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Thank you! Kind of nuts they posted this with that title but no explanation.

"Normal" keeps getting more and more depressing.

Did they think that image would make them look fun or interesting? Because it's exactly the opposite.

Pedantic as hell but `"100" * 2` in Python (= `"100100"` for those who don't know) isn't really typing, it's operator overloading. Any language with that could implement the same questionable design decision.

They said three times "ask me anything" and then didn't respond to a single question. Stop making HN wose by comparing someone dodging accountability to slavery.

They pretended to be fronting up but didn’t respond to anything after that. Doesn’t seem very commendable to me.

My favorite story from the book. Working on hardware, the engineers would often have problems where the whole machine would crash because some signal happend one nanosecond too early or one microsecond too late.

Eventually one of the engineers broke. He left and never came back. He left a note on his desk reading "I am going to live on a farm in Vermont, and I will no longer deal with any unit of time shorter than a season."

Maybe a dumb question, but... I'm a Canadian who would qualify for a TN visa if I worked in the States, but don't currently have a visa or green card. On the online submission form for job openings, it always asks "Are you legally entitled to work in the US?". Am I meant to answer yes or no to that?

I don't know how it works, but it seems very odd that serialization/reflection wouldn't work with AOT... the information you need is there in memory either way, isn't it?

I was introduced to this word by the Carl Sagan novel Contact, and I’ve always remembered it.

AA sounds like a horrible company. They had a design legacy from when their logo and identity were designed by Massimo Vignelli, but they threw it away and didn't seem to have any concept of its value. Their website has terrible design and usability. When a blogger posted an article about how bad it was, one of the designers at AA reached out anonymously and said they understood his criticisms and that they were working to make the site better. AA searched their mail servers to find that employee and fired them for... caring, I guess?

I didn’t know adding text to the submission would show up as a comment so it looks like I’m the author. Sorry about that!

A month ago I was diagnosed with tongue cancer. This is my journey of regret, joy, anger, and inter-species body modification.