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> If your arm gets broken, you don't "suck it up" and say "that's life", you go to a doctor and get treated. It's no different when your brain gets broken. People say this sort of …

I'm not a founder, just a techie with mild depressive tendencies. I think the advice to talk to someone when you feel it coming on is the best - if you talk to someone about the sp…

There was nothing named "Bolt" before Mr. Benton's product came around? Really?

The first time I went to Mexico, I was excited to get a fresh coconut, a hole cut in the top with a machete and a straw inserted. It was much less refreshing than I expected, so I …

Probably correct. But, it doesn't feel that way.

Right, this strikes me as a situation with real potential for "the cure is worse than the disease".

Right. The point here is actually reducing the pool of candidates to those enthusiastic enough, and with enough time, to do projects in a way that fits the template this interviewe…

I worked at a place that had people whose responsibility was the workflow, precisely so that developers could focus more on writing code. Then people started doing their own projec…

Anecdotally it seems like a lot of the people let go were in SDET roles.

I hope this person is OK but that strikes me as unrealistic. Ageism is a real problem for software developers, but also that 15 years at MS could just as easily be viewed as a nega…

It's really not bullshit, I think. The stuff about fear rings totally true to me, it aligns perfectly with my experiences. But, I know that being on the other side of it, it can so…

Yup, it's about labor costs.

It's not like I disagree but discussing this aspect of every new thing that comes along is rather tiresome.

Wow, gotta disagree there. I found that having projects on Github was impressive to potential employers 100% of the time I brought it up. Before I had them on there (in particular,…

Oh, brother.

This is very thorough, and I'm sure it's helpful to a lot of folks. So thank you to the author. For me, it's probably a syntactical issue, but I find things such as the below too h…

Very strange comment, I'm sure execs expected all of this when the deal was done. Their expected outcome probably does not look "catastrophic" to them. Actually, I would say that b…

Call me names all day, I would never get on a flight with that airline. They should really just pack it in at this point. "These events are still rare." OK, but if there's a turd i…

> Instead of being a programmer auditioning to sling code, he was already “part of the club” (management) and just engaging in a two-way discussion, as equals, on whether he was go…

I find this suspicion suspicious. I know that some people are melodramatic about it, but why can't people just have their food without gluten if they don't want it? Nobody ever bac…

This is what mealy-mouthed "best tool for the job" rhetoric misses. Different platforms have different communities with different people in them, who place emphasis on different as…

Pre-legalization: "Crime will go up." Post-legalization: "Crime went down, but not because of the weed thing." Well, okay then.

"Functional programming is the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms." Well, that's not helping. But I agree that devs should learn FP, and I now write in a much more functi…

Getting the first and last line of a file with unpacking is pretty slick. Respect.

I remember idle moments during soccer games I played as a kid. I would sometimes think to myself "OK, we're up 1-0. If the rest of the game goes at this rate, we will definitely wi…