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> I'm sure you'd agree that the president of the board is ultimately "above" the chief executive if push ever came to shove, at least on paper. That is not true of the PSF, nor of …

Not exactly. Development on what become Django began sometime in 2003, before Rails was released. Certainly the release of Rails — and, more importantly, the questions in the Pytho…

I’m chuckling at your advice because I tried those things! Went part-time, wrote, lots of local volunteering. (Didnt try picking up trash; that’s a good one!) Unfortunately, didn’t…

Thanks for your perspective. It’s a very real concern I have — am I trading one kind of burnout for another? I do think there’s a difference between approaching EMS as a first care…

I'm curious: if you hired a contractor to, I dunno, paint your walls, would you accept "I don't know" as a time frame or price quote? If not, what's different about software develo…

I think the thing is that it's always been both. The freedom to hack and modify has always been inextricably linked with the $0 license fee. If the early free/open licenses had all…

I drew them by hand on a tablet (a Remarkable)

> Suggesting stimulants as the first line of treatment rather than cardiovascular exercise, good sleep, and a healthier relationship with food is at best dismissive of the body of …

> inconvenient fact most of the time you're fat because you consume too much This is not, in fact, a fact.

If you're a software developer, and your goal is to maximize income, then yeah, don't work for the federal government. If your goal is to do meaningful work that has a tangible pos…

Can you actually buy these? I've wanted to plant them for a while, but as far as I can tell they're not actually publicly available in any way.

This is not true. Growth hormones are not approved for us in chickens by the FDA. All chicken sold in the US is hormone free. See, eg, https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Are-hormones-u…

No, there aren't. Knives dull over time; even the most durable steel formulations need sharpening eventually. Those ceramic knives are pretty robust, but they too will dull. More i…

I think part of the dynamic here is that when people give advice it often comes from one of two very different modes: 1. There's a piece of advice I want to give, and I'm going to …

Thanks for the pointer - that's a great resource. I'm adding a link to it to the article.

You're right: I was doing my math wrong. I'm fixing the math in the article right now. Thanks for the correction!

> Is this ironic? No.

Hey, thanks for levels.fyi! It makes this kind of accurate compensation math possible in a way that really wasn't before y'all came along. Thanks again!

You're right - I was doing my math wrong. I'm fixing it now. Thank you!

I'm very curious about the "major attack" against Django you mention. I'm unaware of in-the-wild attacks targeting Django itself, so I'd really like to know what I missed. Can you …

You seem to be saying that Thea isn't a "real" woman. That's insulting, gross, and incredibly inappropriate. It's not "controversy"; it's insults and hate hidden under this plausib…

Ha, I'd totally forgotten that Five Dysfunctions talks about MBTI -- I think I'd blocked it out. I completely agree that MBTI is total bullshit. Thanks for pointing it out. I think…

Thanks for the list! The one that I've read (about half) are great, which makes me want to read the rest. (Just Culture and Accelerate, in particular, are so great I think I'm goin…

This is so cool, I’m really glad to see someone doing this. Best of luck!