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Articles like this appear pretty much every month. Anything from gay activists to artists to mainstream political parties have been subjected to Facebook's puritan censorship. It's…

I find this argument hilarious, especially in this context. > you can't just flagrantly break the law in other countries simply because yours believes differently Facebook, and man…

> What would the world be like if contract/freelance/part time/short term work were the default? It appears to be what we are moving towards, and so far it ain't looking pretty. Su…

Repeating jokes without attribution has been the cultural norm for centuries. The whole notion of plagiarism and copyright and such are the recent inventions. Thank good nobody car…

Extremely ironic that you post this in response to Google search results, which have become a prime example of choosing what's best for Google over what's best for the user after f…

People who've made bad technological choices and then claiming "technology doesn't matter" just because they fucked up are about as annoying as people who always want to use the la…

Especially in recent years I've encountered a growing number of entrepreneurs who proudly called their companies tech start-ups, but who had no affection for technology whatsoever.…

> we never let one country or group of people dictate what people can share across the world That's even more hypocritical, given that Facebook itself enforces its own prudish valu…

> Remember, TSA's job is to spot outliers, oddities, and flag them for review. I seriously hope that is a carelessly worded interpretation on your part. Because that is one scary c…

The reason why they don't care about whatever you think about the state of journalism is because it allows them to play you directly like a cheap fiddle, without the risk of any pe…

Apple had that feature, at least on my previous Air.

As someone who lives in a place where cycling traffic (i.e., completely silent traffic) is massive (Amsterdam), I would suggest this is just a matter of careless habit in a car dom…

And AWS is the only service that supports both, and any finegrained solution in between, by triggering programmatically actionable alarms. You just have to set it up, and if you ca…

The vast majority of companies are perfectly fine staying at "basement scale" for decades. Fuck, for many types of businesses (including much of the tech industry), that is actuall…

Not necessary, because this person and her views are quite well known: http://firstround.com/article/The-woman-behind-the-Netflix-C... What's basically clear is that the candidates…

The "second-tuesday-of-the-month" policy is a completely arbitrary MS-only policy. If Google (or any other group that discovers security issues) has to take into account every poli…

That just means you haven't properly aligned your developers' interests with your business interest. Limiting developers in which languages and technologies they can use is not goi…

I would say that is mostly because, thanks to RMS and the GPL, we now live mostly in an ecosystem where the threat of a world dominated by closed, proprietary software has been pus…

It's a recurring pattern that Apple has to re-invent the entry level laptops every once in a while because they've become so powerful and versatile the target audience for the "pro…

Job title has in my experience strongly affected my ability to influence entrenched company and engineering cultures. Titles affect how you are perceived by others, including engin…

There's your fallout: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/02/north-american-b...

I have the same "talent". Exploited it for a via a former employer who runs an agency for temporary contract workers, and who regularly ran into such jobs, also because he was in a…

Pointless. They do not care. Even in totalitarian states like the former DDR, most people didn't care. People only start caring when it's too late, when they themselves get affecte…

Although I am the son of an immigrant, am married to an immigrant and am a hiring manager who regularly hires migrant workers, I have no problem understanding anti-immigration sent…

How is it that every time someone makes this argument, they do it in such a superficial, arrogant and ignorant way that makes me not want to work with them, remotely or otherwise? …