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MartinCron
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
My wife and I collect cookbooks and cocktail recipe books. There are a handful of writers who have a compelling voice where I read more than just the ingredient list and instructions.

But for some random blog that I find while googling? Never.
MartinCron
·vor 14 Jahren·discuss
No True Scotsman fallacy

It is, at least for me, more just transparent snobbery than the No True Scotsman fallacy. The same way some video game journalists don't like to cover Minecraft, as it's "not a real video game".
MartinCron
·vor 14 Jahren·discuss
I feel the same way whenever I see large developer layoffs in my city.

I also feel unnerved when I see unsustainable companies go on unsustainable hiring binges. It's like the first scene in a horror movie. Are you crazy? Don't go in there! He'll kill you!
MartinCron
·vor 14 Jahren·discuss
Thank you. Glad to see that someone got my joke.
MartinCron
·vor 14 Jahren·discuss
Some people think games are frivolous. They're not

I love games and don't think they are frivolous for a moment. I'm not sure what that has to do with a discussion of Zynga, though.
MartinCron
·vor 16 Jahren·discuss
I gotta say, this is what I love about HN: an idea can leap from a college professor to a practicing attorney using a simple coder as a medium.

That, and there aren't too many flamewars.
MartinCron
·vor 16 Jahren·discuss
His view is similar to mine: The only privacy filters you need are discretion and sobriety.
MartinCron
·vor 16 Jahren·discuss
I'm hearing the immortal words of my first (and only) law professor:

The E in E-mail stands for "Evidence"