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Are staff engineers needed? The role seems like a relatively new invention. Senior and midlevel IC engineers do the heavy lifting, principals set strategy and define architecture, …

Where? Washington state has no state income tax either.

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This. Documentation (comment blocks in code, as well as all other forms of documentation) tends to become outdated because it is not maintained in sync with every code change. Solu…

See also https://github.com/convoyinc/ts2gql

While it would be in Amazon's interest to get the federal minimum wage increased after setting their internal minimum wage at $15/hr, why is this negative? Aligning business intere…

I think the demand side for single family housing will increase in Seattle over the near future. There has been a recent boom in tech company positions and equity (especially Amazo…

I think capitalism is much simpler: capital begets capital. Those who have capital will accumulate more capital, almost infinitely, until the capital/income ratio reaches an equili…

According to this article, the study found those who watch 5 or more hours of TV a day while sitting were 65% more likely to lose mobility in the period tested than those who watch…

Who gets $300k comp offers? Principal engineers?

Have you tried ambient techno? Boards of Canada Tycho Ulrich Schnauss Fisk Industries

"Edith looks up from a game of solitaire and casually mentions that she actually thinks the murder was committed by the accomplice, who was never found and is not on trial. But sin…

Applause to the Zuck for the public commitment to invest 99% of his fortune in charitable causes. Providing cheap, reliable internet to underserved areas of the planet seems like a…

Windows has had this capability for at least 8 years with "time travel tracing" (or iDNA tracing), which produces a dump file that can be traversed back and forward in WinDBG or Vi…

Consolidation of resources and broadness of ecosystem produces synergistic effects that advance tech. Google benefits in its pursuit of self-driving cars and drone delivery from ex…

As much as startups can "disrupt" by creating new businesses, big tech companies can also create entirely new products or businesses and when they attempt to do so they often succe…

If you use contractions like don\'t inside of a string then you need to escape the apostrophe if you\'re using single quotes, which is annoying and can make the string a bit harder…

https://dev.windows.com/en-US/uwp-bridges/ Sounds like a serious effort to allow you to develop native iOS apps in VS instead of xcode. You're right the motivation is heavily to mi…

Microsoft Research is strongly expected to have an impact on the business side of things. It just so happens that Microsoft is willing to incubate projects like Midori* that have l…

L-Theanine one of those other drugs found in green/black/white tea, and it produces a calming effect. The Japanese even put it in bubble gum.

Coffee also creates an energy sine wave for me, the amplitude of which is too intense. I go for matcha green tea powder in my morning shake - the effects last longer since your bod…

Aren't all Windows Update packages optional? This is what I see when I look at Windows update on 8.1 (I think 7 had similar options): http://imgur.com/MxRVZ94 As someone else menti…

Bash scripts run in Powershell. We have hundreds of bash scripts for infrastructure build/deploy/etc. and they are cross-platform. On windows we execute them in Powershell. Powersh…