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Just off the top of my head: every engineer should have 6+ months of savings. Market isn't great but our salaries can help build those savings easy. If I had more time, I would lov…

Don't people have savings? Don't people see what's happening in the industry and make sure to have 6+ months of savings? Don't people think that putting away a small portion of the…

> People often have long term financial commitments they cannot back out of, and not knowing how you'll make rent, if you can afford your child's school fees, or even maybe having …

I'm sad to see so much venom in these comments. HN of old would have tried to delve into the details and find something to learn from this.

People come in two flavors: conflict theorists and mistake theorists. Conflict theorists think that every event is a result of power struggler. So if someone gets hurt, someone mus…

How is my comment uncharitable? The OP made strong statements with weak backing. Their statements were also placing blame. Your profile says you're an SRE--can you imagine a post m…

> Actually, I know why. It's because they have too much money and when you have too much cash, you start splurging without thinking and then one day the chickens come home to roost…

Is there anything behind this stance or just pure simple misanthropy?

At first, I thought this was satire, but then the joke never landed. The author cites "Modern Physics, 8th ed." but then ignores everything in the book. This posting is fantasy in …

Yes. To elaborate, I think the effect of bans is so small that it's probably not even measurable because we have become amazingly good at distributing textual information. That doe…

The question is one of magnitude, not of simple occurrence. My argument is that de facto banning has little or no effect on accessibility. I'm sure the described book bans have dec…

But is it the matter or the teacher--their own approach or lack of ability--that discourages kids from reading? It's not clear which is the case here.

My very uncharitable take, but one that I have to entertain as potentially true, is that this is the exact skill some teachers want to deprive their students of.

You misunderstand my argument but I'm not sure which part of it is confusing.

It's almost as if there are beautiful, deep lessons being passed down by people who lived before us. I find the authors argument unpersuasive. I was one of those rebellious teenage…

>> We ban books, scrutinize classroom libraries, demonize librarians, and demoralize teachers. How true are these allegations? For example, book banning. This source mentions that …

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How is increased FCP, LCP, ttvc better ux and DX? We've had hard data that decreasing page load time make for better user experience[0]. Please don't make this an Us vs. Them thing…

There's no cost to building slow, fragile, and inefficient websites. When you build programs that run on _your_ computers, you have to pay for that. Or at least have to deal with t…

If we want full employment, we should mandate people use spoons instead of shovels.

Similar experience. Started with html 3.2/xhtml and css as a kid. Some years later got a job and did Django + jQuery, but found myself drawn into infra. A year ago I worked alongsi…

Why bring in all that extra complexity in the first place, even if it works? Unless there's a good reason to, like long-lived sessions or a complex, updating UI, then I can't think…

These are some of my favorite books about software because of how they reveal a specific human mind at work. And they're the only ones that I felt effectively taught me about desig…

I see a lot of mentions here of the US embargo as if it's the only factor in why Cuba is so poor. Unfortunately, it appears to be mostly misinformation. Noah Smith lays out quite w…