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What about "Three Days of the Condor"?

There are all kinds of people in tech who are self taught without CS degrees though. I don't think it's that beholden to the universities...at least not like other professions. I t…

In the US, "right on red" should be abolished. It's abused way too much at this point.

What headwinds? The Western world is a consumption driven society (with the US being an extreme version I would say), so I don't think advertising/PR spending will be reduced, just…

This is a gray area too as unnecessary testing can be costly and lead to worse care: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/13/1104141...

> and other laws, like those protecting unions, that defeat at-will employment This is backwards. Union membership is at its all time low and at-will employment has mostly taken ov…

You certainly do not need to build out an entire SPA or use React to reload part of a page just to swap in some HTML or load something asynchronously in the background.

> Google News refuses to permit socially conservative viewpoints (Fox News doesn’t make that list for me) to make up a user’s personalized feed. This isn't true. I just looked up a…

"Various pockets" seems to imply the problem is not that wide spread. But it is: [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap... [2] https://www.publichealth.co…

Software engineers can buy worker rights, overtime limits, etc? That's news to me. Also, goes without saying, not every engineer is making FAANG-level salaries.

> I think we probably at some point will realize that food like we ate in the past are way better than it is today and the type of heavily processed food we eat today is unhealthy.…

Not sure why you are being downvoted...you aren't wrong. > Except the Buddha and his stories explicitly advised against asceticism... Yup, the Middle Path.

Who ever mentioned anything about repressing thoughts? Quieting the mind does not mean repressing feelings. Observe the thoughts when they arise, but do not judge. This is nothing …

> At the best of times these routines of habit are just an escape from the stress... No, not an escape. Amongst the many benefits, exercise, meditation, etc are a means (but not th…

> Society, economics have changed to keep up. I think that is debatable, at least from the Western standpoint. Much of Western society and its economics produce tremendous amounts …

Be careful for what you wish. As OP alludes, much of your income is taken up by housing, childcare, healthcare, retirement funding, etc. Just about everything is "out of pocket". I…

A note on burnout: once you have had one burnout, the next one comes on faster and with less triggers needed.

> My autoimmune disease is likely caused by modern technical advances I'm absolutely certain that my autoimmune disease manifested itself later in life due to chronic stress at wor…

This is odd because the web version is almost always the first experience for a new user of the platform.

> If managing a server becomes just another bullet point in a developer job, this is exactly what we get. Yup...the same management are the ones that laid off the DBAs, system admi…

I generally agree with you, but for me I'm not necessarily trying to optimize for an ultra long life span but instead am trying to optimize for going out peacefully. I don't want m…

Ha! But in all fairness, multiple references, with references coming from verified previous employers. A quick phone call to the candidates prior employers to verify employment/lis…

> It's much easier for an unscrupulous person to find a friend who's willing to inflate their achievements on the phone than to provide on-the-spot solutions to programming problem…

> Surely that’s a better signal than a 60 minute coding test. It is! Where I work we have a min of three references required for non-entry level jobs and it reveals quite a bit at …

First off, take a step back and do about 2 - 5 minutes of deep breathing ("Box Breathing" [0] is a popular technique.) Second, know that you are not alone here. You've got a team w…