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The Caesar series was my favorite growing up. And the other city-building games that followed, like Zeus, Pharaoh, and Emperor. There have been a handful of indie games lately doin…

> I think the major distros defaulting to GNOME is not going to end well I agree. While standardization has its benefits, I think homogeneity also has significant drawbacks. Unfort…

> I spent six months working at a Fortune 500 company building a system to give mid-level knowledge workers better access to their data. I've never felt as demotivated as I did whe…

> is it fair to say things are this way due to no gun control? I don't think so. Maryland isn't the most restrictive state when it comes to firearm policy[1], but it's a long dista…

Bush and Trump both will be remembered for a long time. We’ve only had 45 presidents, the English learn about god knows how many insignificant kings in school, so the notion that t…

Vaporware

In my (bigcorp) experience, its all windows all the way with macs available only to developers who have a need (iOS dev usually). And don’t forget that developers are a tiny minori…

Yep his blog and books are great. Incidentally I started looking into Dart yesterday. Seems like a comfy language, more so than Typescript in my opinion.

I do, it's pretty much a necessity in an open office where I'm surrounded by several people talking loudly into several different conference calls on speakerphone. Right now I use …

Perhaps the AR-18 would fit, the IRA were big fans

Wasn't this actually an X-files episode? I remember a rich techie developing a home AI that Scully and Mulder eventually fooled by stealing a license plate it recognized and puttin…

Vimium is fantastic (and I say that as an emacs user). Does vimfx for Firefox have similar smooth scrolling? Last time I tried FF vim extensions I was disappointed that they all se…

> Contractors never say no. It's not their fault. They're not paid to say no. I'm a contractor, working for a consulting firm, and we say no all the time. Sometimes it's not a hard…

> Not sure he would have wished its publication. The first half of the book is collected published works of his (columns, articles, etc.) including an introduction to P.G. Wodehous…

Great series of books, I'll second this recommendation

> Despite the fact that one could make a strong argument that these Mac fans are the reason Apple existed long enough to even make the iPod in the first place. There's an interesti…

Homophobia isn't excusable no matter what position the target holds.

I'm a very happy injector user, nice close shave, minimal plastic waste. My only complaint is that the blades are expensive compared to double-edges (still cheap compared to cartri…

Ah I see, I thought you were just talking about carbon sequestration

> CO2 capture is an area of active research and it's entirely possible that advances there will make Tesla and Solar City moot. I don't know how likely that is. Even if carbon capt…

I don't know too much about Star Wars, but is there anything that actually indicates Darth Vader would be politically right-leaning? The empire could very well be authoritarian-lef…

> Rural areas vote red, urban vote blue. Don't let the electoral map fool you, there are very few places that skew overwhelmingly to one side. Many places may have a majority favor…

The space before the ? Is a dead giveaway

> if there is a "Competitive Bridge-Engineering Not really related to job interviews, but West Point used to do a bridge engineering competition (maybe they still do) where you dow…

I suppose the contrast is with JIT compilation, which has a lot of mindshare now so it's valuable to make the distinction