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here is a testimony that motivated me to try and stop like you are : https://thinkfaster.co/2019/02/quitting-alcohol/

When I tried to stop drinking in college, I used to fill empty beer bottles with water to drink at parties. This helped a lot with social pressure. I reckon one could do the same i…

Reaper is awesome. I've made a lot of my (bad) music sound very great with it ! I've used it for more than 10 years, and it's my go-to DAW ever since.

I'm sure there are people out there that are impervious to feedback and believe they have all the answser. I've also seen countless of young engineers starting to welcome managers'…

My experience is exactly the opposite. In the market I've prospected (France) the applicants have leverage because there is more positions than candidates. Even if there is a lot o…

This is turning into a "I'm self taught and I can code juste as well as the next CS graduate" debate. I totally agree with that proposition. The degree is not a sine qua none condi…

Indeed, and the fact that unskilled engineers with good business skills can and always climb to the top proves my point : those success stories happen because the kid is a good sal…

What does make a self-taught special?

Maybe is the US the college debt is a problem but they are a lot of countries where education is not as expensive. I attended engineering school for 200€ a year plus help from the …

Of course encouraging people to try and get in the IT industry even without a degree is good too. I thought I said so in my comment. I am in no way a college elitist. I know not ev…

Everything you wrote is true and in no way disagrees with what I wrote. I think you mistook my A => B assumptions for a no B => no A which is a flawed logical reasoning.

Since these articles seem to be putting a cash value on the word "success" (or at the very least an instagram buzz value), I would point that IMHO, most of this success comes from …

Harari won't do. Too contoversial and opiniated. Not factual enough.

>OOP is considered by many to be the crown jewel of computer science. The ultimate solution to code organization. The end to all our problems. The only true way to write our progra…

I feel hn experience is awesome. Everything is accessible with one or two clicks. I never wait for something to load, never pest against it because of some obscure behavior. It's s…

To clarify, with "human evolution" I mean paleoanthropology and such. A study of human species from a very long time ago to a not so long time a ago. A study of both their biologic…

I'm looking for recommandations for books about human evolution. I'd like to get one for my SO. She's a lawyer and does not have a lot of scientific background. She's getting inter…

Above security concerns, I'm worried about installing a custom theme made by someone who would choose such difficult to read color pairing for their own website.

We could have website-centered search engines. You ask the question on whatsthatquote.com and find out if someone has already asked it. If yes, you have your answer, if not someone…

> Your question belittles the literal billions of dollars and millions of man hours that have gone into making the current and previous implementations of Google's search engine I …

You, sir, are a modern-time knight

> Companies do code testing because they have encountered so many candidates who look good on paper, and may even be able to talk about computers convincingly, but can’t actually w…

I see. Thanks for the clarification

My point was : node is just a web server and npm just a package manager. There was countless before, there will be countless after, we will continue to code with or without. I have…

As "life finds a way", I believe packages will find a way too. If npm stops being the go-to solution, another one will take its place, naturaly adopted by the community, following …