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I imagine the GP was referring to the fact that Costco experiences that kind of growth while giving their employees excellent pay and benefits. Even low-level store employees typic…

I can appreciate the desire to focus on abilities first, but this felt like a shotgun approach to the same old checklist strategy. Like a crawler found my resume somewhere on the w…

In my experience, it felt that way from the outside. I got solicited by five different Amazon recruiters in 2022 alone. The one time I engaged, they didn't even have a specific rol…

Bartle also wrote Notes from the Dawn of Time, a great series of articles about MUD design and programming. The stuff about command parsing is especially interesting. https://www.s…

Here's a simple browser extension to hide Facebook posts from people and pages you don't follow. The post gets replaced with a small notification that says "Ghosted." The biggest p…

Safe spaces aren't really censorship. People are allowed to make fun of them. The hypocrisy comes into play when the ones who claim they're not allowed to speak their minds seem mo…

Fair point. But that just means the breadth of files that might need to be preserved is even broader than I suggested.

I'm talking documents in a very general sense. It might be a text file, audio, video, a software installer, source code, or anything at all. > A video from the 90s that you never r…

The disagreement here seems to be about what kind of data should be considered ephemeral. Traffic logs from a decade ago? A ten-year-old package lock? I'm sure I don't care anymore…

I feel like Netflix has been declining for years. A decade ago, their recommendation algorithm was phenomenal. Today, both their library and their recommendations are severely lack…

Heirs benefit because intellectual property is inheritable in the same way as any other property, such as real estate. If I owned a valuable copyright, I'd certainly want my childr…

I can't imagine how many future developers were originally inspired to learn programming by playing your games. A text adventure was the first thing I wanted to make when I learned…

I suspect wages aren't the only thing impacting prices. External factors like material shortages and supply chain problems have also had an effect.

I only had to review Doodles since October 1 to find Yoram Gross and Ivan Piddubny (the latter of whom was exceptionally able-bodied).

Not worthless, but last I heard it was at a $9 billion valuation after receiving around $20 billion in venture capital, so not exactly a success story either.

I can vouch for Ruby's practicality as an embedded scripting language. The first time I used it was in a game engine (which, IIRC, also predated Rails) with a C++ core. Writing the…

MMORPGs have always been a mix of both. UO was definitely one of the most sandboxy, but it also demonstrated why a sandbox full of children needs a supervisor.

The article makes a lot of good points, but I disagree with the notion that source code is worthless. The true test of the source's value isn't what would happen if it got stolen. …

Especially anyone who works in law, government, banking, or healthcare.

> If you ignore the tooling of Flash, very little about it is appealing. The tooling seems to be what most people miss. That's not trivial. Adobe Animate is supposed to fill that v…

rc1 was just a few days ago, but preview1 was released in September.

I agree 100%, and often use NewEgg and Monoprice for specific needs, but there's a huge swath of stuff where I check Amazon first just because they're always competitively priced a…

Any example where the type is defined as something more specific than an array (especially in PHP, where the `array` type doesn't even differentiate between numerically indexed arr…