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Surely the greater good would be dubbing in Mandarin, rather than English subtitles.

An unfunded mandate is entirely punitive. If we as a society valued it, we'd be paying for it.

This company isn't offering voting rights nor planning dividends. What's the benefit of owning shares, other than trying to choose the right moment to sell them to other speculator…

It's a kind of tragedy of the commons. If two languages are basically equivalent yet incompatible, neither of the authors did something wrong , but it's a shame about the missed op…

Reading and writing CPP macros is awful, but it's still not as bad as reading and writing the mind-numbing boilerplate that they replace.

If you can't build and deploy your own system without a piece of code, you should not be relying on the goodwill of any third party to keep it available for you with no SLA. A good…

Why do that? If your screening test says they're both qualified, interview them both. Hire them both if you possibly can.

What happens when your production system blows up at 3 AM? Does your team have a list of who can and can't be expected to assist?

Lots of good vendors offer free trials or guarantees without it harming their reputation. In fact most customers object to shouldering all the risk.

I wouldn't hire a frontend-only guy instead of a qualified developer, for the same reason I wouldn't hire a guy who can only mount wall outlets instead of a qualified electrician. …

> if you already have open sourced a bunch of code How do I know you wrote it and didn't merely paste your name over some project I've never heard of?

> It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fac…

Java was adopted very rapidly (as soon as it ran acceptably on commodity hardware) because the industry desperately needed a safe subset of C++. The pain point addressed by Go is m…

The only way to get team cohesion is positive-sum priorities. If I spend more time helping you improve long-term and less time delivering on my own responsibilities, that needs to …

I distinctly remember "Homicide", which is actually a specialty intended for attorneys working in criminal law.

I'd be surprised if the script kiddies attacking world-writable MongoDB instances know or care who owns them. Destroying the data and then lying is a lot less effort than actually …

A 20 minute mile doesn't include waiting for walk signals at pretty much every intersection on the route, and the Manhattan distance between the Caltrain station and his office mig…

Whitewashing his reputation for posterity by spending money that has never been rightfully his.

Our phone screen takes anyone who isn't blatantly clueless; another candidate doing better never hurts you. We'd rather interview too much than triage the top N and then start boun…

This must be a generational thing. I hadn't heard of any of them until years after I started and I think most of them are younger than I.

> many candidates who are equally "qualified" within our margin of error Too many acceptable candidates? Nobody I've ever worked for had this problem. If you meet the bar, you're g…

This. Markdown is good for non-technical people who struggle with a real markup language, but reStructuredText is so fiddly that I can't figure out who's better off using it over D…

As a fat guy it's really common to miss out on swag that we didn't get in my size. None of it was like a badge of office, though.

I think the quote you're looking for is > The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads ... that sucks.

Alcohol definitely blunts fast reflexes. If it also hinders coding, it's not for the same reason. If I had to guess, a little could fix anxiety and perfectionism, while a lot will …