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For me, around age 12 when I started using BBS's in ~1993: 1) I exclusively used it to play door games, mostly LORD, Exitilus, Usurper, and Trade wars 2002. Logged in daily if my p…

Yes, but the situation was much different than the one you have found yourself in. As an "intern" I found myself at a very small company - literally just my boss, his son, and me. …

I'd summarize it as: Hard Work + Market Analysis + (Massive Luck OR Large upfront funding OR Large and relevant network of personal connections) + Luck IRT externalities that can i…

I feel like a large number of software engineer positions interview as if they are looking for computer scientists. The distinction is subtle, but important in terms of what is nee…

Agreed with your concerns, though to me it sounds like this guy in the article is also trying to limit his hours spent on learning and side projects outside of work, which is healt…

Whether this would work depends on the kind of system and the deadlines imposed by external needs of the company. Does your system have a lot of (intentional or unintentional) emer…

I have been reading a book that was recommended to me, "From Strength to Strength": and while it is cheesy as fuck, the theory it presents is interesting and has made me think a lo…

(for context though, I love your site! I just would love tips as someone thinking in this area who ran into what he thought was trouble in this area... I might have just been overl…

How do you get around the CAN-SPAM act and GDPR for the sending of emails in response to posts, when the people being sent them haven't already signed up on the site? I had to bend…

This is great! Coincidentally I've been working on a prototype that is almost the exact same idea. I had very similar motivations and a feeling that "slow social" (I was calling it…

"The company in a court filing said it has between $1 billion and $10 billion of both assets and liabilities." Is it just me, or does this seem like a pretty wide estimate range?

I just ate enough thai food for 3 people so I'm pretty sure I am at least

I worked there in the old days when I was in high school (late 90's), and one of the most disgusting stories I have about a job is when I went to refill the orange juice dispenser …

This is the approach I like as well, with the caveat that the stores procedures themselves should be kept as dumb and as late in the process as possible. I have made many mistakes …

At this point, I will take any and every mix of non-polluting energy we can get. I do worry about the stability-of-nations risk, but I think if we could plan as a global community …

You did good, and I am proud of you. We must begin to treat our profession with the care due to it - recognizing the negative impact it can have on human lives, justice, and freedo…

Sac State grad here, from 2002-2006! After the turn of the century they started teaching more Java classes, but the most interesting classes were definitely the Assembly and Comput…

One is basically a large pine derby racer. Two hopefully will be an electric vehicle, but I won't hold my breath

Ultimately, much of this argument feels pedantic. Yes, people are giving oversimplified descriptions of what's going on when they say dopamine is "addictive." That's because it's e…

On a related subject, I do feel like there's been real, tangible moral harm done to our society by reinforcing the idea of debate as a competition in children. When we reinforce ce…

I really enjoyed Turbo Pascal - the IDE, the included libraries, the Pascal language itself. It really felt like the python of its time.

As a case study: https://abc14news.com/2020/03/14/canadian-couple-make-more-t...

Yes, exactly: there's a definite distinction between hoarding from fear and hoarding for a desire to profit/exploit disasters. The latter just make the former worse in a disturbing…

Jesus. Yeah, it's sick. There's another story along the same lines, to the tune of $70k in disaster profiteering: https://abc14news.com/2020/03/14/canadian-couple-make-more-t...