I get it, Matthew Mills. I too cannot believe that it ever happened. I can’t believe that someone killed twenty first graders and 6 school employees. I get that it’s impossible to accept that all that happened and still not a single thing has changed in our gun laws. I further can’t believe that the gun lobby and…

Listing Git as a top software skill shows that the researchers really didn’t know what they were doing. Looks like they were merely counting buzz words. Life hacker audience doesn’t really need an explanation as to why it is silly, but this blunder is equivelent to saying ketchup is the most popular food at McDonalds.

Tfw Louise Woodward c. 1997 is kind of your doppelgänger :{

I know many will disagree, but the Citroen 2CV.

It’s not removing the seats, it’s HONORING them!!!!

As an inventor, do not ever, under any circumstances, search for patents. That should not concern you. As part of getting a patent, you are required to list any patented inventions you are aware of that conflict with your patent in any way. The key words here are “aware of” — the more you know, the more you are…

I hire programmers - I’ll share what I look for.

My first few questions are going to be about previous projects... What OSS packages have you contributed to? Do you have any projects on GitHub? Tell me about a previous project that required a novel solution.

This is all to quantify your enthusiasm for programming. If…

In America we also call that Schadenfreude.

All swatters should be charged with attempted murder.

I worked for one sociopath, left and everytime I get offered a new job, HR puts me in with another sociopath. Because they think I can handle it. After seeing the first sociopath lose all his good employees and the crap ones stayed, I made up a saying, "only crazy people work for crazy people". Not-crazy people get…

This is so much more concise and useful than that other TL;DR article which spawned it. I would add :

Have outside interests. Either programming or hobbies. It's a big world - experience some of it.

As you said, there's no one perfect number. I've been at my current job 8 years now and don't have any itch to change. Great employer, good pay, stable work—I'm in a good spot. The young and the restless probably think otherwise and that's ok, but there's a lot to be said for stability.

Depends on who you work for or with. In the defense industry or other big solid corporations, internal growth means you are part of the team, vetted again and again, and low risk. Thus you will see exponential gains in pay and power over the years if you hang in there.

Realize that other people are just as bad as you.

15. Early typing class would have been the most most useful subject I never took.

"Peter Griffin? WHERE?!"

I have seen things you people wouldn't believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time… to die…

I understand your point, but if someone was flatly reading a script then you would still be able to understand the individual. The issue is that the written word is more "locked" than the spoken word. Spoken languages are fluid, they evolve rapidly. Written language is not as fluid, primarily because you have a…

This article would be a bit more readable (and helpful) if the actionable tip wasn't buried in the text, but rather was stated in the subheadline for each tip. For example: