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> Meta-meta-comment, but "horrible" is your value judgement, which isn't shared by everybod > I do feel Rakuten's website is "horrible"

Sorry to hear you're in that situation. Having been responsible for hiring at a few places I would stress to keep yourself busy and your tech skills active. If you have a big gap w…

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> Say “please” and “thank you” a lot. I remember a previous role the team leaders all went on a management training course. Everyone came back and started adding "please" to every …

100%. That's the first thing I want to see after a brief intro.

Amazing. I would absolutely love to sit down with the Secretary of State and test their knowledge of what does of does not consist of of computer.

This makes me hyper sad. Seems Amazon are just making things worse with everything they do. Ever tried to buy something like a USB hub or charge cable off Amazon? Endless suspect b…

Full disclosure didn't even read the article. But if you wanted to know what programming as a game would look like, play Factorio. Refactoring, decoupling, debugging, it's all ther…

> Also from a store perspective, any game where shortcuts like this are used tend to be shit games. They don't want spam games to be pumped. There's already enough indie trash plat…

I chuckled at: > NewsGuard has a clever way to identify these junk AI-written websites...For example, one site called CountyLocalNews.com had messages like “Sorry, I cannot fulfill…

I find it extremely upsetting that `networkQuality` is the only command that is not entirely lowercase. How did this get through PR??

I actually feel embarrassed for Amazon when I'm trying to checkout and can see all the deceptive tricks they implement to make you sign up. This is one of the richest companies in …

Apologies, I'm not up to date in this space, so probably a stupid question but how does this differ to docker compose? My understanding of the value of codespaces was instant start…

You should try Godot. Open source and extremely lightweight compared to Unity and Unreal. It's pleasure to use, none of the baggage of the other engines. I'm a patron contributor. …

With all the those leetcode-style interviews and dynamic programming problems in the interview process, surely the genius "Googlers", the worthy few, that make it through this proc…

There is such a small market for 4 player local co-op indie games, I think you need something really special to grab people's attention. It was an interesting deconstruction though…

On long enough timescales, capitalism destroys anything good. The root cause behind all of this drama is Reddits need to maximise their valuation, and the impact that has on their …

Thanks - I'm sure there are other uses cases, I didn't mean to imply there weren't, just for me I always associate AOP with a time in my career where nothing useful was ever shippe…

Ah this takes me back to my first job. Medical start up, working on a very long term project that the company was completely unequipped to deliver. I was young and keen so didn't a…

Wonderful story and very inspiring. Is programming the only field where you have this strange mix of people coding "as a job" with literally no interest beyond that, and projects l…

How nice to read a long-from piece online, simply and clearly formatted, with no adverts, popups, affiliate links, or such nonsense. Just genuine writing. > The work was the only t…

I got sinking feelings of dread and despair reading that, a terrifying insight in to the internal Microsoft mindset.

All these detailed, complicated arguments. Why is homelessness not the same level of problem in the UK? Maybe think about that then consider why it's such an issue in the US.

That API pricing, for what is mostly static content, is just insane. I've created pricing models for write heavy APIs that come out at a fraction of that, while still maintaining a…

It's a digital Tragedy of the Commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons