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Your comment reeks of being the sort of claim that you will pretend you never made if nothing changes, but you will hold up as evidence of your incredible knowledge of it isn't. Th…

Ah yes, another barely literate post from the always bigoted ThomPete.

Climate change will affect hydrology on a mass scale, making huge swaths of land and infrastructure poorly suited to the future environment. It is a horrific mistake, and future ge…

Lyft taught me that many lyft drivers choose fairly terrible routes, and I'm better off using UberBlack. AirBNB taught me that many AirBNB hosts, even those with good reviews, are …

No, you're not in bizarroland. You're just waking up to the reality that HN (and SV generally) is filled with horrible bigots and assholes. To them, he beat a woman not a human. So…

It's beyond arrogant to claim that consumers can't make rational decisions because a third party is just too darned persuasive. Arbitration blows it. It's funny that you (somebody …

The advantages you ascribe to monolithic repos aren't due to monolithic repos, they're due to comprehensive tests. The multiple copies of a shared library argument is straight-up n…

Christ, jerf, you are a cartoon. Nobody even mentioned your shitty religion and you're already preemptively defending it. Could you please, for once in your life, have a conversati…

BSD-license can be revoked by the copyright holder you know. This is not true. None of the standard BSD licenses are revokable.

When my employer failed in 2002, I had no trouble getting another job offer. Unfortunately that company failed before my start date. As did the one after that. I moved to NYC to ge…

I firmly believe that you shouldn't author a book in something if you lack the appropriate expertise. If you do so, you risk disseminating misinformation at scale, causing enormous…

Boring is in the eye of the beholder. The biggest challenge I've found is that very few engineers have the depth to even attempt the job competently. Most engineers simply don't ha…

My average "devops" engineer is paid the same as the senior-level engineers within my company.