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Or that he's taking a principled stand.

A coworker of mine got an email once containing important scholarship information intended for a high school kid in Florida. He did a little looking online and found the kid's and his parent's actual email addresses and forwarded the email to them.

So here's where it gets weird/dumb: the kid replies to my friend and his parents and says, "hey mom, you put the wrong email address on my application, there's no dot in mine."

So my coworker, being the only tech savvy person on the thread replies. "Well, actually, [...]" and explains how dots are(n't) handled in Gmail address. Then the parents then reply and write, "but that's your old Gmail address, we had to get you a new one when we moved to Florida."

At this point my coworker gave up and the kid presumably lost his scholarship because his family didn't know you could keep your Gmail address when you moved houses.

(If you're reading this, hi Jake H.!)

Enabling "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" makes keyboard navigation much, much easier on macOS.

It was Hotwire.com.

Not to mention analytics. There are a ton of third party frameworks that make it very easy to see where the bottlenecks and friction points are in your app. It's standard practice.

I had the opposite experience once: at my previous company we were all issued mid-tier ThinkPads. Completely out of the blue we all received an email saying we'd be given a set budget and would be able to choose any machine we wanted. We went from 100% Windows to about 80% OS X within a week. They ended up giving the old ThinkPads away. (I put Ubuntu on one and gave it to my mom.)

This was in 2012 or so, and because of that I was able to learn Objective-C and go on to work on the first version of our native app. It made me a stronger engineer, and allowed the company to have developers who were already familiar with the product and backend services work on native. It was win-win.

This is of course anecdotal, but a friend of mine worked as an engineer at Twitter, and she said there was more focus on appearing as though they were industry leading engineers than there was focus on actual engineering quality.

For a while now I've gone and forth between Firefox and Chrome (Chrome always felt more consistent to me, but I liked Firefox's privacy and security features), but recently I went all in on Firefox it and feels a lot nicer than it did even 6 months ago.

I don't know what changed, but I haven't looked back.

I'm 42, and until recently worked for a well known tech company in San Francisco. Most of the time I didn't feel like I was the only person over 30 in the room, but after moving to another city and starting to work on a truly age-diverse did I realize how unbalanced my previous team was.

My current team has a good mix of industry experience and excitement for new technologies, which makes planning both effective and exciting.

Which is typically a symptom of having worked at a start-up vs. an established company.

During the dot-com crash, I went from working at a 40 person start-up to a 25,000 employee utility company, and it was a real eye opener. A lot of my "cutting edge" (for the time) skills were dismissed as being flash in the pan, and all the "real work" was done with tried and trued technologies. I ended up finding my way back to a start-up a few years later, and everything was reversed again.

I absolutely, 100% regret not studying computer science in college, or at least learning CS fundamentals earlier in my career.

I spent years struggling to write quality code, and I couldn't figure out why: I knew syntax inside and out, but still struggled with tasks my peers could do while watching YouTube videos and chatting with their friends.

It's like I could spell but didn't know the first thing about grammar.

I eventually went back and took some classes online to fill in the gaps, but I feel like I would be much further in my career had I just went ahead and done it in the first place.

This is why I use StyleBot! I don't customize every page I visit, but it makes a huge difference for sites I view regularly.

Here's my custom Hacker News style: https://i.imgur.com/KbP5VAX.png

And Craigslist: https://i.imgur.com/uTyST6P.png

I remember in 2002 when .NET came out they had a tool that turned UML into method stubs with pseudo-code, and I was sure that my career only had a few years left before it was fully automated away.

I don't think they were saying learning to code is easy, per se, just that it's not the only barrier to launching a successful product.

I worked as what would now be considered a full stack developer during the dotcom bubble (and bust), and during that time thousands of engineering jobs were outsourced overseas. There were a couple main issues that I'd be curious to see if modern development teams would be able to overcome:

* The communication lag. When developers are working opposite hours from the rest of the team, small issues can take a day or longer to resolve. Even simple stuff like "can I cut the branch or is your feature not QA ready?"

* Rigidity. Specs are almost always incomplete (or inaccurate) in one way or another, and remote developers who aren't familiar with a company's product and goals have a difficult time distinguishing between what a product owners wants and what they ask for.

These aren't insurmountable issues, but they were the two things that really slowed things down for the teams I worked with.

I had a recruiter from Giphy pursue me pretty hard, and all I could think was there's no way I'm going to go to a company that won't be around in a year.

Could you imagine how rad it must be to work from home without kids?

My wife and I both work full time with a 3yo at home, so rather than put him in front of a screen we work in shifts - one of us does 6:30 ᴀ.ᴍ. to 12:30, then we switch until 6:30. It's really tough.

I live in Portland, though; people live here because they love Portland, not because of the tech scene.

I work for a pretty well-known tech company, and my hypothesis is that we'll switch to a mostly at-home work week, where most people WFH 3 or 4 days a week with one day of the week being designated as a "meeting day" where everyone is in the office.

I don't think this will happen because of people are worried about virus transmission, but instead because most people like working from home and we've proven we can be just as productive when we're out of the office.

That said, I'm one of the few people who like going into an office. There are fewer distractions and better food options. :)

These types of comments always get under my skin. They took a 45 gigapixel photo of a 350-year-old Rembrandt, I'm pretty sure they didn't shoot it in the exhibition hall using "so-called daylight LED lamps."

I absolutely hated not having a headphone jack so I finally gave in a bought a pair of AirPods Pro. They are literally my favorite thing I've bought in the last decade.

I know it's an extremely expensive solution, and it's super shitty that Apple is basically forcing you to buy them, but now that I have them I love them.

Thank you for your post. I think there is often a skewed perception of people experiencing homelessness because more often than not they only see the people who have the greatest issues with mental health and addiction.

> I'm all for backing up claims, but [...] you won't see many lights on in those mansions.

I'm with you 100%. I lived in SF from 1998-2006, then again for a few years in the 2010's, and when rental prices are high landlords seem to prefer holding out rather than lowering their rates. I assume this is to avoid locking a potentially valuable rental unit into a low, rent-controlled lease. (On a side note, this is why many economists believe rent control is bad overall for rental markets: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/)

The price tags would be neat if they allowed you to swipe for additional information.

Anecdotally, this seems to be a typical use case for LibreOffice.

Both my mom and my sister use LibreOffice for "everyday" office tasks like resume building and simple budget tracking, and it's what I recommend to all of my tech-indifferent friends who need to do light office work but don't want to pay for MS Office.

Managing their local facilities.

I'm curious if people are sick of Facebook or sick of social media in general. My only Facebook friends are people I'm actually friends with, and I mute the more obnoxious members of my family. Because of this my FB experience seemed to be a lot nicer than what most people experience, but in the end it just felt like a waste of time.

If you're just tossing it in your bag, why not keep one of these permanently attached to the the USB end?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jtrs-Na%2...

That's what I do with the cable I use with my ancient Garmin cycling GPS.

> It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB.

Where do you see that?

My wife and I are in the process of shopping for a house, and the two factors we're weighing the most are bikeability and walkability.