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Exactly this. I've been through what OP described. I eventually resigned this January after a 8 year long abusive career, and decided to freelance with my friend who had already been doing this for years.

Changing your perspective and worrying about yourself as a business is the best thing to do.

They are sort of recommending 100 videos to everyone. In my circle, a lot of people I know have very different interests than me. Yet, whenever I recommend a video to a friend, they often say it was already in their recommendations.

They might be pushing videos or topics that advertisers are more willing to pay for.

Copy the url for the subscription page and add it as a new search engine with a shortcut like "y" if you are using Chrome or a Chrome based browser.

Then you can just go to the address bar and type y + enter.

A fast way of getting to the address bar is CTRL + L (CMD + L on mac).

I hope we will get a good alternative to YouTube. The amount of negative feedback from its audience has been increasing at a very fast pace, and Google doesn't seem to care at all. At this point, I'm thinking they are very deliberately choosing to take this path. For what reason? I don't know. But it seems like Google really don't want people to discover any good content and force users to watch a very select collection of videos. My circle and friends are basically all watching similar content to what I'm watching, and I have almost no common interests with some of them..

I wonder how this will perform when you have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos.

Google's way is getting free software out, gathering as much data as possible, and when they have what they want they shut down the service. That's why none of their services can be trusted.

There's no guarantee that a European company won't do similar things. That's exactly the problem. Technology has to serve the people and not become weapons of governments under which they live.

The green header is very repulsive and distracting. I found it difficult to read the story.

This is great. Thank you.

I think this is a really tricky question.

Everyone searches in a different way and for different things. While I might easily find what I'm looking for on ddg, someone else might not.

I think the main reason why most search engines fail against google is because they haven't yet figured out in depth how and what people search for and what they find.

Google just has a better algorithm finding things. Peiple are happier using Google.

Alphabet has many successful products like Google, I'm aware of that. I'm specifically talking about Google as a search engine.

The company didn't start off making 500 different products when they first launched. Everything started with a search engine and all the other products came afterwards.

People need an alternative to search the web efficiently without using Google.

The thing is, you don't only need an alternative for the alarm app if you want to get rid of GApps.

The hidden costs of apps Google gives you for "free" is probably above $1,000. I guess the majority would give away their privacy for that amount these days.

>Yes, that starts with "leaving it"

You're right, but the percentage of Google users aware of how evil they are is probably less than 0.5%.

An overwhelmingly large percentage of users won't care about what could happen as long as nothing happens directly affecting them. Mass surveillance companies like Google, Facebook know this and take advantage of it.

Technology activists aren't strong enough to start a wave that would lead to people abandoning these evil corps..

Also, as others mentioned, they eat up all competition.. so there aren't really any good options left apart from Google products in areas they compete.

Data visualization is something I'm interested in, but there are really very few positions that look only for that where I will live.

There are many Data Analyst positions, but I'm not sure whether I'd be able to do that because the field probably requires a good foundation in math, something I lack..

I was thinking of starting with a web stack, then progress to become a full stack dev, with the aim of creating and selling niche software for the fields I know some things about in the long run.

I find it really difficult to decide on a path, given all the possible routes and my interest in a lot of areas..

Thanks!

Good luck!

Thanks for the advice.

When should I dive into frameworks? What concepts should I be familiar with apart from the basic building blocks (var, loops, control flows, etc)?

I've thought about this as well, but because I will need a flow of income, I thought acquiring entry level skills for a full time position and gaining experience would be a more ideal start.

Coding around journalism is something I'd want to do, but there aren't as many job openings as there are in other areas.

That sounds great. Congratulations on your success!

Thank you for your response.

1. If I'm completely stuck, I try to get away from the problem for a short while and return to it again, because forcing myself generally doesn't help in solving it faster. I found that this generally works better, at least for me.

2. I'll try this.

3. I'd probably think they either don't know what I've done, or they are very proficient at it.

4. I don't believe that software development will become a less valued skillset. The hype around it might die, but then again I don't really about that. I enjoy tech as an observant consumer who pays attention to detail, and believe that I'd be capable to translate my observations to a new product/tech. What I currently lack to do so is a technical toolset.

How would you evaluate my answers to the questions?

That's not an option for mobile though..

I wouldn't call him a genius, he's quite the opposite.

>why didn't previous presidents think of it

They probably did, but were likely smart enough to figure out that a trade war with the world will trigger a backlash that the US won't be able to handle. The world will seek an alternative to the US dollar, and I think it will happen very soon if Trump continues doing what he does.

Depends on whether you consider Daesh and YPG the owners of Syria. While Europe went crazy not to take in more than a few hundred thousand refugees who were desperately trying to escape death, Erdoğan accepted more than 3 million although many Turks didn't want them. I think the primary thing that counts here is that the lives of the millions of people are now saved.

>the fact that they are wealthy and free are more likely explained by..

I'd add to this the exploitation of resources throughout the world

In the world's current economic situation it pretty much is mostly all about the U.S. and the dollar. Most of the global trade is conducted with the dollar and he can mess up other currencies in a similar way.

I like this. Could you guys add a mode that hides the right and bottom part and only shows the notes? Also, popping up a Markdown cheatsheet via a shortcut would be dope for those who don't use the syntax often.

Why? Percentage seems to make more sense for comparison

Not true. Presenting is part of writing. It's not separate.

The journalist doesn't only write an article, he also structures and plans how the story is going to be presented because that's also part of the job. Hiring another person in-between the article and the journalist is like hiring an extra person to only hammer a nail when there is a construction worker to do that job already.

They develop the underlying technology to let journalists do what they want without needing to hire more employees.