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A better analogy would be "remotely swing a hammer as a service". You can't build something like that and act shocked when a significant fraction of your users use it to harm peopl…

I really don't get a lot of this criticism. For example, who is using iceberg with hundreds of concurrent committers, especially at the scale mentioned in the article (10k rows per…

> Riot and Blizzard both have large flagship franchises that they practically decorate their offices around, statues and all. When I was talking to recruiters in the past, Riot sto…

Do people have any pride? Why would you subject yourself to this?

It's hard to know how to feel about this complex situation. On one hand: - The Chinese government clearly has its tendrils in TikTok and uses it to push its oppressive censorship p…

At a startup, there's a good chance Fred's time would be better spent knocking out feature work (you only have so much runway, after all). But at a mature tech company, assuming he…

I can't imagine forced remote for all employees would ever become the norm. It feels like likely that companies would move from dedicated offices to leasing co-working spaces for t…

Do they still have to label irradiated food in the EU? IIRC many people avoid it because radiation is scary sounding. I have to imagine that chemically treated meat would be an eve…

For a couple of years, the only thing that worked for me was mega-huge doses of PPI's. After several pH studies, endoscopies, and other tests confirmed that I don't have abnormal r…

FWIW, one of my GI doctors recommended trying alternatives to PPI's, while the other was highly skeptical of these data mining studies and recommended staying the course unless a c…

Some people (like myself) suffer from functional dyspepsia, in which GERD-like symptoms are observed with no apparent cause. There's really no standard treatment: some people find …

> Depends how pedantic you're being, but ripping DVDs for personal use doesn't count as "piracy" in my book. Exactly this. I got tired of lugging around my gigantic DVD collection …

As I get older (I am currently thirty), this is something that terrifies me, mainly because it is something that I have experienced from both sides. I got a B.S. from a major CS un…

I worked at Yahoo before and during this period, first as a QA contractor and then as a full-time developer. Before the switch, our team (advertising pipeline on Hadoop) used the w…

As an ex-doctoral student in astrophysics, I can confirm that there are a lot of crackpots out there. The most common claim was that heliocentricity was correct, if you can believe…

> Getting a response so nasty it's easier to get them into trouble later on. :) I know the comment was tongue-in-cheek, but it bears mentioning: when dealing with the police, your …

If you don't need open-source, but instead just want to migrate away from advertising-supported email, I find that FastMail works pretty great and is cheap to boot.

My dad owns a mid-size landscaping company in a medium-sized city in the Midwest. Until the Great Recession hit, he'd hire around a hundred of laborers from Mexico and Latin Americ…

My method to survive an 80+ hour work week: 1) Actually "work" a 40 hour week 2) Spend the other 40 looking for a new job

I love that the desire for developer talent is so great that many employers will bend over backwards to accommodate your desire for work-life balance.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but is json (de)serialization really a bottleneck for python web apps in the real world?

Why would anyone ever take a job like this when there are tons of interesting jobs that actually do have work-life balance and pay a hell of a lot better? Hell, you could still wor…

There are days when I love what I'm working on and I don't want to go home. But I still force myself to leave, because that work will still be there tomorrow, and I'll go in the ne…

And it's not like these people are useless. I knew a guy like this in college, and he eventually settled into a decent job. Not everybody needs to be passionate about their work.

Also, some Yahoo employees might have transferred over after the acquisition.