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Occam's razor strikes again.

do you know how many rich people in history have tried this? this goes back to the days of the Pharaohs and probably beyond. good luck to him, and yes perhaps what science learns h…

i recently researched this topic for a website I was building, and it led to reading of the actual laws US states have implemented in the past few years to take on the "designer dr…

one word... shrooms

thanks for the trip down memory lane... i started my programming career in 1984 with C, and seeing all these explanations sure jogged memory cells i forgot i had. i wish i would ha…

" Another concluded: “some vc suit wants a maintainable-by-joe-programmer product. I hope he pays you millions.”" so this guy is implying that we should be choosing our programming…

yes...esp. if you are a backend dev and want to offer basic responsive designs to clients at a decent price point without having to learn yet another entire paradigm.

as someone who had a failed startup back in 1988 (we wrote multi-user BBS software pre-mosaic/www days) in straight C and btree tables (REAL no-sql), what I would find more interes…

this is exceptional advice.

of course it can. patents has been protecting corporate profits for a very long time. how is this any different from the old and powerful sending the young and disposable away to d…

'They are so tunnel vision that they just refuse to acknowledge what a 90% failure rate means.' yes it means 1 out of 10 becomes fabulously wealthy and semi-famous...those are pret…

perhaps metaphor was being used?

say goodbye to real actors soon...amazing.

shine on you crazy diamond.

this "case" is so laughable it as to be a pubstunt for the NJ AG to get his name in the papers, using "omg it bitcoinz! look im 733T" to show likely voters that "darnit, I understa…

idk...seems like self-serving justification to me. young people delay adulthood,l i think, because their parents allow and perhaps even encourage them to stay at home. this may not…

it boggles my mind that people don't see this for what it so obviously is...a law of the plutocrats, by the plutocrats, for the plutocrats. large corporation want to throw huge sum…

give it a rest already...all publications have to sell advertising and all become tools of those industries...on the right and on the left.

ahh...the "tyranny of the experts" redux on of my favorite podcasts, Econtalk, had a wonderful show on this very topic not too long ago. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/06/wi…

"back in the day", it was called workaholism...and a certain percentage of the population is afflicted with this disease. the web makes these people's addiction stand out in what s…

does anyone in the US remember this (Auto-Race)? http://www.geek.com/games/portable-gaming-a-brief-history-13... i got this game when it first came out and spent untold hours tryin…

whoa...stop the presses.. You tried to kill yourself after a conference?? Listen, you need to stop programming for a bit and get some professional counselling IMMEDIATELY...admitti…

cloud storage for many 5G files? uhhh no thanks...the ul/dl times will measured in DAYS.

"I feel like some people don't fully recognize how much you can do on a single tiny machine in 2014 if you don't have 29 abstraction layers under you. a-fucking-men.

why does reality somehow offend you?