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This is approximately the dumbest thing I've seen since the "no www" movement.

This works a lot better if you're actually friends with most of your coworkers. Then it's pretty awesome.

I have these at work and home. They work well, but I wish they were built a little more solidly. What can you say, though? Ikea.

I come from Montana, and I hate this dichotomy. The fundamental law of resources in this world is: if you can't farm it, you must mine it. They're a yin and yang. I come from Monta…

After doing Rails for about 4 years, and Django for about 2 months (but I've been doing python for 10 years now) ... save yourself some pain and learn Django instead, if you can at…

Well, it is different in that the propellant doesn't work as good and so the inhalers tend to fucking clog. Not that I'm bitter or anything. Not that I would ever suggest that the …

Well gee. It's been a while since I've used Digital UNIX, Irix, SCO, or VMS. Because they've become totally irrelevant. Seems like a waste of resources when there are more pressing…

"Research into stem cell therapies, cloning, and gene therapy technology have also been greatly slowed by psychosocial concerns." Dear humanity: you are simply too dumb to have nic…

1) live in San Francisco and code for a few years. 2) there is no step 2. 2a) on St Patrick's day, despair that you've already paid more in rent this year than your father in Monta…

This dude is ranting about the wrong thing. There are parts of Avatar and Transformers, etc, that look like you're running a game on an overloaded computer. The problem here isn't …

That's funny. Just about every HR person I've ever worked with has (a) been convinced that they're Doing The Most Important Job In The World and (b) completely incompetent and unab…

I use emacs and vi every day. There's no better python environment than a properly-configured emacs. (I use TextMate, too, but only when I'm doing something disgusting like Rails.)…

You know, every day I look at websites on my iPhone, and I think to myself, "You know what would make this phone better? If the screen were smaller ! Yeah!"

I think JWZ put it best when he said "Dear Japanese people ..."

You mean code that was interesting to write, and not just another fucking web template?

Some punk skript kiddie who broke the internet in 1988.

Read C10K? Both select() and poll() have this problem internally. You have to use one of the more advanced techniques available if you really want to scale. epoll(), kqueue() or fr…

You've never met any neurotic, therapy-prone Jews?

Goddamnit, rickrolled again!

I really don't think I've ever seen a company that doesn't give a shit about its public reputation as much as Oracle. Maybe Blackwater. "We don't have to care, we're the database v…

Also June, July, August, and about half of September. Really, Boston is only tolerable for that one glorious week each in the spring and fall. I do miss Boston. But not the weather…

I really don't know why this is being downvoted so harshly. Kevin J. Anderson's writing is horrific. He's an absolute hack. Brian Herbert should be ashamed at what he's doing to hi…

I dunno about you, but I barely type when I'm coding. I'd guess about 90% of my day is reading and thinking.

Reading monospace text sucks. It's only good for coding for alignment issues. But reading monospace characters for long blocks of text is hard on the eyes. (Not to mention that pro…