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> is considered more stable Was not stated. > Why shouldn’t they use stable technology they are proficient with? This perspective is one of the major indicators of an engineer with…

All of this - and maintenance. The house that may be "inexpensive" re: sale price may cost just as much to fix. The cost of fixing X sq ft of thing or replacing appliance Y may cer…

In my 30s here, so past the heyday. I have lived in several regions of the US and traveled to the rest - these aren't very common.

Comcast may add a modem rental fee to your bill automagically even if you have your own modem (even if you have always had your own). This happened to me and the phone support told…

For the sake of your time and your sanity you should do neither of those things. You should file a complaint with the appropriate state labor body, particularly in a US state like …

That's surprising to me as I have updated a large production Django code-base on my own for every version from 1.5 to 2.0 and it has never taken me more than a day, with an equal o…

For US Generation Student Debt, there's a significant long-term cost to that decision. If you don't have to double the years it takes you to pay back your debt to do so, maybe movi…

Beyond the obvious etymology that others have stated, the terms "sanctuary", "refuge", and "preserve" are used far more by the US to represent the idea you describe for animals, so…

The larger the org and the closer to government (unless you ask for more work), the more likely I find this to be the case.

I think @jcadam was being snarky, not serious.

A lot of opaqueness for a decision that apparently affects the steering of an open project. A rather peculiar set of half-elaborated and [REDACTED] posts that doesn't tell the whol…

> Or, put another way, they choose to accept a high rate of false negatives to avoid false positives. Which is how it is typically presented because it sounds much better than "rej…

What matters is how much the company you want to work for expects you to whiteboard or code to pass their screens. Big company? You almost certainly need to have your CS challenge …

> The industry lobbyists’ ace-in-the-hole argument is that if they can’t hire more H-1Bs, they’ll ship the work overseas. But for projects on which H-1Bs are hired in the U.S., fac…

Everything about this act, including the fact that the countries chosen don't actually represent active sources of terrorism and seemingly avoid harming Trump's business interests,…

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/43 states the maintainer hasn't been commenting on PRs. I looked on the keepassx GitHub and some issues with no response are over…

> I don't think you're suppose to depend on the ordering of dictionaries. It's an implementation detail which might get changed, although it wont actually ever be changed because p…

The article states: "Multiple studies show that while under-compensation can definitely contribute to employee churn, over-compensation won’t make up for a bad workplace." Does any…