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I worked with a CEO who shared this sentiment about history. After two months with no paychecks, half truths about our funding, and the dev team quitting, he wanted me to start bui…

I've got 3 in the bag that match your #2 experience. I would love to know how common this outcome is. My overwhelming experience is that companies rarely "fail". A good idea just c…

I had a similar experience early in my career working in a call center. We received a lot of calls about 1 problem with customer modems. I wrote a script that detected snmptraps an…

Virginia(US) has a law regarding this as well. "B. ... if the driver or rider (i) comes to a full and complete stop at the intersection for two complete cycles of the traffic light…

I totally understand the frustration here, however this is what the (admittedly ridiculous) "survey" is talking about. Cars cut me off very often so they don't have to wait... what…

While yours is a better title, your comment also helps me rationalize my behavior on a bike. Many people have irrational hate towards bikes, and those people operate much heavier e…

> People who want a car-alternative for necessity either buy a wal-mart bike, a cheap electric/gas moped, maybe a motorcycle, or walk. This isn't true across the board. There are a…

In our local group rides there is a guy who rides in the fast group on a mountain bike. That is always my reminder that money is best spent on something like trainer road rather th…

That is really good to hear. Hopefully I'm wrong about beer being a large portion of sales for my local shops. For me, the whole cycling thing is about community. I just hope they …

> their competitiveness isn't just about their cycling stats, but buying from the cheapest source. Well, yea. Competitive cyclists want to buy that $1000 power meter, or those $250…

> You're going to have to learn that, as a laborer at a firm, the quality of work you do is, at best, loosely correlated to your monetary compensation. Sometimes you can do good wo…

This is a huge problem at AWS. IMHO the largest contributor to over engineering in this company is people suggesting flaws in other's designs simply to have something to contribute…

Probably too late to respond, but just in case. We were measuring the number of similar support requests that came to the team. Our library would allow customers to resolve these p…

I'd like to echo this, along with the "relax" sentiment from other comments. I worked incredibly hard to open source a project at a faang. I was even given a customer obsession awa…

High school was a total disaster. I talked my way into the co-op program, and got an internship at a security company. I was only taking 4 classes my senior year. I did go to colle…

> You don't need to go to university. We will always need garbage collectors and street sweepers, and remember, anyone can write bad software. Vendors continue to try to make it ea…