denis bider

Facebook predictions: The campaign against Zuckerberg is about message control

Simple things that do not work in the US

Redditors with absolute powers

Faux stoicism of the confused libertarian / Trumpian variety

Dunning-Kruger effect in academic subjects without test of truth

We kept it gray

The five principles of negotiation (for young adults)

Missing web security feature: Signed web assets with browser validation

Samsung Galaxy: Buggy alerts in both Samsung and Google Calendar

Thoughts on Bitcoin - and why I cashed out of BTC at $18k

Mudanzas Mundiales: 82 days to move things from Costa Rica to Texas

Left vs. right: reason and compassion vs. blind principles

The "woo" of physicalists

IBM Trusteer Rapport is crap-ware

For sale: 4-bedroom condo in San José, Costa Rica!

On the Google vs. James Damore controversy

"It's hard work to suffer."

Libertarianism in bullet points

Is morality fundamentally objective?

Why I no longer like libertarians

Microsoft Office: Command Prompt window flashes every hour

Rust is beautiful

Limitations of Central-American pronunciation

"May prosper all the nations"

Righteous predators

The $20 billion puppy, and "The buck stops with you"

Rationalists and control fetishists

Is the internet ready for DMARC with p=reject?

Lock-step refactoring

Loyalty to group vs. principle

Limitations of single-payer health care

Why software patents are counter-productive

Fear: An account of terror on top of a coal stack; by Franc Bider

Code generation bug with new optimizer in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

The barren rockscape and the Garden of the Mind

The benefit of some kind of authority

On the desirable properties of a programming language

"Hello world" in LLVM IR language without CRT

Over-education and free college

Libertarian confusions

The Louis Vuitton theory of happy marriage

CamelCase vs. underscore_case

Against signed integer types

"Unreachable" beauty standards

Socialism and libertarianism: The two idiots

The rats' race and the pie in the sky

Masters don't need

Limited empathy and large out-groups

Crappy gaming laptops recap

No true study

Scott Adams' Trump argument, and improving democracy

Barva kože in karibska idila: najine izkušnje iz St. Kittsa

The Overrated Compass

Most people are no good at long-term planning

Musicians "saving" the world

Transaction ethics as root of social/libertarian disagreement

Janez Janša

Survey of SSL/TLS use in SMTP mail exchangers

Republicanism is fascism

The doghouse: Vagaries of the Excel COM interface

"auto" considered (often) harmful

Our bitching and moaning: Why the Middle East cannot have peace

The advantages of Seq, and the demerits of std::string const&

Can we stop with this idiocy of private courts?

On Daylight Saving Time

Modern-day pyramid building

Spec author "fixes mistake", wastes everyone's man-year

This ex-libertarian endorses Sanders

When monospace fonts aren't: The Unicode character width nightmare

C++ Relocator proposal

Acetaminophen (paracetamol, Tylenol) more toxic than thought

Apple design is anti-nerd

Science, spirituality, and the limits of the materialist paradigm

The ethics of non-consensual monogamy: coercion and dead bedrooms

How the Yugoslav army dealt with liabilities

Ossification and Hawaii: Impressions of a C++ working group

Love and function

"Good, traditional" traits

Attractiveness is not shallow

VS 2015 projects: "One or more errors occurred"

Algorithm for selective archival or aggregation of records

Exceptions in destructors and Visual Studio 2015

The main asset of the US is its value system

Whistleblowing policy proposal

SFTP and OpenSSH's "do as we please"

Aggregated exceptions: Proposal summary

Errors in destructors: C++ and the case for aggregate exceptions

Code as concise expression of thought

Your production code should assert

Why I use "SomeObj const&", not "const SomeObj&"

Reporting errors in destructors

C++ should support temporary objects as lvalues

Kung Fury

INS insurance in Costa Rica: Evidence is not enough

H. L. Mencken

BusyBeaver and the state of near-native code in browsers

Against the hating of cheaters

Visual C++ ternary operator considered harmful

The reasons for the wars

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