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For anyone interested in a more philosophical look at how this affects people, Byung-Chul Han has some great writings about how modern technological society affects the individual …

For me, I find that I have to create the conditions for it and it'll naturally come along. Taking the quarantine for example, I initially thought I would have an infinite amount of…

"The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein discusses this phenomenon more with regards to economic policies.

I've been looking at this for awhile and it's super cool! As a person who's used Terraform extensively and has ran into a lot of issues with it's declarative, non-scriptability (at…

I recently read "Bad Samaritans" by Ha-Joon Chang and a lot of it giving an overview of how the Korean economy developed in the 20th century.

Pretty useful for design interviews and also a general overview. For a more in depth look would recommend the https://dataintensive.net/ book. It's a great deep dive into modern di…

For cost, stackdriver works the best. Idk if they have a custom agent but Fluentd works great to ship logs to your platform of choice. AWS cloudwatch is also good for cost but has …

The thing that annoys me the most is that tech companies, mine included, will reimburse gladly books, but no one is ever allowed to be seen reading books at their desk on company t…

I think we can't really expect the opposite to happen. There's not an educational system out there that would actively try to delegitimize itself or the power structures it exists …

At my company, we were migrating all our apps to a kubernetes + istio platform over the past couple of months and my advice is this - don't use a service mesh unless you really, re…

Has it always felt this way? I've been reading a lot of Chomsky lately and it seems at least for a few decades in the later 1900's workers had more power in the workplace.

That aspect was ameliorated slightly this year with a 60 day grace period after loss of employment. https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-publishes-fin... .

Despite the lack of content in the article, this post seems have to attracted a few comments. Before everyone comes in here with explanations of "oh it is because Asians work harde…

The book mentioned in the article "The New Jim Crow" is an extraordinary good read for people more interested in gaining context on the situation between race and crime mentioned i…

Chinese and Indian students in America also have the benefit of being from some of the highest socioeconomic groups in America [0]. It is more a factor of the group's average wealt…

Good stuff. I like how quick it is to make and post a question.

It does not have an exact API demo, but I think some of the stuff over at http://www.startbootstrap.com would be well suited to your needs. In particular this one, http://startboot…

Providing actual values sounds like a great idea to stand out. I would like to hear if you have tried this yourself or seen it done before. What was the result?

Hey Hacker News, I am a college student in CS looking to work at a startup this summer. I go to a good college, but few startups recruit through our on campus recruiting system (pr…

I found that having problem statements does energize hackers. As a participant, I've seen a lot of people not having "cool" ideas to work on and instead ending up smashing together…

Great post (oops just said what you explicitly said not to in one of your posts)! My main takeaway from your articles was that most of these skills only come to people who very pro…