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There is a lovely quote that I think might apply here: "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers". You're presenting a simple answer to a complex, multi-faceted problem and presenting it without any evidence besides your experience. This problem is also deeply personal and challenging to many people (sometimes life-endingly challenging), but your suggestions are coming off as flippant.

If you want to be heard I would suggest presenting scientific evidence, and presenting it gently.

Lithium salts are most commonly prescribed in pill form. Their therapeutic range is quite narrow, and the toxic range follows quickly beyond that, so blood levels need to be monitored on a regular basis.

This looks interesting! Do you have any articles, papers etc. I can read?

Depression affects about 4-12% of the people -- depending on how you look at the numbers -- not insignificant. What you seem to be talking about is not major depression. I grant it may be an interesting theory for some mild depressions, although I'd prefer to see some evidence presented. To suggest it to someone who has actual, clinical depression can come off as offensive and patronising, thus the kind of response you received from Devthrowaway80.

If you want a cold war simulation, try it with JavaScript turned off.

What is the value in their technological preferences aligning with yours? I ask because that simply encourages me to tell you what you want to hear in the interview.

Location: UK (to relocate to: I'm currently in Cape Town though)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes (Tier 2 visa required)

Technologies: 15 years Web Development XP over the Full Stack but I tend towards Front-end. Some buzzwords: PHP, JS, CSS, Rails, Python, SQL, Linux, git, scrum master.

CV: http://pedantic.co/CV.pdf

Email: gavin.van.lelyveld@gmail.com

I don't. How have you seen it work out?

I am impressed and pleased that what a few years ago would have been a highly specialized disability support tool seems to now be a case of changing a few settings in a mass-produced product.

From parent's website: > We’re ... in San Francisco and San Jose.

> a fancy (but simple) web interface on top of complicated backends

That, at least, seems valuable to me. Turning the complicated into the simple is a valuable skill.

Hehe. And to contradict myself, if you HAD written it all down you wouldn't have the cool story :)

Nice hack! I hope you learn to start save your notes/commands/snippets to a text file as you go.

Here is the relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia

I agree that the software connection is weak, but it can be a reminder to people that decisions made by software can have a real positive or negative effect on human beings, in ways that the software (and software makers) can't easily predict. How do we build more humanism into our apps?

> but I can tell you this app does not track sites you browse

Except for this snippet of code in popup.js of course.

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-40692955-5']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

Edit: I tested this with a console.log, and it output immediately on page load, without clicking anything.

So I think the no "well-actually" policy is because people saying "well actually" prevents people suggesting improvements because they don't want to say something that might sound stupid. The hacker school manual goes into greater detail.

Having teambuilding events around drinking increases homogeneity, because that kind of event is most attractive to your average 20-something white male, and least attractive to a lot of other groups (e.g. people who don't drink from preference or religion, people who don't want to hang around with drunk people for various reasons etc). So the gains from diversifying team building should far outweigh the loss of this one narrow kind of event.

So there are a lot of (1)'s in the artlcle. Are you talking about "Diversity leads to better results" or "Abide by the Hacker School Rules" or "No feigning surprise" ?

I'd like to address your Medicine analogy, but it'd be more appropriate if I knew what you were referring to :)

I don't see that in the article anywhere (^F doctor ^F Petersburg).

I also don't sense any specifically anti-Russian sentiment. I think the references to Russia are to contrast the lack of presence in SF despite a claim to have one, or the lack of corroboration for the claimed references. I imagine the tone of the article would be the same if it was France or South Africa or Malaysia.

The author seems to be highlighting the accent because after some research he discovers that the CEO actually isn't in San Francisco.

Title is missing the (1945) suffix.

It sounds like you're trying to say that fans of JavaScript don't like freezing syntax but that that is disingenuous because JavaScript is the result of a frozen syntax thrown together in three days. Is that accurate so far? So... freezing something and throwing it out there is good? Or finding broad consensus is good? I can't tell which approach you're going for. Which "this" process are you referring to not having happened back in 1990?

Take a look at Mutation Observers. The only problem might be browser support: http://caniuse.com/#search=MutationObserver

I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. My thought was, is there something different you call yourself, or some different niche that helps you avoid that kind of treatment? I should have been clearer in my question.

So what do you interview as now?

My delivery is: "I like telling UDP jokes because I don't care if you don't get them" then immediately walk away.

Web development is a complex ecosystem. As a front-end dev I don't get to control much: many types of devices and software might run my code or display my HTML. Catering to that is the nature of the environment, and that heterogeneity (of devices and software) is what makes the Internet great.

I disagree that catering to that fills one's day with misery. In fact I think it's fun and I wouldn't enjoy working on a library, thick client or compiler quite as much. That's ok, development is big enough for us both to find something we like doing, without needing to denigrate what we don't like.

I do pretty much what the article describes and you echo the sentiment I get from dev friends who hate working with CSS and the DOM! I enjoy it though. There's a lot of art to it. I have absorbed a decade's worth of trivia that lets me usually do the right thing first time or find the solution quickly. And I generally get to be the interface to other teams (like designers, content people) which I like too.

I agree with your response, it's pretty much the one I wanted to write!

I would add that I work very often from coffee shops (and restaurants). In my mind being a good camper is: - Get to know your server/waitron's name's and interests - Become a good "regular". To me that includes not being rude or impatient. Let the non-regulars go first. If things are getting too busy I'll move to a smaller table or even leave. Yes you're a customer, but you're also supporting the staff. - Buy a meal if you're there for long enough that you would need to eat. If I'm spending the day I'll get breakfast at home, coffees at the coffee shop, order lunch, more drinks and head home before the dinner rush. - Tip well. This covers a multitude of sins.

Ultimately, let respect for others guide your choices.

Ah. That is pretty obscure though! I can't even see how to get to the tour from the main page... Oh I see now, the Wiki link on the side.

It's a good project and I love your UI. I'm not trying to criticise negatively, just point out that I was surprised by one of the major features, and perhaps others would be too.