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I think the point the author is trying to make is that there are many problems in plain sight we could be spending our efforts on, and instead we are chasing illusory profits by pu…

> Hence, this nice physical face-to-face meeting, a supposed benefit of returning to the office, does not materialize. It does in my experience. 1 on 1s and small meetings often do…

I think the situation would be drastically different if the buses didn't exist, for better or worse. Workers would make completely different choices in where they live, and it's no…

A hearing like this reinforces secrecy and benefits only the people in that room. They are given a platform to legitimize their activities and deny the existence of anything that m…

I have a "music for programming" spotify playlist for anyone interested: http://open.spotify.com/user/thoyt/playlist/2AUYxFDAi6MdOPtg... I tend to think I do my best work in silenc…

I'm really curious what they intend to share as what they describe as the scope of the requests.

I suppose it would be nice to know how many FISA requests there have been, but what does the number of requests have to do with the core issue? Is the number of FISA requests in pr…

I think the visual reinforcement of note names is a poor idea. When I play piano, I play best when my brain and hands are reading the music spatially. When I start thinking of note…

I find that for a lot of people documentation has replaced experience. I watched a performance a week or two ago, and a guy in front of me took photos and videos for 20 minutes str…

Actually almost everyone is a professional reader/writer. Even programmers read and write as part of their professional practice, and I can't really think of any job where at least…

Your first point is certainly true, but I still think that "as important as.." is an overstatement. Problem solving skills are taught in innumerable ways, so what makes programming…

I'm all for teaching CS in high school, but am irked by the claim that "learning to code is just as important as learning how to read and write." This is obviously not true if you …

Jeez, 11 hours a day, 6 days a week? I guess a masochistic streak is an asset in web development, but this borders on unhealthy.

For many of us, the value is in the learning opportunity. Some people, I imagine, are out of work and need a way to pick up skills and job credentials cheaply. For them I think hug…

The east side is by no means "as fucked as ever". 24th street has totally transformed and become another valencia street. Folsom/Harrison has been changing a lot. There are lots of…

The Mission looks more like Noe Valley runoff than ever. Sure, some parts are still slightly scary but there are signs of it becoming more bourgeois all over the place.

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I don't agree with this view of things. All creative acts take a certain impetus to get off the ground, and it can take serious resolve to take that initial step. Sometimes it feel…

I feel like the repeated usage of "print()" in the beginning is more confusing than helpful.