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I really hope Mozilla hosts a very open and public postmortem on this. Lapsed certificates keep causing outages everywhere. We narrowly avoided one in my new org. How can we as a d…

They sell all those Rand books in Portland, at Powell's. Every one of them. It's no wonder that Portland is a hotbed for libertarian thought and free market propaganda. It's awful.…

Did you know it's legal for anyone to sleep on your sidewalk in Portland? And where are they going to the bathroom? It's terrible. Don't move there. Go to Beaverton if you need to …

SOMA is So Mach Better than Portland. You can meet other people who work in your field. No one looks at you weird when you get on the bus for work. You can get a real burrito. You …

No toilets anywhere. They are into that composting thing and they think it's all fertilizer. It smells like a mix of rotting feces, pot, and body odor. Horrible place. Don't move t…

Oh it's terrible. There are no toilets. Even though open carry is legal there's crime everywhere. It's horrible. The suburbs are so much better. Lake Oswego is a nice place. None o…

Portland is terrible. Don't move here. There's nowhere to park. There's homeless everywhere. There's no real tech companies. There's no VC. And the air smells like pot. Don't move …

If your mindset is $$$ first it doesn't matter where you live. We have a ton of valley expats here in Portland. The ones who are really artists and creatives at heart and work to s…

The dream of the 90's is alive and not just here in Portland! I'm still writing Java to make money to buy music. Just like the 90's.

Perfect, bug-free software has economies of scale. There is no such thing as perfect, bug-free software. Once you start getting into any sort of maintenance, bug-fixing, feature cr…

This is only new for people who did not grow up in poverty. For those of us who were below the middle class, the daily competition to avoid last place was a fact of life in school …

You still need the capital to feed, clothe, and shelter yourself. If you don't have a hereditary source of wealth, you need to work for that, and if you don't have enough wealth to…

"Step 1: Spend less than you make...You don't need to be from a rich family to do these things." Uh, in the USA 2015, you do. Or you need to be a very lucky lottery winner. Living-…

Remember, in the post-WWII USA we live in a feudalist society. If we lived in a true capitalist society, with societal mechanisms in place to keep wealth circulating, this wouldn't…

Strong typing, declarative code, containerization, microservices, reactive systems...trendy? I've been doing all that in Java for 20 years. Break out the flannel and turn on the Oa…

Thanks for the posting. The article is dead-on but it misses one important contributing factor- the rise and mass acceptance of the "disrupt" culture. It's become acceptable, desir…

Idiocracy rules! See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ And of course Idiots Rule. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUUd-30Bzw

Related- my post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999817 (Ask HN: How many non-techies are employed in software for every engineer?)

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999935 ("On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs")

Thanks, but that's not really the question. I'm trying to find out how many non-techies are supported by each engineer, and my hypothesis is that the number is increasing. My hypot…

And a corollary question: how many US engineers in US companies are employed for every non-techie? My experience has been that the more non-techies come on board, the more inclined…

Just wondering if anyone has stats or stories about the number of non-engineers who have jobs as a result of the work of engineers. A casual look at job postings these days shows a…

Greedy advertisers + good Javascript libraries used by bad Javascript developers= end of the Internet we loved

The Valley will be the next great ghost town. 30 years from now, most of the current offices in SJ, Mountain View, and Palo Alto will be abandoned because people will be sick of th…

Silicon Valley refugees and people complaining about Bay Area prices, please note that this is 100% true. Portland will be completely wiped out within the next couple years by a gi…