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The trouble is that it all adds up to paint a picture of a corporate culture that's a little too comfortable being icky.

It's not about who has what data. It's about what's being done with it.

... 21 meals IS a week's supply.

No, but we have an opportunity to be a leader and not a follower. To be on the right side of history, so to speak.

It's a pretty icky thing to say, to be sure. This person set a new world record and she's receiving comments about her appearance? This woman performed an incredible feat of skill and she's being reduced to her looks. Doesn't sound like much of a compliment when you frame it like that, does it? Sounds like sexism to me.

References to "source code" apply only to video games.

So when they say "game", do they really mean "video game"?

This is a semantic shift that leaves me uncomfortable.

I don't remember when Barack Obama donated money to suppress gay rights.

Because it needs to be bigger.

"Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale." - Gastr Del Sol

They are purposefully inserting themselves into a stream of information

to implement a feature that's impossible to do any other way. They have a justification for doing this.

Web development in the 90s and early 00s was not a practical substitute for learning how to program. Now, it is.

You make a claim that the low-level nature of the calculator programming was an enticement to you. That may be, but I would hestitate to generalize based on your own experiences. I would suspect that the ability to come up with something that actually does something conventionally interesting trumps the benefits of working close to the metal, ESPECIALLY with young, novice programmers. A few hours of hacking in assembler and you may get to hello world, whereas the same amount of effort in javascript might net you the ability to drag and drop objects around a UI. Which is more impressive to a kid?

Oh, it completely does. My niece this year is required to have a laptop for school. She has to have a PC with her. Now, she has no interest or aptitude for programming, but if any of her classmates do, they can easily fire up a web browser and get to hacking, even without an Internet connection.

Is a graphing calculator really the most obvious way that a young and impressionable mind will find an inroads to programming in this day and age? I find that idea laughable. Tinkering on the web is the obvious modern-day equivalent that is completely neglected when talking about how hostile the modern environment is towards the young creative spirit.

Do any of these games offer DLC? Who profits from that?

If only it was as simple to make a business out of a cockamamie idea as it is to come up with the cockamamie idea in the first place.

They are decided by single votes.

Usually, there are several millions of single votes working together to make it happen. But it's not like anyone's voting in aggregate.

People are going to die. If it's not cancer, it'll be heart failure.

I'm not convinced that what this world needs is research into keeping sick people alive longer. We have lots of people as it is.

Everyone I know who's left facebook - EVERYONE I know who's left facebook - has come crawling back. In most cases it's because they're tired of being left in the dark about events. So as to whether or not it leaves "holes in your life", I guess that depends how you feel about sitting alone at home while your friends are out skiing, watching movies, or catching a show.

"being more familiar with Scala than Java" is a few miles east from "cannot/will not write pseudocode comprehensible to people who don't grok functional languages".

Gypsy ninjas? Gypsy is a highly offensive ethnic slur practically everywhere in the world except America.

His mockup is hosted on a javascript-based sketchbook platform (which is nominally intended for sharing/developing javascript snippets), despite the fact that there's no javascript in his mockup.

These feel very strange. They don't behave like any knobs I've ever encountered in software.

I'd imagine it sounds like the english word exhort.

Jailbreaking your iPhone is NOT illegal.

Couldn't make it past the sexist bull above the fold.

Well, if you're estimating, you're not really counting, are you?

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Arguably, until traditional software developers are able to grok these distinctions, you're not going to see many of them "crossing over" to design work.