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Most likely explanation: the ambulance attendant looked at your LinkedIn profile.

Zenni is amazing. At less than $20 a pair, I can buy new every month. Everyone in my family uses Zenni and I get compliments on my glasses all the time.

Sure, but Ruby on Rails has to be in the top ten.

I’ve been in mobile development for a long time. I do iOS and swift now.

I think it’s a good market. There are a number of places that do native development. I have always bet against cross platform mobile solutions. It doesn’t interest me as a developer, and I don’t think it’s a good experience for the user.

I wish articles had dates on the byline

Activism takes many forms. They’re not mutually exclusive. Your contribution to this discussion (with a throwaway account) is to put boundaries on what activities you deem acceptable.

Your cynicism is not insightful or interesting.

I waited about two hours to eat at a ramen place in San Diego. Worth it. And the whole time we waited I complained this was stupid. I was wrong. Very well managed wait experience though.

Vendor locking is real. Chrome and Google are a threat to the free and open internet.

I use Firefox and have no problems with website compatibility. Be the change you want to see.

I’m a big proponent of nuclear energy. The benefits far outweigh the risks. But solar power has never rendered an area of the planet uninhabitable, so I understand the concern.

This is a totally acceptable attitude. It’s your data, you can give it away or sell it or whatever. It’s your choice.

It matters to me so I pay attention to news about products and companies with regard to privacy.

Privacy, like free speech, is a universal human right. The fact that you choose to share information doesn’t mean you lose that right. Any more than not speaking does not mean you lose the right to free speech.

Many of Aaple’s privacy and encryption efforts have come in response to the US government’s demand for data. If they don’t have access to data or never stored it, the government can’t seize it. Note that the US government’s response to this is to demand encryption back doors.

Best case scenario for the future is that these demands will be made publicly so we’ll know it’s not secure.

Thanks for supporting this cutting edge technology. I really hope it catches on.

Kissinger architected genocide. Maybe his management technique isn’t what we should learn from him.

I’ll give a non-technical answer: set up a legal trust. This is the typical way a person has their wishes carried out after their death.

No. I would be a poet. But this would only be a different mistake.

Came to this thread just to make sure complaints about navigation were the top comments.

This is how I know I’ve found my people.

I was a J2ME Developer when the iPhone launched. Now I’m an iOS developer.

The book Empty Mansions has an extreme account of this.

Concrete is the most pervasive man made material on the planet. And it likely will be so for centuries. It’s a wonder there aren’t more books on concrete.

Mid forties and I've been programming all my life. If you don't want to be in management, don't take a management position. Same goes for architect or whatever else they throw at you.

You will make less money. You may get tired of learning new stuff all the time. I've gone from Domino, PalmOS, C, C++, Java, web stack, Objective C, Swift, and more. It can be exhausting or exhilarating. But no hiring manager cares that I worked on PalmOS back in the day.

I'm an ACM member. Magazine every month and lots of links in my inbox. It's pretty good.

GF suffers the same fate of every other Google initiative: new exec decides it can't advance his career so it's starved to death in favor of something shinier.

Google won't save us any more than Musk will. It's billionaires launching cars into space and fighting for personal wealth at the detriment of the rest of the society.

If you liked The Idea Factory, you should read Kitten Clone. Kind of a dark sequel.

Does Twitter's policy identify protected minority groups? Asking for a friend.

Almost entirely on getting things done.

I failed out of college, was broke and mostly unemployed, and cut off by my family.

The key thing to remember: once you've lost it all, you have already started over; you just might not know it yet.

I don't feel much emotion when viewing art, but I'm a huge art lover.

Go to a museum and take a guided tour where they talk about the artists. You should start to feel intellectual curiosity at the very least.

I don't think recruiters keep metrics on anything. Once the candidate is hired, they consider their job done. Companies appear unwilling to measure recruiting and employee success, so the inefficient hiring processes continue.

Your comments contain a lot of red flags for me. Appreciating diversity is not the same as implementing a diverse team. Many dysfunctional organizations hide behind hiring practices of color blind meritocracy.

Name a giant in this industry, that person benefitted from a liberal arts education.