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Ah no. It's an article about a software engineer in a software company which they call elite. It's shared on a site with tech people and commented on by tech people. Elite has a me…

Since we're answering questions with questions... > Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by What are you …

I'm all for the positivity but really?? > Access to an elite organization In what way is Slack elite? These writers need to tone done their hyperbole.

Agreed 100%.

> this happens when you add JSON version for old XML-based APIs (seen this multiple times) ...without using an XSD schema. With a schema,not an issue

> Richard Hendricks and the rest of the crew finally sell their new internet company — to HBO parent company AT&T, no less This didn't happen! They signed a deal with AT&T to build…

> He had no actual knowledge that the guy wasn't a child rapist What?! I can't even.. More importantly, he had no actual knowledge that the guy _was_ a child rapist

MMmmm. Would have thought that was not a defense for him seeing as he then went on to call him a child rapist: > “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what…

Wow, genuinely surprised by this.

not op - 1 click clear storage/site data button. Do any of the firefox devs use chrome dev tools to see what's missing in FF/nice to have?

How many devs are on the firefox devtools team?

As feelgood a quote as that may seem, this line: > Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full. is…

> I have seen multiple tech teams at different companies evolve separately towards using similar patterns in both Java and C# Could you give us some background on your professional…

> I actually do want to "criminalize homelessness". It should not be an allowable choice How about people who are an utter nuisance on their neighbours? Do we just say tough luck t…

How have we as a society not outlawed the phony hiring of family members in order to financially enrich them far beyond what they could earn/should earn for the work they do?

I'll save you some future embarrassment and point out that Google complies with all applicable laws in the territories it provides search (including "hate speech laws, anti-piracy …

Clearly the author does realise this as is evident by the rest of the sentence, which was included in the quote.

> never mention it in the presence of an Irishman, a Northern-Irishman or anyone else from GB, and especially not botch my reference to any one side It's really only an issue in wr…

> yet the DMV wouldn't recognize the impossibility of going from incredibly drunk to stone cold sober in the span of three minutes. or maybe they recognised he could go and get som…

Looks like OP is based in Washington D.C. Guess he was feeling left out when it came to all the lobbying money and croney corruption. Strange he never addressed the fact that a new…

the OP message falls flat when it can't even be bothered to server render. also, most offensive is the use of 3rd party js hosting. given the tiny size of the 3rd party libraries (…

Chrome's dev tools are so far beyond the competitions that this joke is a non-starter. When Chrome does add this capability(strange they haven't added it to date given the prior ar…

from the article: > Canonical's write-up of the work done to improve GNOME is also interesting for the long list of what didn't work and how wrong some of the developers' initial a…