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These tips are offered often and are presumably working for someone. As someone who has followed or tried to follow them for most of my life, there are lots of ways these tips migh…

> I'm curious to hear if you can think of a better way to make friends irl with a decent chance of success. Any environment where you can meaningfully help each other: a group for …

That's advice to meet activity partners, not friends. Think of your closest friends. Did you set out to meet them by looking for people with their exact interests? Maybe you did an…

You mean like mittens, but with separate fingers? What would that accomplish exactly?

Notably: > here in Switzerland

This is ostensibly a think piece by the CEO of a software startup building a product for human-AI collaboration, ostensibly describing that same process. And it starts out pretty f…

This... doesn't explain anything about the song. Not its writing, not its production, not the music video. It's just a list of platitudes. Even the Atlas Obscura article has more c…

Bay Area, but not SF. Mostly dead. Multiple organizers I've talked to pointed to companies no longer wanting to host. There are a few exceptions, but the number of events is much, …

From 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226 > I work on Bun and this is my branch > > This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not…

Go back to school for what? In the last few decades, schooling has been one of two things. The first is certification for high-growth jobs that exist as short-term accidents of his…

This author assumes that workforce development is a first-order priority for businesses, or at least for the health of the industry. Why make this assumption so confidently? The ar…

This is absurd. The author misrepresents the type of "abstraction" that people mean. This abstraction ladder goes as follows: - contributing individually - contributing as a tech l…

"SF" = science fiction?

If you work as a software engineer, how did you go from being a generalist to becoming expert at something more specific?

I have seen this perspective a lot and I don't understand it at all. When I meet a stranger, I don't wonder if they exercise enough for me to befriend them. Same for their clothes-…

I'm at Paris Baguette, a Korean lower-end coffee shop chain common in the Bay Area. The guy next to me has headphones on and his laptop on a stand. Or it's four middle-aged Latino …

There's a reason they call them Caucasian.

From deep within the essay, another restatement of praise for East Asian street food culture. > That is because there is an abundance of inexpensive and delightful street food/casu…

The author shows a tendency to give colorful, but opaque names like "gutterballing" to things that can themselves be explained in a short phrase ("working on something that is simi…

With posts like these, I always wonder how much comes from statistical observation and how much is regurgitated cliches.

Yes, WeWork sold Meetup to a series of increasingly awful holding companies. I've never been to a meetup hosted at a WeWork office in the bay area, and I used to go to quite a few.…

A $10 pizza from Costco a hundred times is a thousand dollars. Coworking space fees for a couple of years is a sum of money. Meetup organizer fees add up.

I'm surprised Yemeni cafes have already built a reputation. We have several in the area, and they are indeed open very late, although they attract a customer base that seems less o…

Yup, your second paragraph describes the place I'm talking about pretty accurately. Nothing wrong with Etsy trinkets in isolation, but not if that's the limit of what the tools are…