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This is not exactly accurate. Most places in the US require businesses to "make up" the delta between minimum wage and what the employee receives through wage+tips. Seattle just co…

That's the joke…

While misleading titles are annoying they do serve as a sort of test to determine which commenters have read the article.

100% of phone calls to my mobile device are robo calls. I get around 5 per day and (because of this) I never answer the phone. I actually tried to uninstall the dialer app but it s…

Benevolent: "(of an organization) serving a charitable rather than a profit-making purpose." That's not how this word works. We can use another one. I hasten to add, again, that I'…

"As with all of Epic’s internally developed assets, the Paragon assets are only licensed for use in Unreal Engine 4." This is marketing for their game engine. They don't have to do…

I know someone who did this during college. I had a friend in college — let's call him Sam — with whom I paired on most CS projects. It was useful to find a partner who was as stud…

Had to verify it was you, "peter" is out of character. :p

> Goal is a finance tech app, although I probably just need a pretty front end… Sounds like an interesting, ambitious project, I wish you the best :). For building a finance app, y…

It sounds like you're new to both React Native and the JavaScript ecosystem. I can imagine this being very frustrating for someone regardless of their general programming chops. I …

I think the reason that I feel that the authors points is the same as yours but better made is that the author's doesn't lean so heavily on hyperbole. > I said that in modern 'west…

This isn't an argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority See also reddit.com/r/iamverysmart

You're responding to points that the author hasn't made. Any time you're writing, you can absolutely not afford to explain to readers all of the things which you are _not_ talking …

I felt this was well covered in the OP. > Many feel that the very qualities that used to define them — their strength, aggression and competitiveness — are no longer wanted or need…

> it should have been an issue throughout history? Has it not been an issue throughout history? Honest question.

Inaccurate. Data center has not been sunset. https://www.stride.com/help-center/frequently-asked-question... I also don't think anyone was forced to switch but I could be wrong. An…

> "I'm annoyed they didn't use my wording. They did fix my bug but I'm still annoyed." In what world would one imagine that a suggestions box was in any way different from reportin…

I believe what we've both said accurately reflects our own experiences. I'm sorry you've experienced this. I encourage all, should they ever feel this way, to seek greener pasture …

Yeah, reading stuff like this is depressing. It's completely reasonable to understand and be cautious of the these things happening, but coming to the belief that this encompasses …

I didn't down vote you. Sorry if I gave that impression. I don't downvote people who meaningfully contribute to the conversation. I was just responding to the excuse.

> But I hate MS and they've stolen thousands from me over the years. I thought it was a cool story and a neat hack. I passed no ethical judgement. Until you went off the deep end w…

That's actually one of the few non-default things on that instance. Because it's a public issue tracker (which few companies outside Atlassian are willing to do to themselves), som…

If ZenHub works for your team, sweet. If the business is operating at a scale that ZenHub can serve adequately, you're probably not an ideal customer of JIRA. There's a tipping poi…

One thing to keep in mind is that Bamboo was first released in 2007. Less than a year after AWS was initially launched and well before things like Travis or CircleCI existed to mak…