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I'm gonna quote this part: > and he sees the same game being played that has been played by the Left for centuries to gain control of institutions and then completely subvert them …

> I'm not in favour of this. But when the group I didn't mention becomes a minority, I wonder whether anyone will have the same considerations for them as they've had for everyone …

You know, this really sucks for me personally. Not the ban, but the sorts of things Eric appears to stand for. I read The Cathedral and the Bazaar when I was 13, and it was probabl…

> Maybe, but there's only one group you're allowed to attack in every modern newspaper, and are not allowed to acknowledge positively in any political campaign. You should seriousl…

Repeating a point without adding proof doesn't make your point more valid. When people say "code wins arguments", they're referring to using source code to prove something , not "i…

Yes - I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most people who appreciate fine arts feel this way. Tech is more of a, “why is a painting of a triangle worth so much!?” crowd (see: …

You may have accidentally reinvented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban :)

> 90% of the time, the gains from streaming aren't worth the added effort. I gotta disagree with that estimate. Virtually any time I have a backend service operating on (mostly) ar…

Apple Music, and particularly iTunes Match, are the opposite of "just works". I wanted to switch back from Spotify, but I found that Match had made a complete mess of my library. H…

I don’t follow - are you asserting that, by contrast, the greatest programmers in the world can write bug-free single-threaded code?

> I'm in a software leadership role. > Tomorrow, I hope someone asks me for an update on my progress ; ) Suggestion to take or leave - instead of being asked, volunteer your status…

Ah, so you’d also agree homosexuality is a mental illness that “political groups” lobbied to change? Because, from the perspective of someone who isn’t a conspiracy theorist or big…

Ah, the what.cd strategy. Minus the exclusive content.

It's funny to think that, of all the products Google kills on the regular, the one thing most everyone wants them to be done with (AMP) is probably gonna stick around forever.

Does the content on wikihow not deliver on what it promises to do? And if so, have you considered editing it - given that it’s a wiki? Of the things destroying the internet (Google…

> I suspect IEEE and ACM have much more complicated infrastructure to handle submission, peer review, production, etc., To the tune of a hundred million dollars? I can’t even remot…

Just a point of clarification that I found helpful - the patches offered to correct soundness problems, in this case, didn’t significantly impact performance. Your hypothetical sti…

I find PayByPhone pretty convenient, especially now that it's got a few years of polish on the app. The key thing is that the signs are legible, and have the number you care about …

> What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? "The gay guy who wouldn't go into the room we labelled as 'for homos' is such a b…