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Can we collectively refrain from making comments like this on Hacker News—or in any venue, for that matter? Is it that hard to read an assumed “In my experience, it is often the ca…

The care and thought you put into your writing, regardless of medium, says everything about how (and how much) you care and are thinking about your audience.

Some cigar chomper transformed The X Files from a beloved show to one where everyone just wanted the damn thing to end.

When I think of royalty free music for “creators,” my mind instantly goes to the sort of cliched, bombastic audio that is used to score “epic b-roll” that serves no purpose in so m…

I don’t know about you, but reading that first paragraph of the organic chemistry textbook was not a drag. It may not have been Carl Sagan’s Cosmos but I don’t understand how any g…

Coming soon, if it's not already here in Preview Edition: Eternal Hacktober. Every day GitHub more resembles a gamified social media platform.

I wanted a monochrome terminal but was willing to tolerate traditional ANSI color. Once you start with 24 bit color you may as well start using a VNC client. What sapped my will to…

I basically gave up on Emacs and switched to a combination of VS Code and old-school vi for Go and everything else, respectively. Finding an effing theme that allowed me to program…

And can’t we all get back to the really important work of complaining about the absence of free snacks, the main reason we’re here?

Upon reading it my thoughts went to yesterday's Verge article on the audio recordings of Zuckerberg's Q&As. Facebook has many vocal rank and file people who seem to believe they've…

ICX Media | Golang/Python GCP Data Engineer| DC, NY, SF, LA | REMOTE ICX Media is helping organizations gain insight into online audiences and act on those insights. Key to achievi…

Yes and? If you carry this on your keychain heading into a security checkpoint, expect to receive interrogation++.

"This (watch|car|toupee|smartphone|encrypted USB key drive) will totally make you more attractive to potential relationship partners!"

The claimed "plausible deniability" benefit seems dubious. You are carrying a branded device with marketing materials that tout its ability to offer you plausibly deniability…

SO is the opposite of MDN. If you do not approach any piece of StackOverflow content with the presumption that it could be dangerously not-even-wrong, God bless you.

Preaching to the choir. It amazes me that the ML and Data Science folks have settled on anti-FORTRAN. (Or maybe, put that way, it’s less amazing.)

Django's migration tool is awesome; I can see how people could get seduced by it. It's happened to me.

Assembly code making poor choices can be outperformed by Python code making smart algorithmic choices. The sentiment behind "don't use Python for performance critical code" isn't w…

Both your and the parent's sentiments are so on-point. And they're one of the reasons I don't like ORMs or the use of in-app constraint checking. The mid-Aughties rise of CRUD-focu…

It's not necessarily about money. An engineer can burn through tens of thousands of dollars per month in cloud spend because they have access to the AWS [or] GCP console, but that …

Sometimes the best thing that could possibly happen is something not working. How many times did Twitter bump up against its inability to scale on the way to being successful? (Yes…

Color me old, but wtf, the JS script kiddie obsession of never writing a line of code that can be packaged in a module has now come to shell scripting?!

We don't care about reality, merely perceptions. "Well I humiliated the person for an hour in front of a whiteboard" is the new "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM."

Meaning and purpose are not things that you find in work; they are things that you make. As a CTO in a small adtech company, my standard pitch to hungry young talent went something…

This has been going on for decades. Websites are a battlefield in the eternal war for supremacy between factions inside an organization. Tufte talked about this effect in print mat…