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Ah, yes, thank you for the explanation.

> It can't be that intelligent people can disagree with you on what is important and what is not in a language. This is quite harsh sarcasm, but if it isn't true for the GP, it's t…

Ah, now I understand. You're saying that it's fallacious to believe that an upswing will necessarily have a downswing, and vice versa, is that correct? What I understood (due to ha…

> The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OojsLDYr7RY

> This perspective that life is a narrative with upswings and downswings can itself be treacherous. Is this not certainly true? > Your life is not a prewritten narrative with defin…

I strongly disagree, for entertainment is not the only reason I read things.

The author, as it seemed to me, opened the topic of three semi-related issues - people who've done an incredible amount, social media and how he reacted to growth, and how life is …

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... TL; DR: You're changing OSes, expect for a complete change in landscape.

> A different bunch of volunteers were asked to roll the die just once Was anyone else surprised to see "bunch"? Why did they use that, when "group" would be a much better word?

> "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few." As someone who likes to read quotes and examine the wisdom within (or at least I tell myself…

Are you replying to me or the article?

Wrote my first makefile, which was quite an experience. https://github.com/mustafa0x/pafm/blob/master/Makefile

Minified: Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup? Stability and lack of passion. --- Two good reasons, however, not too insightful (subjective).

Didn't want people to assume emphasis was mine.

(completely off topic) for the rule: %.gz: % wouldn't you need something like patsubst? Regardless of your response, could you share more info? edit, that rule above only makes sen…

FTA: > We constantly have to ask ourselves: are we causing any issues or slowdowns on our customers’ websites? [sic] The GP's noting of irony (is that correct?) seems to be valid.

> If website backgrounds really bother you While I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, your wording deflects blame from the site's retarded text contrast to the GP (robomartin). (n…

Side note: have mercy on your readers and make the text contrast a bit higher.

.NET isn't a framework?

Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

FTA: > This is why I don't believe in computer science degrees. What you learned 5 years ago may not be relevant today. CS degrees aren't about what you learned, but what concepts …

Blogspam. Wikipedia's page on Launchy is more useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchy

pieces on the ground? Care to give an example of this?

> Jobs aren't obsolete. There are plenty of jobs. Part time, low wage, no benefits jobs. The 600,000 the article mentioned were mostly of this type, I presume (not the part time ma…

> But it also dismisses the value of ideas too glibly. Bill Gates may have Agreed. > It doesn't seem odd to anyone that we're reading a post describing the author's epiphany that e…