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Not sure about their underratedness, but I find the following newsletters interesting and insightful: Two Truths and a Take by Alex Danco (tech, VC, and broader topics): https://da…

I've been using Yabai[0] for a few months and am generally pretty happy with the i3-like experience on macOS. [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

This resonates with me to a surprising extent. My perceived threshold for expressing an opinion is very high, and I also find that I don't really have any particularly _strong_ opi…

Interesting. I wonder if that choice would lead to a noticeable impact on perceived latency (from the perspective of a human end-user) under some high-load/pathological scenario.

The justification for using LIFO (vs FIFO) queues for requests is interesting: at no/low load it makes no difference, while at high load the requests least likely to time out get s…

That's close enough that I can look at the weather report in the morning and decide to take a day off work. This is an amazing advantage. How's the tech scene there?

Does location matter to you? What are the pros and cons of living in your current city/country? Would you rather move somewhere else, and if so, where?

Regarding your last point: this is an idea I first encountered a couple years ago in Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness", and it's been on my mind ever since. Monetizing successful peop…

IEX is an example of an exchange doing just that.

Over the years, how has your perspective on the stack + the type of work you're doing changed? I feel like due to my age I don't have the context to make a decision based on factor…

I'd be working in Kanata and would prefer to live somewhere closer to downtown, hence the estimated commute times (by public transit). Thank you for adding some perspective. It see…

Where did you move from? Curious to hear about things you like and dislike about living and working in London.

Hi HN, I've been agonizing over a decision between two offers. The first one is from a company in Ottawa (Canada), doing systems programming (C/C++) with an above-average salary (f…

Interesting how "Knowledge of algorithms and data structures" is the third most important thing developers think should be prioritized when recruiting (3.77/5), following communica…

The ranger [0] file manager is probably my most used app -- it's fast, extensible and has VI bindings. [0] http://www.nongnu.org/ranger/

As a soon-to-be engineering graduate, I am very thankful for Octave. I've used it (instead of MATLAB) for projects involving numerical methods, control systems, image processing, a…

I'll be entering my final year of engineering in September and I need an idea for a capstone project. We'll have a team of 3-5 smart, hard-working people and around 6 months to com…