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The general point seems to be that the Fed can only do 1 substantial thing for the economy, raise or lower interest rates. (yada yada quantitative easing, forward guidance) And int…

I think that’s the point. Elon takes the “freedom from consequences” interpretation of free speech when it comes to his complaints about twitter and “cancel culture”, then turns ar…

For the uninitiated, could someone explain why this is important? Is rendering triangles really that difficult?

It’s possible most of the 6.3% did not own property and we’re not in the market to buy property, so there was no change in that market.

I have a personal project I’ve been working on that is a desktop app with a UI that has some fairly complex data visualizations. I’ve been using Electron because I know JS well and…

This is easily solved for with a decent rain jacket and rain pants. When I started commuting via ebike I was convinced I would take the bus or drive on rainy days, but in reality I…

If you plan on riding on anything other than perfectly paved and mostly flat concrete the ebike is much more practical.

There are lots of decent ebike options $1000 for inner tubes, break pads, and chain grease is not a reasonable estimate.

I agree with the general premise that consistently shipping and chunking your work to make that possible is very important. Personally I know that I feel a lot better on weeks I sh…

In my first dev job I was hired as 1 in a pair of jrs to start at the same time on the same team. We never got along. After about a year I was promoted and the other person was let…

Write down everything you’re going to eat for the day in the morning. I’ve used logging to great effect for weight loss, but I found it cumbersome to open my phone and log the calo…

FWIW I have been building web applications with JavaScript for about 7 years - sometimes very complex applications with literally millions of MAU - and I couldn’t have told you wit…

Yes, at a lot of companies (anecdotally 3/3 for me including a FANG) the developers are the main driver of the product development. Product managers help guide the process and dire…

I can’t answer about the relation to tech investment, but the federal reserve has a meeting every month and they have been explicitly saying for the last few meetings that they int…

So the only good candidates for a recruiter are the ones willing to let their recruiter break the law and make a salary history a requirement for consideration? WA state law makes …

I was recently talking to a 3rd party recruiter who started asking me for detailed salary info of all my past jobs. I told him that I didn’t feel comfortable answering that, then w…