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> "The owner/CEO of a small to medium company won't hire you because, given your experience, they will be afraid you will learn their industry and become a competitor. The manager …

If you look at recent layoff numbers, their coastal brethren will be joining them soon. It's America! One man copes with food, another with money, another with sex. You are all deg…

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Not just readability; trade-offs in every conceivable dimension: time efficiency, memory efficiency, developer efficiency, readability, maintainability, correctness, etc, etc... Ad…

The combinatorics of full-text search are astronomical. A dashed-off comparison like this is pure noise. There are so many knobs to twiddle, and a nudge to any one of them can yiel…

HN is written in Arc, which is a lisp derivative that runs on top of Racket, which has the same runtime inspectability as almost every other lisp, and for PG's public relations boa…

It's like three steps--four if you count the verification. https://go.dev/doc/install

Oi, you gotta loicense for that guv'nah? https://preview.redd.it/mmksakh888t21.jpg?auto=webp&s=f4dc90...

Best comment I've ever read on this awful site.

Under present circumstances, I believe the Germans have much bigger fish to fry, and possibly no fuel to fry them with.

peak hackernews: the best answer is at the bottom

All of these have been around for a long time, but just like well-maintained software, 7 years worth of incremental improvements add up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_p…

This puts me in the mood for a Diet Shasta.

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