Point being? Capitalism and democracy have thus far worked better than anything else for improving overall personal freedom, quality of life, and peaceful relations with other nations. It's not the system that's broken (in the U.S.), it's that we don't yet have enough safeguards in place to prevent people in positions of power from gaming the system to the detriment of the less powerful.

There are so many things wrong with this comment that I don't know where to start. I'm 90% sure it's a troll, but I'll bite anyway:

The problem is that we live in a society where everyone expects success to be handed to them. In the U.S., the poorest of the poor have a standard of living that outshines the majority of the rest of the world. We're all taught to get straight A's through high school, get a four-year degree while amassing crushing amounts of debt, and then after that we'll be able to land a job with a six figure salary and join a union that will keep us from getting fired no matter how little work we actualy do. When that doesn't happen, we complain that the government isn't creating enough jobs for us and then sit back to enjoy nice free unemployment checks while waiting for an opportunity to fall in our lap. What. The. Fuck.

When (not if) China supercedes the U.S. as the new world superpower in the next decade or two, I sincerely hope my fellow Americans will get off their butts and realize that we need to *work* to maintain our standard of living and our place in the world. Even if it's unpleasant, even if it's not what we really want to do at the moment. Otherwise, I fear that I'm going to live to see the fall of the U.S. democracy. Given our history of foreign policy, I'm certain that the rest of the world will celebrate it much as we celebrated the fall of the Soviet Union.

Um, no? Since when is deleting a user from a system the same thing as giving them your personal passwords?

Wires on telephone poles are much easier to install and maintain. Assuming ideal conditions, you can string up a mile of new line in an afternoon with very little equipment. Breaks, shorts, and other faults are much easier to find and fix as well. No digging required, just follow the line until you see the broken line or sparks flying and then send up a lineman to fix it.

The downside is that telephone poles are somewhat unsightly. It varies by region, but where I live, you usually only see buried lines in well-to-do areas.

No, it's one of the oldest con games in history.

Real usability testing is not market research. It's measuring how well people did on tasks, not what they said they liked.

On the other hand, it's hard to blame TFA for their usability testing methods when Gnome, Unity, and KDE have done no usability testing at all. (And then tell their users that they're wrong for liking their old workflows...)

The Wii has a pretty good Netflix client/interface.

Had a pretty good Netflix interface. On my Wii, Netflix somehow silently upgraded itself about a month ago to a new version. The new version has no new features, but is significantly slower, less informative, and outright buggy.

Agile programming is not a lie. It works, and the company I work for has the customers, profits, and happy non-burnt-out engineers to prove it. But it's not easy to do right, and certainly isn't cheap if you're hiring the right people.

Head back to Wikipedia for a bit... Feynman was not talking about all of psychology, but mostly parapsychology. Reading minds, bending keys, that kind of thing. He was also speaking in a time where non-religious (or loosely religious) mysticism was fairly common and even mainstream compared to today. Psychology is a much different field nowadays than it was almost 40 years ago.

Psychology isn't a science. It's a pseudoscience.

Hey, there's a scientologist in our midst!

So if psychology isn't a science, then classical conditioning doesn't exist, despite the huge volume of evidence that says it does? There's no value in trying to understand how human reasoning and memory works? We can't learn anything at all about how brain damage causes changes in day-to-day behavior?

Fact: Anything researched and studied according to the scientific method is science. That there are some researchers who draw conclusions without appropriate methods or sufficient evidence, or that some areas are difficult to conclusively test does not cast the entire profession as pseudoscience.