SaltyBackendGuy

> If you've been a middle manager for 20 years there must be something wrong with you.

In my experience, the Army was the same. If you saw a 18 year E-6 he/she probably had a problem staying out of trouble or were just incompetent.

Edit(context): Active duty in a combat MOS.

> people that are different enough that you end up needing to use kindness to relate to each other

I've never heard it put quite this way before, and it's so true. Thanks for this.

> Something like Mickey Mouse is probably past the end

Anecdotally, that's not true in my house. My daughter loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

> It’s gratingly irritating.

Right. But just because something is irritating does that mean it should be illegal? This seems like something that we don't need to waste taxpayer money on IMO. I feel like there's bigger fish to fry so to speak.

> They also don't have chats with the 100,000 people watching a channel. What they do is assign people into rooms of 200 people each so you can have a meaningful interaction in a smaller group. This also helps with scaling. I thought this was a pretty clever strategy.

Just curious if this is still a thing. I've watched an unhealthy amount of Twitch (not all with chat open) and never noticed this.

I wonder if they will make you sign a release when you sign up for a service. So you will need to consent to use the ISP.

Interesting that he didn't add his affiliation to Unz in his about page. Here's one source after a quick google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cook

Anecdotal.. But when I first got into the tech industry I went to job interviews (In SF) in a full suit. I was alway told that you want to go to interview "dressed for success".

It wasn't until I dressed down to jeans and a long sleeve button up that I actually got an offer. Honestly, I think no matter what environment you're in you have a better chance of success if you play to your audience a bit.

I have a similar experience. Food Service -> Framer / Roofer -> Army Paratrooper -> Casino Dealer (You be surprised how hard that job actually is [0]) -> concurrently going to school for software -> Jr Dev -> Sr. Dev

I used to laugh when people would complain about almost anything. Due to my Army experience it makes most people's complaints non-issues to me. But I am starting to realize you have to meet people where they are and have some empathy for them. They only can see it from their perspective. Telling people to suck it up, hasn't been exactly effective for me in this industry. Different environment so different tools are effective.

[0] Not so much physically, but dealing with people for 10 hours a day and most of them are very unhappy (losing money) takes a toll. I'd rather frame houses imo.

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> their 'secret', which is always "eat good food, watch your calories, and lift weights."

This is literally always the _secret_.

> Lobbying is pure corruption

I never understood why more people don't see it this way. You literally pay money to get X bill passed. If that's not corruption I don't know what is.

Damn that was a good episode. Thanks for the nostalgia.

Anecdotally, my father was a criminal defense attorney. There clients he didn't want to represent for personal reasons but did due to financial obligations, part of the profession. Lucky for him later in his career he was able to pick and choose more freely.

But I agree, the "lawyer X lawyered for Y" argument is a farce in most cases.

Dotnet Core is actually really nice as well, I think v3 is right around the corner. Something worth checking out if you're looking into beckend technologies.

I've been using it lately, coming from Node.js for the last few years, and it's been a really nice change.

Furthermore, the fact remains that they don't actually make a ton of money on car sales but instead car service[0]. So there's little incentive on making a car that is truly 'Built to last'.

[0] https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/where-does-the-car-dealer... (Sorry for all the adds - Reader View for better experience)

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> the removal of the escape key (I'm a vim user))

As am I. It finally made me move ESC to Caps Lock and it's actually way better IMO.

Agree with all of your other points though.

> Incidentally, it's quite common that people can't be trusted to make good choices about such things.

How much of that is being constantly bombarded with marketing (psychological priming) that brainwashes us into making poor decisions? Totally agree though, we as humans are our own worst enemies.

Now write a unit test for

    function fDing() {
      ...
    }

Honestly with modern JS I am not sure this feature is that great. Looks more like a code smell these days imo.

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We should also name and shame the politicians that accept money to pass laws for these trolls.

I work in the B2B space. One thing I've noticed is that if Enterprises aren't happy with the product they signed up for or the product doesn't deliver as promised they will refuse to pay (The ultimate motivator).

I feel like in the customer space you have less leverage and it's more of a headache to simply not pay or get a refund (in this case).

Cartel is probably much closer than monopoly.

> "socializing losses, privatizing gains"

I also have never head it put quite this way, and realize how true it is. One example is American Football stadiums. Get the people to pay for it and charge them to go there.

I've had the opposite experience about a year ago with their Node.js PowerBI repo. Although, they deprecated that SDK within a few months after, so it's possible it was more of a resource issue.

This only really works if you have good credit and can get a 6 mo. or 1 yr. 0% interest. Also, pay that money off before you start paying the juice or get hit with a larger fee.

But it's definitely still a gamble.

Edit: 'Only' maybe too strong as there are other scenarios that would work.

> I have a hard time believing they had such widespread disdain for their kids as the boomers do

It's always interesting when I hear boomers complain about millennials. Didn't they have an influence on raising the same generation they complain about?

I worked with an IOS guy from Argentina, before software, he was paid to write reviews for companies in the states.There's some plausible deniability, he worked for a contracting company that did this work. Since then, I stopped using Yelp.

It's confusing on purpose.

> regular special forces. Anyone with slightly better than average intelligence and physique can make it.

From personal experience I can say this is incorrect. The 'regular' special forces are the Green Berets (Top 5% of the Army). Elite special forces (CAG/Delta) 5% of the 5%

A plant based media storage ledger, with redundancy. I smell a crypto startup.

Well I could be paranoid but you could just follow the money.

His top campaign contributions come from lawyers[0]. What kind of layers you ask? They do IP law[1]. BTW it possible I am missing something, this came from 5 minutes of google'ing. But the simplest solution is the most likely one IMO.

[0]https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=...

[1] https://www.youngconaway.com/ (scroll to the 'Our Practice' section)

As a Twitch consumer (married 'professional' in early 30's). I am a huge video game nerd at heart, so I watch streamers that run games that I am interested in however don't have time to play/master. Often it doesn't involve me sitting down for hours at night (although I am sure there's a huge demographic that does that as well). I usually watch when I am laying in bed before I go to sleep. Same time my wife is usually watching some separate but equally mind numbing content to decompress from a long day.

Just another form of entertainment, like tv, but there's nothing I enjoy watching on tv. To each their own.