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Goodbye Hacker News. A bunch of extremely well-paid SWEs complain about donating two bucks to a completely free encyclopedia representing hundreds of thousands of volunteer human h…

> For example, if someone asked: "can you unbatch those 1k RPCs?" "Can we do _________?" is the worst question to ask me as an engineer. Like, yes, we probably _can_ do literally a…

Just another anecdote: They’re the only airline to lose my luggage, and their complete lack of giving a fuck or competence in returning it was a tremendous and expensive pain in th…

> Reflame will eventually try to build versions of, with a focus on speed similar to what we've done with deployment Nice! The time I wait during builds tend to break my mental flo…

Very impressive! I am curious about who your intended user is. I’m just thinking about how most FE build pipelines I’ve used have a bunch of “checks” like linters, running various …

> Why does this happen? No idea, but it's not lost on me that a lot of these things are backed by huge companies with giant piles of money who are using them as marketing. Your who…

I’ve bounced around between frontend and backend and devops, plus some iOS and one Android project. I’ve hopped in and out of various languages/frameworks. For the past year or so …

I feel strongly that you’re likely to get another 10 years out of it if you keep up with regular maintenance. My non-Prius Toyota is 17 years old. The outside looks like a war zone…

I don’t mean this to sound snarky but I fear it might. Earnestly: If a job looks interesting, why not just email and ask? If the position actually excites you, surely it’s worth a …

> Not to detract from you comment, but you don't have to have a disability. Some people simply cannot do on-call, disability or not. Imagine being a single parent; or needing to su…

Eurorack got hit hard. Lots of module makers are tiny shops, some just one person selling a few pieces at a time.

Embrace the Absurd.

I would add to the reasons for "Use wired headphones or speakers" is that many (all? not sure) combination "bluetooth headphones with mic" hardware will bottleneck at the bluetooth…

> One of the most interesting things about software dev (I'm in my 50's) is that you never run out of puzzles or problems to solve. It took me until recently to realize I needed to…

window.navigator.hardwareConcurrency [edit: well this is more of a 'how' than a 'why']

window.history.length would be my guess.

A play at Patreon, it seems.

> Browsers save the icons in a cache so they don't have to request them over and over. This cache isn't emptied when users clear their browser cache or cookies, or when they switch…

Oh whoops I've been wrong this whole time, my bad!

> Won says her tenant owes her more than $80,000 in back rent.

More Beeple art: https://www.instagram.com/beeple_crap/

How to find this on your own macOS drives: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/135565/how-do-i-ge...

> By being extremely frugal. Did you read the part of the article where the owner does not live in the house. The owner lives in a "cheap studio apartment nearby with their two you…