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I don't use tests, and I find that when I need to make a change to some code that has, say, four or five different paths through the logic, a lot of times one of the paths will bre…

Sure, but then you have to live in St. Louis, Missouri. I'm sure I could move to a third world country and have an even lower cost of living. As though it were otherwise equivalent…

This seems to be an ebook, the image of a paper book at the top is kind of misleading. https://www.ng-book.com/2/#packages

The complexity makes it look like we are going to great lengths to minimize the pain of the condemned, supporting the pretense of a "humane" execution and undermining the claims of…

This isn't my experience, at least for YouTube. If I'm not logged into Google I only see "recommended for you" video links when I'm not in private browsing mode. Harder to tell for…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302548

If they told you the company, what would stop you from just bypassing the recruiter and going straight to the company?

My anecdata: a former colleague of mine, over 50, just left his enterprise IT development job to make a ton more money with a Salesforce consulting firm. He didn't go to Stanford, …

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I believe NoScript will pop up a message asking if you want to take the redirect, in that case.

Bitcoin transactions won't always be free though, as the block reward decreases and transaction fees become necessary to incent the network to verify transactions. The fees for bit…

"Digital motor" raised my eyebrow too. Apparently it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reluctance_motor Guess marketing didn't think "Reluctance motor" had quite the same ring, …

Huh. Why did the explosion produce two distinct, different-colored smoke clouds? Also, what's the environmental impact of this kind of accident?

I used to work with a guy who was a body-builder type, and all he would eat was chicken breast, breakfast, lunch and dinner. I guess you have to pick what's important to you. I thi…

Yeah, but then you're creating a whole class of people who basically don't have anything anything to do. They will inevitably find things to fill that vacuum, such as having lots o…

I don't know about other carriers but AT&T has recently changed their model, so if you bring your own device (or buy one from AT&T at full price) you get a discount on your monthly…

Darn, no SQL support. I often find myself wishing something like this existed for SQL, so I could, say, find all places where field X in table Y is updated, or referenced in a WHER…

Potential for side effects, like increased heart rate, poor appetite, and panic attacks.

There was something like this a while back that was shut down: https://btct.co/ Maybe this is not based in the US though, judging from the British flag on the language selection.

How about "don't pay me to learn technology X"? I wonder if there's such thing as an unpaid remote internship?

You can't fault it for what it tried to be, though - a plug-and-play, drag-and-drop toolset designed to make web development accessible to savvy end-users and inexperienced develop…