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Sorry. I can admit I was wrong. I haven't seen ellipses used to begin a sentence that asks a question in a way that wasn't flippantly dismissive before. Couple that with a throwawa…

I lived in a couple third world countries where grown adults asked if we had cats in the United States. Should I look down on them for not knowing something about my culture? Or do…

This is kind of a minor reason to leave a smug comment. By what age should a person give deep thought into shows of romantic affection in cultures they've previously not considered…

Who is this comment directed to? The author of the article, or their customers?

I don't really get the impression that she is looking down on it, just that she was ready to move on. “it was harder and harder to come up with ideas. I was always concerned that i…

I know other people have already echoed your comment, but I feel the same. About a month ago I switched from chrome and google search to firefox and ddg. After about 2 days I compl…

My little brother was always better at Math than me. Whenever he tried to show me how to do something it was different than how our teachers showed us. He was really good at figuri…

I can have this major feature done for you, but I'm not sure if it can be done in 2 months, so I say 3 to be conservative. OR I can have many small sub-features that relate to this…

I guess my story was unnecessary, but I commented that I didn't read the article the way the person I responded to (and the person above him as well). I don't understand why the to…

I didn't read this as a slack good / slack bad article at all. At my current job I was asked to join a client's slack group (added without my consent) and it was a nightmare. The p…

My wife and I did that for 2 years. It works, but like everything, there are trade offs. It's great that you know your child is being raised by you and your partner. You aren't off…

Not from my experience. The kids on my block played all summer long on bikes, with hoses, and at the nearby park. I'm guessing from 5 or 6 different houses on the street, all diffe…

I mean, you could just as easily use a real reference for what it would cost. You can either pay mailchimp, or you can pay your senior developer to set it up for $80/hr.

We had a "discussion" on which formatter/linter to use for a different language. There were 2 choices and I bet we spend 300 man hours on nonsense. Everyone had to have their say. …

Neovim with coc.nvim.

There are a lot of people talking in this thread about the dangers of cooking in a kitchen that make it sound like a cheesy infomercial... "Scalding your loved ones? Tired of shutt…

Of course not. I don't think his numbers are super accurate in his comment, but of course he isn't proposing a solution to the housing crisis, he's offering advice to anyone thinki…

I completely comprehend the bad things the platforms introduce, but pre-social media it was just really inconvenient to stay in touch with people way out of your area. Blogs were a…

This seems to fit my experience interviewing/hiring candidates over the last few years. There's a certain type of "Bootcamp grad" that seems to fit well with my teams. Those people…

I did a fair chunk of interviews when I was just a dev. I loved it, and I took it very seriously in terms of vetting programming skill and practices. I also felt good offloading th…

I took a fun cooking class in college that was targeted at home cooking. We did double blind taste tests on nearly every type of food we could think of. It's still amazing to me ho…

I used to work for a startup that competed in this space. The amount of articles, awards, and HN posts that our marketing team fabricated was unreal. We won awards we didn't deserv…

They actually added a new feature on Spotify where you can listen to songs that aren't currently in the top 40. You might enjoy that.

Reminds me of this talk from Vincent Woo (creator of Coderpad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8UwcyYT3z0 Really made me rethink my priorities and has had me change the kinds of t…