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Does it scare anybody just how quickly the technology has evolved to negate many of his arguments?

I see they're taking a hint from Google.

But lawyers don't normally work in a management hierarchy, do they? And I'm pretty sure hospital administrators hate physicians just as much as managers hate programmers. (Not all …

> So, what have we learned about the woman programmer’s dress code? Unlike the men’s dress code, beards are not in fashion Thank goodness!

This seems like a pretty big change for a patch release?

On my MacBook Pro, only the command key has a symbol on it. All other modifiers only have text.

Somebody would surely find a way to spin that into an act of war, clear out the scuttled ships, and invade Iran.

He's not rejecting progress. He explicitly says that C isn't for everything. But he wants real progress: a language with GC, concurrency, etc., not just C-with-classes-plus-etc-etc…

I'll deal with this in order of decreasing insanity: 1) Polymorphism is NOT functional programming. Using function pointers, which you seem to detest, is one aspect of functional p…

Users work in an infinite number of different ways, and they way they worked before they use your app is probably forced by whatever crap they are currently using. No matter what y…

I thought your name sounded familiar. I'm very much looking forward to your post on this topic!

One more point: I would recommend building on top of the YUI 3 core instead of re-inventing it, unless you can point to something that you think they flat out did wrong. YUI 3 core…

Anybody who can build a framework is clearly not a moron. I just have strong opinions about frameworks, since I've built a few myself. Since I misunderstood his use of the term "HT…

> Jo is geared more for downloadable apps OK, that makes sense. This explains the use of non-standard tags, too. Progressive enhancement and using a standard DOCTYPE aren't a big i…

The guy surely learned a lot building this, but... No comparison to jQuery or YUI 3. The documentation suggests jo has a lot of catching up to do. > If you're using jo to create al…

Agreed, but if you're not paying attention to the bottom line, it's easier to go down a rabbit hole instead of pivoting.

If you're only interested in having fun, you run the risk of building something really cool that nobody needs.

http://www.simplyphysics.com/flying_objects/acetylenetorch.h...

Agreed. As soon as this setting became available, I simply went it and set it to "does not incorporate ... encryption of any kind" for all of my projects that do not use encryption…

The more time sinks you follow, the larger the net drain.

This is why I read only HN, avoid Facebook, etc., and own a mobile phone which isn't useful for anything except phone calls.

The article talks about how slow the book is. He fails to realize that Tolkien is writing about a very deep game of strategy. It's like watching grandmasters play chess. Sometimes …

Anybody complaining that the Iliad and the Odyssey are full of clichés is forgetting that they were written several thousand years ago. The clichés where stolen from Homer, not the…

I learned programming on the Apple ][+ by typing in programs and then modifying them. Nothing forces you to read the code better than being forced to type it in!