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You are comparing suicide to "ragequit"? Wow... Sorry, two very different things there and if you actually do know the real differences and made a poor analogy I think you really should clarify things.
The End of Ragequitting
When Joel Spolsky, my business partner on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, asked me what I wanted to do after I left Stack Exchange, I distinctly remember mentioning Aaron Swartz. That's what Aaron was to us hackers: an exemplar of the noble, selfless behavior and positive action that all hac...
Sometimes being honest is good, sometimes not. Always saying the first thing that comes to yor mind is a recipe for trouble in the long term. Sayyou are in the subway and you see a group of young men and you think to yourself "what a worthless pile of human shit that is standing before me." One of them sees you looking at them and makes the typical male ego saving challlenge of "what cha looking at?" If you respond "a worthless pile of human shit", let me know how that works out for you.
Trust Me, I'm Lying
We reflexively instruct our children to always tell the truth. It's even encoded into Boy Scout Law. It's what adults do, isn't it? But do we? Isn't telling the truth too much and too often a bad life strategy – perhaps even dangerous? Is telling children to always tell the truth even itself th...
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