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> people who have family responsibilities through no fault of their own ... are ignored while companies fawn over people who (largely) choose to pop out more mouths to feed. This i…

Citation? From Wikipedia: "The alt-right has no formal ideology... 'Alt-right' is a recently coined umbrella term, with no clear criteria of membership yet agreed upon." https://en…

Assuming your interpretation of your manager's motivations are correct, that's horrible and I'm sorry you had to go through it. With that said, would you have had any more protecti…

> ... a crutch that stifles people's success ... I'm not sure how that's a "crutch." Also, in the future utopia you're describing where no one has to work a shit job that "stifles …

I think it's partly a matter of priming the pump with a one or two fantastic initial hires. Go above and beyond to get a couple terrific people on board (offer a title, or an oppor…

You need to look up "freedom." It doesn't mean "other people are required to meet all of your needs."

What is a page view on an article worth these days? A couple cents? Less? If the micropayments implementation was right, and if paying for content became a more mainstream idea, I …

I rarely take the time to comment on HN or submit content but I'm occasionally really tempted to earn enough karma that I can down-vote arrogant, condescending, asinine posts like …

I mean, I take his point that some kinds of attention are really bad. I knew mchurch at Google and that whole debacle was a pretty up-close look at just how bad they can be. I just…

I hear where you're coming from, but if he had scrubbed all of that from this post and gone with "professional" -- "I am a self-taught web dev looking for work, I am familiar with …

This makes intuitive sense to me but doesn't match up with what I've seen anecdotally. I lived in some very wealthy suburbs of NYC, and nearly every family was a two-earner family.…

I spent about 5 years at Google starting in 2006. When I arrived I was assigned to one manager, but I wasn't _super_ excited about the project. A week in, another manager offered m…

It definitely happens. I don't think it makes sense for the buyer, but it definitely happens.

Was acqui-hired a couple years ago, and after that vetted several other acqui-hires on behalf of my new employer. A couple quick points: Few engineers understand that their interes…

I get that it didn't come across well, but I wasn't saying "whatever Donald Trump does in a campaign speech is good enough for me," I was saying, "this seems to be a defining chara…

Isn't this what every major political figure in America does, constantly? I don't know where you live but here I feel like not a single school shooting, natural disaster, high-prof…

Silicon Valley might not be representative of the nation or the world, but (thankfully!) anonymous internet forums aren't, either.

Yeah, when I realized that Ravel accepted other answers it was like discovering Santa Clause wasn't real. "Regret" was the answer that made by far the most sense given TNO's narrat…

It was for Lyme, and IIRC the justification for including it in my course of treatment was roughly what lisa_henderson describes below.

I dealt with Lyme Disease about a decade ago. Some of this sounds very familiar -- before I was diagnosed I went to the hospital multiple times sure I was having a heart attack, an…

Background: I worked at Google for 5 years and did a bunch of interviewing for them. I don't support skipping interviews even for good candidates , but if you were going to it woul…

Really? Parents offering to subsidize some activities, but not others, are "forcing their children into servitude?" Give me a break. If your parents attaching a few conditions to t…

When you become an utterly dependable one-party voter you really diminish your say in what your party stands for. More than that, though, if Rand Paul actually got the nomination -…