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noble but futile

The 10,000 year is very convenient for Discordians.

I was going to suggest that the author was in marketing and didn't know the difference, but the article seems too in-depth for that. Maybe it's hybrid and devs wrote the more techn…

When I lived in London roughly 40% of my salary went to rent. London was actually more expensive, at least for a 1BR with roughly the same distance to the city center, as NYC.

>Why do you want to replace everything with Javascript? Because a huge number of devs already know it, so you can have your web devs work on your mobile application. That said, my …

Things like "The bad news: joining Stripe is still a risky proposition." also make me cringe... don't tell me that anyone reading that sentence doesn't realize it's meant to entice…

I'm a currently-employed web developer (bootcamp grad) and I'd love to see a part-time (nights and/or weekends), cash up front offering to deepen my CS knowledge. Just throwing tha…

This is another area where technology is hugely beneficial. Not everyone can move to a city, but people who drive to work could work remotely one day a week. Hell, let's make it Fr…

What we really need is WWII-style, society-wide action on this count--remember the days of Meatless Mondays, saving your cans to make bullets, mailing your binoculars to the Navy. …

I think if drag and drop builders find an audience it will be in a sweet spot between engineers and clients, maybe used by support engineers or customer success to build and modify…

I'm an effective altruist ;) https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

Online photos of oneself in foreign countries have become a fashion accessory. Bonus points if you spent cash to travel to help the poor in a developing country instead of donating…

Visual Studio seems like an odd choice...

Off of Morgan Ave stop on the L

TOS acceptance box and "you can send me emails" box combined. Classy. All I wanted was a bacon egg and cheese icon...

You're a bit low on the salary front. I started at £44k (including bonus) with no experience; Senior dev roles here that I've seen seem to be around £65k. Of course it still doesn'…

London is as expensive as New York, where I'm moving. In fact, I will be paying roughly the same rent: $950 before bills in NYC, £850 including bills in London. In both cases I'm a…

Anecdotal: I moved to London for my first software engineering job nine months ago. The week after I signed my contract, the country voted Leave and my salary was literally worth $…

I'd love to know how it became popular, which the article doesn't really address. It seems like a fad, which would just be dumb (bad) luck. But if Hasbro, who had decided not to pr…

This, exactly. I use Huel to replace the meals I eat at home. As a consequence, it is the only food in my apartment. Removing the possibility of eating junk has helped me improve m…

Looks great. I've been using Huel, the British Soylent knockoff, for 1-2 meals per day (much healthier than the 4oz bag of chips it replaced), and now that I'm moving back to Ameri…

I shortened it from a three minute read to a one-second one: Someone will find it.

This is why the only startups I'll work for are B2B. Trying to sell an "app" to the masses? Uber is losing money and they're a household name, good luck with your Tinder for dogs o…

Reminds me of James C. Scott's "Seeing like a State", which chronicles how various attempts to make complex, organically developed institutions organized and intelligible has histo…