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I understand his desire to leave tech (my name is "techxit"). Most people want out by the time they're 30. They realize that the job isn't about advancing the state of computer sci…

Agile is terrorism for people who aren't technical enough to make bombs.

Donald Trump's campaign and the Silicon Valley scene are basically the same thing: High Frequency Experimental Assholery. You try things (in politics, nasty nicknames; in business,…

I've noticed this change as well. My fear is that the toxic startup culture (open-plan offices, Agile) will spread into Corporate America proper and make those jobs just as bad as …

What further evidence that she's an establishment hack could have convinced you? I'm in my 30s, which means that I'm 97 in tech years. So I remember the 1990s. People were horrible…

In the 1990s, Hillary Clinton got the shit kicked out of her by that same corrupt establishment for (a) trying to fix healthcare, and (b) being a woman and having an IQ over 140. (…

The problem is that we allowed this election to be cast as a clash between Corporate America's superego and its id. The fact that Hillary Clinton came from a middle-class Midwester…

Peter Thiel is a neocon nightmare who thinks the 19th Amendment was a mistake. Can we have a black bar for America, please?

I'm very liberal and have a lot of admiration for Obama and Clinton, despite their flaws. I don't hate Donald Trump or Donald Trump voters. I feel sad for them and for the fact tha…

This is great (although it's not enough) and more cities should do it. It's an effective use of public policy and a powerful statement and I'm thrilled to see it. This is the good …

I'm staying. Unless being in the US becomes presently dangerous to me or my family, I'm here. This is my country and I'm going to fight for it and I'm going to fight especially for…

If you live in California or NY, considered the tech hubs of U.S., there's not much worry. Those states are so liberal, a conservative House+Senate+Prez isn't going to make a diffe…