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8a··on Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?
Can you expand on this?

Also, what do you prefer over Python?

8a··on Request for Startups: Water
What changed?

On what basis where applications reviewed before?

What do you mean here by rolling basis?

8a··on Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
What I've never seen discussions on signal safety address is: why must an OS have signals to begin with?
8a··on Ask HN: The habit adopted in 2016 that had the greatest impact on your health?
Writing in the morning.
8a··on Economists versus the Economy
Sure. I was trying to understand how hard it is for economists to make progress fast. I would imagine an economic model takes months to years to validate. I'm used to getting instant feedback from a computer when writing a program.

Do you see the way economic models are built and tested improving or happening faster? Or is the main barrier not lack of diverse data points, but needing enough time to pass to stress the model.

8a··on Economists versus the Economy
How easy is it to get feedback? How quickly do you see results?
8a··on Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
This is an important data point surveys like this ignore.