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Management figured out how to manage the "hackers", and the good "hackers" learned how to socialize (what this article calls "politics").

It's not a meme, it's true. Anything that subsists on advertising and user expression is going to end up taking a stand of some kind. If you don't want to take a stand, make someth…

That's my point, it's literally got a rule telling us to not talk about it. We really should talk about it, though.

There are lots of ways to interact with folks who don't understand something that get your point across without making them feel bad. I'm guessing you didn't employ any of those st…

We're having this conversation as if everyone making SQL queries is one fat finger away from irrevocable data loss. I know very little about SQL but have managed to build literally…

Brute force? Nothing brute force about bringing you your laptop/phone so you can unlock your password store.

They'd get you access to your password store, I assume.

Or in other words, stop having fun? There is value in relaxing, there is value in letting go of control and following your impulses. Trying to drive out all fun may lead to a more …

Are you passionate in the same way the commenter's friend meant, though? Passion means different things to different people, and maybe his friend was expressing his desire to be mo…

I agree with you, but would go even further and say you're not born interested, the set of experiences you have are what shape your interest. It's both an important and useful idea…

The people who dominate the stereotype of "genius" are also those who have debilitating mental disorders, and far too many people can't separate those two things.

I'm not sure it's a given that natural talent is even part of the equation. A decent number of the behavioral economics who have written popular books (Grit, Peak, to name a few) s…

Reddit is better than you. You're worthless, comparitively, and you need to learn to be okay with that.

People have been right since the begining, and no one wants to talk about it.

Love this mindset; far too many people think of the System 1 part of our brains as things to fear and reduce as much as possible. Training it is vastly superior.

What's cutsey about them?

I'm realizing more and more that HN targets the... More seasoned folks on this planet.

You can't search by arbitrary Unicode characters?

Has anyone tried buying these sunsetting projects from Google? I'd definitely pay like $3-$5/mo to have this service, and the implementation is involved enough that it'd be a hassl…

Yeah, I realized that after I wrote it, sorry.

It's gatekeeping, isn't it (in a good way)? Demonstrating you give a shit (rather than saying it) goes a long way. I went to a meetup around where I live that was meant for develop…

Fair enough, what should I be calling it? Genuine question, not sure.

I wonder if there are tactics being learned by other governments (or future potential rioters!) here about how to deal with ongoing instability caused by rioting. At this scale, th…

How fast can this go? Can I throw it out my car window and go down a street? A highway? What does it do when it's lost the homing signal -- hover? Land?

Reputation no, but the behavior itself? Quite possibly.