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I don't see those career opportunities. AI is really incredible but in my personal projects it can one-shot things. I'm trying to figure out how I can get to the point where I have…

I don't think the job is just writing code. But my career has mostly been about getting a ticket and writing a solution for it. I would really like to solve novel problems, but I d…

I've been testing this out and I think my SWE career is dead in the water. Genuinely wondering what value I bring to my employer right now. What value I will bring in a few months …

Scrolling is a bad habit. It's hard to kill habits outright, so you need to replacement. Step one is figuring out what triggers the habit. Step two is finding a replacement. Someth…

Labor unions align themselves well with Marxist thought and both are pretty based. I'm not a SWE because I like money. I'm an SWE because I love programming.

Given that I recently joined a leatherworking Discord comprised of individuals pretty much the exact opposite of my demographic, I believe this is just plain wrong. My guess would …

Firing someone for being opposed to same-sex marriage is political in the same way firing someone for robbing a bank is.

I have an issue. I want to make things. Build cool projects and develop open-source stuff. Learn new technologies, flex my muscles in a language I don't normally use. That sort of …

Nah, this is just HackerNews. We're Redditors who think we're better than Redditors. Most people don't care.

Thanks for your response. But I think you've misunderstood. I'm pretty well aware of the deep well of cuisines offered by various cultures, but my issue is not finding recipes -- i…

That's interesting. I tried vegetarianiam for a while and I found that it incredibly limiting and difficult. I don't have the time to cook and ready-to-eat or frozen vegetarian mea…

What makes Linux not fun?

You're unfairly extrapolating from your own experience here -- everyone's body has different chemistry. I have to eat breakfast in the morning in order to feel energetic during the…

This isn't actually a sob story, and I'm not saying he's entitled to labor of others. What I am asking is how your proposed system handles a case such as this. And while it may be …

So then lets say a healthy 22-year-old graduates from college at the top of their class. Life's looking up for them. They've already got a job lined up that starts in two weeks and…

I was trying to port Cap'n Proto to modern C# as a side project when I was unemployed, since the current implementation years old and new C# features have been released that would …

I don't see the value in making it even harder to build software. I want to make things. Downloading a dependency manually and then cursing at the compiler because "it's right ther…

Hope your surgery goes well. Once you feel better, would you mind sharing anything more that could help locate what you read? It sounds like a really interesting read.

Location: Seattle, Washington Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C#, .NET, Python, F#, Rust, Typescript, SQL, Postgres, Node.js, PHP, React, Svelte Resume: Availabl…

I also have ADHD and I made the mistake of downloading TikTok once. It ended up costing me a lot of time, money, and a significant chunk of my attention span. It became so bad that…