Given the stereotypical difficulty of “product folks” and programmers agreeing on and building shared understanding of what to build, this joke seems clear and straightforward. It works because of course, the customer and the programmer failed to agree on something simple.

Nope.

I really love this reply and especially how it promotes genuine decency rather than coerced decency. I know I’m not exactly adding to the discussion, but I really wanted to recognize how warm this reply felt to me with something more than a mere upvote.

I read “grinder” as “gender” before I realized where I was.

I really liked my Rancilio Rocky. I love my Niche Zero.

Go to the top of your budget, then try again in five years. Enjoy the ride.

Cool.

People are responsible for their choices and people are not to blame for the influences they had no power to refuse. We could help them overcome those influences, but it’s tiring when their influences seem more prolific and powerful than our patience.

Two strategies that decrease the amount of empathy in the world:

• Teaching directly that empathy is a weakness.
• Blaming people for learning that empathy is a weakness.

Surely you mean 5318008.

Za.

I was going to lead with “Don’t assume that other people have it right and you don’t” combined with “Most people are sleepwalking through life, so be careful about asking random strangers for advice”; however, I like this list and hope more people will upvote it.

Thomas Dolby, “I love you, goodbye”.

• Sync
• Vyte
• FollowUpThen
• Todoist
• Insight Timer
• DNSimple
• Netlify

New Dutch programming language just dropped.

For answering a question, no limit on elapsed time, as long as your answer can actually be helpful.

https://xkcd.com/979/

Very no.

Idiots began to demand perpetual growth and other idiots began trying to make it happen. And then it became institutionalized. And then the idiots forgot they were idiots.

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I use the language that I think my interlocutor would prefer. If I don’t know, then I default to the language of the social context, unless I specifically want to practise a language at that moment. If I want to practise, then I ask first.

It doesn’t.

Humans want information to be free. Hoarding information is like hoarding any other resources. It causes power imbalances. Free information means that power is more evenly distributed.

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