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> The tools of marketers (data mining, consumer behavior analysis, surveys, market testing, etc) aren't just a veneer to be applied at the completion of a development project. I st…

Not sure it helps, but I submitted https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/4206 Feel free to jump in on it

There are lots of startup founders who do feel a bit sleazy, or like they're just faking it until they make it. You don't give that impression at all! As others have said below, I …

Strongly agreed! It doesn't just seem unfair, it is unfair. I also think that there's much more celebration of "overcoming" disability or illness, rather than the much more sustain…

Since it's my lunch break, I put together a PR: https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95/pull/4 My CSS-fu is very basic, so it might need further tweaks to make button presses look r…

Even if it does boil down to that, there might still be value in ranking the savings per service you buy in. Except for a core product, it is almost always going to be the case tha…

I feel like it's just missing the fairly fundamental thing that any flow of energy will result in an increase in entropy of the universe as a whole . It doesn't mean that localised…

It does seem obviously to be a spectrum. I only realised that I have some degree of aphantasia when I read an article on it. I think there's also an element of things being "faint"…

One of ours loves golden syrup - isn't that basically just sugar?

This just sounds like a bad/inappropriate use of a tool. I wouldn't think that a team of people working on unconnected items should have any meetings at all, let alone a daily stan…

I'm not sure there's an inherent value in compromise. I certainly see value in a greater understanding of the alternative perspective, but not in accepting it if you disagree.

That's great to hear to be honest. It sounds like you're one of the self-made grafter types. :) My parents' background is similar - they both put themselves through university as a…

Oh, I certainly don't mean that a good university place guarantees you a top job. My company targets top universities, so it naturally has to reject a bunch of people who just aren…

In the UK at least, the people who've managed to bootstrap themselves to success through hard work and good decision making are the overwhelming minority. The causal chain seems to…

Even using the carpentry analogy, I suspect the point is to avoid ruining something on which a lot of time was spent. The material cost of most raw materials isn't very high, but r…

Yes, though some other commenters have pointed out caveats (e.g. do they really have a free choice?). IANA moral philosopher, but I think the gender of the baby being a primary con…

I don't think HN can necessarily be to blame. It might just be one of those "you're getting older, so think things were different when you were young" things, but I certainly feel …

I recall someone saying that holiday periods actually had better reliability for their services, because fewer people were pushing breaking changes... I do wonder if it's that the …

I'd generally agree with this (bumped up against more gcc, libc and kernel bugs than I'd have liked), but I find that my code has even more bugs than that. :)

N.B. My understanding of this stuff is pretty vague, but here's a quick summary of the arguments I've heard on the matter: I think the grievances might be to do with the amount of …

I must confess that the main reason I'm replying is to correct the darkly amusing dead->deaf typo that I'm hoping you made. However, I wonder if you could comment on whether you th…

I switched from computational simulation stuff to software engineering (big company, but not FAANG), since I found that the coding was much more rewarding than running the code. I …

It's great that you encourage this attitude in your kids. I had a similar high-achieving story until I experienced some mental health issues during my PhD. I came out the other sid…

Strongly agree with this. My company has its own coding standards and openly acknowledges that they are not objectively "the right way to do it", because such a thing does not exis…

I went to a course on how to negotiate with people delivered by a hostage negotiator for the (British) police that basically agreed with what you say. The key they said was to work…