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Absolutely, as an orphan with many different ideas and no safety net I was frequently put in places where I should have been a co-founder since I was technical and the idea was min…

"Bro" is a strange word, because it has gone through quite a bit of semantic shift. It used to refer to a certain type of entitled, right-wing young male associated with some colle…

Hacker News is less toxic than one might expect it to be, given the widespread historical association of Y Combinator with DVFs (a Bay Area acronym meaning "Domestic Violence Found…

I come from the 2040s. Don't come here. In the parlance of your time, it fucking blows. Google is still around. It is a third-rate search engine but a first-rate reputation engine.…

Disabled people tend to get fired preemptively, regardless of performance, when their disability is discovered. It's illegal but it happens all over the place: bosses see everyone …

This is often an intentional design. A lot of HR people and bosses are evil and want to know not just where you worked and about how long, but what months you were there. Why? Beca…