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Then what do you tell them? Employers will expect that an adult has some kind of work history. Also, discrimination against overqualified applicants is now illegal in California, b…

I thought this was bad enough: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/07/tech-firms-draw-flak-... If we want to get past the perception that this industry is of, by, and for misogynis…

Television programming has been profiled and targeted for decades. It just wasn't as granular and accurate as it is on the web.

Can someone add (2017) to the title? Without seeing the date it makes it look like GitHub is discontinuing support with a few days' notice.

In case it wasn't immediately obvious from my original comment, the issue was that "Cubans" is ambiguous and could be related to commerce that might be covered by sanctions against…

Have you ever been to the area? It's not a soundtrack, that's just what it sounds like here. There's always a gently strummed guitar flowing out of a watery amp somewhere off in th…

I had a similar issue with Venmo—a friend tried to pay me back for a Cuban sandwich, and the transaction was held up because he just wrote "Cubans" as the description. Only in Venm…

I was certainly fooled the first one or two times it happened; my initial thought was that Levi's provided the worst of its production to Amazon. The jeans were cut and sewn poorly…

> e2e for direct user to user makes sense. I disagree, corporate chats still have plenty of reason to want access to historical user-to-user chats. Ignoring the cynical reasons, in…

This has been true so far in the US, but there are countries where ISPs transparently provide different bandwidths to different types of content, and customers pick and choose serv…

> I've not seen anyone say that a "Sold by Amazon" product is counterfeit. I've had it happen to me with Levi's, and word of mouth tells me this is a problem in general with big na…

I know "if you don't like your job, find a new one!" is a tired cliche that often gets thrown at people complaining about legitimate grievances, but software engineering is one of …

Today I had to search for Slack messages that were sent long before I was hired to solve a problem at work. In an end-to-end model, you're only going to have logs as far back as yo…

Related reading on old Taco Bell buildings http://www.sfgate.com/restaurants/article/Old-Taco-Bell-site... https://timeline.com/second-lives-taco-bell-ac1b476cf5a4

Out of curiosity, what's the quote you mentioned?

Is this a regional thing? Where I live, neighborhood bars and sports bars have TVs, but everything else doesn't.

The game itself is free this week https://freetrial.ubisoft.com/promotions/wic/12

Not necessarily. Everything is "obscure" to you the first time you hear it.

I typeset my resume in LaTeX, but I ended up formatting it so it looked almost exactly like it did in Word. I should probably update that at some point. But I did throw a \LaTeX ma…

The 130k minimum was proposed by a Democratic congresswoman, not the administration.

> In the U.S., AOL alone had over 2 million dialup users in 2015. I've seen this figure a few times before, and I wonder every time who these users are. Specifically I'm curious wh…