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Please go fuck yourself. :)

Lotta male tears here, but then again, it's Hacker News...

So clearly we should all look at language through the lens of your childhood experiences. Got it.

> It's not as if you can simply work around and pick similar words for that individual's particular noun We're working with an arbitrary constraint here (and I, for one, am enjoyin…

"Missing third individual that both must grasp to carry on."

"I'm saddened by some of the comments here. It's true that COBOL is not safe. It's true you shouldn't be using it for large portions of your professional setting. It's true that th…

Individual who is not I and whom I do not know. :)

It also pays to realize that when people say something makes them feel "deathly ill", they're probably using it as an expression to signify how shaken they are by something.

I guess it's a kind of armchair environmentalism: it's easy to "go green" by switching to canvas bags (which _does_ help, a little), but then not make large, more sacrificial chang…

I don't understand the mentality expressed in the article, where environmentalism is only observed for tiny pieces of waste that don't matter. These same people (like you mentioned…

Well-played! I was testing you! Not really; I made a mistake. Still, though, I'm not doubting that packaging in aggregate isn't a problem, but as far as anyone individually is conc…

Third choice: Slack exists, but doesn't hold your data hostage until you pay. I mean, on my list of things I care about ideologically, this is lower than my concern for warm gin an…

It's true. Most of our climate issues don't come from teeny tiny packets of soy sauce. Consumer recycling might make people feel warm and fuzzy, but remember that a few years ago B…

I'm confused. How is this different from just following a recipe and going to the grocery store?

And for that, the top 1% of earners are truly thankful.

No, a test will tell you whether or not that test passes; it says nothing about the correctness of anything else. But at this point, you're doing the job of a typesystem.

I think it's also hard because it's not as if crappy hours, tight deadlines, and low pay are directly killing people. Sure, stress is bad for you and you deserve to make enough mon…

It's different if you get paid for overtime, though (usually time and a half). Companies threaten action against people working overtime because then the company has to pay more an…

No, they hold your data hostage because they can. Welcome to capitalism.

I don't think it's necessarily a generational thing. I know people in their 30s who don't know what IRC is (or who at least haven't used it), and I know people in their 20s who DO …

How is it down there in Galt's Gulch?

You should publish because I know I and a lot of other people would be incredibly interested in divining this information during a job interview.

Sure, because poor management, crippling technical debt, and a toxic work environment are totally plainly presented to you in an interview. /s

Religion is the result of changing the world to fit your beliefs. Lack of religion is the result of changing your beliefs to fit the world. Cognitive dissonance can be resolved in …