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Working on the metro makes a boring commute fly by - blink and you are at your destination already. 30 minutes each way is 1 hour a day. Over the entire year it's 250+ hours or 9 w…

Growing up in a culture similar to Japan, where the expectations placed on kids are similar to what's seen in the video, I can say there are pro's and con's. The pro's are kids lea…

I was waiting for a happy ending at the end of the article that never came. But I'm glad the Guardian ran this piece, it shows how powerful someone can be when they know how to "us…

John Oliver with a quite informative video about why many carbon offsets/carbon credits schemes are most likely not genuine in their attempts to offset carbon emissions. https://yo…

There is StoryGraph. But what do you want from Goodreads that it is not providing? What makes it "bad" in your opinion? Functionally, it does everything I want it to.

Very enlightening posts. I appreciate how they tell you that million is not for every situation, it's for sites with "Lots of static content with little dynamic content". Many fram…

Thanks for clarifying. I agree that rejecting a PR can be seen as negative in some companies, but I'd also argue that it's a symptom of a bad culture to view rejected PRs as someth…

One question and one comment: Q) What's the difference between a blocking comment and a "normal" comment + rejecting the PR? C) Exposing metrics like "Review time per reviewer" may…

I've quit most of the social media like Facebook, I'm not active on Twitter or LinkedIn. But I've always struggled to quit Reddit. But now, partially because of this (and partially…

I have a degree in biochemistry. Would love to combine my passion in software and biology, but academic research is often funded by governments which means the salary is (super) lo…

I agree with everything you said. The best interviews ive had are those where I felt like I am working together with the interviewer. I think being able to handle criticism is an i…

Personally, I dislike competitive programming interview problems. Competitive programming, when viewed as a sport, requires training and practice. It's a muscle that you must const…

What are some of the easiest things one can do to qualify for an O-1 visa?

I've been using Firefox Containers for over half a year now (I use it with the Temporary Containers[1] extension). For most parts, it's working great. However, whenever I encounter…

Hi Shosty123, thanks for mentioning my book! Really appreciate the love (:

Hello! Author here! The book introduces a lot of tools (~20) and these tools are bound to get out of date eventually. As a matter of fact, the Babel libraries moved from v6 to v7 d…

The status page is broken, it was mostly green 10 minutes ago.

Is this like https://web.archive.org/ for software?

If the stars align and Stack Overflow goes down too, I can just go home.

GitHub just wants to show off their Unicorn artwork.