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> take it easy and do whatever makes you happy Great advice if what makes you happy also happens to be lucrative. I did this, and it was a huge mistake I'm still paying for 7+ year…

1. A large (and growing) chunk of the industry considers object oriented programming to be absolutely terrible, but that's what they'll teach you in college. Learn functional progr…

According to this chart[1], less women than Amazon, Facebook and Apple, more than Microsoft. When you normalise for tech workers only, it climbs to 77% men, which is about average …

Companies in general try to seem like they care about more than money. "Grey Goo Ltd. We care." Diversity rhetoric is an easy, pre-constructed set of Things to Say (TM) that you ca…

It could just be that the kind of people who knit are unlikely to enjoy writing dry, factual encyclopedias.

I'm really not convinced he's ideologically driven. I imagine he makes a lot of money for doing what he does, given his track record.

C has much more of an excuse to be difficult & fragile. It's surgical. Web tech is designed to be abstract. If your abstraction introduces too much fragility or complexity or cost …

My reading is that people who are planning to move anyway put in remote work requests just in case. You need more context to evaluate something like this.

That's why I specified flu.

Not always. Common flu has been evolving to become more & more deadly over the past few years.

The 1918 flu never mutated enough to become endemic and it dissapeared. Endemic mutation is not an inevitability.

Cambridge recently released a study estimating that 9% or so of the UK population already have antibodies. You only need to get to ~60% and (assuming it doesn't become endemic) you…

Right - but you have the same value either way, you just have to apply leverage, right? The gig's up if you don't have to say yes to the lowball offer. What force prevents you just…

Can anyone explain why companies do this, but still hire from the expensive areas? If they pay less for the same level of skill in Texas, why don't they stop hiring in SF full stop…

Lists like this strike me as somewhat meaningless. Those companies probably also use bash scripts, hardly represents a significant chunk of the product. How much of their codebase …

Is there an example of something like this, but trained on the actual abstract syntax tree manipulations that are going on behind the scenes? That seems like it would be considerab…

An AI like this can hold a hell of a lot more information in its head at one point than a human. Each decision it makes is based on way more context, it can manipulate the problem …