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Paul, we know you're not stupid so please engage with the real argument, not a strawman. The middle class is shrinking. Social mobility is decreasing. There's now a man who is wort…

We teach software engineering like it's a craft. And some of it is. But 95% of it is not. 95% of it is in service of making money. Try to understand the quality of the software in …

Should engineers be pushing product forward?

Shouldn't this live under the VP of Product?

This is awesome, I was trying to build this as well. I'd love a windows version if that's on the roadmap.

I had an otherwise very competent VP of Engineering who was enamored by a former employee. One day during our 1-on-1 we got to the topic of what we know for sure vs. what we don't.…

Construction workers built the modern world, why shouldn't they run it?

How sure are you that you were on the losing end? What even is the "losing end" of a bailout? Rising tides lift all boats. Do you know any people who worked on wall street? Then th…

Sad that you're getting downvoted. OP's post is essentially "People who made different choices than me should be punished."

Please do - not trying to be snarky, just legitimately interested.

If your self worth is related to how much money you make (not saying that's bad) then go for it!

Where's the contradiction? Are you saying that "not being able to trust your thoughts" implies that materialism is false? > This article was written by someone with very poor philo…

Perhaps one solution is to divorce your own self worth from the quality of the software you happen to write and to realize that you are an employee first and a software engineer se…

> This is true... but it's also true of ≈everything else in the organization. Except for sales?

Just curious - why is it so hard?

Limitation of 3rd party. Apple has basically hamstrung all widgets in response to a few bad actors draining batteries.

I think he meant that "you" can manage (or not manage them at all) them inefficiently because the proxy pool well take care of that for you. It reads awkwardly.

This is your privilege. Here's a really great article that helped me notice my own privilege - https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf

I'm working on https://lazysurfer.app - it's an app that helps surfers dial in the exact conditions they prefer at their breaks. It's been a great way to learn some react native an…

> I also tried Quiver for storing code, but it is specialized towards code storage. Can you expand on this? Was quiver not good enough at basic text?

Is there some sort of Evernote for code? I'd love to be able to save small pieces of code with some accompanying documentation that describes how it works.