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I'm consistently amazed by HN's ability to take the most meaningless, inconsequential part of an article (the scroll behavior, the whitespace, the usage of the word "bricked"), and…

It's basically a disingenuous thought-terminating cliché, much like people who say "if you don't like your job then just quit" to people who are being exploited at work. Sure, you …

0. Don't boil the ocean. Nginx on a single server is fine for 95% of deployments. I know it's not sexy, but it'll work.

This entire post would be incredibly concerning if I were your superior.

Because it has very little relevance to 95% of software jobs.

You know this is a false equivalence. The Bar is to make sure you actually understand now only law, but also things like ethics. Whereas a Google interview wants you to code an AVL…

Or, if you just quarantine everybody (hence the advice to stay the hell home and assume you have it), then the curve flattens. You don't need a test to stay home.

They don't think we can bounce back, but they sure as hell WANT us to. Why? The market goes up and they profit. Look at what motivates people and then the things they say start to …

Vendor lock-in and ridiculous pricing sounds like just about every SaaS startup in the world. But it's Apple, so it's not okay.