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Yup - credit cards offer incentives (for example, 2% cash back) - I can't think of any good reason not to get one and have it set up so that it automatically deducts the balance fr…

Startups fail all the time. Just say it didn't work out - you don't need to give all the details.

There is a distinction between the pressure that comes from growing up in a "tiger family" and the consequences of growing up with the "smart" label, and I feel like the author is …

https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/

With my HSA, auto payment is apparently a setting you can turn on or off. I highly recommend having this turned off if your HSA allows.

I keep hearing this "negotiate" thing, but I tried it when I was billed $254 for a strep test (after being quoted $25 at the walk-in clinic), and the provider refused to negotiate.…

I think the trend these days is to use People-first language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language (that is, saying "person with autism" - because it puts the person…

"Affordable housing" is a very specific term - it means city-subsidized housing that is restricted to tenants within a certain income bracket (and usually applicants are selected b…

Real academy, fake COBOL bootcamp. It's just that one page that's the joke - the rest of the site is about their real JavaScript bootcamp.

In case people are confused - the Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy is a real bootcamp. They do not teach COBOL - that's the April Fool's joke.

Thanks! Or a turtle being drawn by a turtle being drawn by a turtle... turtles all the way down! ^_^ Seriously, though - I appreciate the suggestion - I was thinking of triangles d…

This is a bit of a tangent, but you guys seem like the right crowd. Logo has been on my mind the past few days, as I'm rapidly approaching my 20th "codeversary" (ie. 20 years since…

Clicked through to her site, and the tagline is "True && False of two Female Developers"... True && False evaluates to False... so, lies by two female developers? Not a criticism -…

Or just have people mail you a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE)? Then you can just put the stickers in it and drop them in the mail (plus, you don't have to buy or address en…

This is great, thanks!

Interesting analysis, but would have also loved to see a breakdown of salary by years of experience. "Average salary" doesn't tell me much about how much I can reasonably expect to…

MIT Mystery Hunt - http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/ happens every year in January. Afaik you don't need to be an MIT student to participate

Nice to see this again - I've told this story to many of my web dev students. :-)

Not to knock the work that they're doing at all, but that website has the first use of the tag I've spotted in the wild in a long long time! I had no idea Chrome still supported it…

Hooli XYZ is a reference to the HBO show Silicon Valley. It has no relation to Google (other than that Hooli is basically a fictional parody of Google). Looks like some developer a…

>> Susan is doing a great job as CEO, running a strong brand and driving incredible growth. Is this supposed to say Sundar? Kind of an awkward mistake to make.