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Ken's Programming Blog: I Knew a Programmer that Went Completely Insane

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:41:25 +0000

It may be hard to swallow but the extra effort and hours that you put into your job as a software developer does not usually amount to someone higher up thinking you should run the company. It has been my experience that good producers are more likely to be asked to continue to produce. If they moved you to a higher position and better pay then who would produce the software?

Tags: #dev #humanity #imported:pinboard #productivity #software #to:fb #work

Did cooking make us evolve? | Blog | Futurismic

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:47:51 +0000

"Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangman theorizes that cooking with fire triggered hominids to evolve into humans. His experience in the wild led him to conclude that humans could never live on what chimpanzees eat. Cooking, he thinks, might account for the sharp rise in brain size, and the decrease in the size of teeth, that occurred about 1.6 million years ago in Homo erectus over its predecessor, homo habilis. It might explain our relatively small guts and weak jaws, not to mention certain preferences that seem innately human"

Tags: #cooking #evolution #humanity

Joho the Blog: My addiction

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:15:40 +0000

"I myself have been showing disturbing signs of being compulsively human."

Tags: #addiction #funny #humanity #internet #social #socialsoftware

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - SUSAN BLACKMORE - Everything is pointless

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:05:03 +0000

"We humans can, and do, make up our own purposes, but ultimately the universe has none."

Tags: #cogsci #edge #humanity #philosophy