backlava

Help me. I'm being oppressed.

Shhh. Poe's law is getting me upvotes.

I think most programmers don't realize how much vision holds them back. I've been coding blindfolded for over a month and I'm never going back. If you are a touch typist what do you need to see? Not looking at things helps me to focus.

I do take the blindfold off while checking my work an during some parts of debugging.

None of the things in that list were themselves decisions. They were causes of poor decisions. Do you dispute that mental illness can be a cause of poor decision making?

I wouldn't recommend hanging out on Facebook, but if it puts you in touch with lost acquaintances that can be valuable.

In theory the market should balance this. Workers should be willing to accept less money for more rewarding work.

It also ignores that the probability can change over time. Past frequency is not always a good predictor for future probability.

There's the related example of the segfault termination message that was changed in a hex editor to "thank you for playing!" Wing Commander, maybe.

Insurance rates usually go up after a claim even if it's obvious that the claim doesn't reflect a higher future risk, though.

I personally only take placebos.

If he could have proven the theorem in a week despite its having a counterexample, that is impressive.

But in some languages bloat is a best practice.

Programmers, yo don't neda lemma.

Your rhetorical style here is off-putting. I don't think he's committed any logical fallacy. It's perfectly possible to do charitable work selfishly. For example, if you were offered a choice between saving two lives or, for the same money, saving only one life but getting a nice packet documenting the one life saved, it's selfish to choose the latter for the purpose of making yourself feel better. Even though you're still doing good.