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No matter what is your stance. It is always important to listen to both sides, and exercise your critical thinking. RT's YouTube channel has been blocked in my country just today. …

> Languages that focus on "easy to write" are a trap Reminds me of that time when my company abused Scala Implicits, possible because one of it's libraries for mapping scala to rel…

Libya got destroyed when they wanted gold for oil. At least China has established yuan for oil for their trade with Russia. > I am always surprised at how long we have kept this ad…

We should've listen to RMS about Free Software huh?

"dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works" = repulsive "green tech investment and high tech public transport systems" = act…

Ain't government is comprised of corporate owners? President. Then there's lobbying/bribing. Create/participate in wars. Sell weapons to the human rights respecting Saudi. And when…

You do know that Hong Kong was really part of China right? It was taken by the British Empire in 1842 by destroying China in the First Opium War. When the British finally gave it b…

Yeah, time to get Julian Assange and Snowden back to America (gitmo)! The land of the free (for non-natives)!

Tell that to the millions who choose to be born in the slums. Then there is also the fact that we are not equally the same upon birth. Everyone has different traits. I suspect that…

Ask again when you have kids and discovered that there is soooo much more to life than being a cog 99% of your life.

Science is hard. Superstition is fast and might save your job, at least for awhile.

Coupling is not bad in itself. Depends on what you want to achieve. There's likely always a trade-off.

There's this course in pluralsight that talks about two orgs that promote scrum. The other one seems to be giving out the wrong ideas. I think it's this one (copied from wikipedia)…

Nah, it was probably the 'meetup god' that caused it.

DemocracyNow[1] is a good one. 100% free. Noam Chomsky is a regular guest here. [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow I wonder how they make money. Checked wikipedia: Democ…

Maybe Brave and BAT. I believe they already have the system up and running but not fully.

Add to that, the Fortune 500 list - for the first time ever, it is not dominated anymore by US Companies. At least that is what I've heard from RT news.

Ultimate stake is that the employees are also the owners themselves.

One advice I've read/heard is to make sure to give everyone a chance to give his/her input and address any concerns. It should be done individually so everyone has space. Should a …

Might be a good idea to find a place with lots of PhD folks. I think I know what you mean since I prefer to talk to friends who are genuinely interested in programming and not just…

Good advice. This is what should be said in place of "effective communication".

Can you view Microservices in the same light as multiple companies? Just like when your monolith calls on a third party API that does the payment for you - ain't that also a micros…

In country, that background is acting, singing and dancing (and punching).

It's cool to see a congressman who has this level of software dev knowledge.