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A lot of Centurylink circuits are still down in Arizona, and if not down completely, have significant packet loss.

Unless your product is similar to Dropbox or a side project for fun and giggles, anyone complaining about "insane" AWS costs is building a product with no viable business opportunity, or just doesn't understand all the direct and indirect costs associated with running and maintaining infrastructure in-house.

I see no compelling reason to move from AngularJS 1.x for both new and existing projects to either React, Vue, or whatever else is hot in certain circles. We generate many millions in business, and I can tell with certainty that the framework has nothing to do with how well we perform. If anything, staff's confidence that our stack is extremely stable and not prone to team leaders deciding to jump into a new framework only contributes positively to their productivity.

We live in a sick (figuratively and quite literally) world where people who create an addicting, health damaging product easily accessible to and abused by kids are celebrated for some kind of "success" and rewarded financially as a result of their immoral creation.

LOL, the Steve Jobs argument. He's the goto scapegoat whenever someone wants to spread falsehood on raw foods, fruits in particular.

He wasn't fruitarian. In his early years (20s) perhaps more so, but in the years before his cancer was discovered he was known to consume lots of vegan junk food and processed foods, oils and salt - his body was massively acidic. In the couple years before his death he ended up consuming a lot of dairy and excess protein - both killers and horrible to the human body.

So one semi-fruitarian dies, fruits are evil.

Millions of people die from diets that consist heavily of processed meat, soda, dairy, excess protein, processed sugar and other garbage - nothing to see here.

Don't tell me you're one of those that thinks sugar from whole fruit is bad for you?

None. There was no need to. Focus your energy on actually making more money and growing your business using tools you already know and are most comfortable with. Improving marketing and sales is more important than chasing after the next best tech stack.

So why are you against making this kind of crap illegal? Why are we doing everything we can to protect society from terrorism, but not so with thousands of car deaths due to alcohol consumption?

Would take about 5 minutes to integrate this... certainly less than it takes to deal with people coming up with their own titles, sometimes without a malicious intent, they just don't know the rules.

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> ps. if you're in a job that involves using your brain, you're not working more than 3-4 hours/day max

This (not necessarily the quoted part, more so the article concept in general) is non-sense. People don't work enough. The problem is not the long hours, it's that people no longer have the stamina (mental, physical and emotional) to sustain a long work cycle so they think they "burn out".

Among other things, we run residential VOIP networks for large ISPs and other operators, and it's ridicilous to see the prices CenturyLink, AT&T and others charge their home customers for just phone service... I regularly come across LOAs and phone bills for $60 to $120 single home phone lines - for absolutely no reason other than that they can get away with it.

An idiot would be a person taking seriously nutritional advice from a doctor that spent a grand total of ~5 days learning about the subject in medical school.

We are heavy users of GCP and AWS, but still use DO for bandwidth-heavy workloads.

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18632988

I lived in NY 2003-2006

I used to take the F train into the city every day for 2 years back when I lived in NY. That ride is something I miss very much... such peaceful downtime before wifi and all that.

I would be very happy to keep my Galaxy S7, but they make it slower on purpose with each software "update".

Oh yeah, Twitch should be considered a health hazard for young impressionable kids. Wasting time and life away watching others play is something I just cannot comprehend.

I've been programming for 20 years... I've come across very few programmers who have decent business/financial skills over this time period.

I'm sorry I want more for my kids than them being a car mechanic. Nothing wrong if that ends up happening, but I'm not going to teach them to fix cars at 10 with the intention of them being a mechanic growing up.

I have nothing against knowing how to code, but no 10 year old needs to be doing that, just going to make them even more used to a sedentary lifestyle and away from (real) social interaction.

My issue is not with the act of programming, just as I don't have an issue with the act of writing something on a paper.

The issue is that the parents are doing this in order to set the kids up to a career in programming, which IMO is going to be the blue collar work of their future. There is no glory in being a code monkey 10 years from now... just a decently paid blue collar worker making someone else rich.

Teach them the business skills that will enable them to properly hire and evaluate 20 programmers for their business venture, not simply be one of those 20 programmers.

I don't understand what drives parents to want their kids to become code monkeys. I would rather my kids be financially savvy and have business skills. It sure doesn't hurt to know how to code, but getting them to program in Python from age 10 does not make them entrepreneurs or creators of business opportunities, it just makes them the labor workers of tomorrow.

I know for a fact Godaddy used to do this, I don't know if they still do (but would assume so). If you searched for domains and/or added them to the cart but did not purchase right away, they had their little known team of reviewers that constantly checked the list of all domains people were interested in purchasing. The ones that were deemed valuable were registered by an affiliated entity and offered in their auctions. My source for this information is a person who used to work there.

From my observation, definitely. They lack social skills, common sense, empathy, have little tolerance for idle/down time, and are physically (and emotionally) weaker and often have excess weight. Their maturity level is also lower and they stress easily due to not having a healthy amount of coping skills for real life scenarios.

It's funny, sometimes we think our kids have TOO much freedom. They are in a montessori school, so right off the bat they have much more freedom than most kids in a standard school in terms of what they learn and choices throughout the school day. Then at home they are free to explore and take part in anything that interests them. We don't limit the activities because of money - they are in soccer, theater, gymnastics, hocky, rock climbing, painting, and more. When they're not glued to a screen - they have so much free time.

We're lucky enough to have friends that pretty much have a similar parenting style, so it's not an issue, but yes, some kids that come to our house are "bored" because we don't have a screen or video games or any of that. They (the other kids) don't know how to be a kid anymore (in terms of playing outside, playing board games, etc.), which stresses them out. It's quite sad actually.

And yes, they get plenty of downtime. We don't force any activity on them or force them to be "productive". Anything really that they do is more productive than playing a video game - even sitting in the backyard staring at the sky.

It all comes from the home.

For example, as parents we make every effort not to be on our phones around the kids. Some kids truly believe they are competing with a mobile device for their parents' attention, it's quite sad.

Second, we just do fun stuff. Over time they just developed the innate desire to be active and not be dumbed down by screen time. It's just nature. Why would a kid prefer to sit on a couch and stare at an iPad when they can run wild in the backyard or be active as a gymnist or at theater? Screen zombie is a learned behavior, I feel like it is usually a result of uninvolved parents.

Lastly, just don't have the screens at home. We don't have a TV. How is my kid going to be addicted to a TV without... hmm, a TV? Same goes for other screens.

Start young... our kids also eat healthy. At this point they know to politely refuse unhealthy snacks, candy, etc. at playdates and other social events. They know they're not really missing out on much. When they do "splurge" and eat crap, they feel like crap. Our kids are very in tune with their bodies, physical and mental state. Just because other kids play Fortnite, do I need to give in as a parent? No. Same goes for dietary restrictions and other choices parents have.

Are you a parent? It's quite easy to identify screen zombies at any social gathering, be it birthday parties, class school events, etc.

I think the negative reaction to my comment is out of parental guilt.