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Green Hills Software

I work at a company that does embedded development and our engineers are very age-diverse. The team I am on consists of people directly out of college, people with over 30 years of…

I... I... I just can’t even... What is Facebook thinking?? Shouldn’t a company which is already getting bad PR for its handling of private data be extra careful about how much pers…

It doesn't hurt to ask! The last time I got my eyes examined was at some cheap lenscrafters-type store which had a promotion for 2 pairs of glasses and an eye exam for ~$60. The PD…

The linked cookbook doesn’t have any oven temperatures, which surprised me. It is hard to get consistent baked goods when you are guessing at the temperature. When did oven thermom…

Teams with more than 3 people will still need to buy a subscription: >Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece. So, while this might work for…

>Scaling a single VCS to hundreds of developers, hundreds of millions lines of code... Maybe I am way out of my element here, but is this a common problem? Do companies with only “…

Oops... yes, I meant “Hulu does not have autoplay” Too late to edit unfortunately

Hulu does have autoplay, at least on the Android TV app, which is why we use it much more than we do Netflix. If there weren’t a few Netflix original shows which my wife and I real…

GPS+GLONASS chips have been available for a while now. Here’s an article about some new chips which support 4 constellations: https://www.gpsworld.com/quad-constellation-receiver-g…

What is the difference between a “tip” and a “donation”?

We use Mattermost at my company, which works well for us and is entirely self hosted.

Really? Is that a known issue? I haven’t experienced that and I’ve been using containers on Firefox since they were introduced.

And Stephen Glass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass A very good film Shattered Glass was made about it.

As a Silicon Valley outsider that surprises me. I've heard that interviews at all the FAANG companies are all difficult (as an aside, why is Microsoft never in that list??). For or…

The commits per hour statistic looks to be how many commits occurred in each hour of the day: https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats/blob/master/git-qu... . For CI/CD requiremen…

I assumed that Apple has very similar weight on a resume as Google, is that not correct?