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Green Hills Software

I work at a company that does embedded development and our engineers are very age-diverse. The team I am on consists of people directly out of college, people with over 30 years of experience in the industry, and everywhere in between. The last few programmers that we hired were 55+, and they were able to breeze through our interview process and quickly become invaluable members to our team.

I think that older engineers definitely have an advantage when it comes to embedded and other low-level systems development. The Javascript framework that you worked on 5 years ago is now obsolete, but the experience you got writing kernel drivers 25 years ago is still very useful today.

I... I... I just can’t even...

What is Facebook thinking?? Shouldn’t a company which is already getting bad PR for its handling of private data be extra careful about how much personal data it gathers and what it does with it?

It doesn't hurt to ask! The last time I got my eyes examined was at some cheap lenscrafters-type store which had a promotion for 2 pairs of glasses and an eye exam for ~$60. The PD wasn't on the prescription, but the doctor made the measurement after I asked about it.

There was a very limited selection of glasses that were available for the 2-for-$60 promotion, and they really tried to upsell me to more expensive frames and lenses. Luckily I was able to resist their sales attempts and bought a nice frame and lenses from Zenni Optical. I keep one pair of the cheap glasses at my office and the other in my car.

As an aside, being able to get inexpensive glasses online has been a huge improvement on my life. I remember growing up when I only had a single pair of glasses (and a "backup" which were with my previous prescription). I had to be very protective of my glasses, and getting a scratch on the lens meant that I was stuck with it until my prescription changed. Now I can get my favorite glasses from Zenni for $25, so I have backups if the lenses get scratched or the frame get bent. I also have prescription sunglasses for the first time! No more dorky clip-on shades!

The linked cookbook doesn’t have any oven temperatures, which surprised me. It is hard to get consistent baked goods when you are guessing at the temperature. When did oven thermometers become widely available?

Teams with more than 3 people will still need to buy a subscription:

>Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece. So, while this might work for a small project (like, for example, a team competing in a hackathon), it isn’t particularly well-suited for actual commercial usage.

>Scaling a single VCS to hundreds of developers, hundreds of millions lines of code...

Maybe I am way out of my element here, but is this a common problem? Do companies with only “hundreds of engineers” really have “hundreds of millions of lines of code”?

Oops... yes, I meant “Hulu does not have autoplay”

Too late to edit unfortunately

Hulu does have autoplay, at least on the Android TV app, which is why we use it much more than we do Netflix. If there weren’t a few Netflix original shows which my wife and I really enjoy, we’d cancel our subscription.

What is the difference between a “tip” and a “donation”?

We use Mattermost at my company, which works well for us and is entirely self hosted.

Really? Is that a known issue? I haven’t experienced that and I’ve been using containers on Firefox since they were introduced.

As a Silicon Valley outsider that surprises me. I've heard that interviews at all the FAANG companies are all difficult (as an aside, why is Microsoft never in that list??). For organizations the size of Google and Apple, there are bound to be employees who squeaked by their interviews and would not have been hired at the other company. Why does "Google" on a resume look better than "Apple"? Is the Google interview that much more selective than Apple's?