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This produces some really wonky numbers. "$800+$27.321 = $827.321" is more or less indecipherable

This is a poor analogy. "Wayland sucks!" isn't a conspiracy theory, its an opinion. There is no basis in truth to the statement "Santa Claus is awesome." Developing software is dif…

Entered my community college without any ambitions and had a 0.9 GPA my first semester. My major was undeclared and chose a random assortment of classes, passing my intro to psych …

Most people decide to quit because they feel Facebook is a threat to these. I know some people have left Facebook because of privacy concerns, but I feel that has a correlation wit…

Modern mathematical notation, binary, or pretty much any software development language

Agreed. 95th percentile of Olympic pole vaulter's? 95th percentile of horse jockey's? If you limit your scope the scope of what you are trying to achieve it gets much more competit…

I would leave. I had a job last April and I left it in November because it was so boring. I keep jobs where I find I am in a win-win scenario. If I am learning and doing things I f…

"someone ate my sandwhich" Bad: 0.3876 - Good: 0.6616 "someone ate my sandwich" Bad: 0.9999 - Good: 0.0001 Hacker news can't spell, or maybe associates sandwhich and someone eating…

Yeah because if we pay a restaurant worker $100 an hour, they will eat 10 as much...right? The reason of why this might be beneficial is likely because restaurant workers aren't ju…

To some extent I find standups useful for joining a team. It helps me understand how to team operates, who the experts are, the team's struggle points, etc. But yes, after a short …

> As a grunt, hate them but as a team leader they really help make my life easier. Have your grunts obeyed their leader?

I'd bet everyone that plays the lottery, gambles, or wants a 4hr work week feels otherwise.

Same. I blame it on the capitalization. "Choose boring technology" reads like a statement. "Choose Boring Technology" does not.

> You don't hire senior devs to code - good junior devs can code not only "just as fast", but probably faster too! I think this is a stereotype that will lead to more harm than goo…