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Its not prevalent at all. The HN echo chamber makes it seem like there are many people who do this, but the number of people in the real world is basically zero.

This attitude makes me crazy. Women dominate PR, Nursing, Child care and Therapy? No problem, women are better at these jobs anyway Men dominate engineering? Patriarchy!

I think is this also what happened at Microsoft to cause them to put out a new programming framework every 18 months. They got some huge architecture team together to design .net, …

How do you store a version number in a single bit?

I am soo glad that viewpoint is on the way out, and we no longer have to live on the web equivalent of a brutalist concrete cube.

You're assuming you would never want to use the same markdown on different sites. As soon as that happens you discover all sorts of weird cases and ambiguities. I don't think this …

> should the owner of a spec really be expected to continuously hunt down and test/validate every implementation of their specification? I'm pretty sure thats exactly what trademar…

That wasn't the question. You just asked for things people under 30 had accomplished. Not things only someone under 30 could accomplish.

Bill Gates was ~25 when they founded Microsoft

Every one of these threads about age seems to turn into a circlejerk about how awesome being old is. It makes me wonder, is it just the old people feel the need to defend themselve…

Yeah, but they push down the rents on the older apartments. At least thats the way it worked in my city, which has a similar housing situation.

Pretty sure the SR-71 is not a combat aircraft.

About $50k a month. http://gold.reddit-stream.com

You don't need a travel agent for that, just use skyscanner or something. The case where a TA adds value is something like: 'I am going from Australia to Canada for work, and I nee…

But most of the traffic to sf is just users downloading the software. If you were to look at the number of commits per day on sf v github, I wouldn't be surprised to see a x100 dif…

>Both inside the humanities and outside, people feel ... that the important issues that people of all sorts care about, like inequality and climate change, are being addressed not …

This was strongly my impression as well. A bunch of business guys who have seen The Social Network a few too many times chasing the worst ideas imaginable.

If you only care about CPU speed and memory, then apple is going to seem pretty overpriced. But if you also care about weight, battery life and build quality, then apple is almost …

Just as an aside, if you have a project that you're not sure is going to take off, there is no reason to shell out $29/month for it. Shared hosting will do the job for $5 - $10 a m…

In my experience minified js is 30-40% smaller, which can make a pretty significant difference in terms of load time. The debugging argument doesn't really make sense to me, since …

We absolutely do throw people in jail for being bad at their jobs. If an engineer signs off on design work which then fails and injures/kills someone due to their incompetence they…

> People unlikely to be able to contribute won't have a strong opinion Oh man, you are so so wrong. Sure the people who know nothing won't contribute, but there will be a large num…

This argument drives me crazy! The CPU speed is probably one of the least important things to me, basically any laptop sold today is fast enough. What I care about is weight, build…

I disagree with the whole premise of 'productivity => better pay'. I think it is much better and easier just to pay everyone in the same role the same (maybe with some company wide…

Yes, I would be shocked if an extra millionth died, because we have done many many studies of alcohol consumption, and they show that below a certain level (40ml a week or somethin…