Danielle Fong

The funny thing is, at the end, he talks about how it is a form of brain damage to be unable to pick up on metaphorical meaning. Then he says "now, we scientists can use neurology to discover the answers to all these questions philosophers have been wondering about for millenia!" Which is, of course, to entirely miss the point of all philosophy, as amazingly useful as it may be for... more... - Alexandria Brown

"Breaking news from the office of fallacies: People are fungible! Seriously speaking, however, money is a pretty major problem. It is hard not to feel unfairly treated when the lawyers working on translating your product into patentese make 5-6x per hour that you do. Of course, I have equity. I don't know how I'd feel were I an engineer, paid market rate, without it. Why is the market rate for engineers so low, compared with other professionals? Do they need a union? Negotiations class? What is it?" - Danielle Fong

Until as a society we decide that creating stuff that didn't exist before is more valuable than shuffling money around, we will continue to shunt smart people into those useless occupations. Talk about a massive misallocation of capital. - Piaw Na

"I tend to phrase the question a little more humorously: Why do bankers have all the money?" - Danielle Fong

"Hey guys, this looks super great :-)" - Danielle Fong

"Cheaper than coal if you've already built the thing.It's a sunk cost, sure, but for policy going forward you can't ignore it." - Danielle Fong

"There are plenty of people who wrote x who don't, for the moment, want the moral weight, commitment, instability and uncertainty of starting a company. And GitHub probably doesn't need a bazillion engineers." - Danielle Fong

"There are plenty of people who wrote x who don't, for the moment, want the moral weight, commitment, instability and uncertainty of starting a company. And GitHub probably doesn't need a bazillion engineers." - Danielle Fong