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Couldn't agree more. I worked 2 years 100% pairing, it's just too much. I also have some mildly introspective personality and the extra overhead of communicating every single word …

Amen! Taking a common perception and wrapping it in a lot of cheap psychoanalysis (without even providing references) belongs somewhere else.

The feeling of guilt is, unfortunately, normal. Just try to keep in mind you didn't really do nothing wrong, and it will help overcoming it faster.

As soon as read "hacking" being used as a synonym for coding/development, I started to get angry. I still read it just in case I was wrong, just to end up being right, and angry.

Saw it happening a few times in my 12 year of industry. I suppose it's specifically common in companies that use social media (and other media) presence as a recruitment boosting t…

Answering to a "male problem" (e.g. men pursuing less education) by stating it's actually another example of bias agains women ("that's because women need more education to get the…

Yep. That's probably why you'll never met a developer without a rudimentary understanding of written english.

Also, it seems out of question for people who're employed. Not sure how to "WFH one week", paid or not, when you have another job.

As a slightly above average dev in London (and I mean it), I feel that for many big companies the interview process always achieve on thing: to avoid hiring anyone who could really…

"The thought of some ux monkey using npm anywhere near our ICBMs makes my physically ill." Almost spilled my coffee reading this one.

Unfortunately there's always people living in the 1800s...

To be fair, I believe a big part of this kind of reaction often comes from being pushed trendy "easy fix for something important" from HR or top management quite frequently.

I'm not sure I got it right: Did it cost you ~$50k to file your patent?

"The new Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single, easy-to-use app on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Find My can help users locate a missing Mac even if it’s of…

Bob, Is that you? Whenever I go to the pub and meet old timers still working there keep telling me funny stories about how you swear loudly every time you open a code file I've tou…

This helped me in quite a few interviews, and I'm only 39yo. Thanks for putting it in a clear, logic and fun way. My brain had guessed the basic mechanism, but hadn't formulated it…

So, if I get this right, her addiction got so bad she needed to upgrade from posting on social media to writing to the NYT?

Should they need a special motive/excuse to unionise?

I think the probability of you being right is definitely above 50%.

"A 10x engineer is usually levitating, and farting out 1's and 0's as they whiteboard a proof that P=NP. They stopped sleeping before they were born. They are usually typing on two…

This level of one sidedness scares me. It's just as easy for a Russian/Chinese/Iranian/etc citizen to say the same about US. I'd say it's easier, if you take into account the ludic…

It has the largest inmate population in the world, in total number, not %. Can you imagine if China locked up the same % of it's population?

"You value security and loyalty, because that's what your generation was raised with." How could you possibly know that much about the person you're responding to? He only state he…

What news do you read? From here it seems quite divided.