Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I haven’t ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it. There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can’t be perfect of course; you can make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.
Goddamn Electric Bill - Ten Thousand Years
“Let me start off by saying I personally think Aza Raskin is a genius. Really. When Windows Phone 7 Series just came out, everyone was all amazed about how ‘the data is the UI’, and how everything is so semantic and clean. Well, it’s been done.”
Your time is valuable.
Time is like currency, and who you choose to surround yourself with and spend that currency on reflects who you are.
If you are to spend your money to buy crack, there is a high likelyhood you are a crackhead, or at the very least, increasing your chances to be one.
There…
In a recent Stack Overflow podcast episode, Joel Spolsky mentioned that he’s probably going to formally end his popular Joel on Software blog next month.
He has been talking to someone named Jason who’s doing a pretty good job convincing him to “blog” privately instead, via email, only to a…
