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I hated college. I mean, it's a tiresome task to even attempt to enumerate all the ways in which I feel college failed to live up to the hype they feed you before you go in. And pe…

Startup companies can come in all forms, but the phrase "startup company" is often associated with high growth, technology oriented companies. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start…

I would agree that to be counted among your "thousands of examples" of outliers, one would have to be obsessively dedicated. Not everyone wants to be a Newton or a Da Vinci though.…

"Let's face it, regular expressions aren't for everyone." Wait, since when aren't they? I would have thought basic regex skills were a baseline shibboleth of a programmer. I even k…

Yes, you actually can decide that you're not going to pay content distributors. If you regard IP as an illegitimate idea, then you can act on that.

I think the meaning becomes clear because this sense of the word is almost always used as an attributive modifier of a pejorative term: e.g., "entitled pricks", "entitled, combativ…

I've seen this before, but it never ceases to amaze me how ridiculous this is.

Excellent point. I am near the start of my career (3 years in or so) as a programmer, and I spent much of the first part of that working remotely. Though I enjoyed not having to ge…

Of course there are influential parties in the Valley, but that still doesn't make it one thing. What the OC seems to have reacted against was the reification[1] of the industry in…

Excellent point. My dad, who was a journalist for 30 years, always complained about this assumption among his colleagues. Journalists are taught to go talk to the people in charge,…

tl;dr: If survey classes actually connected the dots, it would promote intelligent students without challenging them to persevere, and ultimately favor the development of bright bu…

This is cool, but I think it's a necessity when using macros that the macro code itself be readable. Otherwise, it's very hard for someone else (or yourself later) to come along an…

I think this only furthers the author's point about skepticism-as-an-identity. When you apply the term "real skeptic," you necessarily invoke some form dogma about what skepticism …

You're missing the distinction he is drawing between belief and identity. He is specifically saying that, despite his beliefs lining up with those espoused by most self-professed s…

The worst of both worlds: Dart fails to provides the advantages of static languages, without compensating by the flexibility of dynamic languages. This was my impression exactly wh…

What I'm calling for is for economists to drop the pretense and misconception that using empirical methods for studying macroeconomics makes it scientific. And I'm suggesting that …

Yes, thank you.

I vehemently disagree. The gap we should be worried about is the reason gap. While I enjoy math tremendously, part of my deep dissatisfaction with economics as a field is its incre…

I'm glad to hear this as well, and even more glad to hear it today. Despite being medicated, I still struggle to focus on activities which are not intrinsically interesting to me. …

This was the first thing I thought after reading that too. It immediately causes me to assume that the author doesn't know enough about programming to know much at all about its on…

I'm confused: doesn't the use of a single local relay to which all clients connect create a single, non-redundant point of failure?