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I wonder if there's an age component. I read that same book and I remember (maybe erroneously) that the artists who worked best in the morning were older, whereas the artists who worked better at night were younger and oftentimes addicted to stimulants.

That more or less describes my working patterns over time, too, including the addicted to stimulants part. When I was young, my most productive time of day was after everybody fell asleep. Now, it's before everybody wakes up.

Huh. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Consulting looks like the holy grail when you're stuck doing staff enhancement freelance work.

May I ask what the specialized role is? Management? Sales Engineer? Business analyst? Data science?

US or Europe? If Europe, would any of them hire a filthy American? ;)

I prefer working with legacy turds over steaming hot new shit, but I have a hard time finding companies who will pay me for that work. Everybody wants the steaming hot new stuff.

> But when the discussion comes up, people don't talk much about the reasons you describe.

Which people you're talking about? The survivors who are still working in the field? Or those who had heart attacks at their desks at 50?

So solve it for the 101st time, but better. Everything is broken and nothing works. So, build something that isn't broken and does work.

I just found out yesterday that AWS Amplify doesn't have a manual deploy button. It's only job is to build and deploy an app and there is nowhere on Amplify itself where you can press a button and kick off a build! Junk like this is everywhere now. It's a golden opportunity for people who know what they're doing.

Let's take the personal out of it: what if you're a freelancer or a contractor and the email and account used (and subsequently lost access to) was your professional email and account? Something like scott@freetechnologies.com?

This whole situation makes me think I should steer clear of trello and clients that use it.

> Random example: reverting a commit is 2-3 clicks, or a whole lot of typing.

    git log
    git revert {hash}

I'd hardly call that a whole lot of typing. It's roughly equivalent to 2-3 clicks in a GUI app.

Where the GUI falls down for me is more complicated things, like hard resetting a branch to origin or resolving merge conflicts.

Also, most of the git guis do things that I find distressing. For example, in one git GUI I tried a while back, I accidentally dragged a commit onto a branch listed in the sidebar. Only later did I realize the gui cherry-picked the commit into the branch without asking me for confirmation. It would do similar things if I dragged one branch into another.

That's because OLED has 45 years of active development behind it's belt. EInk only has 24.

[0] The first OLED patent was filed in 1975 and the first practical OLED was created in 1987. Only in the past 5 years (2015-2020) has OLED been used widely enough to bring the price down.

[1] The first patent for an microencapsulated electrophoretic display was filed in 1996. The earliest practical EINK screen I could find was the Sony Librié in 2004.

Huh. That's pretty damned interesting. Thanks for explaining!

Is this a localization thing? In this image here[0], the italicized word clearly leans to the right.

Funny thing happened when I tried to type that out: typing /italics/ caused libre office to automatically italicize the word.

[0]: https://imgur.com/cq7BMex

Why elm? It looks more like a DSL than a real language and a verbose one at that. I'm looking at some of these examples on their website, like the random number generator, and wondering why it takes so much code to print a random number to the screen.

Oh, come on. html/css+js is capable, but the programming interface sucks. Surely, you can at least imagine something better.

Imagine you have seen a cross platform gui that you'd rather use over a website. What would it look like?

> Don't put developer workstations on a network that connects to the internet.

Is there a story behind that one? That one is very common and not traditionally considered harmful.

Thank you for the recommendations! I'll check those books out.

Am I the only one here that finds it odd that not a single response so far has included a book on the nuts and bolts of how to start and operate a business? How and where to register the company, how to keep payroll, how to hire/fire, how to pay taxes, how to generate and read P&L sheets, etc.

Has anybody here read Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble? It's the only book I've seen that even claims to address this stuff, but I don't know if it's worth the time and money to buy and read.

tl;dr, from TFA: "This scheme essentially merges the Fed and Treasury into one organization. So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump."

cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rAFHXl...

> If you have a different investing vehicle to suggest, please let me know.

Land, seeds, livestock and ammo. If you're worried that the market might collapse so hard that it won't recover in your lifetime, then trading money for lasting goods while money still has value is the best course of action.

Personally, I'm not convinced it's going to get that bad, but I have friends who have gone down that route. They all prefer their new lives to their old ones.

Does the "convert to text" feature work as nicely and smoothly as advertised in the Remarkable 2 launch video[0]? If yes, then that alone is worth the price for me. I've tried a number of solutions that have claimed to do this over the years and none of them really work.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWY_bwFMxro&feature=youtu.be...

Do you find that people respond positively to sarcasm?

Apple has demonstrated for years now that they're not interested in the enthusiast/power user/developer market. They want the profits that come from disposable mass market devices. The switch to ARM laptops would be the perfect time to switch all of their laptops over to iPadOS.

What's your diet like?

I'm a little surprised. In that same comment, he says he took a swing at it and missed. He spoke about the failure of starfighter at length at the time[0]. He made it sound like there would need to be a fundamental social shift in the industry for large scale changes in hiring practices to occur.

Or maybe I read too much into it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11691568

Please let me know if you happen to stumble upon one. Every once in a while, I get the desire to take a small clip of a larger video to use as a gifv. I've yet to find a single video editing program that makes this very simple thing easy for somebody who has no idea what he's doing.

It would be useful for somebody who has no experience in video editing, but would like to cut together some footage taken on their phone. And yet, even the video editing software aimed at beginners and novices are crazy complicated.

We passed productive conversation 5 comments ago. The context of this subthread is the longevity of Tesla vehicles in a prolonged winter environment, such as northern europe or Toronto. You, yourself, agreed you can't compare the occasional weekend in Tahoe to those environments.

They aren't popular at all in North America, even in the cold and salty parts like Canada. I've never encountered a car that had it, new or used. I don't know why. My perception of them is that they don't work well enough to justify the cost, but I don't know if that's true or not.

Nobody said otherwise. Why so defensive?