My ex-manager once told me whenever he decides what to eat for a meal, he prioritizes calories per $.

Does your ex-manager drink cooking oil?

When I was in engineering school, my employed mentors would roast me with precisely this torch.

I don't know. VB is still 10x easier than React. The gap is so obvious.

truly organic

Just because your enemy wears heavy armor doesn't mean you should be naked.

Addiction to comedy shows?

LOL, let me give it a try.

HN addiction increases depression severity among already depressed developers because of all the fancy cool new stuffs others are playing around while they are stuck with outdated tech stack in day jobs just for money.

>just for money

And in certain slices of the globe there isn't even much of that! No risk of workaholism.

I'm on call during the Christmas week 2nd time in a row in my team. Nothing earth shattering so far. There's one issue that could be resolved earlier (by the previous oncall) so it wouldn't cause more delays in other parts...

Merry Christmas to all those are on call now.

Yes it's crazy, to say the least

in exchange for the Chinese market I guess

On one hand the US government has been complaining about too much misinformation on FB and on the other hand it has a portal to control misinformation on social network? There must be some link broken in these two?