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I expect you'll be seen as the problem for slowing an obviously productive person down. What a time to be alive :(

When I was at LinkedIn we definitely cared about this. It probably wouldn't be enough to knock you down a peg during your review if you had none during a particular half/quarter, b…

This isn't that hard. There are various employee groups around identities (Women in Tech, Asian Pacific, Black, LGBTQ, etc). Membership is not exclusive to those groups but also op…

Many blogs are completely dynamic and grab content out of a database on every request. The static site generation style fell out of early fashion when wordpress took over from move…

Level 59 is the entry level software engineer position. Similar to E3 at Meta or L3 at Google. Levels.fyi does a pretty good job at this kind of context at least for the big compan…

The money tends to be on one side of these things, and money amplifies the message substantially. You can argue that the election was fair all you want, but who is going to pay to …

This is probably because of Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) rules, which prevent personal data from leaving the device for ads without consent. This means YouTube on AppleT…

This isn't even the first time this has happened. Remember when they renamed Libra? I think they just assume it doesn't matter, and if it does, the settlement will be a blip. It do…

You can’t control who buys your mortgage from whatever bank you originally got a mortgage with. Even if you refinance to another bank, they can just resell it again. I assume this …

While I'm happy to hear you are leaving Reddit, please consider reinstalling Apollo until Christian is able to shut down the app. He is planning to ask folks to forgo the refund mu…

Christian Selig's post covers this in detail and includes references to other app developers with similar concerns. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w... …

That is only true when flying. When on the ground during boarding, it's pretty awful and stuffy.

How can you watch Ms Marvel and think this is copy paste or looks generic? The characters, culture, and art style are pretty unique and make the show quite enjoyable, and I am gene…

There is a long history of this including multi-protocol clients. You see this now for example as people want a single "chat" for the many places they publish live streams (twitch,…

> In 2005 Google added XMPP support to Google Talk/GMail Chat and they were federated, but nobody federated back and they closed off its successor (Hangouts). I don't think "lack o…

Didn't the metaverse always suck? It's the setting for dystopian science fiction.

I used oops to help someone I knew several months back. It still exists and worked amazingly well.

> I am well aware (and have been for decades) that I've been the beneficiary of white male privilege Excellent. Either you got this training at some point or you figured it out you…

It's hard to separate gut feeling from unconscious bias. Those times you remember not listening to your gut and regretting it are susceptible to confirmation bias. Personally, I've…

Music rights are split into two traditionally, the songwriting copyright and the mechanical reproduction right. Previous to the internet, media sales mostly went to the labels who …

> But I also had one boss who did not want to hire one woman because " what happens when she gets pregnant" This is perhaps an example where extending parental leave benefits to bo…

> Some places I've even seen a "diversity quota" for tech recruiters that's tied to a bonus. It makes sense if you want to increase diversity to have the beginning of the funnel ge…

I can confirm that I personally advocated for namespaces before Cargo existed. I failed to convince the decision makers. Meanwhile, just a few days ago some of my project's crates …

Diane wrote an analysis of how many bugs would have been avoided had the Servo style system been in Gecko all along: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-compon...…

One reason to use Rust is speed. For example https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Facebook... Of course, not all projects have this as a high order concern, but some…