bkurtz13

He uses voting as an example. Which begs the question: why vote?

If you're living within a corrupt, self-serving political system (we are), then naturally the only people who run for office will be products of that system. If a candidate who genuinely wants to change the status quo somehow manages to slip in, they will be prevented from achieving anything meaningful once inside.

No matter what, none of these people have my interests in mind. So I ask, what's the point?

Take a look at Prismatic's om-tools(1).

It adds a defcomponent macro that removes a lot of boilerplate.

1)https://github.com/Prismatic/om-tools

So we should never create anything new, then?

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he is alluding to, judging by the link.

Actually, just as Warcraft allowed for modding which led to Dota, Starcraft 2 supports modding. So that spirit is still alive in some form at Blizzard.

How do you know how much it's going to cost? I don't see that information anywhere.

"... a win-win-win situation..."

I don't think the thieves would see it that way.

This article could be a lot better if it were more general and less focused on "startups"...

Why would you minify your code during development? Isn't minified code for production?

"There are 2 types of programming languages, those everyone complains about and those nobody uses..."

That's assuming that "the soul" actually exists. I think it will be more interesting to see what happens once humanity comes to grips with the truth that free will is an illusion.

Can you really make that strong of an argument that YouTube's player is "overengineered"? I'm not always a fan of how they handle things but you have to at least consider the massive scale they are working at.

Have you looked at Dropwizard? It uses Jersey under the hood I believe but it streamlines using all of its libraries together.

Shouldn't be asking people to upvote in the README.

No project like this ever amounted to anything in the history of The Valley!

Try Clojure

Americans.

In that same vein, the dotted pattern in background makes it subtly harder to read the text

I'm getting an internal server error when I try to buy it... :/

I was able to get some people who were apprehensive about git on board after finding SourceTree.

I'm almost tempted to get a pair just to see how it would feel to be 6'7. MUAHAHAHA!

Am I the only one here who didn't really find this amusing or charming, but tedious and pointless?

I guess that's art for you...

This reminded me of a discussion of the "Red Queen Hypothesis"[0] in the book Daemon by Daniel Suarez[1].

It's alternately interesting and disturbing... the implication that much of our social behavior is to further the aims of microscopic puppet masters.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(book_series)

This needs to have the year after it, as it's continuously been reposted.

That being said it's still good advice and a good read.

Bears, beats... Battlestar Galactica?

Is it even possible to take wired seriously anymore? After a couple of years of seeing stories like this pop up I think I finally understand what it's like for my wife (getting a PhD in genetics) to read the breathless science headlines I used to frequently show her.

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Obviously; it's been designed upfront to be SOLOMO.

Some kind of git-like diff-based snapshot system for programs?

Middle mouse clicking to open the link in a new tab and then clicking on the tab to change to it fires the event. Not that useful in my opinion.