The comment is garbage, but I don't think an anonymous, unmoderated comment is going to stop the type of women who speak at these sorts of events from wanting to come back.

I've seen zero pretentiousness from Andrew in all the years he's been doing interviews. If I had to rate hime on a pretentiousness scale, I might even have to give him a negative rating. Humble-bragging about your low-pretentiousness-tolerance being a "personal fault" is laughable.

Fantastic analogy. Nicely done.

Applies to golf and pool for me. But I start off as a bit better than average while sober, in the zone at four or five beers, then I fall off a cliff after that. Relaxation and looseness apparently have a very narrow maximum window of effectiveness while drinking. Go past it, and you're hosed (but I always had fun getting there).

Whether or not this applies to other jobs has nothing to do with whether or not it applies to CS-related jobs.

I think this is a good attitude in a general sense, but I don't think failure needs to be sugar-coated. If you have a goal, set out to achieve it, and you don't, then you failed. If you learned some valuable lessons along the way, that's great. If you deny failure, I think that's being dishonest with yourself so you don't feel so bad. Failure should feel bad as much as success should feel good.

Yay! Another comment where the younger generation blames the older generation. You see the problem with this type of argument, right?

The older generation effects the younger generation.

And vice versa. We are all in this together.

The older generation literally creates the younger generation.

You're jamming several different types of answers into single selections, then leaving gaping holes in other areas. If you want hours, just do hours. If you want sentiment, just do sentiment but you're going to need way more options. If you want to do hours and sentiment, you'd need about 25 different options just to properly cover what you're indicating here, not even counting all the holes you've left.

This. I work roughly 55 hours a week. I love my work, but I wish I didn't have to work so hard. We're constantly hiring, but always a couple hires behind the workload. Of course, it's my responsibility to oversee this process, so it's all my fault. Anyway...the ambiguity is obvious.

Over-the-top epidemic??? Pretty silly exaggeration. In a male-dominated industry, you'll never be accused of gender bias as a male if you use feminine subjects in your sentences. So if we say "he" all the time, we're gender-biased, and if we say "she" all the time, it's an epidemic?

The positivity on HN lately is almost too much to handle.

I'm starting to worry that reading Hacker News comments is going to drastically sour my outlook in life over time.

> I'm starting to worry that reading Hacker News comments is going to drastically sour my outlook in life over time.

That may be, but direct experience would likely do that faster.

Life has soured my outlook on life. The comments on HN merely reflect this.

You should try the Youtube comments, that'll drastically sour your faith in humanity. :p

We should be positive. We're the ones who end up on Elysium. Also, the new iPhone is really cool.

Plastic is the new aluminum (although I really like the 5c, actually, though the case is an abomination).