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Ah yes... "Project Ginger" was promised to fully revolutionize society, bigger than the Internet, etc. People do seem to forget how old the tech-hype circus is, and with a lot of t…

There's a social media trick where you make some really obvious mistake (eg pronounce "Mario" as "mah-RYE-oh" in a video) and then rely on people's "well akshully" in the comments …

kickstcondor has a cool art style, but from my understanding it isn't exactly a personal site, given it's run by multiple people pretending to be a single person, who actually are …

Yeah, I TDD / TFD as much as I can, much simpler. Even just stubbing out a few simple smoke tests that I red/green/refactor saves so much time. For me, I think I spend less time wr…

Are you asking for writing tips? I'm not OP, but for one "someone who isn't deaf" is 4 words and has a complex structure while "hearing person" is 2 words and has a simple structur…

The goal of research like this is to motivate exactly that (changing the companies)

Oh, I don't know about the state of the art, I was just speculating. I'd imagine this technique would only useful if you want to support a MongoDB app at the same time as building …

Yeah, I think the person we are replying to is taking this a lot more negatively than I intended. I always sort of thought it was kind of an "open secret" that this stuff went on, …

Huh, so if we are trotting out experience credentials, I have also worked with thousands of developers (I guess?) over the last ~20 years as well. My first programming language was…

Hm, well, I never said that ANYONE who uses MongoDB is guilty of resume driven development. I specifically only indicated the ones that WERE chosen via resume driven development. U…

Oh wow, I had no idea! I've never heard of this. Thanks for letting me know. I only knew it as the name of "Planet Mongo", the main planet in the Flash Gordon universe, an old scie…

Could be that! Another terrible name hahah. Although in their defense I get the "cockroach" analogy, while "gimp" is just an offensive insult and/or a very NSFW BDSM term, and has …

Yeah, I could imagine this being a useful step to migrate away from MongoDB. I suspect there are plenty of "resume-driven development" MongoDB installations out there that could us…

GIMP? If that's what you're referring to, then yup #1 worst-named FOSS ever.

For Linux, many GNOME-based distros shipped with Pidgin (an open source communication program) well-integrated with the desktop environment, really early on compared to other OS's.…

Yeah, I was really confused by this, since I very clearly recall seeing ads on fresh Windows computers, along with guides etc on how to disable them. I know back when I used Window…

Also, technical skill aside, Linux users are used to dev consumer relationship being more symmetrical and more of a "two way street". The few non-coder Linux users I know prefer it…

No wonder the email space is so behind. I'm already working on the next problem, NRTOIATFUSSP (No, Really, This One Is Actually The Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem)

Yeah, I will agree with you that there can be some smaller-scale systems that work fine. That said, in these cases in my experience it's always few key "hero" mods who are just ver…

Not at all theoretical, this happens all the time. There are tools like StegoShare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StegoShare I googled and one of the top articles was this (I didn'…

Yeah, there's an entire category of "idea guys" who don't get this. They repeatedly try to crack the code on a truly moderation-free or purely crowd-moderated platform, and it neve…

I generally agree with you here, and don't think this article is particularly well researched or argued. I'm no fan of Matty's argumentation in any of his articles in fact... I don…

What? Are you actually saying that this is just Matty's sour grapes? I personally disagree with most of his positions in general, but it's silly to imply he's anything but very suc…

Sure, maybe not all types of jobs, but to be fair he does say "in the political realm" at one point in the article, and it did occur to me that many people often take the opposite …