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Racist, at least by typically objectivist measures

Is anyone surprised that the 25 year war on corporate paternalism and 2 way loyalty in favor of a quite openly stated reductionist policy of "extract maximum value from employees f…

There is a little bit of misunderstanding sometimes when people discuss "inflation". To some, if not most people, inflation means increasing prices. To others, it means increase in…

I agree with the SCOTUS sentiment, but in other related areas, strict adherence to the law with the underlying intent to remain legal but avoid the spirit of the law has been crack…

I was a submarine officer back during the end of the Cold War, doing special operations and what not. Now that was a super stressful job & the hours were lots longer, major sleep d…

I think the early, mid 90's were a lot more interesting time to be a programmer than now, just before the Internet explosion. Back then, a bigger percentage of the focus was on usi…

The thing that I dislike the most about the technology business is people who want to use developers as crash test dummies for their random ideas and think that "good ideas" are th…

I spend 1/2 time in Japan because my wife is Japanese. Our 8 year old is bilingual, my wife is fluent in english but learned as an adult, and my japanese is rudimentary. Some of th…

The optimistic viewpoint going into the unknown, i.e, the confidence that the answer is out there somewhere and you will find it, is one of the, if not the, most important success …

Sorry, I think I poorly worded my comment. The point I was trying to make was that (imo) the better devs have an extremely deterministic viewpoint towards their code and are always…

Top 10% - gets the coding job done, timely, high quality code. Knows his craft well, but is still essentially a craftsman. Top 1% - Designs systems that will get the job done for t…

My grandfather always used to tell me, "You can be rich in two ways - the amount of your possessions or the fewness of your wants". This article alludes to that point at the end.

In the U.S., this legal electric company monopolies were more or less granted w/the proviso of providing universal access, sort of the same goal. The past 20 years, the electric co…

I've worked at places that "only hired the best" and such. I think this kind of mantra coming from employers is as much self promotion as it is a statement of policy. As in, our st…

I live in Japan 1/2 time. Apparently, when a driver here hits a pedestrian or cyclist, he's got a lot of explaining to do. As a result, the drivers are so attentive that it is not …

Years ago, I worked briefly for The Southern Company, which is the largest publicly held electric utility in the U.S (Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and a bunch of other ones). Whil…

Identity verification and such are only part of the problem. Even if it is a bona fide person writing the review (and ignoring the problems w/Yelp filtering practices), a truly val…

There are at least two startup opportunities for something like this. One is the creation of the credential/verified identity certification and the second is the transmission/excha…