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There's a small bit of irony here in that there was a rash of "Why I'm leaving X for Rails" posts between 2008 and 2012 or so.

> Since there are infinite things about which we are wrong That's... ahem... wrong. How could there possibly be an infinite number of things "we" (humanity, I presume?) are wrong a…

One of my disappointments with the original Raspberry Pi was that I felt that its genesis story was from people whose early experience with programming came from Apple II's and QBA…

What about the term "American Indian"? I feel like that would be useful in headlines to set the context, so that then everyone knows which "Indian" is being referred to.

I'm not sure I understood your comment correctly, but I hardly think either group thinks a large black market would be good for their cause. The difference I see is that the anti-s…

You might not be wrong, but your concern seems reminiscent of the fears raised when seatbelts became mandatory: That someone would get into an accident where the car went into a la…

I'm kind of uncomfortable with this line of reasoning, and definitely uncomfortable with this statement: > '"True freedom of speech" is an awful thing.' That is, a good use of free…

I'm pretty sure the point of the article was about women and Amazon, not "about a (painful and harsh) health insurance screw-up". The health insurance "screw up" only occurred beca…

Is there supposed to be a cause-and-effect here? Because I'm not seeing how that's related?

Obligatory link to Jim Gray's "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?": http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf TL;DR: Most software bugs that make it pa…

What's extremely funny to me is that this article is at least half about how much we underestimate (or flat out don't know much about) the people of the 19th and early 20th centuri…

A couple weeks? I don't know much about the state of the railroads in 1905, but the Pony Express could get a letter halfway across the continent, on horseback, in 10 days. Fifty-fi…

I've been noticing a trend recently whereby all the standard BCPL advocacy articles, tutorials and feature overviews are taken, have 's/ BCPL /[some newer language]' run on top of …

You're not wrong, but it just seems like bad design. Why do they still show shipping rates at all, if the separate price/shipping prices are meant to deal with the uncertainty of s…

> We can't get it without shipping. Don't quote prices that are impossible to achieve. This, exactly. When I first glanced and thought "Oh, $150 a year? That's not too bad." Then I…

> Why would a developer work in such a place? I imagine you would be forced to be all professional yet always play second fiddle to the traders, no matter great your skills were. T…

I feel like people need multiple-pass compilers for their logical arguments. On the face of it, your analogy kind of makes sense. Both trucks and women ( Allegedly . I don't know i…

[insert whynotboth.gif] Seriously, though, it seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to market a "lesser of x% or $50" type of product? > Another issue, it is proportionally harde…

I don't know much about the market, and know even less about actual investing strategy-ish stuff , but what does the loss look like five years later? I guess what I mean is, for an…

touché

It's amazing how many programs that most people would consider "core unix utilities" totally eschew the (alleged) unix philosophy of "do one thing well."

I think Elixir and Go solve different problems -- but for the problem space the author mentions here, web services, Elixir is clearly superior.

I get what you're saying, but I'm actually happy the FBI is getting involved when it's a matter of "hacking" (regardless of the appropriateness of that term) involving a multi-mill…

Another way to phrase "corporate wrong-doing" is "crime." So that's probably why the FBI would care.

I liked the video, but to a layperson like myself, the title seems to not necessarily match up to the content of the video itself. That is, it seems like more of a "How did we get …