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That's the point of the new legislation. If the business discriminates against you because you're not willing to work outside of your scheduled hours, the business faces penalties.…

Sure makes me glad cryptocurrencies were invented to set us free from the totalitarian nightmare of everyone using cryptocurrency.

I'm a mid-30's white male. While I agree that large numbers of males unemployed, failing in education, not going to college etc is bad for society, it's uncomfortable to read a cal…

I switched back to a flip phone, CDs, point and shoot digital camera, and I love it. It's not always as convenient in the moment, but I find it has a positive effect on my relation…

As software's been eating the world, I've started to feel like we're losing out on the benefits of paper, in both personal and business settings: * Fairly durable * A security viol…

For me, an interesting language development would be finding ways to make managing dependencies more... manageable. We've seen a rise in systems for packaging, distributing and con…

The kids teach themselves. They are surprisingly good at listening to sounds and observing correlated effects.

Maybe a self-evolving computer virus, that continually propagates itself to new systems, with its only function to serve some personal web pages?

I'm never buying another Google device after the customer support horror I went through for my Pixel C tablet. I guess the customer support horror I went through when they canceled…

Can you please explain what differentiates your product from previous attempts to realize the dream? E.g. 4GL, Visual Programming Languages, business rules engines, Access, SharePo…

Many companies large enough to have HR and/or legal departments have rules specifically against providing feedback to candidates on why they were rejected.

The Evenflo Tribute LX is a very reasonably priced car seat (~$60), that has very high safety ratings, is parent friendly, and doesn't take up too much space. I regretted buying a …

I use it, mostly for toy stuff (work is 80% Java). Once you get used to it, Smalltalk is really the most amazing development environment. It's hard to describe how it feels to work…

I buy toilet paper from Who Gives A Crap: https://us.whogivesacrap.org/ The toilet paper is made from bamboo, and comes wrapped in paper in a cardboard box. They operate in USA, Au…

That's not entirely true - if it were, most food would be grown in the tropics. Some climates suit some plants better than others. You might get some benefits from a suitable clima…

Le Corbusier's clusters of towering skyscrapers aren't really a good solutuion either. They were implemented in Glasgow with disastrous results[1]. My (limited) opinion, is that au…

It's not all historical accident. The US also bought into a vision of an auto-centric future that featured multi-lane highways right through downtown neighborhoods. This vision was…

It's not irrational at all. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for people aged 5-29 [1]. Even if there are other, larger, causes of death, that still doesn't make it irrati…

To put it into perspective, about 1% of the bushfires in Australia this season were caused by arson: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-11/australias-fires-reve...

In 2019 I bought an electric cargo bike. I've been able to replace a number of car trips, even while toting kids (record so far: taking a 3-year-old to a birthday party 17 miles aw…

+1 Clean Code is a fantastic resource. Uncle Bob also has a video series that provides a good introduction to a bunch of design issues in an understandable format (but it's not che…

When I saw the name I thought of towel.blinkenlights.nl

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of the GPL is that the purpose isn't to retain ownership, it's to use ownership (granted under copyright laws) to ensure that the ideas can c…

The Inform Designer's Manual[1] has to be one of the most enjoyable books on a programming language ever written. [1] http://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf