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Apologies for my lack of originality.

It's difficult to get someone to understand something when it's in their interest not to.

Thanks for posting. Looks like hysteria to me, but I'm glad to know what happened.

Indeed, SQL is a declarative language. It'd be quite shocking if short circuiting were happening.

Generally I agree and aspire to this. I do wonder, though, how I would keep track of the list of phrases I'm no longer allowed to say without being fired, shunned, or worse.

At least lately, it's become pretty obvious that WaPo and NYT are feeding us crap on a regular basis. If you go look at the source materials, you'll realize that their "neutral" su…

+1 for "exercide"

Personally, I cannot be productive in a noisy environment (sans headphones), and I most definitely cannot be productive pair programming. (Or, good god, mob programming.) Yes, I've…

Glanced at that link, and not spotting any reason to regard this person as "trash" (if indeed there ever is one). What are they saying here that is objectionable, and what is your …

You can peel my zero-based arrays from my cold, dead hands.

Try getting rejected at the final executive approval (i.e., their magic eight-ball) after passing the in-person day and the hiring committee. Once you've seen the inside of the hir…

My point was that this looks quite the same from the other side of the aisle. More damningly, that article has nothing useful to add beyond ad hominems. Instead, try this: https://…

tldr: The half of the country that voted for the current President are all awful, stupid people, and they spend their time reading awful, stupid websites.

What happened to NIPS? Last I heard they had decided against a name change, since that was the sentiment of the survey, and even women seemed indifferent. https://nips.cc/Conferenc…

Yeah, lost my account this way, even though it would have been blindingly obvious who I was. Even had a Googler buddy go to bat. No dice. If it absolutely, positively has to work, …

This sounds good--who could object to silencing white supremacists? But recent history suggests that this will morph in very short order into simply suppressing unpopular ideas, sc…

Ideas: Get some good headphones and listen to trance/edm/whatever music to get yourself in the zone. Get distractions like phones away from your desk and use a web blocker to zap c…

Something tells me Linux guys/gals will still be the ones getting calls when the Kubernetes instance explodes.

Garbage. Here, have this: https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/

> accused of physically touching a clothed area of the woman's arm without being granted consent Is this really an offense worth ending someone's career over? (And is it any surpri…

Avoiding unnecessary risk is not cowardice. In fact, most of us are paid, in part, for doing just that.

> Why can't these men just learn to treat women like the humans they are? This sort of willful misunderstanding of concerns feels like a subtle gaslighting campaign. The vast major…

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