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What an asshole. I don't have a huge objection to discontinuing unprofitable products, but bad-mouthing the previous management because they had a different philosophy of R&D is be…

Fsck that.

Cool. Money is an AI algorithm for allocating resources, and an extremely buggy one-- some people have very little, and others have a lot, for literally no good reason-- due in par…

Or: as those languages and their communities mature, people find themselves using Google (a last resort) to find things out, because it's easier for them to use the documentation a…

I don't mean to be hating on the people. I hate the culture of casual sex. The culture is disgusting. The people are mostly not disgusting, just misguided. I don't mean to imply th…

I like to believe that sex is an expression of romantic love and not just a commodity to be exchanged for social status.

And some people wouldn't date a woman who isn't Catholic/Jewish/Hindu/whatever. You're within your rights to choose whom you date, but it doesn't really reflect anything about the …

Arranged marriage and misogyny vs. meaningless casual sex. False dichotomy much?

Right, I know. I wouldn't date a woman who entered into a non-monogamous sexual relationship.

Literal: I would never date someone who was someone else's "fuck buddy". Interpretation: So you would never date someone that slept with someone else? Am I missing a few steps here…

* Lots of short-term, usually unbalanced, relationships between poorly-matched people.

I would never date someone who was someone else's "fuck buddy". It's just a gross and depressing concept.

Because suburban isolation, widespread tolerance of social alcohol dependence, a crass consumer culture, and widening wealth inequalities (leading to social class anxiety) have bre…

Two words: real estate. Silicon Valley became disgustingly expensive after building substantial momentum in technology, gaining enough strength that entrepreneurs would live there …

New York apartment brokers are a frivolous class of overpaid, lazy parasites who collect 12-17 percent of a year's rent for doing virtually nothing. They also handle the nasty work…

If you fire someone who can't understand basic programming concepts, the mistake you made was hiring that person.

In a way, it's an admission of impotence. When you fire someone, you're saying that you don't have the resources or power to turn that person into a success at your company. The "r…

I think you need both. You need to detect, and rectify, problems as soon as they occur. It's much better to catch potentially badly-fit employees (which doesn't mean they're necess…

It depends on the circumstance. In a small startup, it's going to be a given that a certain fraction of the people you bring on are inappropriate for the company, and that you can'…

I have a friend whose test is to sort a linked list using any sorting algorithm (it can be bubble sort) and any language (excluding trivial calls to library functions). It's fairly…

Or the incentive structure, if a lifestyle on the dole is too good for too many people, might be disastrous in the long term. Within about 50 years, due to technological advancemen…

What if they reverse a linked list using a language like ML or Haskell where pointers aren't required?

What's missed here is that being fired, for a lot of people, has real consequences. I don't think I'd take a job where I thought there was a 1/3 chance I'd be fired in the next 6 m…