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Why is P2P more successful in India than in Africa (eg. South Africa)? Serious question and TIA for anyone with insight.

The problem is that we are taught to care too much. And this is a side-effect of a domain that obsesses with optimisation. The higher-ups simply do not understand this. Take sanguy's advice. My own advice would be to quit the profession but continue to use your talents to build something of your own. If you still do not want to do that, take the first exit.

He doesn't speak of ageism in our industry. A lot of the frustration comes from realising that experience in our industry is short-changed for ageist hiring and compensating policies.

Pretty much sums up the narrative. It had to be a non-alcoholic beverage because serious business was being conducted and the fact that it allowed folks to remain awake and energized for the long and boring accounting was even better.

Thanks. I love reading this type of grammar preppie school prose - a communication style designed for elites to recognize another deserving of status. It wasn’t until recently that I learned that most folks didn’t talk this way back then. This style of writing was what Ernest Hemingway “dismantled”. I love both Hemingway and Fitzgerald, btw ... concordantly, of course.

D) The country you didn't mention is the one I was talking about. You know which one. Very well.

And yet he didn't! That cooler box, those planks just inches from denying him one more day.

I am an atheist but such stories always evoke a delightful supernatural indulgence. I was vicarious with my enjoyment when he said "The world seemed to vibrate with a new intensity".

What an incredible story. Is this what Carl Jung would call "synchronicity"?

Exactly.

Criticizing the Chinese government's actions for their treatment of the Uighurs will invite state-sponsored "cancel culture" - not just from China but also from the western democratic nations that acquiesce to Chinese whims. This is incredible - look at the life of the professional football player Ozil who was effectively forced to leave Arsenal for his comments on this very subject.

Criticizing China should NOT be censored. (There's another country that also invites this type of cancel culture trolls whenever someone objects the policies of that country. You can guess.)

Yip, I meant all the big companies like Google vs Microsoft vs IBM etc.

COM is still the only binary object-to-object cross language interface on Windows. Late-binding COM is still a good thing.

What is somewhat dead is the idea of building server-side enterprise middle-tier in COM (COM+). That died when the dastardly Pet Store Wars ended and distributed transactions lost their hype.

What are you building?

Forgive me, I pictured your experience and it made me laugh. :-D

Great word

Another note from the underground. The problem is, like Dostoesvky wrote through the mouth of the Undergound Man, the human requires pain and misery in his daily existence in order to have a default want-to-live or want-to-thrive instinct. The lack of misery will banish us to these endless ruminations of self-hate from our lack of desire to live like the "men of action" (Sanjay, in this case) we obssess about. My kids call it "FWP".

It's a tragedy that can be fixed by tragedy. Often the tragedy is self-inflicted. Just to want to live! on our own terms.

It's a mess.

Yes, but drugs should only be administered by suitably trained and educated professionals such as EMT and health care professionals. Not police!

Is your comment based on personal evidence or otherwise?

I agree with this philosophy. I see the writer has used popular memes to convey the problem with humour. I would also add this quote from the movie "Heat":

"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

Hiring help for things that you can't or won't do but needs to be done. Other people helping you with tasks is the biggest force-multipliers human society has known.

"Fake it till you make it" meme?

Source please.

Please add to this otherwise excellent list:

LATERAL JOINs (PGSQL). In SQL Server & Oracle they are CROSS APPLY & OUTER APPLY.

This will change your SQL habits forever. Lateral joins give you the power of iteration in set-based operations that are mind-numbingly easy to implement and understand.

I'm the same age. But I am also guilty of old habits when attempting new frameworks or languages. For example, I always want to set up the environment with the least amount of "auto loads" of libraries etc. I do not use NPM. I still play around with new JS libraries by direct downloads from the official websites or Github and always use local copies of .js .css etc. I don't even connect to CDNs for fonts! I want to know all dependencies etc. I am paranoid like that. And this can be exhausting.

Half the muscle requirement is used up just to set up the "environment" for new fangled technology/framework even before Hello World can be compiled.

This is a profound comment. Thank you.

Dancing isn't easy for folks who are rhythm-challenged like me.

Try the Jerusamela on for size. Warning: make sure the vase, and precious items in the living room are packed away before you practise.

Some attempts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePuGjRRin3c

Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048

Interesting. I see the examples don’t cite “technical analysis” of price action of stocks. Is that also an example of Ludic fallacy?

Love it, thanks!

Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?

Because coding is like the art and science of distillation. Cheers.