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Do you think his attitude here is a problem with him personally, or is it indicative of something more widespread in our industry? Because the former interpretation is an invitatio…

> But we're not looking for some crazy evangelist and we don't expect people to devalue other things in life to prove their interest in programming. Well, of course you can't _say_…

I'm glad to be on a site where we can be complete human beings, and not sacrifice feeling out frustration and anger on the altar of professionalism.

Part of the issue here is the idea of the "incomplete contract" inherent in labor: that, since there's no way to adequately define performance in an employment contract, what count…

I wonder if employers often bring up the negative attitudes their management will expose future employees to in the interview. I expect both sides put their best foot forward and h…

What in the hell is wrong with political agitation? Had no idea the system was working so well for you! :)

I cannot praise this comment enough.

This is the whole problem with lacking transparency. The trust is broken now, and the whole network operates on some level on the basis of trust.

So maybe polities of less than 300 million?

So much the worst for the Constitution. What has it done for us lately?

This is one of the most sensible things I've read on HN, hands down.

>> The users of FB have decided that this is the way they'd like to organize their information? >In aggregate, by choosing to use Facebook, and by providing feedback and usage data…

A CMS is essentially a collection of keys and values. The format prescribes the keys, and the user fills in the values. All I'm suggesting is that we design the keys ourselves. If …

> Which would also make it much more difficult to use and less useful. Maybe. As somebody who's worked in content management system design for a great deal of his career, I'm not a…

The problem with Facebook is not that government has access to it -- at least, that's not a problem unique to FB (Gmail, as one commenter says, is probably worse in terms of raw ac…

This is an open forum and the comments about Balanced are entirely on topic.

Organize for more control over our working conditions. It's not true that one has the upper hand on pretty much every employer. You'll get money thrown at you, sure. Great benefits…

Thank you for saying all of this.

I don't mind overreactions to gender issues. I mind reactions that actually retard our progress towards a more egalitarian and just society. Getting people to censor content you ob…

This is not only stupid but expressly counter to social justice ends. The whole argument that society is riddled with privileges is not supposed to be an indictment of individuals.…