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We had a guy making $60k leave for a job making $110k. This is in LA. So it was close!

Doesn't that support my argument? They leave because they can make more money elsewhere.

This is standard because after a year of experience, a fresh junior dev is worth roughly twice as much on the open market. Most companies won't give a 100% raise because it would u…

The problem with CSS is it's a) all broad and no depth and b) constantly adding major new paradigms. If you don't get up to speed and stay there, you lose it. Pre-AI I'd say I've g…

> like centering a div We'll of course you're gonna be frustrated if you start with the hardest problem in HTML :/

> it enables the already productive to be proportionally more productive I finally got a real feature to develop and started using Codex a couple weeks ago. Before that, I was just…

It depends on how you define compromise. Is it a compromise to consider things like screen size, load wait times, or the average expected user's attention span? If so, then design …

The mouse-driven EMACS I used in the 90s had a text swap feature that was so elegant - highlight one word, double-click another word, and boom - they swap places.

I had to look up Madagascar's castle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rova_of_Antananarivo The Rova of Antananarivo /ˈruːvə/ (Malagasy: Rovan'i Manjakamiadana [ˈruvᵊn manˌdzakəmiˈadə…

At least 50% of the time on SO, the best answer is 3rd or worse, and I'm always thinking, "Why is this not the top answer?"

> Requiring reputation to gain the ability to post comments, then having one's answers deleted as "this should've been a comment" Yep, this exactly happened to me. I felt like a ta…

Ironically though, de Landa's curiosity about the Maya language ultimately led to its translation in modern times. Without the written 'alphabet' that he had a Maya scribe write do…

What is Western Europe's #?

No system is foolproof. They'd have to be willing to throw out some % of good customers along with the bots. Amazon can do that because they have a monopoly already. Anthropic can'…

I worked for a company that did opt-in spam email. Their main offices were in Silicon Valley, but they had a startup thing in LA that I worked at. Ostensibly we were building a sel…

How jejune of you.

I'm shocked it's that low.

There's a sweet spot between AI slop and 144 characters. I can tell within a few sentences whether there's a human on the other end getting to the point, or an AI dancing around th…

I can't imagine working for a place that has a big bucket of PRs that either get reviewed or languish for some amount of time based on who feels like reviewing them. I'm not saying…

Ice yachts get well over 100 mph. I'm not sure how much they were used in pre-industrial times.

> You just drug its food and wait till it passes out. Human zoo keepers are actually smarter than that. For months, they train the tiger to go into the carrier to get food. Then on…

Peter Attia is a crap human being for being buddies with Epstein after most of his crimes were already known. But I still trust his analysis more than anyone else at dissecting thi…

The CCC and WPA produced a lot of valuable stuff that still stands today.

I think most humans have some intrinsic desire to feel useful to their tribe, to feel like they earn their keep. I know people on the equivalent of UBI, and they're all miserable. …

The false disability claims are completely out of control.