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In the 80's, many, many people looked down on electronic and synthesized music because it wasn't real music played with real instruments. And now it's just another instrument and h…

Satire pokes fun at what is happening right now ; it's not predicting anything. Just like 1984 warned of the dangers of totalitarianism that was already happening, Idiocracy was ab…

This idea has been around as long as the web, but you can't get momentum behind it. A much better idea was a .kids domain where the content was vetted, and you could allow-list you…

I haven't tried this because I haven't played Magic in over 20 years, but I always thought it would be more fun if you had two draw decks where the second was only allowed to inclu…

I never realized the extent to which The Children's Television Workshop must have been fueled by psychedelics. But now Big Bird is making a whole lot more sense.

Travel to Oregon or any of the various places these things are legal. Or produce the necessary items on your own. Growing things isn't difficult.

The value prop is the dissolution of your own ego. We experience reality filtered through our senses and our own concept of "self," which is an incredibly limited view of the world…

It's interesting how everything is a balance abd experience and mastery count for a lot, but nobody acknowledges this in blog posts. There is an appropriate amount of architecture …

Except sometimes you do fix it later. Approve the PR when there's a bug/task filed to fix the thing later and then prioritize that work as necessary. Just as bad as never fixing th…

This seems like the first step to implementing personalized ads everywhere. Opt out? You get the most annoying ones.

Imagine a star trek transporter was a real thing. In that show, I think the common explanation was that the transporter didn't send you places, but merely created a copy of you som…

Because it's a one-time cost and you can cheaply throw more CPU power at the problem, or just wait and then you're done. If you're doing this at such a scale that encoding speed ma…

Having had these experiences, the god I saw and became one with was a being with a childlike sense of wonder at the universe it had accidentally created. More of a "whoops, woah co…

It's a better design, imo. Have you ever wanted to write a command line executable and gotten hung up on I/o and parameter parsing? With PowerShell you can write a cmdlet in C# as …

This is so true, at least from my late 70's perspective. Star Wars didn't seem so much like fantasy when I saw it in the theater - it was more like the inevitable conclusion of whe…

I used to have this problem with our triage call center in India. I'm in the U.S. It was like pulling teeth trying to get to the point. Most annoying were the delays between pleasa…

Or do away with performance reviews entirely. In my entire career I've never once seen a review cycle that was a net positive, and more often than not they cause the best performer…

Now that you mention it...yes exactly that.

I've been making homemade pizza. I make a few every few days. It started out pretty bad, but now it's delicious and my kids get excited to eat it - they think it's the best crust e…

It's not better. It's mostly Java-style OO masturbation that hides the fact that you're using global variables and singletons everywhere. Also a way to pretend you're unit testing …

This is good advice. Also, Windows is an excellent way to learn systems programming because the documentation and tooling is so good and things hardly ever change. There is a wealt…

Joining the military might be an option for you if you're not ideologically opposed to it. Try air force, then navy. Not marines or army. If you're halfway intelligent with technic…

Most of the time I've seen dependency inversion "so we can test" the code is littered with hundreds of single-implementation interfaces and no mocks, or stub mocks that are written…

I just miss Milky Way Dark ice cream bars, raspberry schweppes ginger ale, and Jell-O 123. I can't understand how these things aren't still widely available.

The industry is cyclical and to be forward thinking all you have to do is describe what's already happened and assume it will happen again. ;-) The things being done with JavaScrip…