I hope your greenhouses have enough room for the billions of people that will be migrating away from the worn torn, expanding desert, starving hellholes that will be created by the "warmer weather". Make sure you stockpile enough beds for everyone.

Asked, they didn't seem to hear me.

Sorry. Aside from the obvious joke, why would we want to create more people with disabilities? I'm sure people who aren't able to hear find comfort in being around other deaf people, and people who can't see find comfort in being around other blind people, in an environment designed to accommodate blindness. However, intentionally not removing this trait from the embryos to preserve the uniqueness of the disabled community seems like a momentary lapse of critical thinking.

Should we also not, for instance, endeavor to remove tendencies towards deadly diseases? Should the Alzheimer community be able to dictate that we don't filter genes that tend highly towards developing that disease at an early age? What about inherent bone weakness? Asthma? Are we erasing people with asthma by making sure their kids don't carry the disease? Could we erase irritable bowel syndrome without anyone being offended, or is having a significant portion of the population carry their feces around in a plastic bag attached to their bodies worth preserving?

This is not about "erasing" anyone, or preventing them from having children, but rather filtering so their kids don't have to contend with the same debilitating afflictions that affected their parents' lives.

Relax, sugar. I explain it more clearly, since I have a penis.

Wrong, dear. The sheep are tasked to elect a master from a mere two candidates, both of which are there only to give the illusion of a choice, while working to promote the interests of the corporations that sponsor them, to slowly make you believe it's your place to own nothing, and be happy.

So, if we were to be lucky enough to actually see an asteroid hurtling towards our planet, we may be able to alter its course, given it doesn't currently happen to be raining? That's... reassuring?

Ah. You're right, of course. Seems we will have to lower the bar for what's declared "polished", then. Actually, we can leave the bar over there by the wall.

Crunch time is a symptom, not the disease. The problems start when management make promises they can not deliver in attempt to get investors hooked. Crunch time is what happens when investors hold management to their promises.

Crunch time, in turn, results in bad work, cut corners, and a general lack of polish.

I've been through this a couple of times myself, and while hanging out with your game dev colleagues 24/7, sleeping under your desk, and consuming copious amounts of sugary drinks and pizza can be fun for a while, it's exhausting in the long run.

I can only hope the team comes back well rested from the holidays, fix their damn bugs and deliver what was promised, that the investors don't immediately pull the plug, forcing them to downsize the team and fire yet another broadside at the employee morale. I pre-ordered the game on PC and have yet to try it out. If you want me to do your QA work, you better pay me well.

If they would just stop geo-restricting their content, the problem would go away. The amount of people willing to pay for a VPN to pay less for Netflix because it costs less in some other country should be close to zero. Geo-restrictions are what makes this happen, that the damn industry is, after several decades, unable to adjust to the fact that the market is now global. How hard can it be?

"I identified your MMS as a picture of a human male reproductive organ. Here are some of my own images of human male reproductive organ, provided by popular Internet sites. I hope you'll enjoy them."

Why don't we have the browsers pepper and hash passwords before sending them to the server, which would then hash them again? This would mean any bugs that make passwords show up in logs and such would display passwords only applicable to that website.

It would also allow the user to enter any weird characters to their heart's desire, as well as allow for infinitely long passwords without regards to the size of the resulting POST to the server.

Suddenly, there's no reason to limit anything about passwords. Woop.

A whole lot of the people in Silicon Valley *MOVED THERE* after becoming successful. Nobody is stopping you from having a great idea, nobody (sane) checks the skin color of the CEO of a company before signing up for a new killer service, nobody checks your genitals when you apply for a domain name. If you're an LGBTQetcetc person with an awesome idea, GO FOR IT! How is your non-whiteness or less-than-40-years-old-ness holding you back?

Yeah, literally the first thing they asked me when I submitted my patch was whether or not I had a schlong.

Well, a smaller scale version, but still a bridge :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I dare you, Mozilla. Crowdsource the name.

So, he writes a bash script for an important backup job and doesn't "set -u" at the beginning to throw an error if you attempt to use an uninitialized variable? Really?