TremendousJudge

As much as your boss might want it, your coworkers don't have to be your friends if you don't want to. The greatest advantage of working remotely is that you can choose who you want to spend…

>But how could we know it would play out this way? For anybody who hadn't seen the demo, the company always looked like typical SV smoke selling pitch. "This is the best thing ever",…

Tell me when it can use that powerful processor to run an engine other than webkit

> The application language was a pass through later between the client and the database. This style of doing things resulted in spaghetti style unmanageable databases, filled with an unknowable num…

You haven't mentioned what to me is a much more important evolutionary pressure: other humans. Politics is a feature of the ancestral environment. Humans aren't smart because they need to ou…

Quoting from the SSC policy: >Recognizing that nobody can be totally sure what is or isn’t true, if you want to say something that might not be true – anything controversial, speculative, or highly…

Or, maybe he actually did a lot of work during college instead of "enjoying the college experience". Compared to that, "real life work" is usually nicer

well as long as it works...

I was going to say exactly the same about Disco Elysium. While classed as an RPG, I'd say it's more of an adventure game disguised as an RPG. The game is just point and click, talk to people…

You realize that the author is Ron Gilbert, who made a bunch of good games after he published this article, right?

It may make sense statistically, but for an individual customer it's just a strange experience. Look around this thread for all the comments pointing out the same thing, and wonder if a shopping …

I do all my product searching in incognito mode

Do we need to have people working soul-sucking, unnecessary jobs so they can bring food to the table?

Somebody said above that it was due to the 29 crash, which one is right?

Last printer I had to configure on my Linux machine required finding a downloading a hidden mystery bash script from the manufacturer's website and running it with root permissions. Not exactly &…

Interesting article. What I find the most interesting (and isn't explained) is how Michels justified then going to the fascist party. Did he conclude "Well, since oligarchy is inevitable, mi…

I think this has a name, but I can't recall it -- Workers always end up doing whatever that the higher ups reward, not what they say they want. They can parrot about culture however much they wan…

>Whether this corporatization proves a good or a bad thing in the long run, it remains to be seen. Is it? How could it end up being a good thing? Bureaucracy always pops up somewhere where there is…

Nations don't just aggregate like free market corporations. If there are many large bellicose empires in history, it's because taking things by force of arms is a successful strategy. In a w…

If you are used to ads everywhere now, why would you be surprised to see them in Windows? I mean for a "normal" person the argument against would probably make sense, but it probably won…

And the teeth! It was common for the teeth to be uneven. They are still a little bit weird but I remember it being much worse

According to that same article, the reason for retiring the note was because the people who benefited the most from its existence are criminals, who need to do their business in cash -- the fewer note…

It's also a bad thing for a "civilian tool"

probably, but as GP said, "The operator of the botnet has NEVER tried to contact my client to ask for an efficient api to access the data" Some people just don't care for the commons

>Wordpress Do you mean saving document as a webpage in Word 97?

Modern automatic transmissions are actually manual transmissions with a robot moving through the gears as far as I know. However, they do a bunch of stuff that I don't understand like pre-engage …

So a single point of failure then? It also means you are holding your cards on your time all the time you use your phone on the street, which is prime time for somebody to come and snag it out of your…

You don't feed palm oil to pork though

If you weren't used to regular calendars you wouldn't know that "August 10" means "about the middle of winter" either

- Has crazy hair like Cliff Stoll or Albert Einstein in that one picture