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Maybe humans will no longer be responsible for maintaining software

I’m probably in the minority here, but I prefer open offices. I prefer open spaces in general and try to work outdoors as often as possible when the weather permits. So to me, an o…

What’s the difference?

> The good thing is that it means now they care a lot about what we think of them. They didn't before. So at least, if they haven't changed, they are forced to act like they have. …

I’ve never found a compelling reason to use this construct (or the analogous `while...else` construct). But then again, I rarely find myself using `else` with `if` either...

Sweeping generalizations and thinly veiled racism is ok on HN?

So, at my company, we have yearly reviews. Instead of looking at how productive people are from week to week, people are allowed to vary in their productivity throughout the year. …

Throughput limitations. This won’t (at least in current iterations) scale well.

I love sweeping generalizations presented without evidence to back them up.

I wrote this as one of my first HTML/JavaScript projects. It’s far from perfect, but it served me well for 4 years. It was not difficult to make and uses MediaWikis existing APIs. …

As an aside, education does not scale with the ever increasing number of ways that personal information can “get online”. Additionally, it assumes some degree of privilege as more …

Personally, (I can’t speak for everyone, or even most), I find enormous value in breadth of knowledge. For example, purposefully using different programming languages and/or differ…

TL;DR don't rely on humans to "do the right thing", even if they're supposed to know what they're doing (i.e. ops people). As part of a team (and an organization) that practices "d…

This seems like it fits the narrative. Still, WTF? A quick google tells me that PostgreSQL supports SSL cert-based authN. The prod environment (and possibly an Ops host) should be …