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It crashed under the influx of laid-off Googlers jumping to job hunt.

I am sorry, I didn't realize you are the OP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33891538

You are neither funny nor witty with this.

Firefox is not supported

Alright then, keep your secrets

I am more annoyed by the walled gardens that requires you to log in/get a mobile app to view "public" content.

Quora, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, just to name a few. And it's getting worse every year.

Creating a new e-mail account. All the major providers require your phone number now and sometimes even that's not enough.

This has happened a variety of times and reaching out usually gets a non response

Name & shame

Props to you for publishing the startup's name!

I witnessed candidate being rejected literally because in his take-home assignment "he did only what we asked for and nothing extra on the top".

Yeah, ditch your closest people and go hang out with randos who are only talking to you cause you have the money. Sounds like perfect cure for depression.

This painfully reminded me of my dad, who passed away earlier this year. We grew up as a family of 5, in small, 3 rooms flat in the block-of-flats from communist era. The way he made use of every single centimeter including the walls and ceiling still amazes me to this day. He was working with computers his whole life, but I haven't met anyone as handy as him. He built custom closets, cupboards, bunk beds, shelves, tables, perfctly designed for the dimensions of our flat, all without fancy tools and materials. My parents had their beds in our living room, but when we had event for our extended family, the whole room could be turned into something entirely different in 30 minutes, everything served multiple purposes. Whenever something needed to be done, or fixed, he disappeared into the "pile of useless junk" he kept in our basement and always came back with the right wire, pipe, or plank that did the job perfectly. Although I think I can be quite creative in some areas, unfortunately when it comes to manual work I am nowhere as gifted as him and am happy when I manage to change a lightbulb or hammer a nile.

Thanks for my daily dose of software engineer imposter syndrome.

When I was young I slept in a HAMMOCK while working at the office. I now have a family. And yes, it is harder to get promoted, simply because I have less interest in working 90 hour work weeks!

Honestly, that sounds awful. As an European I am always amazed at this American mentality. I would never ever work more than 40 hours a week as an employee. Even that I consider too much for a healthy life and I aim at ~30 hours a week. I would never agreed to be called in the middle of the night, because there is a production outage in a company I don't own. I would never lose a good night sleep over such company. I will put in my hours for the salary we have agreed on and that's it, I don't care. Americans have been collectively brainwashed into thinking that the corporations give a shit about them and that the success of the corporation is also the success of its employees. Especially in our field, given the shortage of qualified engineers, why should I care? You don't want me, you won't promote me? Fine, I will talk to the next recruiter in the long line that is pilling up in my inbox.

I am amazed, that it is always CEOs catching the heat and not football players, or pop stars who earn even "more undeserved" millions.

Thanks. I will be definitely contacting MEP I voted for, why he voted for this bullshit. Especially when he is from party which is supposedly all about personal freedoms.

I did and nothing happened

Heh, I remember spending hours in college tweaking Firefox config flags and then checking which websites broke this time. Nowadays I just enable uBlock and call it a day. For ordinary people it's jut not worth it. Cool guide though, I will check it out.

The lengths some companies go so they don't have to pay fair wages...

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From his profile - "I co-founded Right Percent to help b2b businesses scale with Facebook and AdWords ads."

But it is still the case? From my experencie most CS universities starts with Python nowadays.

I am finally about to finish Thinking Fast and Slow. It is a great book, but very dense, I can handle max. 2 chapters/day

black book

Careful with those metaphors!

1. Don't be a dick

2. Dick in point 1. is gender neutral term

There, the only CoC you will ever need.

Props to you, that's inspiring. On the other hand, if I have to be completely honest, I can't wrap my mind around why would anyone pay for what are you doing, let alone so many people. There is so much free resources on Internet on popular topics (such as Ruby/RoR in this case), that I simply don't understand how people can pay for something like this (I didn't read your articles, but if you churned out 30 articles in 50 days then I dare to make a bold claim they aren't world-changing, or presenting something that wasn't already there). Just as I will never comprehend how sane person can regulary read tabloids. But as I said, I admire you and would gladly be in your position, well done.

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That should help with something at least

Interesting, this book got some heat when I asked about books people do not recommend some time ago :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16785473

I would go even further in this argument - it's the small, altough very loud minority of FB (or other IT company) employees, living in their Twitter feeds and causing outrage totally disproportional to their group size. The "missing snacks" example in the article illustrates it beautifully. I would argue that it actually concerns more employees than content policy issues.

In their business plan Google (now Alphabet) favors a "greater good" for society rather than purely revenue optimization

I did not expect such display of naivety on HN of all places.

Just in case someone here is not aware of Wikiwand:

https://www.wikiwand.com/

I use it for 2 years now and it works just right.

You read my post wrong. I said explicitly this is NOT a master/slave situation, "master" has completely different meaning here, there is not any "slave" branch under its rule.

I agree the master/slave pair itself is a weird terminology to use (especially the slave part), but master branch, master degree, master ball in Pokemon games are all fine in my book.

Context matters. This is not far away from attacking anything associated with words white/black.