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It's not as much about how many hours you work so much as how much of your life revolves around your job. Ask yourself this: if things aren't going well in your job, what happens? …

AA still has its place. A lot of people like its philosophy. Plus, some people just don't respond to anything else other than its "tough love" philosophy.

Is it just me, or does this seem horrendously insecure? How does this prevent arbitrary third parties from accessing your terminal?

The "show only ads from people who aren't assholes" is basically what AdblockPlus does.

> Well yeah... it's completely delusional to think a 3 month developer should earn the median income for programmers. $75k is not the median income for programmers. $75k is the med…

So what you're saying is that it's "crappy programmer entitlement" to: * Expect to earn the median income * Expect to have a decent lifestyle. * Expect to be able to have a family …

Yeah, but you know what? The cost of living has also skyrocketed dramatically in Silicon Valley. I mean, you make it sound like engineers here are on a gravy train where we spend 3…

Honestly, I think these people are dicks: http://kalw.org/post/how-tiny-shipping-container-community-c... Not only is this an issue of residential codes. The other problem is that …

Well, there are still cases where object pooling might make sense. Some games on mobile devices still use object pooling. I suppose I could also see the need to use object pooling …

At most private companies, stock options aren't worth the paper they're written on. Unless of course the company sells, in which case they're worth slightly more than the paper the…

Because there's no one they can sell their shares to. With a public company, you can sell your shares on the stock market.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it would seem like Ocean Acidification would be less prone to "Climate Commitment" than regular climate change. Meaning, if we just stopped emitting gr…

You don't. It is not considered necessary for you to correct downvotes.

Blah. Yet another "new-fangled technologies have no place" post. Granted, there's a grain of truth to the core thought. As I've become more experienced, I've seen more frameworks a…

You're not trying to say the two are comparable are you?

For better or worse, this is life for top executives. Example: the president of the US's popularity is correlated with the economy in spite of the fact that they have very little c…

They quote Shiller as saying that we're in a bubble, but then they conveniently leave out another quote: > But I'm not sure that the current situation is a classic bubble because I…

What he took was proprietary infrastructure-related code that didn't involve any of Goldman's trading algorithms. His claim is that it was so tangled up with the open source code h…

How is this any different from when tobacco companies fund studies that say that smoking isn't bad for you?

I think this is a great point. I try to stick to a philosophy of "support the person, critique the idea".