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So, according to this, the assumptions are: 1. NO NEW TAXES!!!!! 2. No safety nets! If you are out of jobs, you are ed. 3. Thou shall work 40hr a week. 4. Governments can only act …

Hmm. Yet another day, yet another bashing of performance review. Very sad. I will readily agree that most common systems unnecessarily bundle multiple high stake issues. For exampl…

Man, I disagree with about everything from this opinion. And I hate that I have this urge to write out the point-to-point rebuking: + "Wealth is having assets that earn while you s…

Frankly, are we overthinking this? IMHO, 99% of human emotions have reasons of existence. It just makes evolutionary sense (or, if you prefer, it helps us serve the intelligent mak…

I see that you don't understand the problems raised. About accountability: if YOU are compromised, your friends' data are compromised, and vice versa. Are you saying that the media…

I sometimes wonder why Apple would do this. I mean: i) the end-users frankly don't care. Seriously. ii) 90% (if not 99.99%) of dev would not (be able to) care I mean, I doubt if mo…

How on earth is blockchain going help? Seriously! There is no conceptual situation, in theory or practice, that blockchain will improve upon Facebook situation. Generally speaking,…

"if you take one of the 6 month programs, you’ll get a similar amount of experience as in an undergrad curriculum." I am sorry, what? Look, I know that people are all about "disrup…

I completely agree. Microsoft and this article try very hard to fuzz the meaning of "cloud computing" to make their numbers look prettier. If we start counting Office 365, than Gma…

Extra functions of the bones cannot explain fully his question. If it is possible to for the body to synthesize whatever material, it can create a frame for the bones, then wrap th…

As much fun as it is to bash Microsoft and Windows (although, let's face it, Windows has been so much better in the last few releases), I personally think Microsoft, its engineers,…

This is a thought provoking read. I, too, have been meditating over this matter a lot. Unfortunately, though, it seems to me that people generally adopt one of the 3 camps: * Don't…

Independent news sources provide investigations critical to the state, which state run media do not. It's like GNU/Linux or Android to Windows or iOS. They provide excellent value …

I think this article completely bypasses the root causes of the issue in order to paint Silicon Valley dominating businesses in the worst light possible. Look, the real issue is si…

>Yes, but they increase delivery time problems and developer time problems. That's purely guesswork. Seriously! My observation is that as the size of the project grows, type system…

The current state of software safety discussion resembles the state of medical safety discussion 2, 3 decades ago (yeah, software is really really behind time). Back then, too, the…

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2635922 Just ONE study, so don't take too much heed. That said, apparently: * Strongly type, statically compiled, functional, and managed memory …

Hmm, this "article" (let's be charitable and call it that) should probably be named "For Shame: Example of Bad Writings that Make You Want to Hurt the Authors." I still am at loss …

It's an incredible website! But it still does not work completely "right." For example, the back and forth buttons don't navigate to the correct scroll locations. This actually ill…

I hate hate hate, bitterly, angrily, and even desperately, those fetishes about a better, nicer, more innocent past. We all heard it; we all partake in the orgy of present-bashing …

I do appreciate the effort to protect everyone's constitutional right. I wish best of luck to the pursuit. However, I feel like there is something very very wrong about method and …

Well, this article actually makes me glad to not read Ars Technica for a while, and may actively prevent me from ever reading that thing again. Here is how every single article on …

? Why is it redundant? For the love of God, why is HR redundant? Let alone the other answer ("HR" == "other engineers"), which is brilliant, the HR department is the greatest weapo…

I weep to see people sharing my viewpoints. Too often, quasi-professional observers of industries would make stupid anecdote examples into attention grabbing but misleading and ult…

sigh Yet-another-worshipper-of-god-given-creativity. I lost all respect for the article the moment the author drew difference between chess/music/sport and writing/drawing/teaching…