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I would suggest sticking it out. These things are normal. Don’t let your output fall or let your boss out-manoeuvre you out of a job. I have survived a similar situation, although …

It is different, what you describe. I can’t say I understand the point of being with their wives: perhaps a different culture, that you and I come from. But please don’t misunderst…

I have to disagree. Making people work for money wouldn’t be exploitation in my book. But YMMV.:)!

I say this is important. However, given the fact that the big companies have invested millions into this endeavour, providing access to the public for free seems a bit discriminato…

+1. My interview experience at one of the gang companies a long time ago was pretty bad. I got grilled for several hours, and then - after clearing all their rounds, was offered a …

I would suggest pursuing your own business. I have a Master’s in CS from a big school and worked in a similar job as yours and got tired of it. What has helped me is moving away to…

I feel using vim keybindings with VSCode to work best for me, for the work that I do. Having another modal command-line editor like vim just doesn't appeal to me. However, this is …

I feel the same wayy now that I'm older. The nitty-gritty of some of the memory management stuff just isn't relevant. The work I'm doing now is at a different scale and I let the l…

I think this is a good summary of what makes great teams, and it is true of all great(productive and high performing) teams. The point about management empowering individual employ…

I always seek new challenges. I have found few organizations, established or new alike - are able to offer me the tech challenges I need to survive in this industry. Without challe…

I have had a few successful contributions to an Apache 2.0 licensed software package. This package is developed as open source but offered as an enterprise SaaS offering. Now, the …

thanks!

I have a fear of office politics now, having been in situations where coworkers were not polite/out for themselves at the expense of others, including me. I couldn't survive/cope w…

This is helpful. Thanks!

I just fail to see why people at my workplace fight over petty issues. It affects me personally that people would be so short-sighted and not see the bigger picture/impact of our w…

I just fail to see why people at my workplace fight over petty issues. It affects me personally that people would be so short-sighted and not see the bigger picture/impact of our w…

Hi HN: Out-of-work dev here. And I have a ton of experience working in tech as a top-level dev. Now, after having left work due to personal reasons, I don’t feel like returning to …

I think React, combined with one of the backend frameworks are well-suited for your use-case. Back when I was first starting out, React was new and now they've ironed out a lot of …