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The em dash in the title really drives home the message.

DHH

My employer implemented SAFe several months ago. It was wildly unpopular. Now they have just announced that all developers (a few hundred people) will be laid off. All development …

I've been laid off twice, and both times we were very busy. There were deadlines we were told were absolutely crucial to meet and we were burning ourselves out trying to meet them.…

Are you saying the United States is a bastion of democracy? It's not even classified as a full democracy. The list of full democracies are Canada, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France…

Are you Swedish? Just wondering because I've never seen the gender neutral pronoun "hen" in English.

I hear that in Japanese schools, the kids do most of the cleaning, like sweeping, cleaning the boards, taking out trash, and cleaning windows. Janitors mostly do building maintenan…

Extremely rich people control every aspect of your life, how your city is planned, the state of the job market, the state of the economy, the laws, the state of the planet itself. …

I strongly disagree. A huge power gap is a huge problem. A tiny group of people have an enormous amount of power over the rest of us. I still call that a big problem even if we hav…

Lots of men seem to be in denial about what makes those 20% of men more attractive. It's mostly that they put in some amount of effort. Most women are only giving likes to men who …

I use Kagi and I only find myself switching to Google if I'm looking for local, up-to-the-minute information. Kagi maps is barely useful at all compared to Google Maps, at least at…

Location: Malmö, Sweden Remote: Preferably hybrid, but I have a network of full stack developers in the Malmö area who I could work with. If you would be willing to hire a handful …

I'm not an AI expert so I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that there is a confidence score behind the scenes. It's just not shown in the current UI. An automated AI syste…

If cultures universally share a characteristic, that does not prove that the characteristic is a hard-wired drive. That thinking has been used to make several arguments. Cultures a…

I have lived in a handful of different countries. I'm criticizing the idea that it's so simple to say one country is more sexist or more equal than another because there are so man…

Female chimpanzees prefer to play with objects and use them as tools more than male chimpanzees overall. Most often, female chimps are observed using them as play weapons.[1] On on…

> gender differences appear to be greater in societies with greater gender equality and in which people have greater economic resources I don't think this is a paradox at all. Disc…

It doesn't matter how many legal frameworks there are. Neither courts nor doctors can read people's minds so they are basically kidnapping people based on something that is barely …

Does anyone know the choreographer? It looks so much like what Bob Fosse was doing in the 60's, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSSlWfOCgLw

"Tänker" sometimes means "think" but it also means "plan". The Wikipedia article states that it was illegal to make formal preparations to build a power plant, but even that was no…

I'm in Sweden and we did several of the things that article says we didn't do. In Sweden we have a legal right to unlimited time off when we are sick. During the pandemic, we were …

Sweden privatized its electricity sector. Then several nuclear power plants shut down, in some cases because prices were low at the time and it wasn't profitable and in some cases …

As developers, don't we usually automate the frog?

I once spammed text messages to the person whose phone number was mobile prefix + 1111111. I didn't realize until he called customer service to complain.

I can definitely see this being popular with the right marketing. It could also be sold as a "meditation space" or "de-stress zone".