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Every day is a new horror.

Take a close look at the teams. A friend of mine had several offers from teams at Google. The first team she choose sucked and she was ready to leave a month after she joined. Afte…

I doubt this will be good for the little guys. Personal experience in the games industry here. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe.

The small midwestern town from which I hail is rotting. The residents could never afford the luxuries flowing here in the valley. They are angry. They are huge Trump supporters. Th…

Sums up my interpretation of his writing, which I was forced to digest at uni.

I don't plan on leaving but there are a few fears that make me think about it. These are: Not being taken as seriously as my male colleagues (by men and women). Worrying about bein…

I feel the same. I will stop coding when they nail shut my coffin.

This happened to me once. I ended up coding my own personal projects at the "host" company to pass the time. Otherwise, I would have gone nuts.

Some interesting blurbs from the manifesto: "This document is mostly written from the perspective of Google’s Mountain View campus, I can’t speak about other offices or countries."…

I hope they go easy on him. He's done some bad, but recently some good.

Whatever we do, it's important that we learn how to control the "ingredients" of our atmosphere. There are so many things that could go wrong with our atmosphere and result in mass…

I'm 99.9% certain these vehicles would be forced to fly over existing roads. And it's likely the final product would be autonomous to ensure no one could do a random fly over of yo…

Evolution is a beautiful thing. I once worked for a monolith who decided to invent a new way of programming. They built something massive and ready to scale even larger. And then t…

I've worked on distributed teams where kids pop into conference calls to say hi. It actually does some good when everyone is getting pissed about some shitstorm or another. If a ki…

I don't know how they do it unless their partner is doing all of the parenting. I used to work crazy hours until our kid arrived. Now, I work 10 hours or less per day. My kid doesn…

In our case, we sold TWO houses that we owned outright in another state, and this was our down payment for our house in silicon valley.

Love this idea. I needed the company machine years ago.

Work smart not hard. Automate everything you can automate. I do this and I routinely finish projects 30% faster than my peers. Another plus is that automation results in less human…

Most of them went into the workforce when the Great recession hit. The ability to write off a student loan as a bankruptcy was removed in 2005. While part of this law has been thro…

A great article. There is one thing the author got wrong. Pot IS addictive. My brother can't go more than 3 hours w/o smoking it. If he does, he starts to sweat like crazy. He once…

I read the entire article and this is my take: this writer worked with an extreme bulley. The bulley was a ringleader. And potentially psycho. This isn't about sexism, racism, etc.…

IQ means little if you do not have the ambition, drive, and courage to be more. I have known many people with superior IQs working in brainless jobs. They would not leave or consid…

This made me think of IOI in Ready Player One.

Looks like any other brittle FSM. It's missing an important layer of logic. And yeah, I'm bias because I'm finishing up an FSM that crushes that brittleness.