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"Pay no attention to the second densest city in the country over there."

Boston is a major tech hub.

I would never do it, but there's some convincing evidence (the experience of eunuchs) that castration evens out the male/female longevity difference.

Two things I don't like FUD around: My Linux and my heroin.

You're so right. First give me all of your money, it's an illusion anyway.

We can talk about anything we want. Don't even have to open the link. Now let me tell you what I think about Ruby...

You have a lot to say!

I've not yet found a reliable way to experience statistics.

Hair saloon, must be a Texas thing.

But he used the word "I" too many times. Case closed. Throw your unread TAOCP at him!

Relax, the submission is a troll.

Start by getting off of HN and Reddit. Turn off non-local news.

Nobody said it's malicious. In this industry, every year of experience has diminishing real returns. That is to say, I'm embarrassed by my relative effectiveness many years ago as a new dev. It was mostly thanks to defaulting to the latest and greatest tools. The bits of wisdom and trickery accumulated over the years certainly help, but they don't really move the needle in a way that would justify substantially higher pay, or consideration over younger, less jaded/burned out candidates. The industry's most commonly used CS knowledge can easily be acquired in a year.

Overall it's a pretty lousy line of work, but it beats being an Uber/Instacart serf... what a world.

Over the past year, the graphic illustration of most peoples' blind idiocy and superstition has been a bit much to take it all at once. The best thing is that I no longer care what anybody thinks about pretty much anything. The worst thing is the inherent unchecked nature of such eccentricism.

It's why I've turned off most of the WWW now. Even an "enlightened" place like HN is mostly a bag of predictable tropes. The WWW (not the internet in general) has proven to be a trap, it's almost real enough to seem authentic. To a careful reader, there's little difference in value between the typical "top comment" and the weird rant of an off-kilter Waffle House patron. And there's no point in analyzing an endless stream of ephemeral rants from randos. That's the WWW now!

I can't wait to log back in next week and see this guy at -1.

Oh please, your behavior will depend on what's socially acceptable at the time and you know it.

Having reliable electricity during a dangerous heat wave and heavy wildfire smoke that forces you indoors: Priceless.

You may want to visit first.

Maybe you've never experienced the anguish of having to pair program with a TDD purist. I honestly wonder how these people tie their shoes without performing a few deliberate face-plants first "just to make sure."

Or when emotional politicians decide that wrapping your mostly unused park with CAUTION tape is a good idea (it stops the virus, and my dance starts the rain).

> I expect this is how most of HN's crowd grew up, too.

Why. Maybe you're comforted by the thought that your experience was not abnormally privileged, but it was.

Because the thread is an echo chamber of irritable pricks whose time and focus is valuable.

Have you tried making enemies instead? Then you can befriend their enemies.

I chose Fastmail for business, as an upgrade over self-hosting, because it seemed to be a solid provider, not because "Google, ew!" Turns out, Google's the more solid provider (three years as an FM customer before reaching that conclusion).

My experience was that Fastmail has regular hiccups, they just don't make the news. I left for Google Apps years ago mostly for that reason.

I think people are tired of the same politically-motivated dog and pony show every time inventing a new totem. Like WaPo/NYT-fabricated "pop icon" Ruth Bader Ginsberg last year. It's the same chorus of vapid praise each time, neatly confined to a news cycle.

That approach sounds like it would yield many false positives.

> I mean, it gets down to about -17F here in the winter.

Did you know that Minneapolis is considered the best bicycling city in the US?

Go's Memory Model documentation specifically recommends modeling a counting semaphore with a buffered channel.

https://golang.org/ref/mem#tmp_7

> rides his bicycle around even int he dead of winter

That maniac!

Okay, now do McCarthyism!