This is an obvious and observable fact. An MIT trained programmer is probably smarter than a CS grad from a big state school. To deny this is to deny the obvious difference between an elite CS education and a run-of-the-mill state school education.

Of course one is better than the other.

As someone who went to a state school this does not bother me at all. CS education is not locked behind some door in a secret location - its open to anyone with internet access.

What makes one programmer better than the next is the extent to which he invests in educating himself.

The twitter thread and this comment section is a good reminder I don't belong on HN. I feel like the most complex coding I have done is write a CRUD web app haha.

As long as you can be thoughtful and curious about tech-related stuff and communicate that thoughtfulness well in text, you belong on HN. There's certainly a tilt toward career SV types for obvious reasons, but this place has everything from genuine, jaw-dropping geniuses to people who are just hobbyists, and a lot in-between.

HN community is awesome. But the comment thread web UI is a big duh! I'm not comparing it with Twitter as I haven't used it much. I can't use HN without Materialistic so on Android. It's so much easier to collapse and expand comments on mobile than having to click on a small + sign.

FWIW, I'm from 1990 as well and I prefer to read plain websites with no JS/CSS. But the HN comment threading interface could use some love.

I don't think you know what clickbait means. The title describes what he did perfectly without any addition.

Some projects I wanted to do:

- key/value storage system like LevelDB but less complex

- Infrastructure monitoring tool. Collect basic data. Something like datadog, but simplified of course

- terminal text editor, w/ ncurses for development ease

- A cross platform lightweight PDF reader, maybe using mupdf as a backend.

I hope everyone agrees how insane this is. Language is not a rigid construct, it is inherently contextual.

Lot a job over it. Did everything I could to be polite, but was not going to use weird terms. Never mind they were biggest bunch of bigots I’ve ever seen.

Tell us more. You got fired because you refused to use some batshit pronouns people insisted on?

I would also like to hear more details about this story.

Most here seem to disagree with you, and rigidly believe that "you guys" should be the way to address girls. They're not willing to be flexible and accommodating of "others".

spend as little time on your computer as possible and as much time outdoors as possible.