Is anyone else astonished that this drivel came from the respected Economist?

Good. Now I can use the "anti-authoritarian" card when I tell my boss to go crunch a biscuit.

You miss the point entirely. "Playing a card" is usually in reference to having some condition. The author's point is that anti-authoritarian is no condition. So. If you are anti-authoritarian go tell him to "crunch a biscuit". If you are also not an idiot, have a fallback plan.

I didn't like the tone of this article at all. I'll spare us all and put aside the causality vs. free will debate, but saying all of our actions are controllable is ridiculous.

If trying like hell not to have to wake up early in the morning makes someone a sissy, then I'm the king of sissies.

This reminds me of a quote from Crowfoot, once a chief of the Blackfoot tribe:

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Life's short. Enjoy it. If that means not waking up at a certain time, then don't. But, also, don't complain when you have to deal with the consequences.

I think the guy was just being honest. I've never been in his situation before, as I subscribe to the notion of not leaving an opportunity until you have another sure fire opportunity (I know this isn't a popular outlook here), but I bet he's scared and just did a brain dump of his feelings.

I don't know the guy, so I'm not qualified to comment on his personality. From the several paragraphs I have to decipher his personality, he doesn't seem like a bad guy, and he seems to be good at communicating his thoughts. Maybe he's just looking for jobs in all the wrong places?

> I've never been in his situation before, as I subscribe to the notion of not leaving an opportunity until you have another sure fire opportunity

I think you really hit on something here.

I think the concept of "scared money" applies here. He's interviewing from a position of weakness (not having a job in hand to fall back on) and that causes him to perform in a way that could be coming of as desperate and dejected to interviewers. Some people are better at hiding that than others, but i'm thinking the author might have an issue with it.

I took it to be more about nerds online. I haven't met too many people face to face that are even a tenth as rude as 90% of the people I see online. Of course, I arbitrarily picked those numbers. I'm going to point that out before I get flamed.

Damn, we were shooting for 20x as rude - algorithm must be on the fritz again. Have you been going online less frequently as of late?

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Louis CK touched upon this in his "Oh MY God" show on HBO. Empirically speaking, people tend to act with less accountability when they're inside of cars, behind protective barriers, including the internet.

"No Such Thing as Elevator Rage"

NOSTER. Coined and minted - because nerds are overly acronym-shy, I think

I really like your breadth-first/depth-first analogy. I've never thought of it that way.

Sadly, not only that but the search depth gets smaller, too!

I don't like having comma first listings, but it makes it incredibly easy to comment out parts of a query. I find commenting out parts of a query essential when trying to debug really long, complex queries.

I agree (hence the post), but at least with open source we have access to the source code. I realize this doesn't replace documentation, but could you imagine using a closed source project with sh*y documentation?

I didn't realize an abbreviation already existed (RTFS) when I wrote the post. RTFS is probably better than RTFC.

Java is exactly what I'm using, and you are correct... it is a massive PITA to attach sources. Unfortunately, we're not using Maven but plan to in the future.

If you're using eclipse, I found this plugin helps a bit: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-source-attacher . For most popular jars you can just right click and hit "attach source".