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All of this and more entered my mind the very moment I learned that Microsoft had acquired GitHub.

I was just thinking it sounds like a very ambitious, engaged, and intelligent 24 year old (a kid).

Ive been working in AI for about a year, and Ive been working as a web developer for about 20 years. It appears to me that everyone that thinks AI is going to handle development fo…

This comes off like a study being published that shows tobacco is harmful to the lungs.

As someone who has worked in startup environments for 20 years, its rather offensive that anyone in 2024 would claim that employees arent taking risks. In todays salary brackets, o…

The hype train strikes yet again! In fellow consultancy circles, we were giving talks on exactly this back in '17 and '18, but the hype train was too strong then. It was even harde…

This reads like a junior developer's first foray into the concept of the test pyramid. Congrats, author has learned that there is a forest beyond the trees.

I would guess for the same reason the government consistently buys $1000 hammers and $5000 toilet seats - to mask some military operation theyd rather not publicly report on.

Were pro-right-tool-for-the-job. The US Stock market is already a free-money generating machine. We need more money in the US Stock Market, not in B.S. toys for contrarian criminal…

contrarianism is a very powerful and often understated force within human culture

Well, we all know a Gemini cant be trusted ;-)

Blue LEDs are the bane of my light-sensitive eyes' existence, and it pains me so to know they almost never existed at all. I keep a PC repair kit with me, even though I dont have a…

The response to seeing 10k lines of code in a PR is not to skim it, that is harming one's company. The response is to request the author to justify its size, and/or reject the PR a…

China makes war through deception and gaslighting, not through tanks and bombs. They declared war on the entire world more than two decades ago.

please, just stop with Python already

Anytime people talk about failing western economies, I find it easy to make a "you should see the other guy!" argument. We dont have > 500 million people at risk of starving to dea…

To accept any tenants of EA, one must first accept the cultural mythology of altruism in the first place. Can it be proven that altruism exists?

Is this article satire? Do people actually make naive assumptions that line-length limits in code relate to screen sizes?

thoughtbot, inc had been "leading this charge" for over a decade

> The ability for the state to remotely kill your means of transportation, thus remotely controlling our freedom of movement, is a new dystopian level of government control. Indeed…

Interesting, as a user of Ubuntu for over a decade, I had nearly forgotten that Windows exists. I diddnt know anyone besides gamers used Windows these days.

Except for when those that live in some alternate reality demand that you also abide by their alternate reality or be punished.

If you dont believe Orthodox Privelege exists, work in San Francisco for a few years. Provided you are a critical thinker, it will become obvious that the culture is akin to excomm…

From what I gather, Unity has recently made moves to lose the trust of all of their customers, and there is a massive exodus towards other game dev software/frameworks/etc.

The article sounds like it was written by someone with minimal career experience. Its overwhelmingly naive, and Im sure the intended readership isnt any more or less naive than the…