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This is basically the end of Slack for me. It's over. I'm done. I am now anti-slack. I am an opponent of slack. You had me, but now you lost me.

Ban all you want, it’s not illegal, and silly to suggest as much. Here’s a picture I drew of your mom. Look at those stink lines. Arrest me.

For sure, that’s what killed the Pebble watch for me. I got it home, opened the box, thinking I had a new watch! Nope. You have to connect it to the internet and let it phone home …

In some cases, it is explicitly stated by the prospective employer that any refusal of requested information (or providing false information) will be met with a rejection letter. I…

And how does this further complicate the gender inequality issues, in terms of salary negotiations? A common tactic is, if a company knows what you're making, they'll try to hold y…

This is a misleading title, and the meanings of related acronyms are not readily clarified. LSD: Large-Scale Direct (monocular/binocular) SLAM: Simultaneous Localization And Mappin…

Yeah, remember that part where we declared war on Iraq for no fucking reason? Oh wait, no... that's not correct... we did have a reason... “Rumsfeld was saying that we needed to bo…

The AI Cargo Cult This is flagrant misuse of a Buzzwordy McBuzzword-Face. Why y'all gotta be a try-hard, and call it "cargo cult"?

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organi... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4RwlOdppg https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692

The man pages are one almighty “fuck you”. And there are people I've wanted to strangle for telling me: RTFM. The examples in this article are the crowning example of why their pai…

The worst thing about Pebble and all of Pebble's products is that, out-of-the-box, they require an internet connection before you can set the time on the watch, and even try to wea…

I've gotten into numerous conversations with people about the proper terms to use for members of executable body of code, and the results are surprisingly opinionated. Almost every…

Jonathon always appears to be a misspelling of Jonathan. Like as if someone were promoting a Jon-a-thon.