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The dev team is very territorial about their code. They're virtually in a separate business unit - I don't even have read access to the source code. To make things worse, the dev l…

Profession: "Security" Engineer [08:00] Wake up [09:05] Arrive at work a little after 9 to fight the power [09:15] Coffee. The daily pilgrimage to the Mr. Coffee is the highlight o…

pretty much this. At my school it's an almost universal phenomenon among international students. They literally run a cheating cartel that shares completed labs, tests, and homewor…

Correction, startup is a code word for "tech company that doesn't make enough money to justify its valuation" Or if you're a VC, it's "tech company whose current valuation is based…

Snowden stopped being a whistleblower to me when the docs about the CIA's sigint spying gear was published. There's a lot of docs that are useful for laypeople to improve their pri…

does this control for years of experience?

As a counter, joining a fraternity was the best decision I had ever made. After my first few years of college, I still had no social network and very few friends. After rushing a f…

this is definitely my favorite reply so far i know lots of people personally and professionally who will go their entire lives believing with absolute fervor that they're almost al…

recently, people have been fired from their jobs when their political affiliations/donations have been made public i wouldn't put it past someone somewhere out there in the politic…

Overdrinking is a problem that I only think is going to get worse until there's some serious changes made to how drinking is treated legally. When I was in college, I was a part of…

at the last conference I attended, ~9/10 of the engineers were using thinkpads and latitudes personal examples are worthless because of the ridic small sample size

how about "Don't take health advice from econ grad students on the internet, take it from your doctor"

It doesn't help at all. Unless youre working with devices like FETs that are named using the electron flow convention, keeping the electron flow in mind is not terribly helpful. Ho…

because choosing a language for a commercial project is rarely about safety or effectiveness - it's about language popularity, availability of libraries, and replaceability of the …

what do i have to do to get the nytimes to run ads for my products like this?

general question: is there any way to find out what VCs/individuals end up buying into this round?

Wow, what a clever and constructive comment! Not only do you dismiss the article in its entirety, you get to let us know how much you dislike microsoft too! Bravo! How about instea…

> If you don't like your data being stored somewhere, why are you even on HackerNews? having my sleeping records and a table of what times during the day that I shit is a lot more …

the issue is that they're collecting this data in the first place. I cant help but wonder how much it would cost to get the sleep records of a competitor of mine - or if it's not f…

maybe if we're lucky the entire bay area will break off and form a new continent. face it, that's the only way you're gonna get your Silicon Valley state, Draper!

I'm stuck here trying to figure out if this is a satire article promoting that silicon valley show.

the problem with that is then people would have to build actually businesses rather than loss leader "startups" that are only around to break even and pray for an acquisition

who needs type safety when you have all the web scale of javascript?

i'm glad someone who works at the company like you was able to enlighten us as to microsoft's internal practices oh wait