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> the amount of socially necessary labor decreases with each passing year. Isn't this Lump of Labor fallacy? There is not a fixed amount of work available because human desire is l…

as someone who works for TR, this makes me sad.

I hear what you're saying, and I basically agree. However, I still see some shops building new product with Jakarta Struts, hand coded javascript, and no continuous integration. Th…

relevant visualization of where research happens: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.8087.1355853889!/image/c...

> The UK used to have something similar; British imperialism didn't work well for anyone. I certainly hope America abandons its imperial pretensions. As an American, it doesn't mak…

> FBI/CIA agents doing police-work without reporting to local authorities That's not "police work"! That's criminal activity. But I can tell I'm preaching to the choir.

That's what I was thinking. Any direct answer to that question would delight the swarms of injunction-happy Apple lawyers.

If you're under age 70, and you wear a bow tie, you might be Tucker Carlson.

also, interesting he doesn't have anything to say about the incumbent. http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/biography-of-city-cont... Is there a term limit or something? They're b…

as a Philadelphian, this is great.

I'm skeptical. The article didn't include a specific use case. I'm not sure exactly what their customers are doing with it.

over a long enough time horizon, quantity == quality

yup, came here to say this and also - wonder - why haven't they done this already?

I'm a strong proponent of TDD. In my experience its more productive, and results in better software. But.... I've been in this position before: We have a large existing codebase wi…

yes. sometimes i feel as if i need special restraints built into my desk chair to properly "appreciate" the java code i am required to read and debug.

"it" meaning the conclusion about the exponential increase in the cost of fixing bugs over time.

He didn't say it was false. He did say it was unsupported.

Much respect for the frankness and forthrightness with which he addressed this. I've always taken the exponential increase in the cost of bug fixes with time for granted. I won't d…

except that they had to write unit tests - whereas the compiler/type system automatically checked the type safety of the code this guy wrote. (Not that writing unit tests for haske…

> Cost is orthogonal to educational quality. I've heard this (anecodotal) argument alot. Is there any empirical backing for it, and within what parameters does it hold true? My mot…

Although vanishingly unlikely, I don't think this is a bad question. You'd have to be big enough to somehow threaten Oracle. Not many companies fit that bill.

i'm an atheist myself, but gratified to see this guys beliefs being respected. its one thing i hate about reddit.

no, it would be constructive if he offered ways to improve the test. he didn't.

interesting thanks. so freedom of speech and lots of other stuff has been incorporated, but not everything in the constitution applies to states automatically

its my understanding that due to the supremacy clause, federal (constitutional) law trumps state laws. in some cases, state laws can grant addiitional rights, but they can't abridg…