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The Nexus Trilogy, by Ramez Naam. Rereading it at the moment, my favourite modern sci-fi series by far.

There's a subreddit with the same name that calls out these kind of techniques if you're hungry for more examples. https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/

Easy onboarding, thanks! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xzion

I just can't agree with the recommendation to read the comments before articles you find online. Critical thinking is such an important skill for everyone, not just engineers, and …

Looking forward to a followup talk of him gloating now this bug has been reported

I don't understand how your suggestion enforces non-transferability. If the scalper pay $100 for a ticket and the ticket holder receives a $50 rebate at the event, the scalper just…

I understand that this is an economics problem; the ($5b?) market exists because there is significantly more demand than supply and ticket prices are not adjusted to accommodate th…

Any tips/examples on trying to sell a product that provides ethical/moral benefits but very little/nothing financially? Some friends and I were throwing around ideas on how to elim…

Is the post title referring to "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, or something else?

Awesome, had been planning to make something like this myself to keep track of all the gigs I get to. Nice simple UI, does exactly what I want it to. Keep it up! Edit: Ok, two mino…

I work at a medical device consultancy, but we're mostly developing custom Class B/C devices at the bare metal level. It sounds like you'll be developing a Class A device and cost …

I'm an C++ embedded firmware developer day to day, also competent with Python/Javascript. I've been working on a nodejs website for the past year or so, so I've got a feel for desi…

I was really hope they refresh the R-Pi compute module at a pricepoint like this.

Mouse doesn't seem to work correctly on win64, left click just selects the window and right click gives standard minimize/maximize/close options. Also there's two scroll bars on th…

this was infuriating