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Wow, very powerful stuff. This article rapidly expands from indictment Noam Chomsky as linguist to indictment of modern academia. As a parent about to pay large sums to one of thes…

Engineers, of which I am one, tend to see the world in pure dialectics, so they often have very difficult time understanding why accomplishment is not purely evaluated by some rati…

I've recently been learning all this the hard way. 1. Documented API. Failing that... 2. HTTP client fetching structured data (XHR calls). Failing that... 3. HTTP client fetching a…

What caught my attention was the use of "analytic tools" as a euphemism for "surveillance tools." One could dismiss it as corporate-speak or techie-speak, but it rings in my head m…

I agree with almost all of what you said. I'm a coder, agilist, craftsman, blah, blah who has worked on a startup more than once. On the last one I wrote almost no unit tests. The …