem to affect quality, safety, or output.

I can't bring myself to watch espn any more. They've gutted so much of their actually insightful talent, while retaining the hot take artists and trolls. And I don't need to be con…

That and their daily half-off sales have resulted in me spending far too much money on their books... At least they generally have good editing and a pretty high quality bar, bette…

Granted, I'm a redneck from the back woods, but there are lots of people I know that don't make $15/hour in skilled trades, let alone minimum wage jobs. If you're going to pay mini…

They made fun of this, I believe, in 21 Jump Street (the remake).

Because it is JavaScript, and there's some kind of unspoken rule about not doing things properly and instead releasing broken things.

I would not terribly surprised... I already have an Amazon Chase credit card that gives me significantly more cash back for Amazon purchases. I don't think Amazon is planning on a …

It works for a while, until it crashes down, ala groupon

Blockchain is just another square on the enterprise bingo game. You know something has jumped the shark when IBM global services starts pushing it.

The British East India Company was able to do this; they issued their own currency at various times. I'm not sure we'll ever see a company with that kind of temporal power again, t…

Bubbles are inevitable. If you want to see a great historical example, read up on the South Sea Company of the 18th century. The charlatans are the same throughout time, just varyi…

Having the entire design of a system in your head is invaluable. I'm in that situation with one of the products I work on. It can be frustrating, at times, when there is more to do…

I had a lot of fun working through this in the context of building mazes, e.g. http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/11/28/upsilon-mazes.html (not the author, just a guy who bought his …