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I think you get the award for dumbest idea of the day.

Summary of the article:

Stephen Convey Taught Me Not to Be Like Him, but screw that, I still want to.

I'm not sure anyone laughed harder than me upon hearing the news.

"Just do it" is a pretty shitty lesson.

Like he has a choice or control in the matter...

Or: "How to appear strong when you are weak." There's a word for people who never admit to a mistake: liars.

What trite linkbait.

Don't do it! Go find a small start-up doing something that interests you.

Seriously, screw TechChrunch. They're just this side of blog-spam.

What's the numeric representation of the volume of <silence>? 0 dB

You had me until "YOLO."

Cool story, bro.

When was the last time Microsoft had control of the image of any of its products?

The unfortunate thing with mime-types, is that even though you get text/* or image/*, they are not reliable. For example, how do you ask "is this an image I can reliably put into an <img/> tag and have it successfully render?" From what I've seen, the only options are whitelists of specific content types or extensions.

P2P? Oh, you must be depressed.

Use the internet more often or leave your computer on? Depressed!

Tend to surf the web and a variety of sites? How haven't you killed yourself by now?

I suspect the author hasn't read http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...

Counterpoint: Matz has no beard.

The biggest issue is that people still think of reddit as a single community. It's not, and you can't stereotype all of reddit by looking at /r/pics and /r/politics. You have control over your home page and can remove noisy subreddits from it.

That is definitely a good idea, but what about the patents that are so blatantly vague or obvious, that many people are unknowingly violating them. It seems it's easier to prove non-infringement rather than prior art with most software patents.

Because you lose the intimacy of start-up culture at scale.

I don't think I would ever work at Microsoft, but I feel especially that way because of leadership like Steve Balmer.

I find the abundance of "See? Smart people are actually dumber than I am!" posts amusing.

He's always a little over the top.

And yet there is no formal set of rules for names that can be enforced. Without it, we are forced to pick and choose assumptions.

Suddenly it feels like BusinessInsider is full of shit. Nope, that's always been the case.

No, Twitter shut down your spam engine.

Lack of choice and collusion by the major telecoms.

If it's open source, why would the agents be asking what algorithms it uses? I'm calling bullshit on this article and the tweets.

I certainly do, since I will never purchase a cable subscription and it costs me internet access and HBO nothing for me to pirate their shows.

Probably linkbait.