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Why is there so much complaining online about algorithmic questions? It’s really weird. Surely there are way worse questions that companies ask. Also, I stopped reading after his f…

It's much simpler to provide public services to everyone and handle economic inequality through taxation. Means-tested benefits result in bureaucracy that sometimes costs more than…

You want to attract candidates that have a high probability of being hired. If vJ is the perceived value of getting the job, pJ the perceived probability of getting the job, vI the…

Usually they're trying to profit by being the last holdouts, hoping they will be able to get more money this way. It may not be worth paying everyone 3X, but if everyone except one…

> Remote work feels bad for junior employees, for exactly this reason. So many times in life you're stopped from going down a dark path not because of a meeting or a status update,…

I think your case is a bit different because you don't actually want to live in the city. Obviously both city and country living have their advantages and disadvantages, and it wou…

> Microsoft's UI story is a non-starter until they get back to the point that a user can: Why do you care about this stuff? I don't understand. Surely most developers can build a s…

XAML is the only thing I was ever able to write a complex layout in, run the app, and see it look exactly as what I intended on the first attempt. That would meet my definition of …

> So while having too many "elites" (by which I assume "wealthy people" is meant), we have a storm brewing. It doesn't mean wealthy people. It means people who feel they deserve to…

I've probably spent ~1000 hours writing C++ in my life (admittedly, years ago) and objectively speaking I wouldn't hire myself even as a junior C++ dev.

This pretty much exactly matches my own experience (100+ interviews, not as a professional interviewer but as an engineer who does interviews).

I think that's the wrong question. If a court can decide (and enforce) what a smart contract "really means", then smart contracts don't really bring much to the table. It doesn't m…

> It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same. Ironically, you've just confirmed what GP said by confusing the concept of grammatical gender with …

> I don’t know, it sounds like the exact opposite to me That's a ridiculous statement. When you tell someone the grocery store is 5 mn away, you're expressing time, not distance, b…

How is such a definition more useful? It's certainly not more useful to me. If someone tried to sell me such a quantity of land, the first thing I'd ask would be what the actual si…

The study also damns itself because they chose the absolute worst possible timing for their “research” and measuring wfh productivity. It’s like they don’t understand how much the …

If you see someone write "reed" instead of "read" or "rite" instead of "write", that's likely a native speaker.

I don't disagree, but not sure why you associate poor spelling with non-native speakers.

Yep it does! Had no idea.

This looks like a great service! Edit: crap, looks like it's US-only :/

The worst one is probably trying to make it hard for users to stop paying for a service, like cancelling a subscription. That shit should be punishable by literal prison time.

I agree that this practice should go away - if you believe that, then the goal should be to eliminate this shady practice entirely, not try to make it more prevalent like you were …

What is good about web sites trying to force users to use their app instead? That itself one of the worst dark patterns out there. Edit: If my comment looks confusing, the comment …

I'm just going to respond to this comment since all are saying the same thing basically - the comment I replied to was implying something else, that Australians are working in Indi…

I mean, reading this: https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-... It does seem like it may have been a case of some politically motivated employees being disrup…