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Huh, that's an interesting way to feel! I wish I remember what AIM felt like better; I was so young when I used it that any chance I had to IM people was exciting. I was probably a…

Somebody got aggressive after being detained for hours on end and having their flight cancelled, at expense? Holy shit! Pack your bags, men: we found ourselves a terrorist.

We need better design in the world in general. I'd hate to think only one company gets to be the designer-of-good-and-popular-things at a time.

And putting politics "in front of his art" will probably convince some of the, you know, thousands of people who read his blog posts on Hacker News and elsewhere, that maybe his bo…

The government is not a monolithic entity. The evils of intrusive surveillance doesn't make, say, social programs, or economic regulation, evil just because they're other large gov…

Marco's not attempting to communicate clearly in the sense of "push data down foobarbazqux's infohole." He's trying to communicate clearly in the sense of "grab foobar's attention,…

If you think that treating genders equally has nothing to do with accepting variations in social norms, then you're missing pretty much the whole purpose of the "treat women equall…

> It's not a huge sacrifice to voluntarily use the best product in a category. The number of Apple employees who want to use a non-iphone device is probably less than two percent. …

This is silly logic. If you were really treating women equally to men, you wouldn't follow a "what's good for one is good for the other" policy. You'd accept that the norms and beh…

Some people are just huggers. As a fan of hugs I approve of people who get down to hugging quickly, though I understand why non-huggers would be squicked out by that. If that wigs …

What Twitter is awful at – awful – is ensuring you see content from people who don't update frequently. RSS is valuable not for following content gluttons like Hacker News, but for…

Of course you can. Don't be daft. There are plenty of advantages to relative sizing, and in general it's a good policy, but there are many excellently-designed web sites whose size…

That was my bad. I accidentally doubleposted a comment, and deleted one of the clones.

Well said. I'm in that uncomfortable place right now where doing what I love doing makes me no money, and is months (at least) from making me money, and it is hard to get myself in…

You're reading too much into his retirement. He gives a perfectly good explanation why he quit within the speech: Drawing comic strips for five years without pay drove home the poi…

Ultimately, Steve Jobs had an insight into what computers could be, how technology could work, that was not only powerful but that Apple worked to execute throughout the entire sta…

You assert that text books are no different from novels? That's absurd. (If your assertion is that text books are, in fact, art, then I agree with you. But they're a very different…

Where was the IF game within _why's spool?

Sure. You're not wrong. I'm not a programmer. I'm barely even a member of this community. You're far more involved in this world than I am; you know names and see projects that nev…

It would. I wasn't expecting this thread to turn as heated as it abruptly became, or I'd have thought my words out more carefully. Forgive my sloppiness?

Let me add to my other comment: I apologize if what I said came out dismissive of the many, many great programmers that do good work and help form the community. I was trying to pr…

Got that out of your system, buddy? "Our modern software community", referring to the current generation of the software community, obviously doesn't refer to the whole generation …

What would be the point of creating something and then faking its age? Is it a test, for us to ignore empirical evidence and determine that God made it anyway? Or are you suggestin…