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This is why documentation and unit-testing are important. It's not the exciting part, but if they're not done well, you have no hope of being able to hand the refinement/bug-chasin…

This is not true if you have good writing skills, but most people (smart and otherwise) don't.

98% chance of failure? My understanding is that the 5-year failure rate of new businesses is about 40-50%. Given that an average 2x-year-old has a much lower chance of being succes…

Those who want talent to trade highly against property are those who believe the best and most capable should be making the big decisions. They have the interest of humanity-at-lar…

Memo: Evolution is an explanation of fact and contains no moral (or religious, for that matter) position. Accepting evolution as an explanation of what happened does not require th…

If your freelance experience will set you up to get a good job, then you're not in a bad place. Most jobs available early on (e.g. out of college) suck; some jobs available later o…

People with wealth and connections are the bad guys, while the struggling guy at the bottom is the good guy. It's not that simple. There are people who have both wealth/connections…

Invitation-only events don't belong in the technological scene. There is an all-out, bitter war going on between property (connections, inherited wealth, resources) and energy (tal…

For this sort of comparison, mostly-functional multi-paradigm languages like SBCL and Ocaml should be run through the benchmarks twice; once with imperative code, once in the funct…

I read that essay, and I think the reason for their existence is simpler: they make face-on mating more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing, which facilitates pair bonding. One …

No. I had a friend whose high school life was literally ruined by cheating. He was a "pathological cheater": smart, and in the top 5 of the class by his own steam, but had a tenden…