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Bah, go ahead and link! you've demonstrated good will already by withholding the link ... but now I (and I'm sure we) are curious about it, if you're willing to share :)

Needing to put 20+ tags IMO is a hint that something about the process is wrong ... I'd love to hear some ideas about what could _possibly_ be enabled by having 20+ tags on a given work item. What workflow could possibly need that level of detail?

> It's surely doable in big organizations but small businesses it's an overwhelming cost

And yet, there they are ... still having small businesses, and consulting shops, and all manner of people continuing operations in the face of such start conditions ;)

edit: Holy crap, I hadn't even finished reading your comment

> If I am looking for 3rd programmer in my 2 person small company I will not risk hiring a young woman as getting a new employee to the stage where they contribute value is a huge cost.

wat ... this is just ... this is a terrible thought process and ideology.

This gets even more "extreme" when we talk about digital artifacts ... once the initial labor of creating a piece of music, or film, or game, or program is expended, the cost of infinitely reproducing copies of those approaches zero in many cases.

I think a lot of people haven't realized this yet

more of this!

In my experience (and this is explicitly anecdotal) ... it seems like liberal memes tend to either satirize a politician's actions or repeat opinion-based editorial info, while conservative memes are more often explicitly fake ... yes, satirical/op-ed memes obviously exist there, but I see more obviously false and easily-debunked conservative memes.

For the conservative, those op-ed memes can tend to be interpreted as the oft-quoted "fake news", which is where I'm guessing the "both sides" sentiment comes from.

Again, that's just entirely my anecdotal experience.

Mainly facebook, twitter, and some of the seedier areas of reddit (AFAIK, depends on who you follow) ... it's also quite concerning how many of these memes and conspiracies seem to originate in 4chan; a literal hive of scum and villainy (and trolls, foremost). I never would have imagined I'd see the day when I would see prominent personalities and politicians literally tweeting screenshots of 4chan threads

I'm really really loathe to say this ... but in today's climate, "memes are news". I have 100% had the contents of memes thrown at me in a political discussion. I happen to be online a lot, so in many cases, I've seen the meme scroll by and it's easy both to realize what it is (fake propaganda), and easy to debunk ... but to those folks, it's as real as if delivered by Walter Cronkite's lips.

Yeah it's funny; I remember back when blogs first became popular, but before comments-on-posts was a common thing. Most community and discussion happened on message boards or newsgroups (whenever a link to said link was posted). That's what led to the backlink (quickly taken advantage of by spammers), which led to the on-premise comment thread.

lol ... this seems to be a theme today in several different threads. Literally anyone on this website should take their own behavior as the opposite of what they assume the average user can or will do.

> submit articles to content indexes

... aaaaaand, there it goes; the spammers already ruined it ;)

You are not the norm ... the very fact that you are on this website puts you in a very small cabal of users. I can guarantee you that "normal" people do not read these things, and it is disingenuous to expect that they ever will.

No one read that ... we (the tech industry) need to move past the idea that presenting information in a privacy policy or eula is enough. To depend on that is a breech of ethics in my opinion, because no matter how much we'd like for it to be enough, Users Do Not Read Them.

It is not informed consent even if they "scroll to the bottom and click accept". Our industry has conditioned users to click yes/accept on any and all popups that block their path to doing whatever it is they're doing (using the app, playing the game, installing a program, etc).

I was simply communicating how to avoid this issue ... judgments of worth and value are a separate discussion.

The trick here is to not use any windows program to modify anything on the WSL file system (because of the unix permission system). But it works vice-versa ... so you can use any unix program to modify a file on the windows file system.

So my hack there is to simply make a symlink in my unix dir (`~/dev`, usually) that points to a folder on the windows file system ... that way I just do all my work in ~/dev and it's all good.

I'll admit that I'm not a scholar on the matter, so this may just be ignorance speaking ... but I wonder why all the soft robotics stuff that I see never seems to pair the soft/flexing actuators with any rigid components?

I'm thinking of the analog to the human body (or animals) ... we have a skeleton, organized and connected via ligaments, and then our "actuators" (muscles) attach to that structure with tendons.

Is there any existing research/samples/demos that mimic this structure?

I mean, you kind of answered the question yourself, "considering quitting facebook. [but] They stick around"

Like I always tell my kids, "Let other people tell you that you're awesome, just don't say it first" ;)

> Stack overflow is and always was a question and answer site. To attempt to take credit for the following value of search results containing stack overflow questions that have already been answered that sound like what you’re asking is to take credit for search engines and to take credit for your users’ hard work.

I don't know man ... while I can kind of agree with the general "thing" you're trying to convey here (that of SO hard-headedly blaming users for "doing it wrong"), this particular point is one that I'll have to defend him/them on -- SERP-as-an-interface was a primary consideration from day one. I listened to all the podcasts they did during development, and they were pretty explicit about it in all the blog posts. They knew that most people would arrive at a previously asked question via search engine, and they optimized the experience for that reality. That's why they wanted each question and answer page to be an "artifact", something that grows over time, gets edited, improved ... precisely because they thought of this ahead of time ;)

This is a great point. This summer, I took my family for a week of beaching, boating, and snorkeling. I also worked the full week ... of course my boss knew what was up, as I'm up front about everything. But it was great being able to just modify my schedule, go snorkeling in the morning, come back, work, dinner, and then work a few more hours at night. All you gotta do is make sure that the place you're staying has wifi.

yes ... mostly :) I'll give my own example ... I work for a team/company in another state. So on most days, yes, I work from home. However, part time, I go into a local co-working space. This gives me a chance to get out of the house, socialize with other technical people IRL, etc etc. If I didn't have a co-working space available, I would probably try to band together a few folks and rent a small office somewhere to similar effect.

So, while for many people yeah it means working from home ... it doesn't necessarily have to mean working at your house :D

heh https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx

Go remote! the planet, along with your family, sanity, and happiness will thank you!

Every working programmer today can stand up, walk to their boss' desk, and have the conversation about going remote, even if only part time (for now). If they say no, ask how you can work towards that in the future, and if they don't relent, find a different job (don't immediately quit, obviously; now you have leverage in knowing that you want another job, but don't need it quite yet). When doing your job search, the first question you should ask is, "is the position remote friendly?"

Let's change the industry's culture from the ground up.

I don't know ... maybe I reboot more often than you do? While I've definitely been annoyed by this in the past ... I feel like it hasn't happened or been a problem for a long while for me.

This is all strictly in my experience ... but anecdotally, colleagues and friends have similar experiences.

BSOD tended to be more in those halcyon days of a very diverse and disparate OEM ecosystem ... similar to what we have with Android nowadays. But the Dells of the world are pretty solid with both stability and support these days. This is of course not to mention the first party stuff (surface et al).

Bloatware ... this was another thing that was exacerbated by the runaway OEM ecosystem. It was the wild west, and they loaded anything and everything on that hardware. Things are a lot more streamlined these days IMO.

As for updates ... with the latest windows, you can schedule when the update happens. So just tell your PC to update when you're sleeping when the notification pops up. Updates will always be a thing, but this makes it easy to work around.

And coming from a mac background, make sure you take a look at WSL (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about)

If the implementation of voice calls over the traditional networks do not improve (as you suggest, via improvements and regulations), then people will route around it. My kids only call me via FaceTime ... and the only way they communicate with their friends with voice is either facetime, or by sending videos of them talking over snapchat.

Obviously, my kids (and their friends/school) are only one data point ... but yeah, for them, it's already dead.

This is 100% destroying the phone for younger generations ... my kids answer nothing, not even my own phone calls because they set their phones on do not disturb to curb the endless robo, scam, and cold calls.

If it wasn't for https://hiya.com/, I'd be at the end of my wits. Seems like the number of fake calls has ramped up exponentially in the last months. I finally just set it up completely block all telemarketing, spam, scam, fraud calls.

But then ... we don't really do a great job at even attempting to rehabilitate anyone. When we stick a non-violent offender in a prison, it's "Not A Good Time™️" for them. They become institutionalized, they make criminal connections, they join gangs ... they do these things in order to survive; for protection not only from other violent inmates, but also from abuse by corrections officers.

Let's not lose faith in rehabilitation before we've actually tried rehabilitation.

Just to ++ this sentiment. This echoes my situation back then as well. The only thing I can think that _might_ have helped me in hindsight, was a combination of better consumer protections (I got that loan with zero down ... and they glossed over the details of the adjustable rate mortgage); and also just wish I would have had better financial literacy.

I take full responsibility for my own situation and the outcome. The only thing I can do now, is incessantly knock the knowledge into my kids. Hopefully when it comes time for them to "make their own mistakes", they can at least learn from our experience.