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I’m in the same boat. I’ve never directly applied to the 3 jobs (including a FAANG) that I’ve taken in Silicon Valley. One found me on angel list and the others LinkedIn or direct …

It looks like someone from the company reached out in the comments section: > I just saw your post this morning. I'd like to help resolve this as quickly as possible, if I can. I'm…

Oof! Does anyone recommend any tools for protecting against this sort of stuff? I feel like a VPN wouldn’t even be enough here since the MAC address is coming through the headers. …

> Today's JavaScript developer is acting like they have a 100 GHz CPU with terabytes of memory. And being lazy and uninspired as a result. Not sure how I feel about a statement thi…

I went in for an interview recently for the react core team and the guy who interviewed me said Facebook was trying to edge away from open source. He mentioned it’s not worth it to…

Comments written like this are why I left reddit.

This would be nice for slack, except if you’re mentioned you’ll still get a notification.

I can understand the frustration with Slack but the comment about large companies using it doesn’t have much ground. I’m at a 3000+ employee company and slack works great for us. I…

On the note of brain games, there have been studies on their effectiveness. You can read more from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0…

It would be amazing to see something like this on the switch. Play any game portably? I’m in.

What about engineering managers? I’m betting the average tops both PMs and SWEs.

I’m not justifying their lack of efforts for Linux users but I can understand why they limit their resources towards creating better drivers. According to Wikipedia(1), the amount …

I have some friends who were new grads and put on the security team. My first thought was, why put new grads on the security team? Do they really have the experience to protect thi…

I might be misreading/misinterpreting..what was the reason for the closure? The article mentions it was financial but it didn’t seem absolute.

Started at a company that technically was not a startup at the point I joined (10 years old — 300 employees). I got lucky and 6 months in the company was acquired and all my stock …

The meaning of high quality software can be argued. Another HN comment put it pretty well: >People are more likely to use a buggy app that has features they want over a perfect app…

For a website with so many visitors and transactions, I’m surprised this API call never threw enough errors for them to see in logging. I will admit that JS logging can be messy be…

My guess is that there were some engineering job cuts at least. I’ve had some views from Evernote engineers on my LI profile today. Could be coincidence though!

Apple also announced a wireless charging capable airpods case. Not a mention of it since..maybe it wasn’t feasible?

I work at Square for what it’s worth..I disagree. Stripe set out to create the perfect payments service. Square set out to create the perfect physical POS. The next logical step fo…