>all this energy . . . might be better focused into social disapproval of the portrayals of murder, rape and the rest of the violence we inundate ourselves and our kids with on a daily basis. I tend to agree, and the…
I would call the scientific revolution a blossoming, and although democracies (notably the Dutch Republic) participated, most of it happened in monarchies and principalities.
Not only does Pao expect everyone she works with to agree with her on her Important Concern, but also she expects the Important Concern to override all other potential considerations that might go into a person's…
I'm skeptical that Europe will ever be as united by culture as the US is as long as Europe is divided into different language communities. (Although there are millions of Americans who do not speak English, only the…
Just to add even more counterbalance, I consider both Google and Mozilla enemies of public discourse on the internet. What I'm referring to is the fact that turning the web into a platform on which a wide variety of…
One point not mentioned in the OP: the people in charge of Firefox, Opera and Chrome have been and will continue to be a hindrance, not a help, on net to users who agree with the manifesto. The qualifier "on net" is…
One thing I do to try to slow down the rate of change on the web is to upgrade my browser less often than most people. Specifically, I use Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR). Mozilla resisted providing this "update…
Yes. When my main motivation for programming was to get the high that comes from long stretches of time spent in intense absorption, my programming time seemed to be less productive than it is now.
In my late teens and my twenties, I spent 10s of 1000s of hours in a state of intense absorption on programming tasks. (I am in my 50s now.) Am I the only one who believes that it is bad for me to spend more than 20…
>all this energy . . . might be better focused into social disapproval of the portrayals of murder, rape and the rest of the violence we inundate ourselves and our kids with on a daily basis. I tend to agree, and the…
I would call the scientific revolution a blossoming, and although democracies (notably the Dutch Republic) participated, most of it happened in monarchies and principalities.
Not only does Pao expect everyone she works with to agree with her on her Important Concern, but also she expects the Important Concern to override all other potential considerations that might go into a person's…
I'm skeptical that Europe will ever be as united by culture as the US is as long as Europe is divided into different language communities. (Although there are millions of Americans who do not speak English, only the…
Just to add even more counterbalance, I consider both Google and Mozilla enemies of public discourse on the internet. What I'm referring to is the fact that turning the web into a platform on which a wide variety of…
One point not mentioned in the OP: the people in charge of Firefox, Opera and Chrome have been and will continue to be a hindrance, not a help, on net to users who agree with the manifesto. The qualifier "on net" is…
One thing I do to try to slow down the rate of change on the web is to upgrade my browser less often than most people. Specifically, I use Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR). Mozilla resisted providing this "update…
Yes. When my main motivation for programming was to get the high that comes from long stretches of time spent in intense absorption, my programming time seemed to be less productive than it is now.
In my late teens and my twenties, I spent 10s of 1000s of hours in a state of intense absorption on programming tasks. (I am in my 50s now.) Am I the only one who believes that it is bad for me to spend more than 20…