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In the real world, in quite a few companies, in order to accomplish X, you must sit through many meetings with others that have nothing to do with accomplishing X. There are also m…

I've used what I learned in this course more than any learning I've done. IMHO This should be a required course before a student graduates high school (or sooner).

Are we really having this discussion on Hacker News? As Hackers we should all be MATHing and SCIENCEing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8 This article has some goo…

We should all just be on GMT. In software development on Pacific time, I always feel bad for the guys offshore that have to stay up late at night to make our morning meetings. It s…

One of my favorite dialogs of his was from an old Bond movie. Girl: Hi I'm Plenty Bond: But of course you are Girl: Plenty O'Toole Bond: Named after your father perhaps https://www…

So this appears to be, the very old, software that was pushed to production before it was ready story. I have to wonder if there wasn't some Marketing/PR/Mgmt person(s) that pushed…

Someone just needs to create a swiss army knife headless browser streaming file saver/converter and leave out any text about how to download youtube videos with it. Then the commun…

From my perspective it kind of seems like YouTube-dl is like a knife, it can cut your food, but it can also be used to kill someone. In the case of YouTube-dl the knife was include…

I agree completely. Steve Ballmer put all of Microsoft eggs in the Office Basket that let mobile die on the vine. He pushed licensing and marketing and left developers and new tech…

From a business standpoint, I would have to agree he did turn them around from a business standpoint. As a user of Windows since 3.1 (w/out networking). I do the same as MekaiGS "I…

In the article it references a Gallup poll and says, "Nearly two-thirds of employees who have been working remotely would like to continue to do so" So the Majority of people want …

A recurring type of story I am seeing on Hacker News goes something like: Social Media Company X has blocked/failed-to block, banned/un-banned, flagged/un-flagged changed/needs to …

Here we are again, discussing politics in our tech forum. Why? Because we invented brain washing machines. Social media married w/ Algorithms and AI. The bigger story here is that …

I think that title is more fitting.

I am so tired of hearing what CEO's want. As a worker bee, I want to work from home. I want human contact with my family and friends. Co-workers, not so important. Not to mention, …

I was just talking w/ someone about the good old days (and farting some dust) and back in the day, if someone was trolling hard, or spamming or running bots that should not be run,…

Oh noes, my beloved hacker news has sunk down into the political morass. I think the bigger picture, and meta topic here is that private companies have become the arbiters of what …

Also the "right" way often changes, in technology, and if you only learned the "right" way, when a better way comes out, you'll miss it because you only ever learned the "right" wa…

I bought one of their laptops a few year ago. I needed a new power supply as the cable had frayed that came w/ the unit. I wanted to get the original cable, so I called and asked "…

The name.... reminds me of Annoying Text

In the US, there are a number of us that wake up every day and feel like our hair is on fire. We read the news, hoping that at some point our elected leaders will do their job and …