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The guy who wrote the post is a billionaire

Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers* * who are not 23 years old, have real-life responsibilities, and do not have infinite free time to devote to the latest h…

Because it sucks. I tell it to turn off all of my alarms and instead it ends up calling my mother at 4 in the morning, causing her to panic, thinking there's an emergency.

After nearly slamming my mind-bogglingly slow, gimped, company owned Dell Precision 5530 against the wall today, I've decided I want to work for a company that values my time and d…

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I don't have anything to add to the conversation other than to say that this is fantastic technical writing (and content too). Most of the time, when similar articles like this one…

A lot of people in this industry are not going to like it, but this post needed to be written and is 100% spot on. Wake me up when I can go to an "about our team" page for any of t…

Thank god.

On today's episode of "Stop Liking Things That I Don't Like"

This sounds like a good idea that I would really like to try, for my own sanity if for nothing else. For me, the issue—imagined or not—would arise in the Friday morning daily stand…

A lot of this story was told in "The Quants" by Scott Patterson: https://www.amazon.com/Quants-Whizzes-Conquered-Street-Destr...

Tried this for a few minutes at work (very heavy SQL Server shop). It doesn't play well with databases that have different schemas but the same table name. schema1.users schema2.us…

This kind of reasoning is exactly why we have even more bloated, crap software these days

"Microsoft killed my pappy. And my pappy's pappy."

And this is different from what everyone else on HN does...how?

I have long since switched to Ghostery ever since Disconnect frequently broke YouTube videos and nothing was ever done to fix it. Does anyone know if this problem still persists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Here's another one (not written by me): "My Story: From Lawyer to Ruby Hacker" http://coffeespoonsofcode.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/my-story-... It's always interesting to see these …

I was reading this just last week for fun, can't remember why :) Worm source code: http://www.foo.be/docs-free/morris-worm/worm/ Mailing list from 1988: http://securitydigest.org/p…