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> few who had interest in computers rather than viewing programming as a path to easy money. FTFY

25 years since I started learning C++ as a kid, 14 years in industry and feeling like a disappointed old man despite still having the youthful looks to pass for a student!

This is exactly it. There's a lot of apex fallacy going on in the discussion of tech. Most of us in tech don't have any say in the direction of the industry. Many of the rank and f…

"Tech bro" describes a few people at the top (think Adam Neumann or Travis Kalanick) known for their bad behavior but unfortunately is used by the media to paint the rest of the me…

The problem is that large organizations like government agencies and corporations don't want alternate opinions, except in the rare cases where they specifically have a devil's adv…

This is significant because it is a company that pays very well. Not because of where it stands relative to the US average. I'd like to know what this person actually did for work.…

Googler not on Cloud team, but using Google Cloud Platform for an internal project. I've encountered my share of bugs and other flaws while using this platform. I think all these p…

Don't you mean fen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fen_(currency) 1/6 of a penny is 0.0016 USD, or 0.01 CNY: https://www.google.com/search?q=0.0016+usd+to+cny

The problem with your example of Office 2003 is not that they added sharing in later versions. It's that they replaced the old toolbar with the awful ribbon interface, instantly br…

Good article but why does the HN title include"silicon valley"? The article doesn't include SV in its actual title, and mentions SV only twice. Not to mention that the old SV model…

How do you find these fixit jobs? Are you brought in as a contractor/consultant?

Maybe many people you see are Asian foreigners (Chinese, Korean, Filipinos, etc) and you just don't realize it. I hear Chinese spoken on the streets all the time.

I had a travel plug adapter (for conversion between US/UK/EU-style) that had a bright blue LED on it to indicate power. I don't know who thought the choice of blue was a good idea,…

If I had the option to reduce my working hours by 25%, I would actually prefer to accrue the extra time as vacation, so that I can take several weeks off at once.

I've been in OP's boat, mentoring people (normal hires, not from boot camps) who couldn't be bothered to put in the effort. It was a colossal time and energy sink. My attitude toda…

The data you linked is for the entire Tokyo metropolitan area. The trend is that people are moving out of rural areas and into the urban core. It would be more appropriate to look …

If only the naysayers of development as a solution bothered to do research on how Asian cities (esp Tokyo) develop to get ideas to apply to cities in the west.

And parking minimum laws make it worse. Just look at all the new 2-bedroom apartments in North San Jose, that are inhabited by single people.

Are 4 years of living in dorm rooms stressful?

Keep in mind that this is a survey of people of each age living during the 2010s. Not a graph of how each generation's happiness has changed as they aged.

Ironically I use it as a Chromium/Chrome developer to check whether certain documents are visible to users outside of Google, as a way to determine what information is internal-onl…

Maybe if we got them started earlier than college CS, it would be easier. I learned how to use the MSDOS prompt growing up as a teenager. Most of my programming was done in an IDE,…

Remember when Tokyo was expensive? https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...