ShardPhoenix

If you believe this idea is false, why do you need to label it as a taboo thought-crime ("sexist")? (I didn't think that it was expressed in an aggressive or especially irrational way, in which cases some criticism might have been warranted).

The poker sites make a large amount of money by taking a 5% rake on every pot played.

I just tried again, it's working for me now.

I can't figure out how to do anything here. I click the text below the logo and it disappears, and nothing else happens.

You realize he wasn't talking about you, right?

Maybe it's just because I'm not a photographer, but I'm surprised that something like photo sharing can generate this much passion.

Apart from age, there's performance - even written in c++ and running on a modern CPU, the framerate can get pretty slow.

Supposedly his code is pretty rough. That would explain why development is slow and the game pretty bug-ridden.

Maybe, but good programming is not the same thing as good gameplay design.

It seems that the main thing this guy is really saying is that Lisp is easier to program in than C++. I don't think that that's controversial around here. What is controversial is whether Lisp has a significant advantage over Python, Ruby, etc. Heck, he didn't even actually point out any advantage of Lisp over Java.

Those sure are some misleading bar charts.

There were two Duke Nuk[ue]m side scrollers.

Strunk & White is frequently wrong and doesn't even follow it's own rules. For example, what you quoted is obviously wrong - "better than me" is correct here and is what anyone who isn't completely pretentious would write.

Sheldon is actually played in a pretty high-status way, despite his quirks.

I could easily see it becoming BigCo policy to only use hardware with Enterprise Security Robustness(tm), if only as an ass-covering move.

My impression (given the next FAQ about Matlab) is that by "abstraction" he means "static types". Whether static typing is better or worse for beginners than dynamic typing is (as far as I know) an open question, like (unfortunately) most questions about software engineering practices.

Only while the housing bubble lasts...

I think the thing people aren't taking into account is risk. Sure, you don't get to capture all the value you create, but you also aren't (usually) liable for any value you might accidentally destroy, and you still get paid even if your project generates $0.

Is the slight possibility of some people being killed in the event of total collapse of civilization (with presumably billions already dead) really worth spending time on?

My point is that you're probably going to die soon anyway, so even with the cancer risk the treatment may well be +EV. Similar to how people are more willing to undergo risky medical treatments when they're already dying.

While you probably wouldn't want full-on telomerase in your 20s might be worth the risk if you're pushing 80 :).

Only if it happens to go where you want it, and at the speed you want. Roads coverage is a lot more thorough and road travel tends to be faster outside of rush hour.

Unlike those things, there have been grandmas buying decorative cat plates for decades. Lolcats are just the same thing with an element of comedy.

Isn't the whole point of HTML5 games is that they don't take the whole focus of the computer? Otherwise you may as well play a normal game.

"JumpForward interviews three to five engineers a week as it tries to fill four to six technology jobs, but most candidates don't have current skills or they lack the passion to stay on the cutting edge"

In other words, there's no shortage of software engineers, there's a shortage of perfect candidates. If these companies were actually willing to train people, they'd have a lot fewer problems.

The trend seems to be that software development, like a lot of other industries, is becoming increasingly winner-take-all, with huge demand for the very best of the best, and a lot less for anyone else.

I don't think every function needs a comment, necessarily, but I have seen "self-documenting" used as an excuse for not documenting anything at all. It's easy to declare code understandable and readable when you're the one who wrote it.

>How is it that even large companies with dedicated HR departments, training for managers, etc. still seem to push in the opposite direction?

For one thing, managers probably care more (on some level) about asserting their status over the regular employees than they do about making the company more profitable (especially at larger companies).

Combined with Hickey's post in that thread, this whole thing strikes me as rather petulant - "throwing the toys out of the pram" as the English would say.

If a company is not growing anymore, the only reason to own shares is to get dividends. If the P/E ratio is too high, then the amount of annual dividends per dollar of share won't be worth the risk of the company going bust.

Good data, but online dating may be different due to the lower perceived cost of approaches and rejection.