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> And here I am driving a 2003 Golf with a tape deck (and CD player). That sounds wonderful. There was a brief, magical moment in history when cars would come with AM/FM radio, a t…

Absolutely incredible to see Apple pushing performance like this. I can't wait to buy one and finally be able to open more than 20 Chrome tabs.

Any thoughts on root cause from your perspective? I've been on the other side of the table recently, and I agree it feels like a buyer's market. But it still took a while to find g…

> The IEEE has been riding this horse for a very long time Well, there's your mistake right there. You're supposed to be riding an ox. All this talk of oxen and horses got me curio…

> I would rather be a poor entrepreneur/freelancer than wealthy salaried employee. And office isn't really the factor, but other things, like freedom. To add a data point that will…

The "outliers" are the companies paying these insultingly low salaries for technology development. That's why there's so much low-quality software in the world. FAANG (and a few FA…

> I don't think the author is sympathetic to autistic people I think it's actually the exact opposite. This reads to me like a very kind sentence. It can be very helpful to spell t…

Forward/backward in which dimension? There's at least three or four to sort out.

Counterpoint: "When art critics get together, they talk about form and structure and meaning. When painters get together, they talk about where to get the best turpentine." (Picass…

> My female friend once experimented by putting up a picture of a shoe as her only dating profile. She still received many likes - some of them paid Super Likes. Well, obviously. E…

There's also several more classes of B.S., for what it's worth. An exaggerated/anonymized version of a recent one I got, from an otherwise-really-strong senior engineer: "Of course…

> My own feeling is that guilds of all sorts prioritize exclusivity for the purposes of bestowing power on some select few. As the article states "Master’s were few and far between…

...and whoever did that "accidentally" when they had to leave around lunchtime on Friday was, presumably, celebrated as a local legend.

Yeah, this one was surprising to me, too. It's not even that complex to do correctly. Usually, it's about 30 seconds of work to just go to https://http.cat/ and pick out the releva…

> a tower of a man, confident in the face of chaos and uncertainty, purely through force of word and logic I've been the same, ever since I learned to always keep a good towel arou…

As a person replying to your comment in the era of generative AI, I'm inclined to agree the hype is a bit much, even considering how impressive the technology can (sometimes) be. A…

One time, I paired with a guy that used `R` all the time . It was an eye-opener for me, too. I use `R` a little more often ever since then, but -- like a lot of others here -- my m…

> the mission is to make money and the vision is to make more money. This is just fine, but it's not enough. The purpose of writing a proper mission and vision is to say something …

What you really need to do is schedule daily status meetings, a longer weekly status meeting, and -- this is the real velocity trick -- monthly OKR reviews as well as quarterly sli…

> If they didn't think of getting you flowers themself (and had to use an app), is that real? I did confess to my girlfriend once that I'd never thought of getting her flowers, and…

> people with internal monologues might only make up 30%-50% of people It's incredible to imagine there are people out there just thinking in language as they go about their lives.…

> There are many variations out there (any authoritative?) No, believing there's an authoritative list is one of the falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods programmers bel…