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Anecdata, for sure, but my experience working at several big companies in tech is that they won’t significantly bump your pay (and especially not your stock grant!) when they promo…

America has a long history of promoting “rugged individualism.” Community is hardly ever part of the conversation, unfortunately.

Warcraft 2 definitely used IPX for multiplayer. I remember struggling to get an IPX driver installed on our family computers so we could play.

I doubt much has changed. The Bay is lagging in terms of infrastructure — it’s hilariously sad. My only options currently are Comcast or DSL. I’m anxiously waiting for Sonic to bec…

Block (fka Square) pays them for the redirect, IIRC.

Honest question: what do you (in the general sense, not specifically asking the parent) use Siri for? I think my main (only?) use case is setting a timer. Maybe I find conversation…

The sensor typically goes on the back of your upper arm (your tricep). You can accidentally bump into things with it, but it was infrequent enough that it didn’t bother me. The nee…

I imagine a not-insignificant number of those who preordered will return it. Anecdotally, everyone I know who bought one plans on doing just that. Sales numbers have been higher th…

Do airlines that have a “bare metal” livery still coat the planes with something, then? (I assume there’s a clear coat.) Does that weigh less than white paint?

Yep. Absolutely this. I get the frustration of people building fragile junk and bouncing before the house of cards falls, but I wouldn’t hold switching jobs every couple of years a…

> What's interesting to me is that in emergencies, apparently many people don't brake hard enough. I did the Mini Stunt Driving Course the other week in Palm Springs. One of the fi…

Whenever I grade take-home assignments, the first thing I do is open the Xcode project file in vim and look for shady stuff. Admittedly, I don’t think most of my colleagues do the …

There are several unions in film/TV. Writers are usually part of the WGA. Directors have their own, as do editors, producers, cinematographers, etc.

What Ubiquiti equipment are you using? Doesn’t their router top out at 3.5Gbps?

What kind of fiber? Did you run it in conduit? If so, what kind? I’m about to start construction on my own outbuilding office and want to not screw this up.

I would second this recommendation. This book is how I originally learned Objective-C and macOS development 20 years ago. It walks you through the fundamentals and provides a very …

Remember when Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco took some stock business photos to promote their movie? I think Uber even used some of those to promote Uber for Business…

Good point. I forgot about that.

That’s a LONG time (in total) for employees to wait for liquidity. Yes, they likely provided some opportunities for early employees to liquidate some of their holdings, but it’s go…

They’re options that are set to expire, not RSUs. Yes, the employees could exercise them to prevent them from expiring, but then Uncle Sam comes to collect his dues. And that’s whe…

This was a huge problem with Apple’s laptop chargers several years ago. They would fray at the junction between the power adapter and the cable, resulting in another $129 out of yo…

I’ve just been going through and cloning the repos via their command line tool: heroku git:clone --a If you have really old apps (e.g. on the bamboo stack or older), there is a plu…

And for what benefit? A higher salary? Stock options in case Twitter somehow survives and goes public again?