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Developed countries might provide a safety net and strong job retraining programs

That isn't because they were so big that they could say programmer, it is because that is what it used to be called before self-promotion inflated all job titles to the point of hy…

It only gets respect because it's a kind of lie. You aren't an architect. You aren't an engineer. You write code, making up programs. A secretary is a secretary. If people decided …

God forbid you use existing mature tools appropriate to your task.

Well, a measured quantity of violence ('violence' being a very broad category) targeted at someone who is clearly causing harm is sometimes the only effective way of stopping a gre…

I agree the hacker scene is full of assholes. I ask this not to argue, but because you seem both pleasant and informed/opinionated and will likely have something useful to say: wha…

Some of what has happened to Zed Shaw really isn't acceptable, it is straight up harassment and not funny trolling. It is considered acceptable to threaten men with violence becaus…

I love vim more than almost any other software. But it really is not very discoverable 'by accident.' You have to read documentation and grok the system or you don't get much benef…

We don't "really need" recruiters specifically. But finding a job is ridiculously more complex and old-school (dependent on who you know, etc.) than finding a restaurant or a vendo…

It wouldn't work because of inflation. Is that a good argument for artificially maintaining poverty and enacting policy which specifically advantages the ultra-rich to the detrimen…

So you have phone GPS (like many phones) and you can read your email (like many phones) and you can make calls (like most phones) and you can use it to browse web pages. There have…

Making fat piles of cash on status-symbol widgets. I guess it's too bad that I won't see what other slightly-rounded, double-priced white objects he would have produced. How can yo…

I can get insanely concise one-liners out of C and shell, but that doesn't make those inherently more-productive languages. I forget what bash does, but when I write a block of she…

I'm not interested in this Fibonacci benchmark until someone does it in TriINTERCAL. PLEASE GIVE UP

Seconded: if you're still on 8.04 and don't like how fast Ubuntu moves, then it sounds like you were born for Debian Stable, which is in many respects a very similar system

You wouldn't necessarily know this until you had done the described change, but Ubuntu's packaging of Gnome Shell is in various small but annoying ways not as polished and together…

I'm not persuaded that the arrow of causality has been drawn correctly here. I.e., it seems rather that Ruby has gained a high profile in system administration, not due to any inhe…

Well, there is plenty of point avoiding blocking on IO if blocking on IO is your bottleneck, and blocking on CPU is not. For some reason, a lot of people have focused on that case …

I have no idea whether that is true and I'm not arguing with it. Why are you writing web request handlers containing heavily recursive code, and why do you seem to think that indic…

The original Node.JS is cancer article is a silly troll. But it's totally ridiculous how in response, people keep writing these terrible, straw-man Python servers to try to prove t…