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Then I am happy to say I am happy for their recent changes, this certainly wasn’t the case a few years ago when I wrote them off, and even more not the case 10 years ago when I was…

Full disclaimer: Info coming from a variety of sources: some documentaries which I know have their own inaccuracies, some my own personal experience in food service, and specifical…

Because the meat you buy in the grocery store goes bad after a few days, and (here is where I think parent is being slightly intellectually dishonest) while it is true that the fas…

> "it becomes incumbent on the researcher to explain why no-one has noticed this before" Farmer: huh, we'll I'll be damned. Who in the hell woulda thought to feed them seaweed."

Careful having extreme stances on things. Packaged water keeps many people alive during times of natural disasters or crises. Volunteers flock in and one of the first items brought…

So why rust then? Rust does not have a specification and it is currently still under heavy development, with many changes to the language expected to come out in the years to come.…

I'm pretty up to date on the science myself, and I still consider myself anti-GMO for a host of reasons, little to do with the science. My objections are more philosophical. two pr…

The counter-example to this is github, and obviously basecamp, however.

Have you ever worked in a large engineering organization full of engineers with varying degrees of experience all trying to accomplish the same goal? I can't imagine anyone has eve…

" In the short term, he writes, there are clearly challenges, but over the long haul, he argues that diversity has a range of benefits for a society, and that the fragmentation and…

My spitball opinion on that: we had diversity in America during the beginning of the industrial age that we heavily relied on for it's host of benefits, innovation primarily as wel…

"A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs." It's an excellent description in of it's own, but if I were to attempt to put it in other terms, it allows you …

Hi Liam, I think the comment captures the essence of what feedback I would have and I am not interested in providing anymore feedback, no offense I am busy, but appreciate your wil…

Charisma is certainly something I have never been told I lack. Maybe we are lucky and have the right people as well.

How hard is it to say "these are the types of things we want to do. anything must look like these types of things in terms of (insert x y and z criteria: size, scale, opportunity, …

Not to heap it on...but ok who am I kidding I am heaping it on: I had a terrible interview experience with them. Basically there was a period on HN where every other post was about…

We absolutely have a canon. You show me someone who has studied Dikjstra, Turing, Hoare, who has taken the time to pour over the Art of Computer Programming and Structures and Inte…

Yeah this is one of the biggest urban legends in sports. It's just not a thing. A team won't pay a player just to keep them from going to their division rival or whatnot, it's a ni…

I think a more eloquent way is to say fundamentally creating long lasting software structures is more of an art rather than a science, and you can't just tell someone "go practice …

I've experienced them all and across all various parts of the country. If you want to know what phone plan to get, just ask a trucker.

> I think shipping jobs overseas has had a catastrophic impact on wages and jobs On the flip side this is also what has contributed so much to global progress in terms of increased…

You know, I am surprised I am saying this, but I think I do too.