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Wish I'd discovered #3 much sooner. Much easier to talk to someone you're paying. Everything else felt like I was burning the patience of the few friends I'd made. Getting a boyfri…

Now examine the price of "I should have tried" regret.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1051560132235030528 > Tether ... is currently in the early stages of a bank run. Still think that's true? As for this news, as long as they're ho…

I think "web development" is too generic to say something like that. I'd consider a small data processing service, maybe a service invoked from the web server you're already using …

HashRocket. They were great people.

Video URLs always pointing to the same content is a critical guarantee for a service like Youtube.

No, the alternative here would be to just let the write()'s throw and let upstream handle them. You don't try/catch to catch an error just to re-throw it for the same reason you do…

That's just your empty entitlement of "he should share his toys with me more" under the guise of "F/OSS" and, uh, being a "good citizen" or something. You're a horrible citizen of …

Writing negative comments/tweets is a helluva lot easier than staking skin in the game.

I like this reddit post by rhickey regarding entitlement: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au... It gets pretty tiring on HN/reddit to watch people demand …

They do it for NPM deps too.

Also, what made this interesting wasn't the question but that the question won the lottery of someone contributing substantial time to craft a great answer. I don't think you could…

There's the idea that a corporation has at least some economic incentive to do a decent job and government doesn't since it has zero competition. The classic example to the average…

Why do anything if you're not willing to do everything?

We've been using https://adorstore.com for years for our turkeys.

One issue with cryptocurrencies that pretty much everyone has a vested interest and you can't separate out the bullshit. And it's not just vested interest though, there's vested de…

Their point wasn't just "it's their MO". You just attacked the lowest hanging fruit. It doesn't make for good discussion.

I interviewed for a week at a consultancy known for pair-programming a long time ago. Each workstation had two chairs, a large iMac in the middle, and the developers had an individ…

Electron apps don't have the ethical issue of directly killing living things for our benefit. That's a good enough reason for a levy, imo.

Yeah, and kinda shows their age wrt "haha this guy uses a computer, what a nerd." Even playing video games is pretty cool and mainstream now.