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I agree with this other than the lunch and learns. Leave their one break in the day out of it.

Exactly the position I am in now. After a couple of years I am looking to move on but I am finding that no one needs the experience I have. Everything I have done for my current co…

>Salt-water can be desalinated cheaply and pumped anywhere. Really? I thought salt water desalination is a rather difficult and expensive thing to do. Can you cite support for this…

yes! I have been playing a lot of king arthurs gold as well but the community is very small. There are usually only at most 2 servers with a decent number of players.

I work for the company that is building this 3D printer (Cincinnati Incorporated). I am only a software guy but if anyone has any questions let me know and I'll try to answer them!…

>so we often work up to 1.5 to 2 times (60-80 hours is very common) over our official salaried hours for free. Take this with a grain of salt, it really depends on where you live. …

I work with a guy that used to be a submariner and he talks about how the best thing about being in a submarine was the food, including lobster. Maybe being in submarine they could…

Thanks for this link. Am I reading wrong or does the article say the drone costs $15? That sounds unbelievably cheap, does anyone know how much a drone like this in America would c…

It's probably the fact that a huge leap in battery technology would make huge changes in both electric cars as well as being able to store solar power (and therefore allowing peopl…

I googled something like "Paul Software Engineer" to see if I myself would come up and found Paul Graham's articles which lead to hacker news. I had no idea what a startup even was…

I wish, most people don't seem to care. I for one would rather see my tax dollars go to something useful like education.

As someone with the name Paul Brown in the Cincinnati area (where the Paul Brown stadium is) I deal with this almost daily. I'm sick of meeting someone and about 75% of the time th…

I just found out that my uncle, whom I thought very successful, failed to fulfill his responsibilities to his backers. He was working on a 3d printer that I was hoping to get to bu…

That was an awesome read, thank you for mentioning it.

There is no documented proof he ever said this. I'm sure he is sick of hearing it repeated when he has had to tell everyone how he didn't say it and no one listens.

Can you support the coffee is addictive comment? I drink coffee daily but have no issues short of a headache if I stop and I don't drink it on the weekends.

The only account I have so far used my real name on is my stackexchange account so I can potentially use it in interviews to show I am active in the community and in my own learnin…

Ego is my number one pet peeve about coworkers and I have a really hard time working with anyone who won't admit they don't know everything. I have a coworker who I can't tell that…

No... I'm saying that while we on the HN community like to believe that everyone makes honest effort to do great things with their careers most people work to make a living, and if…

This. I am an engineer and work hard because I enjoy the feeling of success as well as the wealth, but for many people (I believe most) this is not the case. On both sides of my fa…

Exactly. I could never bring myself to use billions on super luxury stuff anyway and would wind up donating most of that money to a good cause (I wonder if the Gates foundation acc…

>That's literally Apples and oranges. Yes literally, my orange phone rings off the hook cause I'm so popular.