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"Mimsy Were the Borogroves," by Lewis Padgett, is short and excellent.

"The Road Not Taken," by Harry Turtledove https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_st...

not grandparent, but this topic is oft-discussed (but with no clear resolution!) on r/realtimestrategy imo, the biggest obstacle is the combination of a) RTS not being well-underst…

It's not overinvesting if you couldn't have married a doctor otherwise.

This makes me want to stay far, far away from FAANG. What is Facebook's moral responsibility here? Hell if I know. It's just too big . Too much verbal ability, not enough cohesion.…

The reason those don't command respect is because they don't pay well in the main.

Wow, this is totally cool, thank you!

Depends what you're into. I basically only use Clojure and can't remember the last time I had to know anything about Java. Admittedly I mostly use Clojure script ... But seriously,…

>And because "concise" should be measure in the number of tokens needed to achieve certain functionality, not by excessive use of single character tokens. I am totally nitpicking h…

Erik Dietrich had a section on this in "Developer Hegemony." He immediately followed it with, "You won't have a soul at the end of this," and then another section on alternatives.

Yes, apparently not.

The analogy doesn't apply. If you want to judge software by metrics, judge the code , not developers. The code does the same thing, over and over. Auto workers did/do the same thin…

Four jobs.

Er...what was there in the law?

I mean, forgive me for being obtuse, but...why do we even pay taxes at all? Like, I understand the "prole logic" of a balance between income and expenditures, but if the government…

It's not just saving keystrokes. It eliminates a whole class of errors. I recently did ~4-500 lines of Clojure in CodeMirror and wanted to kill myself by the end of it.