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I am in a similar situation as you, but in a lot of ways you're asking more sophisticated questions than me. FWIW, I've been building a little toy lisp-scheme like scripting langua…

It's (the original comment) a pretty myopic comment because the same point can be made about the institutions that perpetuate $FOO.

I think a lot of developers naively rely on "software design" principles. They often can't state their reasons for adopting these principles and assume these principles are self-ev…

but the time and effort cost of the people producing the videos. Hackers seem to conveniently always forget about these people. FWIW, I tend to find the opposite. Maybe the people …

I think with ISPs there's an obvious upfront material cost for building infrastructure. In that sense I'm very much the consumer. Obviously, there's substantial infra cost too with…

Think we agree that blocking ad blockers is in YouTube's immediate, short-term interest. However, I'm not sure it's in their long-term interest because it goes against the principl…

Aesthetics are rooted in civilization, time, and class. It's very difficult to say if these works by Johns will survive 500 years from now given that famous bronze statues were mel…

export CDPATH=.:~/projects export PS1="$(uname -n)$ " alias ltr='ls -ltr' More of a procedure, always list file and edit the command before deleting it: $ ll file.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 …

Sorry, my bad. Deleted the post.

I've worked in a "tech" department with mostly older folks as the youngest person. It was frustrating. I can't tell you how many times I heard "nobody knows how to do that." There …

I've been wondering if the perspective won't shift as the current generation of developers ages. When will HN be the old farts site; will perspective's shift then? More of a hypoth…

Thanks, you're awesome! This was exactly what I needed. I'm switching jobs and receiving a monthly figure to buy insurance. It's very easy to use, looks clean and PDQ. Great work.

I don't know if it even qualifies as "schmuck bait." The Prof's actions are ethically objectionable (and personally disgusting to me) since he actively solicited unethical behavior…

Copy a string in one line: while (*dst++ = *src++);

Yes. I've heard of multiple studies concluding employers hire those candidates that are the most "like" them. I read a book called "Money Ball" last year. One of the lessons I took…

Probably none of the above. I've heard the interviewer makes up their mind to hire you in the first few seconds of meeting you. Psychology is a strange, strange thing ... but reali…

Personally, I would be more inclined to hire a person picking the "throw it in a hash and look it up" solution over any more complex solution. My reasoning is that bad programmers …

I didn't see the original comment, so I can't say that I agree with it. However, I do believe that overly comfortable companies create an internal inertia preventing innovation and…