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It blew my mind when I truly realized that a couple having two kids does not constitute a net increase in human population. What makes this amazing is wondering where all of these couples having 3-or-more kids are.

Why don't we compromise and just say that everyone involved is an asshole?

I was also strangely annoyed by the typoes ("you'l", "bajilion"...)

Perhaps you can link us to all of the wonderful things you are doing for other people commensurate to everything you do for your own benefit, as you seem to have this "modesty and humility" thing figured out.

> He's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless.

So...?

Well, "If you don't remember why onions are in there, investigate carefully as to why they were added in the first place, then take 'em out if they're no longer relevant" wouldn't fit in the title!

If our highest priority was always "Don't break anything", we would never ship to production after the first move. "Make it better" is often a higher priority.

I am widely regarded by friends & colleagues as an obsessive command-line junkie (often to a fault). I still love and use Dropbox regularly. I think you are incorrect that the problem was solved years ago!

Dropbox takes 5 minutes to install and start using. To start using subversion, you have to learn how to use subversion! God forbid you need a server.

Dropbox's ease of use is so spectacular that it benefits me doubly: I use it when I don't want to think about working copies and committing and svn upping (which is often), and I use it to collaborate with non-programmer friends. "Just install this and accept my shared folder invite" is kosher to any computer- and web-literate person.

Just FYI, I love your articles. I routinely forget who wrote them and where to find them again, then fail to find the link in my bookmarks, so I spend a half hour Googling phrases I vaguely remember being included in the essays ("how to deliver without everything getting fucked up", nope. "how to write code without shit exploding", nope. "how to..."). I think they reside in some kind of cognitive null zone in my brain. So, thanks for linking them again!

I laughed, you bastard.

I wish articles like this would namespace their assertions by telling us what they mean by "good" or "bad", so we could avoid the perennial echo chamber debate that goes like this:

    A: GOOD MEANS SHIPPING AND PLEASING YOUR CUSTOMERS
    B: NO YOU FOOL! GOOD MEANS WRITING CLEAR CODE THAT OTHER HACKERS CAN READ
    C: NO YOU FOOLS! GOOD IS A HAPPY MEDIUM BETWEEN BOTH OF THOSE THINGS
    D: DEBATE IS HARD, LET'S GO SHOPPING!

God forbid we agree on what words mean before we talk about them...

Perfect idea for a business-selling slide. It answers two powerful questions: 1.) What gap are you filling? and 2.) Is there a precedent for success when filling gaps of this type?

I find games like this utterly vapid and without any appeal whatsoever. I wonder if there's a name for the condition in which you are psychologically immune to these games, for whatever reason. I'm thankful I have it.

You're thinking too much. It's an anecdote about kindness and greatness and their inherent compatibility. You can't understand it with your head. You have to feel it with your heart.

Ad hominem doesn't mean "calling them a name or label that isn't true"--it means "implying that their argument is less valid because of their state of mind or perspective".

Just FYI, on this site you reply by hitting the small "reply" link under someone's comment. It's all threaded.

This is well-written, candid and interesting, but I feel like I'm missing out on a lot because I've never played EVE. Can someone who is familiar with the issues (for example, what is "ship spinning"?) give an overview of what led to this?

Yeah, I read it in another comment thread shortly after making this one.

(In the industry, we call this "the art of self-trolling".)

I give you a sincere tip of my nerdhat for pursuit of accuracy even when it's kinda awkward.

I think it's more likely that he would have said, "I've barely begun."

Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus. I literally purchased my first Apple product a couple of months ago with great skepticism; I am a frequent critic of iTunes, and Apple products in general. I always viewed Steve Jobs as someone who I admired for his success and vision, but no more than any other notable figure in the field. But I feel a poignant melancholy at the news... when I saw someone's comment pointing out that the filename for the image on Apple.com was "t_hero.png", I found myself almost moved to tears.

Perhaps you really do never understand the gravity of losing something until you lose it.

Dude, it was CC licensed.

Just because he took down his copy doesn't mean he wanted it to disappear completely. Where did he explicitly state that? Nowhere! You're making a big leap there.

Is """'"Talking about being down-voted before you voice an unpopular opinion" posts have jumped the shark' is dead!""" the "Considered Harmful"-Killer?

Serious question: Have we heard from a human [1] in Bethesda's ranks about this issue? Or are they just playing the silent giant?

If I were the head of Bethesda's PR team and I saw this post, I would be having conniptions.

Footnotes [1]. "human", that is, an individual person speaking on-the-record, having identified themselves by their name and position within Bethesda. Not a legal team, committee or any other culpability-diffusing vehicle.

Do you use the "gradual shift" setting? I've noticed that a lot of people don't realize it's there, and they use the "sudden drastic change" setting, which is very jarring. Also, make sure it has the correct coordinates/zip code for your location!

Also, everyone should install F.lux

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

This is another migraine-stopper.

I'm so used to reading "Not all who wander are lost" that my brain originally parsed this headline as "All who wander are lost". Then I clicked through and the URL was "all-who-wonder-are-not-lost", so I went back to check and see if I read it wrong. And I had read it wrong, but because I'd missed the "not". So I thought, "That's funny; the submitter must have made the same mistake and submitted it as 'wander' even though the article's title says 'wonder'." Then I clicked through again and the article's title said "wander".

I don't really have a point. I just wanted to share my mostly-irrelevant tale of mental tomfoolery.

If they're not Facebook friends, how did Mark post his reply?

This is good advice for any skill, from programming to painting.

"Stuff that doesn't matter beyond the novelty of screwing around with it"

This is the main point:

"So the conclusion is: Python forces you to use indentation that you would have used anyway, unless you wanted to obfuscate the structure of the program."

You were going to use consistent indentation anyway, right?