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This was a beautiful read. I work from home 100% but I do enjoy occasional trips into the office to see people in 3D. I completely relate to the decompression time of the commute -…

This was a well-written article, I appreciate the simple journalism on display. A reporter dedicating themselves to an area, showing up faithfully and reporting their observations …

Yes, that gels with what I was saying - use e2e tests for "big picture" assurance that the system is correct. Use unit tests for super fain grained assurance of individual business…

I graduated college in 2003 and I remember the excitement at good job prospects among my CS degree peers growing right along with the bubble. I remember being pretty depressed goin…

I believe pretty strongly in the "testing pyramid" - that you should have a broad base of unit tests, with fewer integration tests and even fewer e2e tests. Source (also from Googl…

I personally like and get value out of stubs and mocks in my unit tests, but I think they suffer some of the same issues as code without tests - it's hard to know the original inte…

I wholeheartedly agree that the experience of being a Google customer / user has degraded significantly. I'm not sure the omission of the topics you mentioned can be corelated exac…

I love the way you phrased this and I experienced exactly the transformation you described!

They were asking about forced sterilization though

Agreed, especially the stuff about end users. Of course you want to prevent bugs that will impact users, but many of the other things being discussed have nothing to do with whethe…

Yes, I agree with this. Everyone is welcome to write their own messy code while in the "get it working" phase, but it needs to be cleaned up and made somewhat verifiable before it …

"Really?" was my first reaction too. The difference may be a bit subtle but it's quite clear. I remember when I was learning promises there was lots of talk in the tutorials, etc. …

Reading stories like this really make me hate these customer service walls we've put up everywhere. Only a couple of times in these exchanges did it seem like there was a functioni…

I would absolutely love to hear someone's experience taking this course: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/coding-for-managers... I probably won't have time to sit through i…

Wow, you just described my world a few years ago. It drove me insane and I quite. Nice to hear that you don't mind it though!

I'm in a similar state of mind as you. Any time I start a web project now I just write vanilla JS and none of my hobby projects has yet to reach a point where I wanted a framework.…

This matches my experience completely. I've never even been offered a session on legalities. Almost universally, my only prep for interviews has been someone leaving the resume on …

Well said. And to be fair, I was talking mostly tongue-in-cheek about the "idiot", etc. I've been that guy I'm sure. I agree about the trade-offs, I've been there myself too.

If nothing else I appreciate the author linking to the Ward Cunningham post on technical debt http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor I've heard so much talk about technical d…

From TFA: > from 1939 to 1950, hourly workers’ wages rose roughly three times faster than elite executives’ pay. This seems like it would be a good place to get back to.

Not sure why this would get downvoted, I think it makes sense. From what I've read about transgendered people, they either suffer through the stress of gender dysphoria and appear …

I spent so many work hours devoted to getting elements lined up pixel-perfect to match jpegs from graphic design, and then struggling to get them to also match up in the other brow…

Yeah this was a wonderful trip back in time for me too. I graduated high school in 1999 so I got to spend a couple teenage years playing around with HTML. I identify strongly with …

I would love to see a universal basic income for families with children. My only question is how to change the incentives so kids don't just become a paycheck?

The YouTuber Kitboga mentioned above got into the scambaiting thing because someone took advantage of his grandmother suffering from dementia. It really is a terribly abusive con, …