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It probably doesn't help when you insult the entire .Net community and imply that anyone unwilling to work ridiculous hours is lazy.

One of the things that a 'dynamic' type system (or as the author would see it, a restriction to a single type) imposes on its creators is the need to make that single type as usefu…

I got 21. I have a feeling that if I took this test a bunch of times (with different faces) that I'd probably get better at it.

At the beginning of April, I picked up a book called "The New Rules of Lifting". I like it, because it explains how to do a variety of exercises of six kinds: squat, deadlift, lung…

Step 2: Don't follow random advice that doesn't take into account the particulars of your situation.

I wonder if this would change the popular morality of suicide? What if you're 800 years old, and you truly feel that you've had enough? Should you be forced to keep on going, poten…

Problem: board members want to pretend the problem doesn't exist. Solution: install token software and pretend that the problem is solved.

An invention market for software is complete BS. All the effort involved in producing a software patent can be summarized as a small amount for the idea, and most for wordsmithing.…

It would mean that if you port windows to a large endian machine, then you can't share registry files (ie. as in roaming profiles). It's not as much about the file format as it is …

It isn't really the same. Anyone that needs access to something in /etc can get what they're looking for without having the first pierce a difficult binary format. Deciphering what…

You could create a library to read the setting, and everyone could just use the library. I like the Unix way better myself, as it's more about building up functionality through com…

'Fair' is tied to a moral context, as in "morally pure, unblemished" (from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair ). So an argument about what's 'fair' is an argument about …

In a more general sense, increased productivity means more value is created per unit cost. This could mean the same value with less jobs; it could also mean the same amount of jobs…

Furthermore, I do it myself to prevent complications down the road. I've found that it's all to easy for one piece of misinformation slipped into a conversation to snowball into so…

While reading this article, I felt there was as strong connection to this one (recently posted on hacker news): http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?... ...w…

You can hope that they encrypt your password; but never trust that they do. Use your own password database.

Are you saying Turing didn't invent the hourglass notation? j/k

It seems to me that a central part of this argument is having "...suddenly had to allocate a bunch of resources to customer support and bug fixes...". Building the smallest possibl…

Doh! It would have made more sense if I had some other piece of information to inject in, like if you had a database reference that needed to be passed in to the Delete() method. T…

You could try an example showing what a closure does 'under the hood' by showing an equivalent non-closure example, like: With Closure: foreach (var obj in objects) { AddButton("De…

Agreed. But the amount of value you get out of the product vs network is subjective to the user and to the product. It depends on how independent you are as a product user, and how…

The network affect of a bug tracker is that having a larger user-base means: (a) more people have run into the same problems as you, and have either posted their own solutions or p…

Ruby does have libraries for dealing with real numbers with an arbitrary precision.