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This is a question for older HNers. Today Linux is the default server OS. Unless you have a good reason not to, any new server application is going to be developed for and deployed on Linux. Windows server maintains a…

A while ago I worked for a small company (no name boutique consultancy with a few high-profile clients) that was acquired by a large company (one of the big internationally known tech consulting firms). I stayed less…

I feel like this is a significant knowledge gap I'd like to close. I had some courses at University but they were all too theoretical. Can anyone suggest a few high-quality resources that explain TCP/IP networking in a…

As someone born in the late 90s, I came of age pretty much thinking that version control was a solved problem, and that the name of the solution was 'git'. But in the course of my work I've noticed there are still lots…

Long story short, the company I work for is kind of in flux, current project isn't going well, I fear that sooner or later I may need to look for work elsewhere. How bad is it right now? I have a degree from a top 10 CS…

After about a decade, Python2 finally went end-of-life in 2020. However, a year after that I was working at a pretty large and well-known company that was still in the process of porting existing Py2 code over to 3.…

I first got into programming in high school, mainly by making games using Java and the 2D graphics/UI libraries in the standard library (Java2D, Swing, awt, etc.) 10 years and a CS degree later, I'm employed in industry…

It seems like every week I read about some food additives, agricultural products, or building material that's likely endocrine-disrupting and/or carcinogenic which is allowed in the US but not in most of Europe. On top…