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Or when the CEO (petite woman) and co-founder (old man) go to VC meetings and everyone thinks the the co-founder is in charge and the CEO is his secretary. Shit like this is rampan…

Long membrane communication.

I wish this article had actual substance and not just a listicle of off-the-cuff one-liners.

Me, and people like me who bring flamebait to HN and risk turning it into /.,reddit or worse, 4ch . Sometimes I just forget and get all troll-y and flame-y, and I hate that shit.

You busted me: I guess that's my age showing because I didn't know Excel -had- a new data model. What's it called and how is it different than sheets, and when was it introduced? I…

Oof.

I have said these EXACT words, my good friend! Short answer: - Corporate inertia + familiarity + fear Very long answer (rant warning): - The XLS was used by multiple teams, from mu…

Dammit, I did it again. Sorry, thanks for calling me out. That's actually why i -like- HN, so few flamewars.

Truer words have never been spoken.

FTFY: "Excel THINKS IT CAN DEAL with many gigs of data thanks to PowerPivot and the addition of an in-memory database." It's so cute when I hit ctrl-downarrow on a blank sheet and …

In my 25+ years of using Excel, here's what makes a pro: 1. Someone who knows how to use two dimensional TABLE()s and vector functions. 2. Someone who can implement an imperative c…

Summer 1981, 11 years old, learning logo on a ][. It sure beat the hell out of trying to draw a straight line in HIRES mode in assembly: goddamn skipping every six horizontal lines…

Nice strawman argument, but you undermined your own argument: Electron apps are not generic browsers that run random content from the web: they are fully debug-able projects, and t…

You are correct: I didn't specify what I was hiring for. I didn't have a need for plug-and-chug hackers to knock out one-off fixes, i had a need for talented programmers to groom i…

true. it's like interior decorator vs. interior designer if you're just going to move couches around and put down throw pillows, who cares about a solid foundation of design fundam…

Having hired programmers since the 90's, OP is correct. Think of it with this analogy: a hacker with no comp-sci foundation is to hacker with comp-sci foundation the way a car mech…

Local UI? electron + ES6 + html5 + no package installs + linux/macos/windows portable = why bother with anything else?

Wasn't Facebook part of the class action lawsuit that sought to supress wages and colluded in anti-poaching between Intel, Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe? They may pay more, but they …

"I would argue that 80% of all tech companies are doing close to 0 in making the world a 'better place'." I can only speak for the tech co I worked for: Intel, for 23 years. Three …

Is it really that bad being a software/hardware engineer in Europe? I was thinking of entering via Holland (easiest work rights) and then after a few years try to work in France or…

Same to you.

How much longer until every project is written in its own language? This doesn't actually bother me: there is so little difference between the proliferation of new languages that "…

Actually, I AM going to be that guy. I have zero tolerance for people who claim to be experts. You had one experience and used an idiom (incorrectly) to sound smart. So tired of sm…

99% of the time? Sounds like 100% of the time since we're only talking about a sample size of one company. Serious generalization. More like "a bird in hand".

"Selling and support is harder and takes more time and effort than writing code." So is this.