Every programmer should know X

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As in all the most attractive fallacies, there's a transistor of truth in the notion: It's easy to feel superior to people who use the internet to look for articles linking vaccines to lizard people. But it's also easy to feel inferior when you waste an entire day struggling with a bug before remembering to search Stack Overflow.

The important part about jobs in the old days, before they took away the martini lunches and threw up motivational posters, wasn't that you loved it; the important part was that you didn't hate it

Since the first bubble generation of CTOs grew up without a lot of sex <…>, the culture they accidentally created is a culture of obsessing over the ability to apply mathematics

An interview is a date with fifty thousand dollars
on the line and no condom.

They put money in, something happens, and lo! A product emerges
that gets them more money.