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Good unique handles are only getting scarcer as the internet grows older. I wonder what people will do 20 years from now.

Who are these people? Probably in their 20s, high paying job out of school, don't give a hoot about saving money and just live it up while the going's good. I can't imagine anyone …

You can see the remedy attempts already * push for cloud storage over local storage * push for locked down devices over general purpose computers * push for DRM on the open web * b…

You seem to be at the whim of fickle web APIs, that's no way to go if you're in it for the long haul. Web tech moves very fast because it's just so easy to iterate and deliver the …

If you click on "Tips Home" it gets even weirder. Like the url for "Technical tips" being "make-money-online-tips/", and check the Blogroll.

What a bore. Why would I want to read mill-produced articles weaved with sponsored posts? There's an overwhelming amount of meaningful content coming from thousands of different so…

Sure, you learn the most in your first 6 months by quantity but that doesn't mean you learn the most valuable things. You won't learn anything of depth in half a year.

I'd like to give freelancing a shot at some point. How would you build a reputation network coming from a corporate background?

How about no more scroll jank by just delivering plain useful content without the anti-usability bells and whistles? Even the cheapest hardware out there today is able to provide a…

I don't envy the eyesight of the worker that has to look through a microscope their entire shift, this was sad to read.

Is the work atmosphere more relaxed in Canada? For that matter, do the East Coast/West Coast culture stereotypes hold true for Canada?

Terrific! There's something so raw and human about these old geeky websites. Random people from all over making comprehensive, quality content about the things they love and showin…

> I think outrage at this is a little unjustified. The whole schooling system is built around monitoring student progress. > I think the best way to help our kids develop these ski…

That sounds like an awful waste of 20 years' worth of skills and experience. I never saw this "check out at 35-40 and do something else" advice given in other specialized and relev…

What do you mean by transition into another career? Using your programming experience in a tangential field? Getting into management?

What jobs make $300-500k at Google, I assume upper management positions?

All these overbearing JavaScript frameworks solve problems nobody has. Web design is trivial, all you're doing is bloating it and making it less accessible by replacing native GUI …

Phone systems really do seem needlessly outdated, they're the paid service with the crappiest user experience today. Why is it possible for some creep to call me from ostentatiousl…

I like this! Is it a sort of staging ground for libraries to eventually graduate to various distributions' official repositories, or is it just random bite-sized utilities for quic…