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Again, I think this is likely seen differently depending on which side of the political spectrum one stands, and what sources of information one attunes to. I agree that both 'raci…

Everybody's mileage will vary on this ... I spent a lot of time in the year after I read Paul Graham's essay on "things you can't say", searching for things that I thought matched …

"Core rhetorical tactic of the progressive left". Or the conservative right, depending on which side of this divide one happens to stand on. And speaking of Orwell, he was pointing…

Interesting. I wonder how the expansion and contraction of the rails with changes in temperature is accommodated.

I remember reading some time ago that there is a real difficulty running passenger trains and freight trains over the same rails. With freight, you can tolerate bumps at the rail-j…

I agree that "the right thing" depends on point of view and narrative at hand (the context). And when I quote Drucker and point to character, I see it as the bedrock on which a goo…

Failing to understand the basic requirement is not, IMHO, overthinking it. I will admit, as I reread the question and the hint just now, that I just didn't read carefully the first…

Peter Drucker wrote that the most important thing a manager could have was 'character'. I've asked myself "What is character?", and the best answer I've come up with is: "The willi…

I thought there was too much ambiguity to several of the challenges: I gave up after the following exercise: On the eighth day of Shell my true love gave to me Eight elves in Santa…

"It's a cheap trick to make me trust the interlocutor". Hmmm. Different interlocutors can have different intentions. Some are going to have the intention to understand. Echoing wha…

Yup. Weizenbaum knew about active listening.

Nope, I don't see that. As a therapist, this is a big part of our training. Using it in a business context, there's more emphasis on ideas, whereas in therapy, you do ask people ho…

A philosophy professor I had when I was an undergrad, asked the question "Why did Socrates deliver the Apology in such a way that was clearly unapologetic and designed to annoy the…

For some "a little friction" is enough. For others, not. I keep less-healthy food treats in a cupboard in my garage, because the friction of walking out to get them is enough to re…

Fun article, but the example of Hilbert Curve usefulness with hard drives is quickly aging out. SSDs, which are increasingly prevalent, have more-or-less constant access time. Ther…

Okay, but my main complaint is that the medium (video) feels very under-utilized.

I confess I was disappointed in the video. As someone who decades ago read Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time, it doesn't substantially add to my (lame!) understanding …

44% shorter: is your claim that limiting line lengths to 80 or 100 characters is going to 'massively impinge' your productivity? That seems unlikely to me.

Sorry to take so long to answer. Good questions. 2 space indents, in (say) 30 line functions, get harder to discern the more indent levels. This problem is exacerbated by bad eyesi…

>at a comfortable 10 point font size. How lovely for you. As someone with significantly impaired vision, even when corrected, I have my font size set to 18, thank you very much. A …

Except when there's not ... In this case, it was superseded by "more pressing" alarms, namely "pull up"/"you're too low".

In this incident, as with Air France flight 447, pilot and co-pilot were holding the controls in opposite directions, and the software averages the input. In this case the warning …

I did a lot of the work in my 40 year software career as an individual, which meant it was on me to estimate the time of the task. My first estimate was almost always an "If nothin…

"Hard times create strong men". At what age do the hard times start for this to be true? Do children who are victims of abuse become strong? Some perhaps, but I suspect not more th…

Does anybody have a pointer to a good description of what Alan Kay means by messaging?