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And yet... why no American names in the leaks? Funny that.

I'm sure this is an argument that can be applied for/against patent examiners, I'm just not sure how.

There's a fairly good analogy between SF and music. 70s music (and SF) was fat and bloated and slow. High concept stuff about galactic empires and gatefold sleeves and Serious Issu…

Radical transparency, David Brin style. Our runaway technology has made the panopticon inevitable. The best we can manage is to make sure we watch them as much as they watch us. Th…

Code Contracts for .NET, maybe?

Not exactly "no value", but risk-aversion is a valuable trait. Balance the small additional value the new shiny brings against the potential fail if it doesn't live up to its promi…

I take your point, and I do that with new hires myself. I'm compressing things for comic effect, but I promise you the core of the story is true - I got suckered in by wonderful pr…

This sentence sounds like an Evil Fortune Cookie.

Interviewer: We need someone with [describes soft skill set for my dream job] Me: Great career opportunity, I'd certainly be willing to move across country for this Interviewer, da…

> Engineers should stick to their oath Um... what oath?

Because they've got 5000 GitHub stickers left over from a conference and don't know what to do with them? Personally I love it.

Seems that would be better built as a stand-alone spider than a bolt-in to a single blogging platform.

I had no idea DHCP could even do that. What do Android devices do on unmetered cellular connections? How do they know if the connection is metered or not?

Can't argue with that. Although I do think architecture is where patterns start to be useful - again, relying on pre-existing solutions rather than creating your own.

I think there are two ways to view what the job most programmers do is. IMO it isn't to write code, it's to solve business problems. Code just happens to be the tool that you use t…

> ARM were hardly the first people to bring a RISC CPU to market: MIPS, SPARC, and POWER are RISC architectures which pre-dated ARM. Minor point: ARM-1-based devices were kinda, so…

The "... in Popular Culture" section is large enough to have been spun off into it's own article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper_in_popular_cultur...

Peter Sommer's nom de plume was Hugo Cornwall - a name Brits who got their start in the 80s will recognise. I'm not sure where the hilarity is?

Gotta say, people who consider that the "organizational problems of society" can be solved have been responsible for a lot of misery over the centuries.