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Edit: never mind, silly question

I can't find it viscerally in me to take moral issue with the guy releasing the code. I understand it belongs to Blizzard, but I just don't feel sorry for them. Not defending that,…

Sorry for the downvotes; I upvoted you to correct. I think it's an interesting question. There are probably fields where it's possible and fields where it's not. Some students cert…

Arguing that 10x developers don't exist strikes me as the extraordinary position requiring extraordinary evidence, rather than the inverse. People vary; why wouldn't they here? Som…

The gradient covers all the hypothetical programmers that could exist but happen not to.

> However, as soon as you have a slightly larger team, these decisions will usually not be made by one single person. If you have a large project with dozens or hundreds of enginee…

I support!

I hear what you're saying and actually agree. The somewhat pedantic point I was making earlier was just that the author could've more conservatively written, "here are some possibl…

I found the thread interesting and informative up until she drew her conclusion: Elon Musk doesn't strike me as an innovator when he talks about building tunnels and subways. He st…

That disagrees with the Twitter thread you linked to, which claims: > Robert Moses weaponized Civil Engineering and Urban Planning to suppress marginalized communities. Engineering…

Well, fair enough, you're right that SJW can be used as a label too. My original flagged comment was actually "The invigorating fervor of social justice"; I didn't use the term "SJ…

I think it's needlessly mocking, but it is not a label: it has an actual definition, and I'd consider anyone who used the word outside that definition to be using it incorrectly. I…

Yeah, that's true.

I don't mean to be sensitive; is the suggestion that I did this somewhere, and am thus missing the irony?

I probably shouldn't have posted that, but "social justice warrior" is a pejorative for actual good reason. It refers specifically to people who don't genuinely care about justice,…

The invigorating fervor of social justice