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could anybody who downvoted this please explain why?

Heh, well then there are 3 ways to handle it: 1. Call it like it is "John failed, but we live in a class system so instead we're moving him to a less important team because we believe in thi…

So, I find this article vapid. It basically says -Tell the truth, but assign your own meaning to it-. However, it's been my experience in tech that this is exact behavior a major, major problem a…

Could anybody who upvoted this please explain why they think this is newsworthy?

[I recognize at this point the topic has changed from gender to effective discourse on HN.] > Your first instinct upon hearing this is to say, "Yes, well, that seems inappropriate but really I…

I find your response dismissive and counterproductive. I don't understand on what basis you can discount the realities of alternative cultures.

And I'm not trying to discount your experience, rather I'm trying to show that there are other people who have contradictory preferences... and raise the discussion from a "my way is o…

So this is one way to do it. But it has its downsides too [and thus I find the webpage slightly pedantic for ignoring the tradeoffs]. I think the "Hello" is like "Syn." Cases where…

So, I think there is a worthwhile discussion here that's getting lost in all the emotions. The discussion comes down to this "Should we look at this as a gender debate, or an engineering deb…

Why would we consider google a monopoly before cell-providers, ISPs, major credit card companies, or auto companies? [All of whom actively have stifled competition in unfair ways]

I agree, I don't believe this would pass a test for statistical significance (of outperforming the market indices). Unless there is a way to break this data down much more finely (by 6-day window…

Some of the advice here is pretty bad. Firstly, examine your own motivations. I find that 95% of people who tell other people they're doing it wrong claim it's for the "good of the comp…

Okay, so people should not trust their government. Ways they can not trust their government are by 1. Separation of powers 2. Accountability via body-cams 3. Freedom of speech to protect political pro…

1. Historical fallacy (just because things were a way in the past does not mean they will always be that way) 2. What if, like blockchain, we build a DNS model that is server agnostic? People are alre…

I think picking any one existing language would be too emotional for people. I don't have the implementation details. But just to illustrate how doable it'd be, I'd suggest we take some…

No, they're not. I'm sure people argued the American economy would collapse without slave labor. And America not being world police isn't a revolutionary change, we only started being w…

You really can't think of any middle-ground between what we have now and anarchy/libertarianism? How about just this as starters: 1. Legalize marijuana 2. End civil asset forfeiture 3. Stron…

I've heard people say that before, but I don't see why I should believe it. 230 years ago America didn't exist. 150 years ago black people were property. 100 years ago women could not v…

Good. Here's how things should go: 1. First America stops being world police. 2. America plays ball with rest of world (adopts metric system, becomes a leader in climate, shares control of intern…

What a junk article. Link bait. "Humans can't understand" is ambiguous, and the article wants you to believe this means "above human comprehension," when really it just means …

Enough "I" statements already. It's ironic how many people seem to think their personal experience is somehow relevant on a post about "critical thinking." The ONLY sane way…

So there are two options: 1. Join the languages (so PHP would get that syntatic sugar too) [or preferably never have so many in the first place] 2. Be where we are now, where we have redundant librari…

The syntactic-sugar form isn't there with the @, but it can still be done in a single line. https://coderpad.io/RWTYEFY3 <?php // DEFINE DECORATOR $decoratorFunction…

[Author] I'll weigh in- MySql, Postgresql [and the other major players] should all leverage the same standardized syntax (they're close, but not drop-in replacements). In this case when one …

I'm the author, I know all of them. Php, Javascript, and Python the best. Php well enough to have read add patched the source code. If you'd like to explain what you think some fundamental d…

Tl; dr: The very act of sharing an estimate verbally creates a some weird social deadline. Author proposes deadlines should not exist.

The point is that big companies with financial backing will use market advantage to stifle competition before it gets a chance (e.g. buying up the spectrum for cell phones, lobbying to prevent broadba…