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Okay, so, maybe he's a nut or a troll, but nothing really about gaming?

I'm not so sure. The problem when the only "wall between genders" that's "erected" is consent, you often find out too late that it's not strong enough of a wall. It seems like at A…

Right, but the women at Atari weren't disenfranchised. Even in the 1970s, their alternatives to working at Atari were numerous. The secretary there who was "stacked" wasn't facing …

I've never heard of Notch having strong biases regarding social issues and the game industry. I quickly googled but all I could find were references to some tweets he deleted about…

I'm guessing that Filipinos aren't obviously "white" or "black", and thus get to dodge all of the baggage that Americans have about the topic of race. Just another guess: "Filipino…

See, "we're not Google" should actually mean that you care about performance more. Google can throw millions of dollars worth of infrastructure into making an app go marginally fas…

Just a guess: You were alive when progress marched on before your eyes. Animations are "new" to you, and like many people you have some sort of implicit association somewhere in th…

> TBH most of the cons stated in this article are just because of bad programming, not because it's a SPA The worst programming is the result of choosing the wrong tools for the jo…

That's a good starting point. I'd drill down even further and ask "what does the user do with the application?" If the user needs to look at multiple screens at a time (e.g. like a…

The problem with SPAs in the sort of cases that the author is talking about is that people don't think clearly about what requirements they are satisfying when writing a new one. I…

People always say things like this about despotic regimes while they're in power. Yet, every time they fall, we almost invariably learn that things were actually much worse.

Well, sure. I get that sort of argument for something like tax policy. But is this actually an experiment that should be run at the state level? I mean, having 50 different net neu…

Serious question: Is having state-level net neutrality laws actually good policy?

The current administration says they want less immigration occurring, but also seems confusingly willing to cut deals that completely flying in the face of the President's public s…

This plan would fail, because someone sophisticated enough to find the naming and shaming list of awfulness would probably already be sophisticated enough to realize that old, bad …

I think you and other commentors are being generous in assuming there was a spec to review and that the work was done by a contractor. I've seen lots of organizations try to save a…

I didn't say there was a lack of debate, and never mentioned Twitter. I said, if they didn't respond in court, they would lose in court.

Well, the law is that it's illegal to not hire someone based on their race. The lawsuit contains screenshots of people saying they don't want to hire people who are white. So, if t…

Well, I have two thoughts about that. 1. Is Damore against "anti-discrimination provisions in law"? I haven't seen anything to suggest he is. He is against specific anti-discrimina…

Because many companies try to weaken the boundaries between "work" and "not-work", so that their employees will spend more time at work.

I was giving GP the benefit of the doubt in assuming they were referring to some other incidents outside the lawsuit that showed Damore is a fraud or his lawyer is unethical. I mea…

Most significantly, it is partially protected in California.

Could you please cite sources that prove that Mr. Damore is a fraud and that his lawyer has done unethical things? This is the first I've ever heard of either claim.

The lawsuit contains screenshots and other evidence that serves as an effective prima facie case for workplace discrimination. It's not really correct to say it's "speculation", wh…

> Please state the fact: programmers are not trained, nor have the time to go far enough asking the questions. Speak for yourself, bub. I ask questions all the time when I write so…