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Where is the Chinese open-source community Did you not read Vonnegut's Slapstick (1976). They're everywhere! The bulk of it is on gitee.com since China skews towards a NIH bent dat…

No one is questioning the love, the sina qua non for disappointment.

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that I will never be disappointed in them They may not be gifted but they can see through this lie.

Elementary school teachers would read to their classes in the 80s. They always picked books like that Shel Silvertein shit whose message appealed more to adults than children. I re…

Applied math.

No one cares.

special word to distinguish those who drop out to work We say those students are "on leave." Gates and Zuckerberg often commend Harvard for its flexible leave policy. Given Harvard…

You managed to burn another 212 words that added nothing to the statistic you were replying to.

It would be nice to go back in time but still remember the fun I had smoking a bowl when I should have been working.

Try picking up the pieces after a massive hurricane when money can't buy a sudden scarcity of manual skill. Max Brooks captures this in World War Z when white collar workers become…

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I'll bring da lube.

We in the software sales biz call them "champions." Ultimately everyone just wants to go home at 5, and a new system jeopardizes that. So the only way to make headway is to get a d…

Find a stepped over middle manager of a Fortune 500 company and tie his fortunes to your own.

“If we had been able to just talk,” she [plaintiff] said, “we wouldn’t be here today.” Disingenuous statement of the year.

Long story short, I'm sort of a 'useless inventor' And yet you still managed to eke 226 words out of it.

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Law enforcement.

True, the wrong spouse takes more years off your life than living under the Heathrow flight path. But my point was spend time with your kids if you want. Kids are awesome. But if y…

Give the front-end guys write permission to the backend, and tell them salaries will adjust next year depending on who fixes what.

All of recorded history suggests nature dominates nurture in positive outcomes. The better advice would be, your spousal choice deserves more time and thought than most people give…