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Long before modern porn, there were laws that a man could not be charged with raping his wife. Society largely looked the other way when a man beat his wife. There was a time when underage women could be trafficked by their parents into mar
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> I didn't even mention that it's free or that there are no ads, because that's pretty much the least important attribute to me. In 2001, Joel Spolsky wrote: Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Naps
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The fictitious Voight-Kampff test is based on a real machine based on terrible pseudo-science that was used in the 1960s to allegedly detect homosexuals working in Canadian public service so they could be purged. The line from the movie whe
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It's not a dichotomy between "unfair" and "absolutely fair." Things can be more or less fair, and it makes sense to discuss making things "more fair" or "less unfair" even if in doing so, we cann
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A joke from the same family involves a pilot who gets lost in IMC conditions, and his radio is dead. Suddenly, looming out of the gloom is an office building with an open window. An employee spots the plane going by and waves. The pilot cir
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Has this consequence happened with self-driving automobiles on open roads in the US of A when people died in crashes? If not, why not?
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> I think the American dream is over. “The reason they call it The American Dream is that you have to be asleep to believe it.” —George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Louis CK deserves credit for calling this out in a brilliant bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl-1jc1oDRk (Yes, this video is framed and has Italian subtitles, but all the others I found do weird things with panning and
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There can be no peace until they renounce their Rabbit God and accept our Duck God! https://norberthaupt.com/2015/11/22/the-rabbit-god-and-the-d...
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Vocational Awe and the Lies We Tell Ourselves (2018): https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24602956 This has always appl
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A long time ago, in a dystopic project far, far, away: Depressed and quite pessimistic about the team’s ability to orchestrate Java development in parallel with the rapid changes to the workbook, he came up with the solution: a series of X
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> This is the same people that think that "learning to code" is a translation issue they don't have time for as opposed to experience they don't have. This is very, very germane and a very quotable line. And these peo
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For those fascinated with Mondrian and/or De Stijl, I strongly recommend the book “Inside out Victory Boogie Woogie: A Material History of Mondrian's Masterpiece,” which is mentioned in TFA. As a lifelong fan, I found the detailed
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To adapt the words of composer Frank Wilhoit: " Crony capitalism consists of but one principle: In-corporations who are protected by regulation, but not bound by it, alongside out-corporations who are bound by regulation, but not prote
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That is a false dichotomy.
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They had Sir Humphrey Appleby run a poll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks
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> everyone should want Leaving everything else you've written aside... Really‽ You believe that it's possible to make a single kind of car with minimal variation in styles and capabilities that will appeal to the entire world,
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p.s. I said it wasn't easy, do I have any suggestions for selling to Enterprises where there may not be trust between the users of your product and their leadership? Yes I do, here's one that is very well-suited to startups who wa
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Before I went into development full-time, I was in Enterprise Sales. There were times I sold a product that the users (Dev Team in the author's case) wanted desperately, but leadership (VPs of Product, CPOs, PMs in the author's ca
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You the customer are only a minor part of the grift. In fact, you're an unwitting prop for the grift. The entire point of the grift is the stock price, not your $8,000 or monthly subscription. What they want from you are comments like
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I have been in this industry since the mid 80s. I can't tell you how many people worry that I can't handle change because as a veteran, I must cling to what was. Meanwhile, of course, the reason I am still in the industry is becau
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Yes, this will be familiar to people creating objects or classes that are intended to represent iterable collections. You do the same dynamic key syntax with a class declaration or object literal, but use `Symbol.iterator` as the well-known
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As long as we're talking about concatenative languages, here's Joy: https://hypercubed.github.io/joy/joy.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
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True! Of course, Shrink-wrap 2020-2025 is not exactly the same as Shrink-wrap 1995-2000. You mentioned digital distribution. Speaking from my lived experience... We shipped software on golden masters that were used to manufacture DVDs at sc
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Oh, I do believe we're in general agreement!
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Blogs and news sites are both in the "content publishing" space, so yes their requirements will overlap. There's likely a complexity continuum from: 1. Something like a one-person blog published by committing Markdown to a Gi
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Many years ago—2002!—Joel Spolsky wrote this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/05/06/five-worlds/ His thesis was that before arguing about software development tools, practices, anything really, it&#x
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I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth(ratfactor.com)
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I am also unsure whether recursion is fundamentally linguistic, but I thought that “language remains the easiest demonstration of recursion in our daily lives” to be useful. If I ever write another essay about recursion, I'll now consi
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Short reply: I agree, it only goes half-way. Elaboration: I like the "horseless carriage" metaphor for the transitionary or hybrid periods between the extinction of one way of doing things and the full embrace of the new way of do

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