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Yeahhh; I feel this. I'm in the office 4-5 days a week again; and the rare days where most of my day ends up being in-office only interactions are great. The quick catchups in the …

I wish I had the time, because it would be fun. Back when I DID have time, I actually got that thug1 source code almost playable on Windows. That source code was only for the conso…

I think the core problem you have is a lack of consistency. I'd try to trim down the number of different types of device/deployment methods/etc you have. It's too hard to scale wid…

This is so sad and well written. Lars is one of the best people I've ever met, no one should have to go through that, especially not him.

Similarly they offer very little support, almost no communication, and yeah, just kind of weird.

yes.

I don't work at Amazon, but my C-suite and leadership team is in the office and that really makes a HUGE difference in going back. Both by them leading by example and getting to ha…

This is much nicer for other people coming into this. It's the same problem with spoken language and slang, slang is better if you know it, worse if you don't.

This is one of the bigger discussions I've been involved with lately; and I agree it really comes down to "bespokeness". When you have a 'system' which is 500 LOC, and 10 usages of…

I suspect there's probably a decent compromise to be made, like some kind of "reconcile" command, that explicitly tries to find orphan resources that reference resources it knows a…

Similarly I was 'online' much more during my teen years than I am today. I think two key things changed: 1. I started enjoying things outside of the internet more and more, partial…

Agreed, I'm curious as well. We load tested with real-clients faux-users, up to 1 million concurrent. And only stopped at 1 million because the test was becoming cost prohibitive.

Hey there, I'm a Canadian living in the US on an L1 right now, it was a good fit for me. What my company did was set up a Canadian Entity (subsidy) and started paying me through th…

I feel personally attacked.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Agreed, though I think there were 2 jumps with cell phones, the original mass produced ones circa the late 1990s, and then smart phones circa 2007-2008. Also this: https://www.tnhh…

Whew, this hits close to home.

It absolutely blows my mind that Menstrual cups aren't more widespread globally. I basically wouldn't even know about them if my partner didn't use them. They seem like a better op…

Are you saying that people would blow through $250k/year? lol

Someone that works in the industry probably knows better, but OpenTable has your full history of your dining experiences booked through them. What restaurants you frequent, how oft…

I deal with this constantly. Someone gets a bug report for a crash, let's say a null pointer dereference, so often I see: > if (pPointer == nullptr) { return; } > Crash is fixed! I…

The best interview I ever had was similar, the largest chunk of it was me and my boss whiteboarding out a problem together, he had the marker. We were solving a problem that I'd be…

My biggest problem with the buses is frequency. My gf lives just off Glenoaks in Burbank/Glendale, there's a bus that comes right by, but it's so infrequent that it rarely makes se…

I disagree with that first part. At least in software engineering. Remember when you just had software engineers? Eventually we got things like game programmers and web developers.…

Taking that express bus from downtown Seattle to Redmond which had free wifi was awesome the first time!