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As stated in voxic11's comment, that is not what it did. It did more like a 34 DTM. Is that what it was asked to do? If it was, sure - the onus of accountability should be shifted …

> as much as I dislike Flock, it seems like it wasn't at fault here. 34DTM != 34DTM10

I am absolutely biased, but there is a lot of attempt to shift or at least share the blame here and not a lot of accountability. Flock themselves mis-translated the plate, plain an…

I understand contributing at least the amount an employer will match, and almost always much more than that. But to "max" it would be $24,500/yr which for many if feasible at all w…

Right, so you max your 401k instead of diversifying a portion into something more liquid, and when something happens before 55 you have to take a major bite out of it just to acces…

I never personally liked the blanket advice to "Max your 401k." For most, if achievable at all, that would be the most they can invest at all. Even though it is often recommended a…

> So it is possible, for example, for a teenager to become known as an obsessive proof-checker even though that teenager has no formal credentials. Hard to cry this as a benefit af…

It basically ended up with me learning that what is mostly pursued is the sharing part of piracy, and not doing that. I got in a bit of trouble by my parents at the time and probab…

I feel like there's a responsibility to go into VPNs a bit more. My parents got a mean sounding legal letter from our ISP when I was younger for seeding Scooby Doo. It was both ter…

Also a lot of those are common words that take on a different persona and depth within the field, which can add to confusion.

Ah, I didn't realize (nor that it was possible) they made a shittier version of the Ranger.

Even before SO most of the forums were the same way. You had grumpy ass holier-than-thou guys with 10,000 posts shutting down your questions before anyone else could answer. The wh…

Similar competition (Nissan Frontier, Ford Ranger, etc.) would start at around $35k these days.

Tale as old as time. When I was coming up it took a $20-40/m investment to get a "dedicated" server that you could start tinkering around on. When you couldn't afford that, you bri…

I think this is the natural path of things...

I never made it to any hackercons, and haven't kept up with many of the folks I "ran" with back in the day (before social media). And I'm not really sure if I would even remember t…

> out-of-town vacation for the 4th to some location with firework restrictions. You have quite the faith in code enforcement.

I guess I'm just an old man pumping my fist and yelling at the clouds at this point, but I think compartmentalizing every possible aspect of development and then making each one of…

> The layer of builders and hackers is still there. Further underground indeed. It's obvious dev for a career and dev as historical dev are already two wildly different things. My …

I used to pride myself on being the first redneck in our neighborhood to have high-speed interwebs. Sweet sweet DSL, baby. No more disconnection from my Delta Force 2 game when my …

I think it'd be an outstanding feature on the iPhone to turn off audiobooks/podcasts at ~5 min into sleep or whatever. Seems like they already have the data via the Watch...

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Hi Scott! Are the posted salary ranges annual?

Thanks for this. I've been dabbling with code for ~20 years, have the diploma and the t-shirt, but I lack the mentorship. I feel like it would be even more helpful in this time as …

I've (mostly quietly) enjoyed the "vibe" of HN for well over a decade now. It's certainly a major contribution to maintaining enjoyment in the crazy world of tech. Thank you for yo…