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> I design and build technology in Vancouver. I spend most of my time working on Slack, a paradigm-shifting tool for team communication. In my work I strive for usefulness, beauty,…

I like how you managed to turn a question about VPC networking on AWS into an advertisement for MongoDB!

The fundamental concepts haven't changed but the applications certainly have. The amount of things you can "do" with technology these days is far more vast than it was 25 years ago…

> Asking him to change his personality and what he "enjoys" just so that he can fit in is so absurd to me because it hints at the idea that you should surrender your individuality …

Sure but now there are two separate codebases for the same API. A lot of code will be duplicated between the two codebases, you'll have to maintain two sets of issues on github etc…

Its possible. More likely is that this attitude is a defense mechanism for this person to feel better about their lack of emotional and social intelligence. A stereotypical jock/la…

Yeah, that doesn't answer my question though ;)

It says its based on the mozilla remote protocol: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Remote "The Firefox Remote Protocol is a low-level debugging interface based on the CDP protocol."

Nice work, I have been using puppeteer with chrome recently and it is a great piece of kit. If the prototype is successful will you keep the chrome and firefox packages separate or…

Consider that you might not be as intelligent as you think you are. I'm sure you are aware that there is more than one kind of intelligence right? Although you might have a PhD and…

Absolutely, you are right about that. My point was more to argue against the idea that in eastern europe, kids can run free on the streets because its a mostly white society. More …

Ok fair enough, but then why is Romania such a sh*t-hole? (Sorry Romanians). Surely the racial homogeneity there should mean that things are better over there?

No they don't. Gypsies are a large ethnic minority in many eastern european countries. Also, although a religious minority instead of racial, there are a large percentage of Muslim…

You know what else has a carbon footprint? The computer that your're using to post on hackernews. How about instead of wasting electricity you go volunteer in your community?

I love dogs and have one myself, but I don't think this is always a good idea. Maybe bring your dog in once a week or something like that but every day is too much. Some people hav…

In my experience people like this think in terms of tools they can use. They read an article about some shiny new thing and watch a conference talk about it and think "wow thats co…

"outrage outrage outrage".

No its not normal to speak four languages in Europe.

I'm not saying this kind of situation is the norm, but it happens often enough for it to be "a thing". EDIT: Academic qualifications are also only a small part of what I'm talking …

Its a buzzword that essentially means "is the candidate similar to me?". It can be a cover for clear racism/sexism/agesim etc. but can also be used to discriminate on less clear te…

Horrible advice. Deadlifts are a great exercise but can go horribly horribly wrong if you try too hard to lift an amount of weight that is too heavy for you. Instead you should foc…

> However - excercising these quitting fantasies have actually lead to a lot of personal growth, as I was able to test myself and to get to know myself better, not to mention branc…

"camera in bathroom"

Hmmm, a £150k salary seems much harder thing to achieve than a £750 day rate, I can see quite a few DevOps contract jobs at £750 / day but no permanent ones at £150k! As you say th…

Really? Thats not my experience at all that contracting earns roughly the same as permanent. Why would anybody do contracting if that was the case? Maybe earning double is an exagg…