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Addressing the "elimination of poverty" statement: Isn't poverty a relative construct? Unless full-communism is implemented, there will always be those that have less than others. …

Exactly. When an entity (i.e. a company, tech conference, etc.) chooses someone for any reason outside of merit, it's discrimination, and marginalizes the hard work of others.

Then so be it. We shouldn't _not_ talk about it.

Brilliant article. Unfortunately, Rae's perspective does not fit the narrative of most HN readers.

When I first read this post, I thought the link may be to this website: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ . I developed a Cordova application recently, and I only needed jQuery for…

That escalated quickly.

I do this all the time at work.

Step 4 - Acceptance

For reasons like this, I'm not sure I'll go back to a salary model (in favor of hourly model). I value my family time and personal time, but for those times where "the barns burnin…

"...a coding team's only salvation is smart coders." Yes!

If someone is _solely_ working at company because their friends work there, it can be a fragile engagement. What if one or more of their friends leave, or worse, are fired? (Notice…

I've been using Windows 8 on my laptop for well over a year, and I quite enjoy it. Especially with Windows 8.1, I just don't see how you can love Windows 7, and at the same time sh…

The reason you are even asking this question on HN shows some moral obligation that you feel to do what is "right" in this case; whatever "right" may be to you. Due to this, I woul…