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Man, this makes me sad beyond words. It's a great loss for all of us, even those who don't realize it.

Yeah, I was really hoping for Detroit. It's got a lot of really underutilized infrastructure at this point and could be really revitalized by a large tech company expanding its footprint there. Real estate prices would be relatively low, too.

I'm surprised to see a place like Boston on the list. Having lived there for ~15 years, I just can't imagine adding an additional 50,000 well paid tech workers and their families to that area. It's already densely populated and expensive.

Sure, but just as with customers, the dissatisfied (ex-)employees are going to be most vocal.

Do you really think Amazon could build things like AWS, Alexa, the Go Store, etc, if it was a sweatshop where everybody but Jeff was in hell? I don't.

If I need a apply for a license to read the law, can I also claim that I need to be licensed in order to be actually bound by the law?

Obviously I cannot, but the absurdity of the idea that I can be legally bound by something that is not freely available to me is striking.

The update from 1password indicated that there was application layer encryption happening in addition to the TLS encryption, so a breach of the TLS protection did not expose any sensitive data. Presumably other sites are in similar situations. But don't take my word for it, go change all your passwords.

I used to work with a number of LISP machine believers at the MIT AI Lab/CSAIL. They all had more modern computers for day to day tasks, but used the lispm for most of their programming. This wasn't that long ago (I left in 2010), and I suspect that those machines will remain in active use for as long as people can keep them running.

They all believed that the loss of the lisp machine was a serious loss to society and were all very much saddened by it. I never used the system enough to come to my own conclusions in that regard, but it was interesting food for thought. As somebody for whom Linux/POSIX is very deeply entrenched, would I even recognize a truly superior system if it was dropped in my lap? More importantly, would society in general? The superior technology is rarely the "winner"

Typical tech hours. 40-50, maybe more during crunch time right before a new feature launch or something. Not really any worse than any other place I've worked. Hours were flexible, too; I'm the type who arrives at 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning and leaves after 6 PM, but I had co-workers who worked 7 to 4 or something.

At a conference (IIRC it was LISA in 2000) somebody had posted a joke to the bulletin board. It read: "Lost: one version control system, never used. If found, please return to Linus Torvalds"

Version control worked by posting your patches to the mailing list. Linus would apply your patches to his tree, which he'd occasionally tar up and upload to the mirrors.

> Re: Paternity leave, I was able to take as much as I needed - it depends on the team/org I guess.

Yeah, I'm sure the teams have some ability to be flexible, and if I'd pushed I could have gotten more time. Managers understand very well how difficult it can be to hire a new engineer, and they recognize the importance of keeping the ones they've got, but the company-wide policy literally is zero paid family leave for fathers. Regardless of available workarounds, I wanted to express my dissatisfaction with the policy.

Agreed, I noticed all those things as well. The article seemed to invent a lot of the new hire orientation stuff. Either that or it's changed quite a bit since I went through it a few years ago, which is certainly possible. And the "100% peculiar" thing really is just a game. It's a toy to add a little icon to your internal profile, and literally doesn't mean a thing. Other such awards are for things like having participated in broomball in 2002 or something silly like that.