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HN never gets tired of the interview debate. I've seen the exact same set of comments for years now.

The problem is nowadays a lot of companies don't reward loyalty. In the US coastal markets, you are hurting yourself by staying at once place for 5+ years (FAANG and some big corps excluded).

Reminds me how some forums aren't allowed to have apps in the App Store due to porn, as well as the Tumblr porn controversy. Reddit has more porn and NSFW content than almost anywhere else.

Yep. I hate interviews as much as everyone else but I'll take grinding Leetcode or Interview Cake for a month or two over having to deal with law school and the bar, for example.

The unfortunately reality is that most office workers, even tech ones, are so alienated from the results of their labor that it is easy to rationalize their jobs as meaningless.

Because labor is a liability to most companies.

The issue is most companies don't want to be greener pastures - which usually means they don't want to promote or give raises internally too often. No idea why.

Anyone who has spent a substantial amount of their free time on internet forums will laugh at this article with cynicism.

It's not wrong per se but I've found most people come to online forums to blow off steam or waste time, not to have fair conversations or arguments. Also, you see the exact same debates over and over. It becomes tiring.

My solution has been to just post less responses on forums, and to suppress the urge to argue with someone about the same topic I've argued about hundreds of times before. I still fail at it but I have gotten better.

That's nice you and your wife have fun doing DoorDash. It's not as fun if it's paying your rent, feeding yourself, or your kids depend on it.

Your use case is the ideal use for "gig work", but much like the proverbial thinking that McDonald's jobs are only for high school students, it's not realistic at all. A lot of people's livelihoods are tied with "gig work".

> why does no one care?

Because most people just want a check every two weeks. No one wants to rock the boat. Office workers, even tech workers, are so removed from the result of their labor, it's hard to get motivated about anything except a nicer title and more money.

It sucks but like with any streaming site - it depends what they have permission to stream. Just because they have the rights to a Blu-ray release doesn't mean they have the rights to stream it. This is where physical discs and pirates MK files shine.

I have the same issue with Lubitsch films - Trouble in Paradise's only physical release is a Criterion DVD! Yet, it comes and goes from the Channel.

A lot of games were hardcoded for a specific FPS. Even modern-ish ones!

I wouldn't code projects at all anymore but probably scripts or small things in Python or JavaScript when need be.

False dichotomy. I'm sure Stanford cruses its CS students with theory and math already. Nothing wrong with a course that is purely practical and can help people get a job. Most employers would rather see "built and iOS app" in a resume than "took this difficult theory class".

I don't think it's or me. I'm the kind of person that doesn't mind going to the office and having work thrown at me. Being in charge of finding clients and work to do would stress me out.

I'm aware of 4chan archives - I use them all the time, but at least stuff under "anonymous".

I run a script called "shreddit" I found on GitHub that edits and then deletes your comments. It's configured via a YAML file and you can whitelist or filter stuff that you want deleted. I do this every few months. It's probably paranoid and maybe not even useful, but I grew up with imageboards that were fully anonymous and auto delete - for me it should all be ephemeral.

Forget trans jokes - just typical gay jokes were common until the early 2010s.

Some friends who were planning on starting a family "sacrificed" a year or two at a FAANG/FAANG-like and had a nice nest egg/savings before conceiving.

Nothing beats ranting about the company or your boss with a few coworkers on a Friday evening.

If the royalty went away and the UK took possession of its lands, castles, and holdings, it could make a killing off tourism to those private or semi-private residences. Other European countries that are no longer monarchies do this just fine.

Companies overhire devs after raising money so it looks like they're doing a lot of interesting stuff. PMs and managers need to find stuff for these devs to do, hence they come up with overcomplicating their existing tech, redesigns, etc.

Agree. A lot of founders and would-be CEOs are power hungry freaks, and they have been for most of their life.

Media has been fully untrustworthy since Operation Mockingbird.

I've found the Amazon app to load very slowly when the LTE connection isn't great, which is often the case in bookstores, at least where I live.

I agree with the grandparents comment. I just use a list in Apple Notes.

If you have something to show, sure. In my experience most engineers, even "Big Four" ones, have empty Github profiles.

People are more likely to chime in if they hate it.

I think most people are happy or content with React - but honestly, it doesn't matter. Nearly every job listing I've seen or applied to asked for React experience (if the position asked for frontend skills). It's so ubiquitous in the coastal US tech industry that if you want to be a frontend dev, you're limiting your career choices by refusing to learn it.

A ton of people still use RSS, they just don't know it. For example, podcasts.

It's what I like about the movie. I grew up with classic Looney Tunes and Cartoon Network cartoons. The humor is often nonsensical in the same way.

It gets flak due to being unfinished (which is what the article is about). The movie itself jokes about it being unfinished a few times. It was also the first film released after Tarzan, which many say was the end of the 90s Disney Renaissance, so it was a tough act to follow and a tonal shift.

After Emperor's, we got mediocre films - with Lilo & Stitch being the only exception. Many consider Emperor's to be the first of this run.