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I have 2 KA2's, one for my personal and work rigs, respectively. I've honestly never had a problem with their noise level, they sound pretty much the same as any other modern and c…

> Simple metrics like LoC, story points and number of commits are lazy ways to evaluate developers. I mean, looking through the git logs means you look at code contributions. If yo…

I can't tell if you're making a joke about do-nothing managers or not, but if so, brava.

Literally the way to "manage" developers is to enable them to do good work, and then get the hell out of their way. The git logs, uptime, and slack messages are all the records you…

Perl was my first language too! Believe it or not, there's a ton of b*ch work that still needs to be done by interns at legacy tech that involves the language (looking at you Verit…

> Recruiters are in the way. So much this. I've had many conversations with interesting companies that have good pay and cool products, but recruiters/hr keep coming up with bullsh…

Get while the gettin' is good, people! You now have power over that caviling, micromanaging boss of yours. Or the job that doesn't pay you enough. Or the gig that makes you come in…

I have three young children. My wife understands my introversion and that I need time to myself. We have a sort of agreement, she could be a stay at home mom but she also is going …

Honestly, I just prefer being alone. I find that I get all my needs for social interaction through work and family, and even that can be too much. I have to spend large swaths of t…

Greetings from Minneapolis, I work and live as a Dev here and it fucking sucks.

> I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline. Good Lord what the hell are you doing on HN then…

Whew boy do I have some stories that might shatter your view of trader joe's being a good company. Prime example: my store captain, Jeff, got busted having an affair with a crew me…

Is this linkedin? Agree?

"If you know the volume of a toilet bowl 1.3 gallons, how many radii of the earth's rotation would fill the visible universe" - Google interviewer

It takes someone with a Michael Scott-level of self-awareness to ever think it would be a good idea.

I would bet any amount of money that it's a private space debris tracking conglomerate that discovers a widowmaker asteroid coming at us... ...and they make us subscribe to a rundl…

Or here's my favorite: let someone go through the entire interview process at subcompany (Shipt) only to have your former, embittered, manager (Fuck you, Dave) at the parent compan…

> Of course you already lined up a new job, have no loyalty to your current employer, and will tell anyone who is willing to listen. God. Damn. Right.

the linux community never fails to deliver drama, it's like watching a bunch of nerds have a slap fight.

I fail to see what problem F# solves that is not already done as well or better in Go, Rust, or Python, coupled with the wide acceptance and/or hype among other developers for thos…

> Sounds like a good deal for Purdue Pharma. It's a damn good deal for the sack-of-shit-Sackler family especially. They took out something to the tune of $10 BILLION from Purdue Ph…

It's about pumping up engagement metrics, pure and simple, regardless of the quality of the user experience. Any and all social media is poison.

Found Bezo's account

The lockdowns quickly became less about actual science, and more about government power.

When thinking about this, I always come back to the scene in "The Office" with Michael's Golden Ticket idea. Long story short; Michael loses the company a bunch of money on a fooli…