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Like me, I already left. I lived in Hayward and commuted to the south bay while my wife commuted north a little bit. It was rotten and awful. I hate everything about living in the …

Towards the opposite end of the spectrum, I have too many hobbies and I usually don't focus enough on work (software development), but that may be caused by wanting mental stimulus…

I would say you are wrong because legal AR15s, even California legal AR15s with bullet buttons, have become popular among all types of gun owners. It's the #1 selling rifle. There …

Most people who are anti-gun, such as yourself due to your "BS amendment" comment, are usually very ignorant or fearful of guns. As a very middle of the road type of guy, I joined …

Why doesn't the pay reflect the supply and demand? I consider myself a decent developer with 9 years of industry experience in several domains and my salary is only $88k. It sounds…

In my personal experience, if this question were posed to me by a project team, I would ask questions about usage and purpose (granted it would be more business-like such as given …

As a developer, I find that designing the web app that I'm developing for makes the effort/project much more enjoyable. Web app development is the type where you do things differen…

Exactly this, except I've only been developing for 8 years and don't have my own company. I find myself getting into new hobbies because of the actual creation. I've built my own r…

Pointing at lack of firearms regulations in the US correlating to higher firearm violence does not imply causation. We had an assault weapons ban for 10 years that did nothing, and…

As others have said, those 2088 hours a year in my job aren't deliberate practice, and as a software engineer, I spend about 2 hours a day or less doing software development. Howev…

Edit: Sorry I just noticed you are the original poster.

The regulations and fees around building a house are ridiculous in California. I would love to build a house of my dreams, which would be about 1500sq ft, big garage, on 1+ acre an…

Nice article, I would be curious how it is implemented and how you setup the rules for alerting. I'm working with Microsoft's Semantic Logging Application Block to standardize erro…

Your comment offends me, but on a light note, for every 1 developer doing the enterprise overengineering crap, there is a dozen of us C# guys who are doing the opposite where I wor…

I realize other creates think and feel, but I have great appreciation for the meat I take on my own whenever I shoot a deer, elk or turkey. I gutted, skinned and butchered my first…