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I still don't understand how the wall clock prevents them from getting up an hour earlier or later.

This comes up on every single article about timezones. Humans need to know what time it is based on the solar day. If it's 5:00 AM for me and 5:00 AM in Sydney, I have no clue if a…

We can criticize this specific instance of CoC enforcement without making fun of legitimate gender issues in technology.

The point is to rely on the abstractions. :) I get similar feelings, especially having been burned by software in the past that purported to abstract things properly. But perhaps u…

Who hurt you? Seriously, what's your problem?

I sure am glad my fantastic public high school teachers didn't have your attitude. They sacrificed so much for so little, and I'll tell you what, they made a word of difference in …

I didn't realize I could watch every show on every streaming platform. That is welcome news.

Your personal feelings about women are noted and discarded, thank you.

Denial is the only way to cope with how impossible it feels to make any meaningful progress. I mean, the alternative is to sit white-knuckled until I die in a food riot. I am well …

"History isn't perfect" is not a good reason to avoid doing history. Historians are all well aware of these facts.

I appreciate the humor, but I think that was a bit of a disservice for her. Because even though you have a cheeky definition, the term does get used fairly frequently in the indust…

That's exactly it. For some reason, developers really want to just write code, even though it's for a web service and that web service doesn't exist in a perfect vacuum. (Yes, I do…

It makes people wonder how fair the process is.

It's amazing what the threat of bankruptcy can make people do.

Not a day goes by on here where I don't read ten comments reminding everyone that employment is a mutual contract that can be terminated by either party at any time. So I'll say to…

Um, I would rather work in a place where people are afraid of saying: "We don't need any bitches working here!"

I have to refresh the page once or twice when attempting to load a tweet in Safari or Chrome on iOS, otherwise I usually get a cryptic "this tweet is not available to you" message …

Imagine being able to destroy the environment with impunity. You get rich, and everyone else is forced to live (or die) with the consequences. Well, you don't have to imagine it, b…

It's because nobody in the industry wants to acknowledge that there's a power imbalance. You really might need a job, but guess what? Your interviewer already has one.

Someone with high enough standards to not work for companies that blatantly break laws?