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If you manager offered you a choice between a 20% raise or never having to work a particular day of the week again (your choice which day), what would you choose?

I started at a company that paid actual human beings to QA test our software. We would set each QA person up with a dedicated environment with builds/release candidates and they would simply try to break the product.…

At work I have designed a few products from end to end (frontend, backend, machine learning systems, associated microservices, etc.) and with that is always a discrete list of features, user stories, etc. Perhaps the…

I saw an interview with John Carmack in which he remarked that game developers and PC users more often use debuggers, but going into an industry with more Linux and Mac users, they pride themselves on the purity of not…

Probably most people are running some kind of open source software; but I mean does anyone here use FOSS or open source software alternatives to things like Gmail, Slack, Github, Zoom, etc.? I've been thinking of how a…

Does anyone here use the finger protocol? I am interested in older protocols and want to see what other people are using. I recently set up a Gemini server (not old) and wanted to see what other people were using out…

I work fully remote, and like to go out for lunch during the day. Sometimes a work emergency will come up and I either need to head home, or have a laptop with me. I would prefer to have a small 7 or 8 inch netbook…

I was wondering if there are any logging frameworks which write data in binary rather than utf-8 encoded text. For example, the datestamp might be a 64 bit integer rather than a formatted ISO string. It would probably…

What's a standard workflow for wasm? Even just using a simple vim + emcc + makefile setup to compile without IDE debugging, I can't get debug symbols to work in chrome debugging tools. I hear a lot of people here…