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He doesn't use the phrase, but this is basically talking about taboo trade-offs and value conflicts - and what really strikes me is that this isn't problem, rather, these technolog…

+1 for awesome, I really like the added line ...but, AFAIK, a Koan tries to thwart understanding in order to communicate an otherwise impossible to describe concept. By preventing …

+1, but I think you want to keep the column width shorter. Took me a bit to figure out why browsing was harder than on Slashdot, but I think that's what it is.

"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." (Howard Stevenson) 'Course, cut out man in the link isn't pursuing opportunity, h…

Sticking my foot out - Panopticons are not a bad thing. They're actually a really good thing, because they, theoretically, let you get a lot more security without losing a lot of l…

(Jumping ship from the other link to the same story) Success metric fail . Then again - What is the success metric for education? Attendance is (IMHO) pretty terrible, and standard…

What I'm saying is that using attendance as the metric to determine funding sucks and we should find a better way. Success metrics are how you determine whether a change has worked…

Huh. An interesting illustration of privacy / security trade-offs.

Success metric fail . Then again - What is the success metric for education? Attendance is (IMHO) pretty terrible, and standardized testing hasn't worked out the best - so what is …

Seems to me that the problem you're describing is one of confusing the tool for the task, rather than the tool being over-hyped.

Ah! I am, sorry, and thanks.

Do you remember EA Spouse? Although it looks defunct now, the spouse, Erin Hoffman, went on to found GameWatch[.org], which aimed to address these issues. AFAIK, they at least curb…

I'm going to be honest - It's never occurred to me to /practice/ programming, particularly in the way that you might practice, say, juggling. I've always worked to learn some new t…

Sounds like a baby out with the bathwater kind of case, to me. if comments are the problem, why aren't they playing with alternatives to the standard thread format?

Interesting. Are there any that are the other way around - dangerous when eaten, but not when inhaled? I'd imagine it'd have to do with the digestive ecosystem, if there were any t…

Well, but then your problem is religion, not coding standards. And then it'll be over this or that design pattern, coding paradigm, version control commit logs.... If you name the …

Seems to me that what you need more than the standards are the reasons behind the standards - because yeah, the person coding that particular problem knows more than you about that…

Woah @ prefunding-treatement. Brilliant! I hope it scales - It can, I think, if you keep momentum.

So, could we start a listing of things learned through the application of extremist programming? Or better yet, a listing that shows where a given principle hasn't been extremified…

The post may be about programming over politics, but the post is essentially recommended exploring the consequences of extremes, and that operation is valuable in (heh - taking it …

There's something missing from the summaries: An indication of how much there is to read when non-summarized / how wrong the summary might be. Two of my favorite examples for this …

My question is what kind of contaminants (or none!) this process picks up - If you're getting your water from a polluted atmosphere (say, LA), what kind of pollutants end up in you…

My read is that the coating doesn't need a manufactured flow (after all, the beetle that inspired it doesn't) put it's very possible they'll make a bottle with a surface that requi…

I generally think of this strategy as "engineer the situation instead of yourself", but then I often times find a way around the trick, end up with an unintended consequence, or am…