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I'm essentially the same way, with the caveat that I do occasionally go back and find something from one of those archived bookmarks. Maybe a couple times a year at most, which is …

I'm not the person you're condescending to, but it is possible IMO to simultaneously recognize the security value in deny-by-default and Principle of Least Privilege while also fin…

I'm sure I'm slightly misremembering/exaggerating, but RAV4s of recent years seem like a similar size to how I recall the Highlander from that time period, and now Highlanders are …

If you don't mind my asking, is your caution about benzodiazepines out of concern for the addiction potential, the long-term effects (e.g. dementia risk), or something else (or a c…

I genuinely don't understand what point you think this article is making that backs up what you've said here -- would you mind elaborating? Full disclosure, I am diagnosed with ADH…

Please don't be hard on yourself for a vacation not "fixing" whatever is ailing you. If you're depressed or have ADHD or similar, you should consider seeking professional help (e.g…

> To my knowledge, you cannot scan the brain of someone with ADHD and point out an abnormality associated with the disorder. Yet we give 8 year old boys stimulant medication becaus…

This is exactly where I'm at. I'm a professional SDE and I'm pretty damn good at writing code and solving problems at all kinds of different levels of complexity and abstraction, a…

I agree with this, and disagree with the parent comment's framing of this as "going outside the chain of command", but I do think that if you have a healthy relationship and open c…

This is super org-dependent -- my entire org has completely switched to Slack, I only use Chime for meetings now (except for the occasional recruiter or someone outside my org who …

Oh totally, I can't dispute that. It's just good reading in general, but is more of a response to the grandparent comment stating "the software industry is a complete joke in terms…

This topic reminds me of this relatively old (but still super interesting) article about the team that worked on the space shuttle's onboard computer systems and the rigorous proce…

> With the possibility of almost uniquely identifying us on the web through fingerprinting... Google, of all companies is in the perfect position to know that my web request was ma…

It's been mentioned a few times already but I just wanted to +1 the suggestion of considering therapy. And I don't even mean that in a "you sound like you need therapy" sense; I th…

The way you put this really resonates with me. Often when I'm procrastinating it's because a task seems/feels/sounds really daunting, but the "daunting" feeling is because I'm imag…

Seconded, as another Amazonian working in a remote office. The Seattle HQ absolutely hires folks from all over, but many of the remote sites tend to hire more locally. In fact, man…

Can you go into more detail on what you mean by "they don't have inventory"?

The public postmortem from the big DynamoDB outage in 2015(?) is a great example I think: https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/

You're thinking too small. Support it multi-tenant on a fleet of servers and sell it to customers, now you've got a service-as-a-service-as-a-platform.

In the United States at least, "track and field" refers to what other countries might call "athletics" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_and_field ). The term "athletics" in…

Not sure how recently it was changed, but on my phone running iOS 8.3 that setting is under Privacy -> Advertising.

MacBooks used to have accelerometers that were used to detect sudden motion and park the hard disk head to prevent a head crash. But it looks like they've stopped including the acc…

We do this to pretty good success at the Big 4 I work at as well. The process by which these post-morterms get assigned can occasionally get political -- e.g. manager A dislikes or…

>> Every developer, tester, and program manager is in a private office > The longer I spend in this environment (coming up to five years) the less I like it > I like the idea of ha…

Maybe not as critical in a strict financial sense, but absolutely critical in a privacy and data confidentiality sense.