underpantsgnome

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by underpantsgnome 10y ago
Reminds me of Dr. Bronner's soap, the way the rambling, hyphenated copy freely invents words and associates the product with feelings of peace and goodwill.
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by underpantsgnome 10y ago
Given the context, I kinda hope the error/correction was intentional, committed by someone who doesn't like David Sacks.
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by underpantsgnome 10y ago
slacker hat: perspective is one of those words they use when they want something from you, like "duty" or "contribute". Doctors get so much more job security, prestige, and straight-up money than software developers. By
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by underpantsgnome 11y ago
The Atlantic just wants you to feel insecure about your level of maturity so they can sell you shit.
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by underpantsgnome 11y ago
Maybe spacemanmatt didn't want to disparage institutions he had no experience with.
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by underpantsgnome 11y ago
It's the type of place where they can't tell that means "has some problems, in a way similar to what the OP describes."
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by underpantsgnome 12y ago
Are you suggesting that finance isn't?
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by underpantsgnome 12y ago
I'll bite. Cut power to the heat source/declaw the perforator/plug up the ink jet. I have physical access, after all. Keurig is in the position that they can attach a number to each one of their coffee cups, and the machine w
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by underpantsgnome 12y ago
Good point. Would you agree that: even if a phenomenon (for example performance of some sort of worker) is hard to model, we should still try, especially if that phenomenon provides enormous value to society?
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by underpantsgnome 12y ago
See, the thing is, people are already trying really hard to do that. Practicing programmers, even.
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by underpantsgnome 12y ago
This is a lovely dream, but what if you're working on the caching software instead of the web app?
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by underpantsgnome 12y ago
> former 1st world non-socialized medicine country This is a painfully accurate description of the USA
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by underpantsgnome 12y ago
no one will ever know.