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Brilliant article. This quote is going to be posted somewhere I can see it, daily. "You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. And by listening to specific criticism from pe…

So you really can't spell. It really is a shame. I've always felt that people who program that can't spell are in this career to hide their lack of IQ.

WHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! You guys are badasses with the mouse.

When I was no longer a FUCKING TWAT. LOL.

OMG you guys are idiots. I used the word "twat". Go ahead, take away the rest of my karma. My e-penis is going to shrink! OMG!!!! I'm a girl by the way. LOL. Again you guys are nan…

I see I'm being modded down by programmers who also can't spell.

I hate rants with misspellings. One I found was "breaktaking". I'm sure he meant "breathtaking". Get an editor, you twat.

I was asking a sincere question. Why was THAT modded down?

I recall Affirmative Action being challenged (Univ of Michigan?) successfully. Not sure how, qualitatively, race-based admissions is different from letting rich people jump ahead o…

Modded down because I'm an atheist, or because I imply that religion is dogma? Just curious.

But then most atheists also succumb to comforting lies, and make excuses for death even less defensible than the outright lies of religion. They flinch away, refuse to confront the…

So IM is better? 3000 messages in my inbox that I can attend to when I'm ready vs. IM - where I'm dealing with everybody simultaneously and live? That's worse than the telephone, I…

I can't stand Card's political views. He hates gays and has expressed violent attitudes toward gays. Who knows, maybe his writing is a form of repressed homosexual relief for him. …

The vast amount of data and the prediction task remind me a lot of stock market prediction attempts. I enjoyed Pi, by the way.

1. I'm saying your timing is suspicious. 2. My own anecdotal experience tells me successful people want to believe they earned their success through brains and hard work 3. Gladwel…

It kills me how the Gladwell book brought this out of Joel. Nobody wants to be told their success is a good part luck and timing. They all want to believe it is because they are sm…

How does anyone with dev background bear a job for any length of time where all you are doing is editing HTML and ftp'ing it?

I dunno. I re-read the article after I read your comment, and I came to a different conclusion: It is very possible we are in one of those gaps in time where if you have put in you…

I really hate over-simplified platitudes. They only comfort the stupid or short-sighted. Kind of like reading a sound-bite on trickle-down economics and applying it to your life.

Or the "prove your mom wrong" trait. That seemed to be his motivation, heh-heh.

My father showed me how much faster hot water freezes in an experiment we did when I was a kid. How many of us owe our fathers for what seems to be innate curiosity now that we are…

If, as in the case of extsmail, one wants to be robust against errors, one has to handle all possible error paths oneself. That's not really a bad thing, as the author points out. …

"exposing your weaknesses" Yeah. They bring out the ASS in some parents.

Spoken like someone who is genetically thinner (or one of the few fat people who can just skip a meal and lose weight) than most and never really has to deal with weight issues. A …

I...believe you’re either pro life or pro death. Bleh. Black and white thinking. Bleh.