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OP's blog post also rang false to me. It feels like it was written by someone who works in HR trying to promote a culture that inhibits real interactions, under the guise of being …

I worked at a university library for a few short years in the 2010s. Reading your comment helped me make sense of some of the experiences I had there. I still try to keep on top of…

I've found that there's greater range among CS graduate software engineers. Of course there are some truly excellent thinkers who know how to bring their training to bear on all ki…

This site has been posted to HN before, but it's definitely interesting to revisit in light of drastic cuts to federal agencies like the FDA, USDA, and CDC. Independent efforts lik…

Yes! I have to do front-end work occasionally but have been bad at staying on top of trends, so I would resort to jQuery if the requirements aren't super complex. Discovering query…

Anyone know the story behind the release of this repo? It doesn't look like an official IRS organization account.

Thank you for writing this, and for your previous comment too. You are the rare type of HN user I look for whenever I read the comments, which is not very often these days.

I love this. My most satisfying side projects are often not necessarily my "best" work, in terms of code cleanliness, best practices, efficiency, etc. They're ones where I had a pa…

I love the wisdom in this comment!

For myself, while the learning curve is "longer" as I've gotten older, it also shoots sharply upwards as the time spent on the skill acquisition increases. Age has a magnification …

Yes, this needs to be pointed out a lot more. The hero worship is one aspect of a much larger problem, I think, which is that technology culture is almost entirely defined by trend…

Same here. LinkedIn is the labor market masquerading as social media. It isn't really "social" in any meaningful sense of that word.

I went back to Sublime Text after trying VS Code for a few months. VS Code is very nice, when it works. My main problems had to do with the extension ecosystem. It felt very chaoti…

I found your post extremely touching and humanizing. We need more of these perspectives right now that highlight the complex feelings of lived experiences. This is literally what m…

Yes! I've found this to be true too. Early in my programming career, work was a mix of repetitive, somewhat mindless tasks (implement this webpage, fix this bug, etc) and more inte…

Look up the book titled "I am not sick I don't need help! How to help someone with mental illness accept treatment" by Xaviar Amador. In a nutshell, the key is not to insist that y…

Both your neutral tone and the fact that you want Yelp and other big companies to treat developers better were very clear! That's what's crazy to me about all these comments. What …

For a site that caters to a startup and entrepreneurial crowd, it's hilarious the number of comments here that amount to "tough cookies, bud" and "Yelp can do whatever they want, a…

thank you for saying this. the archives of HN comments are going to make a fascinating case study for the next civilization explaining why this one collapsed.

I agree that social media is a huge factor, but I suspect other generations dealing with the crises you mentioned had high rates of mental illness as well, but it wasn't tracked, o…