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Do you remember when he did that BBQ ad saying he wanted to tour America and hear opinions? It looks like he might be trying to edge his way into a political career again.

I like him because his uncanny valley appearance and single-minded morally-neutral totalitarianism make me feel like I'm living in some high-quality vintage science fiction.

I wouldn't think twice about buying something nice from a store for $25 dollars.

Once upon a time I bought something online for about $10 from what was a legitimate business with an address in San Francisco. About 14 months later they claimed I subscribed to some service and started making huge charges to my card ($150/week). Getting them to stop and getting my money back was an enormously stressful and difficult process.

That's why I have a knee-jerk reaction - not a cold, logical reaction - to online purchases from companies I haven't used before, and I'm not the only person like that.

It's quite good, and I really like their automatically-generated recommendations BUT there is a small fee, and I have a knee-jerk reaction to anything on the internet that asks me for money.

Well, if that's the case, I can do you one better.

It's true that some people can write extremely clean, beautiful Perl. Nevertheless, it's still a lot less effort to write clean, beautiful Python or Ruby.

Making a language is fun, and builds your skills. I'd rather work with a person who has made a bad language than someone who has never made one.

Don't make fun of people for making languages.

Where I live (Victoria BC), we don't have many pedestrian lights, but pedestrians definitely do not have priority in crosswalks.

Pedestrians here make sure that there are definitely no cars moving anywhere near the crosswalk, and no one potentially wanting to make a left turn, before venturing out.

Right below the headline, there is a prominent Facebook icon, providing free publicity for Facebook, as well as allowing Wired to use Facebook as a marketing platform.

This isn't necessarily a good thing. The earliest versions of Javascript were insane. Bad isn't the word. Buggy isn't the word. You've never seen a language as ridiculous as early Javascript. It took a good twenty years to fix it.

Wealth Of Nations is a weird book to read. Where I grew up, people worshipped it and generally considered it to be the second greatest book of all time, after the Bible. I ended up reading both in my thirties, and two things occurred to me:

1) It's very obvious that none of the adults I knew as a child had read more than a few isolated quotes from Wealth of Nations or the Bible. None of them had even the slightest idea what sort of content either of those books contained, or what they were like in tone or in substance. 99% of what I grew up hearing about both books was completely made up.

2) Wealth of Nations presents a very chipper and optimistic sense of entrepreneurship that 99% of people in the world of business today would consider naive at best. If Adam Smith had written that book today, he would be laughing stock.

A pretty good consolation for the alienation and rage Buzzfeed is telling me about is being able to go to Buzzfeed and find out which Friends character I'm most like.

One one hand, I like a nice long commit message. On the other hand, human nature is terrible.

I know that if long commit messages catch on, some synergetic managers will start insisting on minimum lengths for commit messages, and start having meetings discussing standards and policies for commit messages, and start filling binders with more rules than one person could ever memorize. Soon, fixing a single-character typo in a comment will take 20 minutes, and pressing enter will be nerve-racking because you know there's just something you're forgetting from the binder.

Imagine a book where you wrote a bunch of Javascript implementations without learning Javascript.