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It's only unhealthy for your career at that specific employer. Fortunately for tech workers in the Western hemisphere, you can always move between employers

Promotions are for schmucks. One can easily get a promotion from the free market when their boss refuses to give it to them

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I've observed a concerning trend on LinkedIn lately that warrants a discussion within our profession. It appears that individuals with relatively minimal experience, typically in t…

For running applications in production, Alpine Linux is harmful and should be avoided. Getting a smaller container image is not worth trading mucl for glibc.

He was referring to sandboxing in terms of not polluting the installed packages/libraries on the server and not from a security perspective. But even from a security perspective, t…

The utility of an air fryer. If you don't have one, you should buy one immediately. You will not regret it.

I think it's really easy to claim to be socially and environmentally conscious (especially nowadays with social media), but when you are faced with a scenario where your principles…

At my current employer, the D&I program has resulted in the hiring of a lot more white women and barely any underrepresented minorities (URMs)[0]. I have experienced myself and hea…

Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world[1]. It is a Muslim country, but it is not governed by Sharia law, so it's not an Islamic country. [1]: https://www.worl…

Have you tried applying for remote jobs?

This is why GCP has no hope of ever taking significant market share from AWS. Google thinks they can treat their cloud customers like they treat users of their free services. Custo…

It's okay to have a platform that does not serve the interests of white men.

If you were forming a team for a new project or startup, would you hire your current or former colleagues? Why or why not? If they were forming a team, would they hire you?

Yet another JavaScript project reinventing the wheel and badly at that. It seems the NodeJS community suffers from NIH syndrome more than others. This is a sign of lack of seniors …

Whatever my mind desires. Workplaces that enforce a dress code in 2017 are not worth your time. We're all adults and can make our own decisions.

Wait, they honestly asked you about the education level of your siblings? This is the most SVesque thing I've heard all year.

What percentage of millennials even understand Bitcoin? How many of us on HN are frequently asked about investing in cryptocurrencies by people who have no business approaching the…

Going serverless would increase your costs significantly. Have you seen how much AWS charges for Lambda use? Where did this myth of serverless saving you money come from?

I don't appreciate or value art at all.

This sounds cool, but it's needlessly complicated. Why not simply configure SSH to use multiple forms of authentication [1]: password + public key auth + 2FA (Duo Security, Google …

Are you working on an open source project and need contributors to help with UI, documentation, etc. ? Please use this format: Project URL: Project description: Contact info: Help …

If there is a gross lack of diversity within your company and you routinely use "culture fit" as an excuse to turn down PoC candidates, what conclusion can be drawn about your orga…