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I had the same fear too growing up. I found peace with it and stopped thinking about for many years until now, when I realized that practically it wouldn't affect my waking life if…

I appreciated the quote from your article that: "Based on information from insiders, Google’s coding competitions engaged more than 300,000 software engineers external to Google, a…

The restaurant could lose out on sales from customers who are dissatisfied with a lack of a physical menu, especially many older people who are not as comfortable using technology …

> The problem is that time value is extremely relevant. If it takes 10-20 years for consequences to catch up, the person is likely to have already built up an unassailable lead tha…

To add another piece of evidence, while previous poster noted that the initial response by police officers on January 6 seemed less violent than they could have been (though even t…

It sounds like this is a difference in personal values. You can certainly assess the morality of one’s work based on its methods, but it’s also valid to assess the morality based o…

To the contrary, I think paulcole made a great point. It doesn’t need to be weapons. A programmer who makes a social media feed more addictive isn’t necessarily moral. But a salesp…

It looks like direct messages may also be buggy at present, according to a couple of anecdotes on r/Twitter at: https://old.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/z1b4zc/cant_sendre...

I sometimes wonder about whether personalised teaching as a young student is overall good or bad, for students who then move on to a university with very large, impersonal classes …

I heard that if you studied math with applications to computer science, you can find great opportunities with technology too (if not moving to the US for places like Google, there …

I completely agree, but I think most people who arrive at this perspective only reach this view after spending time in industry or adjacent to people working there. A lot of the fo…

> “You give up salary for huge amounts of autonomy.” I heard otherwise from a staff scientist at a university in biological sciences, though I’m not sure how representative his vie…

I’m much more junior, but to exchange anecdotes, I think it’s difficult to accurately say that people in FAANG are less, equal, or more intelligent than people in aerospace. To def…

People regularly get treated differently due to their race. Effects happen when applying to jobs and also interactions during traffic stops. From Canadian research for the first [1…

Thank you greatly for sharing and updating with examples and context, though I would like to gently suggest an alternative to one piece of wisdom. > “17. Self praise stinks! From m…

This may not be an accurate worldview of mine, but I've actually completely given up trying to apply to jobs that have application portals/likely keyword filters (though I may be w…

But as I also wrote, at least one occurrence of this in a resume is still a good signal that the candidate understands what a hiring manager is looking for, and also signals that t…

> "Experienced software architect with a proven track record of delivering high quality and performant blah blah blah" What's wrong with that? Each part of the phrase sounds like s…

Anonymous speech is important for anti-corruption. The Washington Post's Watergate investigation would not have taken place without the anonymous sourcing by "Deep Throat."

Slack also lets users easily make a group chat. In my experience, backed up by [1], Discord requires you to "Friend" members of the group chat before it lets you create the chat (r…

> "he will do things like deliberately spell some words British and others American to make it harder for peers to figure out who the paper is from." This is a good initiative, but…

Could be more different. In less tech-focused communities, the migration that follows a forum closure goes to Facebook groups instead of subreddits, and Slack channels instead of D…