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I'm not saying this article is wrong. I do find it interesting that it is posted just before most retailers post their quarterly earnings reports, while the sector is already severely battered with huge short volume.

Still can't get a debugger; statement to break... https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7593

Oh look, another Ethereum post.

Nope, still not putting money/time here, sorry.

Can someone tell me why I'm seeing so much about ethereum on Hacker News lately? It's starting to feel like a concerted marketing push, the same way that the latest Kardashian outrage is a non-event most people don't care about, but they sure make it look like news...

I'm rolling my eyes and guessing there's a significant positive correlation between people that believe chiropractics is bullshit and people that believe climate change isn't real.

Well, how many people go to doctors and get no useful information or solutions to their problems? Tons. It doesn't follow that doctors are bullshit. (And I would argue that a couple hours of nominally feeling better is more than those people get from a doctor visit, but I digress)

If your problems are spine/neck/etc related, having yourself adjusted will provide relief, and strengthening, stretching and maintaining good posture habits will help keep those things from recurring. And, of course, as you age, the body breaks down... there's only so much that can be corrected.

I will say, strengthening my core made the most difference in my spine/neck pain. Heavy weight squats, push ups, planks, etc.

I'd like to see a study of the correlation between people that believe Chiropractics is bullshit and people that believe climate change isn't real.

Seriously, if you've ever been to a chiropractor for back and neck related problems, you know that it's at the VERY LEAST not bullshit. Claiming it's all just quack science is completely ignorant.

I do know that chiropractors have long struggled to keep clientele, because people come when they're hurting, and stop coming when they feel better. So, some chiropractors have taken to questionable methods to keep people coming back. The ones on the up-and-up will, quite correctly, tell you that just cracking your back isn't going to fix your problem, and that you need to do strengthening exercises of the core muscles that keep your bones in the correct spots, and to fix your posture problems.

What I really need is a quality Verb Project

I honestly don't even want to watch this, out of spite.

Whatsapp is so damn frustrating to me and the people I talk to.

The microphone button is so finicky that I lose hours of my week to trashed messages. I don't know if it's the size of the button being so tiny that a man's thumb easily hangs over the edges, triggering the trash feature with the slightest movement, or some other strange bug. A call comes in, message trashed. An alarm, message trashed. I've literally recorded a 10 minute message and lost it, condensed it to 5 minutes and lost it, condensed it to an angry 2 minutes and lost it and then just given up...

Then there's the volume. Why do I have to crank Whatsapp up so high in my car that EVERY OTHER audio event blows my ears out?

How are these huge usability problems not being fixed with the amount of money that was thrown at it?

I can't find anyone or anywhere to complain about it either. The Contact Us area of the application REQUIRES you to give them your full contact list before you proceed.

As am I. I would pay a subscription fee to keep them on Apple News. That's where I read most of my news. If they aren't going to give me the option to pay them to keep using them, I'm not going to pay them, it's that simple. Pretty silly move in my opinion.

I would pay ESPN $10 a month for an ESPN streaming app that had access to all the college football games (no blackouts), alone, as long as it didn't require a cable subscription. The current ESPN streaming app is garbage, compared to Netflix, and other on-demand interfaces. It's not available on my Smart TV. The quality of the streaming is terrible. It's slow to bring up video. The ads are repetitive and annoying, and it's a second class citizen with wait screens while local ads are up on broadcast.

Comcast recently decided to institute a 1TB/month cap in my area, with a charge of $10 per 50GB after up to $200, or $50 for unlimited (opt-in, by the sounds). There are no technical reasons why they did this, it was entirely to gain more revenue to make up for the cord cutters. Their own streaming service doesn't apply to their data cap.

The whole thing is garbage and needs to be completely changed. The moment Google Fiber or something better comes along in my area, I'm going internet only, and I'll just go without until they realize how badly they've managed to move with the trends and start fixing it.

"Look at a graph of postwar obesity rates and it becomes clear that something changed after 1980. In the US, the line rises very gradually until, in the early 1980s, it takes off like an aeroplane."

Not that I disagree with the premise of this article, but the graphs I can find show that there is a steep increase in the late 70's, not after the Dietary Guidelines were written in the early 80's.

A lot of people switch to vaping because they're half-assing quitting.

I quit smoking 10 years ago, cold turkey. You either give a shit about your health, or you don't.

I don't care if I get down-voted, or appear negative. Sack up, quit the stupid stuff.

Let's play a game of Guess How Many Shits The Addicted Person Gives.

I'll start. I guess 0.

To me, this is obvious. I find it extremely valuable to spend time making things more efficient and clear. Even if the time spent doesn't save that much time, but makes things less frustrating, it's a big win to me. There's a lot to be said for having processes that are predictable, that don't randomly have issues that require taking time out of your day to resolve before you get to your actual problem. I'd be surprised if there was a significant percentage of companies that don't spend at least some time solving these types of problems. I think the question that this article brings up, is what that ratio should be to actually gain.

Anyone who's paid attention to biotech stocks in the last year or so knows that there is some very volatile movement. Anything related to thera-, pharma-, bio- has been swinging up and down wildly. I'd really like to know why it's been behaving like that.

I think it's safe to say, at least from my view, that Bootstrap is the reason for it. Bootstrap made this format easy and clean, and it works well with mobile. Websites will look like this until someone comes out with the next thing that's easier and/or cleaner and/or works better in mobile and then a couple years later THAT will be the format you're seeing everywhere. I don't think this is a bad thing. At least it's clean and works well on mobile...

I have thought about trying Modafinil and Adderall for those times when I just can't seem to stay on task. The results and speculation are interesting, particularly the idea that "modafinil stimulates improved performance in the range of tasks reported herein mainly as a downstream effect of enhancement of ‘top-down’ cognitive control processes." The brain is a complex beast. I think the real test, ignoring the safety concerns with altering brain chemistry, is whether you can personally observe a benefit when you take it.

I have a good friend who works there that I talk to frequently. It is most definitely still going on. He has called me many times stating that he is miserable, that the stack-ranking, secret-pact, politics and backstabbing are still alive and well. The Office Space scene where Peter describes that every day you see him is on the worst day of his life has been mentioned.

I had a big difficulty using a standard mouse while walking. It was very difficult to aim correctly. I switched to a thumb-roller mouse so I could keep my palm stationary and it solved the problem completely.

I bought a TrekDesk Treadmill Desk and put it over-top of my actual treadmill. It was a little expensive and quite large, but it works great and I can still run/jog. That's something you don't get with a low HP walking treadmill.

Obviously, I have no idea why I was rejected. If that is the case, no part of their interview tests what a lot of solid devs spend tons of their time doing in their career... solving problems. I have debugged countless problems. It's not sexy, not resume material, but it is reality. There are many, many very good devs working in smaller companies who have made a career out of getting things done. If Google isn't interested in people like that, I question that wisdom.

You also can't make a determination about "management material" by simply looking at a resume and seeing "they aren't a manager". Why am I not a manager, though? Because I still love development. It doesn't mean I don't mentor people. It doesn't mean I don't hold a lot of weight in determining how we do things.

I'm not really claiming ageism. I'm in my mid-30's. I'd be surprised if that was it. I do wonder if it's wise having 20-somethings interviewing people though.

I had nothing but good conversations. No animosity at all during the interview. That comment is post-interview analysis.

Having just interviewed at Google, with 15+ years of experience, spending 2 months brushing up on algorithms and data structures, of which none were part of my interview, leaving at the end of the day thinking they'd be crazy not to offer me a job, I was rejected. Several 20-something kids interviewed me, and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten more than they know.

I know they're Google and everyone wants to work there, but if their false-negative rate is so high, I'm not going to bother wasting my time. Don't tell me you're interested in me, create a study surface area that takes months to cover, when in reality the chance of being hired is quite small. It's disrespectful and it pisses people off.

I've heard of 1 tax dodger being forced to pay in Greece, but why haven't I heard about other measure to get some of the money back from the previous corrupt government? Surely there's more that can be done there.

Horseshit. You're welcome to hire that way, but I can tell you right now, you're missing a whole class of excellent devs that put 100% of their time into the stuff they're working on at the office. I have side projects I occasionally work on, for myself, but they're not on a public github, and they're almost always when things at the office have slowed down a bit. The rest of the time, I enjoy what I do so much, that I spend it on the work tasks, trying new PoC's, refactoring, etc. Now tell me exactly why you'd not hire someone like me?

What's the situation with SEH these days in Clang?

Don't compare yourself to other people. Just try to improve upon yourself. Set smaller goals, so you can feel a pattern of success and build some confidence (which you'll need with the ladies, and getting a job). A cover page on your resume with your sob story and some positive inspirational messages about how you don't give up might help get you in the door with prospective employers. Just try to be happy. If you're upset or depressed, it shows, and people don't want to be around that.

My story is similar to this. I, too, did poorly in school. There were so many things working against me. I was constantly too tired in the mornings for my brain to function, so I missed important concepts. Or, the pace of learning was too slow, and my brain wanted to run with it. Or, the content was missing important piece of information that help my brain connect the dots. My brain doesn't assimilate information well when it's forced to take it for fact without answering supporting questions.

The school system is not made for people like me, and we as a society are absolutely terrible at guiding people into careers they would excel at. I'm lucky that I guided myself to software development. Many others are not so lucky.

One day, we'll figure out how to guide people to where they can excel, and when that happens we'll be much better off as a society (post-scarcity, Star Trek future).

Do those people who see it as black and blue have color blindness of some kind? It's quite clearly brown and blue-gray to me. The eye dropper in Paint.Net says the same thing. Not sure how anyone can get black out of this.

Whiteboard coding problems are absolute garbage. I recently had a remote code problem where I was given a Visual Studio IDE (albeit minus Resharper) and absolutely killed it.

If I'm going to be challenged to write code in front of you, give me the tools I use every day, let me use the resources I use to solve problems efficiently (which btw can include StackOverflow) and you will get a much better picture of me. I don't write perfect code the moment it's written. Often I will mentally acknowledge something needs further thought and my brain will revisit it, sometimes days later, sometimes after multiple iterations. I'm fastidious about those types of things, and as a result I can realistically say I write some of the best and least buggy code in my company. I'm also very good at theorizing about problems and debugging, which is never looked at in an interview.

I guarantee you should hire me, but how can I show you that, and how can you gain confidence in that?