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MartinCron
·5년 전·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
·14년 전·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
·14년 전·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
·14년 전·discuss
Thank you. Glad to see that someone got my joke.
MartinCron
·14년 전·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
·16년 전·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
·16년 전·discuss
His view is similar to mine: The only privacy filters you need are discretion and sobriety.
MartinCron
·16년 전·discuss
I'm hearing the immortal words of my first (and only) law professor:

The E in E-mail stands for "Evidence"