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Rich people need pooor laborers to create the wealth they get 50% as capitalists and consumers.

Facebook has had the most, and pressured others to copy.

Why does cable company need special powers that my DSL provider does not need?

Google thinks bebop is better than whatever they could do internally (including finding people to hire up) to build a comparable product for that budget.

if you are thinking about "<0" on an unsigned type, you better be scratching your head already.

This is Yodlee, the USA's largest financial API for consumer products (Mint, etc), endorsed by all large banks and investment firms. They have millions of users.

You are ignoring the bandwidth differences between protocols.

That's Inversion of Control , not Dependency Injection .

This is literally textbook Design Patterns stuff. Haskell gives you executable machine-checkable design patterns, instead of just comments.

Is it a disorder to have no hearing? Too have so much hearing that your neighbors keep you up at night?

Is being very short a disorder? Being very tall? Having short legs with long arms?

Consider: there are two diagnoses, OCD and OCPD. Both cover Obsessive Compulsive behaviors.

OCD is the Disorder where OC behaviors ruin your life and cause you distress.

OCPD is when you like your OC behaviors, but other people don't . It is a Personality Disorder, because your personality is socially "wrong".

Suckless.org disproves the authors thesis. Heck, UNIX itself disproves the thesis. A project can grow to include more compatible components, without needlessly cluttering each component. Finishing one program is not the end of all software development.

There used to be a concept called "professionalism" where people didn't let their personal cultural biases crowd out contributors, and people applied their humanity problem at hand at work, and engaged in unrelated conversations on breaks and after work, not disrupting people who are working on the project.

You think its "phony" when someone shows up at X conference transparently focused of talking about X?

You think its selfish when some knows how we wants to help, and wants to find the people he wants to help?

I feel like I am taking crazy pills, where technical content gets zero attention in a technical project. It sounds to me like the conference are getting taken over by vacationers who want to have a party week (possibly soft-embezzled by expensing an employer) pushing out people who care about the project.

It reminds of when the college resume padders took over the high school math club, and instituted a substantial membership fee to finance a trip to a math competition where they didn't actually compete, and I had to create a new club to gather people for math activities.

Having lunch with your coworkers gives you 250 chances per year to have an important work-related conversation. A conference offers precious little time, so it is important to be efficient in getting people together who have things to say to each other.

Disney was anti-Communist. He wasn't anti-autboritarian. He was rather authoritian.

Did memento mori comprehend death in the modern way, or did it assume an afterlife that completely changes the meaning of death?

Depressive thinking existed before the Internet.

> Air quality, noise levels, energy and water usage

This is not the surveillance you should worry about.

Ironically, that 66 page document is a massively overcomplicated discussion of the simple idea that inessential mutable state causes problems.

Not sure I want to live in Walt Disney's utopia. He was great at his business, the original Jobsian, but dialed it up a bit too far.

www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt-disney-a-fascist

Minecraft is Java. It has awful performance (but it's simple enough and mixed desktops are powerful enough)

Google brags about constantly doing large scale refactoring on heir codebase.

Welp, they sure optimized the ad loading code. I got to see nice animated ads while staring at a Loading spinner for the app.

The Community video game "Hawkthorne" (inpired by a mockup on the TV show) managed dozens of artist contributors very effectively.

But Facebook only activates Safety Check on special occasions.

Quite a fraction of suicide attackers were blackmailed into the act.

Gwern had a very limited view of "political goals".

Terrorism (attackif civilians to upset people) or asymmetric warfare against a ruling power apparatus?

Gwern's analysis looks hopelessly naive in the face of modern ISIS-related acts; and ignores the difference between USA, where poison Tylenol causes a huge response, and China where people expect bad fake drugs with a certain frequency.

And he ignores that over-complicated (in gwern's view) cost over a trillion dollars in US response, from NSA to TSA to Afghan and Iraq war.