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That's interesting, because I had the opposite experience. I started getting into Lisp around 2004, but bounced off of the community because the culture I was experiencing hewed he…

It's been an odd running theme for me today that I've misinterpreted posts. Up until your final sentence, I thought that the thesis of your post was: The standard document may say …

I'm curious if you count Pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) as not being "in town" or if it has issues with user freedom that I'm ignorant of.

When I was in the Boy Scouts, a local judge came to speak with us about the legal system. I asked a similar question and he admonished me that innocent people never wind up in cour…

The COM file exploit worked because it is relatively unknown. I remember a worm going around when I was in grad school where you'd get an e-mail with a link to https://giftcard.cus…

The truth is that, if a candidate competent enough to work for us, then they can get hired by a firm thirty miles down the road who pays way better than we do. Thus, one line of qu…

I also find this thread interesting from the opposite direction as someone not in the Bay Area. In the past ten years, the longest job interview I had was two hours long. Honestly,…

Honest question: how often do you do Tornado drills in Japan? A quick look look at the wiki[1] indicates that you do get them, but fairly rarely. I honestly don't know your cultura…

Many things about that company were not idea - the founder left his CEO position in handcuffs. However, the policy was not communicated to new and future hires in any manner. So wh…

I happen to work at a government job partially because I saw how my father was treated by the private sector. However, our institution is failing at the requirements that you put f…

When I was young, my father worked for a place where asking for a raise was a fireable offence. The founder had been a pioneer in the modern cattle-not-pets attitude toward servers…

> It's impossible to plan without an internal monologue I once had a teacher claim that people who claimed to have aphantasia were lying, because those people have read books and i…

Even more self-explanatory is " Duck into the bathroom. Cover the toilet seat with toilet paper. Hold your bladder until you're on the toilet." I'm still not sure what I'm supposed…

What I find extra-annoying about the tracking is that it stopped pretending to be helpful. I remember chatting with my spouse on Google Messenger around 2012. We were discussing wh…

You're right that this place is ridiculous. However, as I mentioned in a cousin comment, I don't see the stigma and you haven't done a good job of explaining it. Is it because the …

I'm also in the UK and I'm not seeing the victim blaming part of it. I don't think it's a great term, given that I had no idea what it meant until I read the article. Then again, I…

Concrete examples: The web interfaces for both Jitsi and Zoom fail to recognise my web camera. I've gone through the permissions settings a dozen times and Firefox says that it see…

I had always heard that the "single exit" focus on "break" and "continue" was a misunderstanding. When wild GOTOs roamed the earth, with was common for a subroutine to end by jumpi…

> unless you actually build something, the money isn't going to arrive, and you'll be out of a job. The sad part is that many employees have come to the rational and correct soluti…

Support tickets don't increase costs. Whether you have one support ticket or a trillion, the one guy responsible for clearing those tickets gets paid the same salary.

The "if you are lucky and get a good text" is carrying a lot of weight here. My school identified certain young students as having high mathematical aptitude. While other students …

I'm Adam Washington. I was a couple of years behind you, but we bumped into each other socially a few times over the years. As a refresher, I was also the sophomore with the glasse…

Congratulations, Greg! You've come a long way from Mr. Shadiow's CS class

It's interesting that you mentioned the good devs leaving, because they never got the chance. The owner had a policy of only hiring average devs and 10x devs were fired with extrem…

Along those lines, one of the most toxic places I've ever encountered for developers was at a company that sold b2b software. You would think that developers would be valued for cr…