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That is a different argument and may or may not be relevant. Really, read Mythical Man Month, the problem with large teams is that their size leads to internal communications overh…

Only if they start making programmable RPN calculators again.

It is not about reversing obesity, it is about long term weight reduction. Different problem.

Very sloppy writing. People diet, they lose a bit of weight. People stop dieting, they put the weight back on again. The fundamental problem is the abundance of overly calorific fo…

Your caricature of what MF is like is so grotesquely at odds with my experience that I would suspect that you are exaggerating or making it up. Metafilter, by and large, has an inf…

In my experience, there are two types of vegeterian: those that just get on with it and the smug evangelising types who feel it necessary to preach at the flimsiest opportunity (e.…

But wishful thinking is a powerful influence, it triggers all sorts of internal processes which may indeed be more powerful and beneficial than medicine. Similarly, religion is not…

Apple make very smart acquisitions and have a track record in creating markets where others have failed to do so. They are also good at spotting opportunities in existing markets. …

Cue all the people irately claiming that sampling is artistic. Anyway, somehow who gets to be a billionaire just "by putting his name" on consumer items has got something going for…

Citation required for such a handwavy assertion. Beats is a fashion brand and those are notoriously ephemeral. If Beats want to sell they may know the game is up, but then so would…

Who not only never paid for them but are probably paid to wear them.

"I'd call a trick something that is not part of the documentation core .." I'd call this particular definition a pedantic, artificial nitpick invented soley for the purpose of pick…

Fairly trivial article which fails to state its primary assumption: it is talking about mass-market FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) which want immediate success. This is why we h…

Oh dear, the children are downvoting you. This is the inevitable consequence of an educational system where copying and pasting from the web counts as original work. These people a…

You thought? Just not very hard, clearly.

He isn't being cynical, he is reacting to pretentiousness and pomposity, and quite rightly too. And of course developers do not have a monopoly of such self aggrandisment.

The problem isn't ledger is that you have been spoonfed by GUI applications which do all the work and thinking for you. If you bothered to read the documentation you see all this c…

These days if you have them in your address book you can just start typing their name and then pick from a list.

Do pay attention. This sub thread started with a mention of Apple.

Automated tests are automated checklists.

Their proposed market is the original market for Pelican books: intellectually curious people with the attention span to read a non-trivial book. If you think that TED talks are an…

The audit occurred because testing revealed the presence of a problem. Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted is no vindication of open source.

The patch prevents future attacks. Replacing certificates and advising users to change passwords prevents exploitation of any previous successful attack. Google have not done anyth…

This does not say if there had been a risk of certificate theft (sorry, sharing) prior to patching and so is completely useless. I want to know if and when I need to change Google …