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I received a message from a recruiter there last week. I mentioned that I wasn't interested because of the crypto market right now. Her response was basically to say "just found ou…

For me, I notice that I get most engrossed in the code when there's a problem and I need to figure out how to solve it.

This is the strangest and most satisfying discovery in a bit.

Flirting and speaking a foreign language are a false equivalence to not knowing how to e-mail or use social media. Whether using your definition or another, my point still stands t…

Once again... not knowing how to communicate via a particular medium does not equate to a lack of social skills. To your point, if a telegraph operator handed me a message I didn't…

I will still say that lacking the ability to communicate via a particular medium is not the same as lacking social skills. My inability to send messages via Morse code over telegra…

My parents struggling with e-mail is no way the same thing as lacking social skills. That just seems a lack of technology skills. My point was that saying Snapchat or social media …

Yes, she is 8. But even if she were 10 or 11, we'd probably keep similar restrictions. She does have access to FaceTime and our time restriction will probably grow as she ages.

She's 8. I'll grant that this works for us now. As she ages, we'll give her more responsibility for handling boundaries on her own.

She interacts with her peers at school and with her family... by that same token, ANYONE who grew up before Snapchat or the Internet had or has lacking social skills. Also, she CAN…

My wife and I both work full-time and we still stick to my daughter's iPad restrictions: only an hour a day, no Instagram or TikTok or YouTube at all, and she only gets it after ho…

There is an obvious difference between disagreeing with what someone says and believes and circling a petition that harms their livelihood because of said disagreements.

Brilliant.org?

http://brandonburning.com/warmup A simple warmup calculator for my workouts. Use it multiple times a week. https://safe-savannah-8578.herokuapp.com When Turntable.fm folded, I was …

I'll be impressed when breakfast machines can do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWd5D8wUc88

I totally get it. It's a complete mindset change and those are a little hard to get started. Definitely appreciate the advice.

Yeah, you're totally right. I completely missed the "instead of sitting in the car" part. Thanks. Sorry nikanj.

Honestly, the mornings and the evenings are the time I get to spend with my wife and daughter. I value time with them infinitely more than I value listening to audiobooks/podcasts …

He still works there and can probably vouch for the agreement, but he's no longer my direct supervisor.

The move has already happened, just now the new manager wants me to come in more. You hear about things like "negotiation tactics" but I've never experienced this, so it's hard to …

This is how I'm starting to feel. I love the team. Part of me thinks I'm blowing this out of proportion and ascribing nefarious motives to the higher-ups when they don't actually h…

I tell myself I could, but it's rough. A good 3+ hours in the car every day.

It was just an oral agreement. Nothing on paper.

Yes, but many involve a commute nearly as rough as the one I'm facing now. But I suppose in that situation, I could negotiate a higher salary from the get-go.

So, I currently work for a company at a certain salary. I've worked there for two years now. As a condition of taking the job, I was allowed to work remotely when they moved their …