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As someone who used to work in government contracting, this comment is so freaking true. The whole thing about contractors is so spot on. The only slight difference I would add is …

Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.

The only site I know that died from instant user migration is Digg. Lots of sites died a slow death from users moving on to better platforms, but rarely does anything die from boyc…

oddly specific... Don't know about Azure, but my AWS support tickets have always been answered with very helpful diagnosis.

I'm curious what is the normal equity share given to board members? Is their advisory worth six years of engineering?

Curious what is your skillset and experience that Google wants to recruit you so bad?

That's probably like one of the coolest purpose built machine I've ever seen. In my head I originally thought they did it by hand, lol.

The wide spectrum of the human experience never cease to amaze me. Reading the stories in this article just made that spectrum a little bit bigger. Just wild. I am too shocked to h…

Similar thing happened to me. Took a long time to realize there was a zombie Heroku instance running jobs. That horror when you delete code but it's still running, you're just so c…

I was expecting a story about an eccentric recluse, but it turns out to be a story about a failing government. Good read nonetheless.

Yep. Google paid like $2 per download of Firefox. It cost like 5 cents a click, for the "download Firefox" keyword, on Google Ads to bring someone to my website. Profit.

Fun memory, I made like $40K selling Firefox downloads.... on google ads. Learned a lot about google ads and SEO. That was a lot of money for me as a poor kid from the TL.

Around the same time, middle school I think, I was in the SF Public library playing MUD on the little terminal they reserved for searching books. We couldn't afford a computer, or …

those two things are not always mutually exclusive

Wow that's an impressive backstory. Probably one of the more useful things I've seen come out of chatGPT

I am really happy to see a story from Mastodon. A first for me on any social media. This is progress! Also, don't thieves usually turn off the phone immediately so you can't track …

I tried developing on a PC... For whatever reason, my development setup (probably WSDL) crashes the PC every time it goes to sleep. Tried all kinds of remedies and it never worked.…

Accrualify | Java Developer | Full-time | Onsite/Hybrid | Sacramento, CA We're a small engineering team out of Sacramento building enterprise accounting software. We're looking for…

I might get a lot of flame for this, but I would say this is probably true of most Rails project because Rails has a lot of great standards (opinions). I am not sure why people hat…

> You have a handful of examples you're clinging to, which show some people doing something you don't like, so EVERYONE MUST BE DOING IT. I feel like more than 50% of this thread r…

> It honestly feels like no matter what you buy, you get more or less the same hardware, and you’re most likely getting a heavily overpriced product just because some company print…

Considering the value fast charging adds to my life, I am fine with it dying faster. I am willing to pay for that convenience. Same with cars. Remembering to plug in my phone at ni…

Oh weird, I've never heard of this. On my Bolt, the UsbA has Android auto, but no UsbC for fast charging. I bought a UsbC cigarettes adapter which allows me to fast charge, but I l…