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Yes but you haven't said anything tangible. This does nothing for people suffering from lack of fundamental necessities. How much hubris do you need to completely skip our planet and get right to fantasy? I'd get it if we were all so smart we solved everything we needed to but we can't even solve our own planet.

Your casual philandering with space exploration doesn't put anything on anyone's table but your own, much like how lots of minds are wasted crunching pointless numbers for data startups.

This is no different than my Father coming home every night without food telling us the same thing, that when he wins big we'll have all the bread in the world. He never won, then he died.

People wasting time on things that have an extremely low probability is still a waste of time at the expense of everyone else currently living on the planet.

If anything, discovering alien life will probably end us.

It's life changing being notification-free (only email + text). I used to have my phone loaded to the brim with apps, now I use maybe 3 or 4 apps regularly tops. Hell, I'm even debating going back to a super barebones flip phone.

Trying to find solutions to the problem is fundamentally different than accepting the problem and finding a way to deal with it. It's the acceptance that kills me, because it validates the problem.

Yeah, so don't seek jobs at shitty places. Yeah yeah yeah the whole "beggars can't be choosers thing". Unless the telemarketer is literally your only option whatsoever, then I'm sure you have a choice of flipping burgers.

My mentality going in is "please give me a reason to walk away". The few that don't are always surprising offers and get me excited. I go in determined to find a reason to walk away.

To be completely honest I've never even heard of Tableau.

I wouldn't even know where to start to be completely honest.

I think a better question is what problems they haven't faced.

Quoting Family Guy and Charles Manson in the same sentence should be grounds for a state sponsored lobotomy.

Bad attempt at humor. Very low hanging.

How is this different than piracy?

What by Laozi did you read?

Executives.

Nobody forces you to push to Github.com. Git is perfectly private.

>False. Trolls derive joy from the grief of others that they have inflicted. That's what trolling is. See also: Sadism

You are trying to frame something fundamentally illogical, logically. Trolling just is. It's narcissism at its peak.

Trolling is the opposite of charisma. It's making your point in an extremely childish and negative way instead of educating someone on something and getting them to see your point of view. It's step 1 of persuasion, except most people have moved past this phase subconsciously (as in obviously name calling and acting like a baby won't get you what you want) and those who haven't, are branded as trolls.

A real troll you wouldn't even know. The idea is to get your entire mentality in the tip of their finger so they can wind you up and down whenever they need to.

Some people just like it. It's not an addiction, there's no "reason", it's just fun to be a dick online. Why does nobody ever think of this? There always has to be some sort of grand underlying psychological reason.

You're reaching much too deep into it, even comparing it to Heroine addiction. Just, wow.

Enable sourcemaps, click on the selector, and it literally tells you what line to edit. Then go to sublime, cmd+p -> filename:line number -> enter. in 5 seconds you went from finding a css problem and finding its exact line.

What that guy posted is fine (only if you have SOME sort of rules around nesting - our team has been getting along great ever since using rscss.io methodology)

Thanks for the condescending comment. Really helpful.

Exactly. Read my latest post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976903. I hate the culture/environment of co-working spaces. I don't understand why people are so opposed to working from home, they automatically assume everyone is a child that can't manage themselves. Now I have to waste YEARS of my life getting to an office.

Yes, in my hobbies. Work is a context where I have to force myself regardless of how I feel or I get fired. Motivating yourself to be equally disciplined in your hobbies where there is no incentive to do so is much more difficult. Stop attempting to dismantle me and post a proper reply instead, otherwise we're done.

I don't want to magically be the only one who gets to be special and work from home. There's only a few of us, we're in a shared office with our laptops. They've also voiced their discontent.

That sounds ideal! Can I email you somehow?

I currently only have one chip, which is the pay cut I took to work here. If I use that chip right away, it screams entitlement, which is only compounded by my age. I need to finish the rest of their product and really wrap everything up and prove my worth in relation to their previous developers with hard numbers. Then I need to convince the other employees to side with me.

Only then I can play a full hand instead of pleading and begging and being at their mercy.

The first chip only benefits me. The first two benefit me and the founders. All three benefit everyone in the company.

I think I'll sit on it for awhile longer and go with this strategy. It's perfect because it makes sense for everyone, and if they reject it I know it's not the right company for me because at that level, that decision would be coming from a place of fear, and that's not somewhere I want to work.

I converted a crappy old PHP code base to a modern one by breaking down their product and re-building it, re-using assets as I needed. It took a lot of time and extra work but I did just that.

You flatter me by thinking that comment comes from a place of arrogance. Assume the aforementioned codebase is complete garbage coded by two non-programmers. It's an MVP essentially.

It's not like I worked somewhere like Facebook and re-did their infrastructure. I remade the work of two business guys.

Why? You just sit there and work, 6 hours isn't a very long time. Maybe I have a unique ability to stay focused for hours on end.

>You will need to get used to this.

No, I won't, because I've already had two roles that match my criteria, and the conditions at this job don't warrant a mandatory 8 hours per day. We're not doing repetitive tasks that don't have an end in sight. It's win-win on both ends. I get more work done because I'm more motivated and relaxed in my day-to-day life and as a result, their product improves.

There's really no bullshitting in my company. We don't go out, or take excessive breaks, we just work with our music on and barely talk all day. It's really quite exhausting. It's not that we don't like each other or anything, we all just come from super corporate F100 companies.

It is, he's just finding reasons to be an asshole. It's only tough because people like him make it needlessly tough due to some inferiority complex.

Zuckerberg has spawned a new era of addiction that we haven't fully realized yet because we are still living in it and have yet to see the outcomes. Facebook is a net negative for society.

Social media has replaced the really terrible feelings. When's the last time you were sad and alone for an entire day? Likely never, you can pull out your phone at any given second and plug those feelings, and you'll stop there and never realize what forces those feelings really have. It's the forces of human despair that drive us to do big things. Social media drowns out that force. You can plug any sad moment with a bit of social media and bring yourself from 'sometimes really sad' to 'never sad but always mediocre'.

I'm not the best at articulating ideas but I hope you know what I mean. We are slowly all becoming the same person in a different shell and it's terrifying.

> but space seems to be just as much publicity driven today as it was in the original space race.

Marketing and advertising makes things seem ways they aren't.