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I have a huge need to relate, which manifests in constantly interrupting to tell personal anecdotes. It hurt my personal and professional relationships. On the professional level, …

I understand you're saying that Mercedes are bought to signal status, but this post portrays women in a passive, dependent, role which is unfortunate and harmful to the diversity o…

SEEKING WORK | Germany / Europe / East Coast | Remote Are you building up a tech department? Shipping early product while figuring out the org? Maybe hiring your first tech leaders…

I've definitely seen and experienced this. Yes I changed jobs three times in the last 7 years but my compensation went up 3x too. It might have done had I stayed in the first job, …

This drives really nicely. Reminds me of some good driving games from the 90s when a keyboard was enough. It's so well done, thanks for sharing!

That makes the spouse financially dependent on the partner for life, which can be a bad situation.

Parent is calling it out, not doing it themselves. The topic itself is deeply rooted in sexism. These kinds of transgressions against women often get drowned in debates about techn…

Spreadsheets work great because it's trivial to change the data structure, and because I can email/share them to the CFO. If I was to adopt a tool, it would have to at least export…

I know what you mean. It's a thin line to walk. Sometimes you really have to keep them for business reasons. But I found that sometimes the shock of losing the skills and/or knowle…

I'm personally happy to stay inside Apple's ecosystem, but believe that everyone should have the option to choose. This looks like good news, a step in the direction of being more …

Is 3 euros such a high price to pay someone to bike over to the restaurant and bring you a still warm meal?

No, just 5. You get the results a few hours after each test. I flew in on a Sunday, went into quarantine, got my landing test results same day, did my second test Friday morning (t…

Do they mean the ad targeting that shows me ads to help build a religious building (I'm an atheist) in NYC (I live in Europe)? That ad targeting is going to work less well? How? In…

TerminusDB is a new project being implemented in Prolog: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb-server

That's very true. I'm also a software professional looking for work, and so far my network has been a good source of promising leads. On the cash front, in addition to the importan…

Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes, to Nova Scotia Canada or Reykjavik Iceland (We've family there) Technologies: go, php, JS, vuejs, react, all kinds o…

I'm seeing some negative comments that focus on the article specifics. So I thought I'd say well done Patrick for reaching your goal using creativity and the right kind of persiste…

Hey HN, OP here. As a programmer, getting promoted to people manager taught me how poorly prepared I was. I think being a good individual contributor is not enough preparation for …