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I’ve been in several different orgs that held a lot of layoffs and they’re sometimes performance related but other times just wrong place, wrong time as others have commented. I al…

We might not be able to quantitatively measure it but we can run studies to evaluate what individuals and teams can handle. Human factors people do this and it’s a sub field in ind…

Merry Christmas all. Like many of the posters have said, I really treasure this site as this is what I still believe the Internet should be (yep, I’m old). Love all the nuggets I f…

The department of education does publish this. They've apparently changed their website a bit but here it is: https://collegecost.ed.gov/

Just came back from a short trip to Kentucky. The area we were had tons of billboards advertising caves. Really jumped out at me at the time.

Back when I was doing a lot of full time dev, my approach was to figure out how to build Hello World (usually the device driver equivalent) and then debug it and then start for rea…

A couple of years ago I moved from a more structured (not exactly slower paced in the job I was in) employer to a FAANG-like employer. I was making more money (base salary wasn't t…

"the 80s called and it wants its 8 ball of coke back." This phrase made me laugh out loud - literally. Thanks for this! Also, this thread is spot on.

This was a more balanced post than I expected. I'm probably older than the median here on HN and I think it's a generational thing. My parents were of the generation when folks ten…

I'm a still learning guitar player (I think I've been taking lessons for ~8.5 yrs and did some piano lessons as a kid and was in school bands). I usually work on solo style arrange…

I think you can actually flip this situation around a little bit. You've now learned about a couple of things that are really important to you: - You're ready to move on from being…

It's definitely steep and getting steeper by the month. The other downside, that's actually more significant than the base salary difference, is the lack of upside from stock, etc.…

There are times when complex frameworks are necessary because they've already dealt with the complexity and times when they're overkill or stupidly inefficient. The point being mad…

I think I'm going to take a slightly different approach to some of the comments and the article. Notes: My wife is a long-time primary grade (think Kinder - 2) teacher and I've got…