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A little over a month into my first engineering job, I decided to go for a weekend stroll. I threw my work laptop into my messenger bag on the off chance I'd wind up in a cafe and …

If I may, I get the strong sense that your hesitation isn't really about the unvested $$. Can you tell us more about the nonprofit you'd like to start?

D'oh, I had not seen that. Sorry!

You might give OpenHatch a look: https://openhatch.org/search/?language=Python&q=

You can avoid the marginal libraries written by inexperienced developers, you know.

"The landscape favors autos but not in the same way as a city like Atlanta, favoring a regular grid with sidewalks over cul-de-sac deadends." Lots of people miss this distinction. …

I was hoping this would look something more like, given a scenario and a question about it, being able to clearly identify the pieces of information without which the question is u…

Agreed in principle. Limited liability is created by statute, and can and should be rolled back as needed to prevent pathological outcomes.

Crazy indeed, but it happens to be the case. http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/05/how-to-fix-cfaa.html

PHP won't win you any cool points, but there's still a whole lot of it running in production.

{{citation needed}}

NPOV applies to content, not the editor's motives. People have all kinds of reasons for editing Wikipedia. Trying to police those reasons would be neither possible nor desirable.

Bear in mind that the tech job market is a lot different than much of the U.S. economy right now. There are fields where experienced candidates with strong resumes can go job hunti…

Thank god.

By the same token, my layman's understanding is that you can kill demand for a very good product or service by pricing it too low (and thereby signaling inferior quality to the cus…

This section was 100% written by a lawyer, and is intended to sound obvious without in fact being obvious at all.

Without defending the researcher here, I thought that was the weakest point in Facebook's response. Was he interacting with Facebook using his synack.com email address during this …

Yep. Definitely time for this tiresome exercise to die.

I had a boss who grew up in the neighborhood and held that Di Fara's was a touch overrated (if memory serves, he favored Totonno's or L&B). Still, incredible pizza to this midweste…

I did a few exercises a while back in the Python, Ruby, and JS modules. Feedback from other users seems minimal; I only received one comment from another user and one automated com…

Passing it through Congress, you mean? I'm optimistic. Reasonable people can differ philosophically on IP issues, but even someone in favor of long patent terms and broad patentabi…

Well... it doesn't. This strikes me as a pretty unconvincing definition of "commercial activity" and obviously implicates free speech rights. (That said, if the operators facing tr…

This is true, but only to a point. In principle, if the reasoning is flawed in some obvious way (say, writing a memo on executive power during wartime without citing Youngstown Ste…

I'm thinking of buying Liquid Intelligence for my sister and brother-in-law, but I'm half-worried they'll think I'm subtly trying to kill them.