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Rich people need pooor laborers to create the wealth they get 50% as capitalists and consumers.

Facebook has had the most, and pressured others to copy.

Why does cable company need special powers that my DSL provider does not need?

Google thinks bebop is better than whatever they could do internally (including finding people to hire up) to build a comparable product for that budget.

if you are thinking about "<0" on an unsigned type, you better be scratching your head already.

This is Yodlee, the USA's largest financial API for consumer products (Mint, etc), endorsed by all large banks and investment firms. They have millions of users.

You are ignoring the bandwidth differences between protocols.

That's Inversion of Control , not Dependency Injection .

This is literally textbook Design Patterns stuff. Haskell gives you executable machine-checkable design patterns, instead of just comments.

Is it a disorder to have no hearing? Too have so much hearing that your neighbors keep you up at night? Is being very short a disorder? Being very tall? Having short legs with long…

Consider: there are two diagnoses, OCD and OCPD. Both cover Obsessive Compulsive behaviors. OCD is the Disorder where OC behaviors ruin your life and cause you distress. OCPD is wh…

Suckless.org disproves the authors thesis. Heck, UNIX itself disproves the thesis. A project can grow to include more compatible components, without needlessly cluttering each comp…

There used to be a concept called "professionalism" where people didn't let their personal cultural biases crowd out contributors, and people applied their humanity problem at hand…

You think its "phony" when someone shows up at X conference transparently focused of talking about X? You think its selfish when some knows how we wants to help, and wants to find …

Having lunch with your coworkers gives you 250 chances per year to have an important work-related conversation. A conference offers precious little time, so it is important to be e…

Disney was anti-Communist. He wasn't anti-autboritarian. He was rather authoritian.

Did memento mori comprehend death in the modern way, or did it assume an afterlife that completely changes the meaning of death?

Depressive thinking existed before the Internet.

> Air quality, noise levels, energy and water usage This is not the surveillance you should worry about.

Ironically, that 66 page document is a massively overcomplicated discussion of the simple idea that inessential mutable state causes problems.

Not sure I want to live in Walt Disney's utopia. He was great at his business, the original Jobsian, but dialed it up a bit too far. www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt…

Minecraft is Java. It has awful performance (but it's simple enough and mixed desktops are powerful enough)

Google brags about constantly doing large scale refactoring on heir codebase.