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Here is a much better proposal, with the added benefit of keeping our planet safe: http://traipse.com/upgrade/

You're free to ask people who come in to interview at your company, "why did you leave your last job?" and apply your own judgement. Or if you truly want to help improve Github, yo…

> On Monday, a judge set bail at $100,000 for Robert Malsch, accused of drinking and of driving more than 100 mph before rear-ending a car and killing the driver inside.

Code review could have been another set of eyes to predict the problem of reusing a flag.

Redundant/distributed/crowd-sourced diagnoses? Instead of a single radiologist, fan it out to many.

> If you are offered little equity as compared to the founders, don't join. There is no "if". Employee equity is always a small fraction of founders'. This won't change until peopl…

> there was at least one TRON arcade game... that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten I can barely express how amazing and influential Disc…

Civilian, you probably signed an agreement with Google to not disclose information about their internal operations, as you're doing here and below.

P(startup) = c * P(pivot), for some constant c

The 3 second audio loop while loading from disk is seared into my brain!

TLDR: Market share > Principles > We have come to the point where Mozilla not implementing the W3C EME specification means that Firefox users have to switch to other browsers to wa…

"Woman with bangs." I cringe any time I see a writeup of a female engineer or executive where attention is drawn to her hairstyle, clothes, or shoes. It's unnecessary and undignifi…

Any suggestions for smaller codebases? A lot of these are great and you'll pick up idioms here and there, but they're massive .

Is there a follow-up poll showing that it's "decidedly a positive change"? :-)

To read the atom.io threads. Plenty of positivity around here when a new product strikes a chord.

I think I will nominate myself to be the single person on Hacker News, who after an announcement of a huge mega-acquisition, will skip all the high-minded analysis and discussion o…

What's really hard is not mastering the language, but software development. That's the reason top, super-productive coders can jump between langs.

She's been with the company since the beginning.

True bugs wait in haunted attics.

I'm pretty sure that was fake.

You could have just solved the problem by taking a job at Apple, Adobe, Intuit, Lucasfilm, or Pixar!

I'm not sure how anyone could question Gates, Zuckerberg, or Sandberg on their sincere and informed interest in young people studying computer science. The criticism on that page i…

Where do you see this "direct line"? I've seen no sign of that.

Why do you think they negotiated at all?