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Maybe seek fulfillment outside of work? Family, charity/service work, etc.

Yes, I can see how differentiating a clone from the things it clones will be a tough row to hoe. There is nothing innovative about this at all - it's almost a parody of useless SV …

I clicked on the link wondering how an app is supposed to help with sobriety. "Does it count days clean? Does it hook you up with somebody to talk to if you're having a compulsion …

This guy seems intensely clueless. "If somebody is willing to pay for it, is it really unethical?" There we go - if there's a paying market for something, it's totally ethical. Off…

He said a lot more than that, from the article. You are still free to say whatever you want, and people are free to call you an asshole and distance themselves from you.

Having worked there, I'd say that is an excellent plan.

Poopin'.

Is this an attempt at humour or did you really miss the entire point of the article?

I'd say the question helps you separate out candidates who have run into this sort of BS question before and have a pat answer already prepared. "Gee whiz, I'd say my biggest flaw …

Wow, saying that he "lacks tact" is a bit of an understatement.

One fun benefit of having such a "tough" (low probability of hire, not necessarily difficult-question tough) hiring process is that smart people constantly get weeded out, which ma…

I found there was a culture of constant overtime and firefighting. I also found they made a point of letting people know they were replaceable when they came onboard. It's a big co…

It seems like you could keep financial penalties for traffic violations and avoid the corruption that seems to go with them by simply forwarding the revenue on elsewhere - infrastr…

Good. The incentives involved with private prisons are so obviously counter to the public good that it beggars belief that anyone would support them. Private prisons do not bear an…

No, they're actually going the whole "buy a fleet jets and distribution centers" multi-decabillion-dollar route.

org-mode + emacs.

They are doing precisely this.

Posting a link to Free Republic and attacking somebody for being ignorant in the same comment is an interesting contradiction.

Is there an argument here?

I would like the trend towards ever-concentrated power and wealth to be reversed. I would like people to be able to expect their interactions online to be private instead of operat…

Governments set rules which directly affect markets - housing in particular is subject to tons of planning and manipulation by government. They absolutely can change supply. Want t…

I also find myself thinking that my writing is not original enough to bother sharing, or my music, or my programming side projects. If nothing else your post has got me thinking ab…

I think the point is that there is nothing "creative" about deciding to go bum around SE Asia for a few months. Actually doing so will certainly take some planning, and maybe relax…

What about the productivity costs of sleeplessness? It might be that you're actually hurting both your health and your product by shaving off a few hours of sleep.