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Chromebooks seem to be the standard nowadays. At least that is what are issued by the school around here (Midwest US).

My first thought is that if someone can't afford a computer, wouldn't they prefer to have a "lesser" computer and have the remaining difference in cash or necessities?

Maybe the donors are a little out of touch with what their recipients need. I'm sure they are appreciative of the computer, but there could be more impactful use of that money.

Also radon remediation has become more prevalent

More anecdata: I'm working with a customer right now who will be moving all their apps off Rackspace to one of the big cloud providers later this year (work is underway currently).

Wow, thanks. I just realized, I misinterpreted your comment as a sarcastic criticism of HN, when it was not.

No, I get it.

I just don’t let a company off the hook because there is an intermediary between them and me.

At some level, Honda pays money to have ads shown and either approve of, or don’t care about, how it is displayed. Either way is bad in my opinion and leaves me with a negative impression of their brand.

I don't understand.

HN is simply rendering a link. This is different than many online ads, which make a call to some remote server which returns the ad content (and presumably tracks you without consent).

There is not a third party serving the content for the HN portfolio company hiring link, so no GDPR violation, right?

Help me understand the problem.

> You aren't the customer

I guess they are trying hard to keep it that way.

I do buy vehicles from time-to-time though, so I think I am a potential customer.

So depending on the manufacturer, one of these:

* Double press the button (like double-click)

* Long press the button

* Press the button 5 times really fast.

The article says this is in Japan, but would these not work anywhere?

Also, the Honda CR-V ad on this page (on mobile at least) is a new kind of annoying that I hope doesn't catch on, where it "frames" the web page, occluding the text you're trying to read. It sort of reminds me of dot-com era ad tactics, where no amount of annoying your customers is off-limits.

Would you ask this of a woman?

Why do you assume there is something wrong with OP's appearance, and that it is OP's fault if someone doesn't like how he looks? Because he is a man?

Yeah, the mere presence of unit tests is not enough. It has to actually assert something useful.

When I code review, I try to make sure I call out "fake tests".

Have you considered contribution to an open source project on GitHub? Then in your interview, when your lack of experience comes up, you can point to your open source experience.

Next, consider getting a certification or two. For someone with no experience or formal education in development, it can help.

Finally, if you're losing out to more experienced candidates, then maybe consider applying to true entry-level jobs to get your foot in the door, where experience is not required.

Unit testing and using dependency injection to write test-able code.

I'm not sure if it was years, but it wasn't immediate. I just didn't understand why dependency injection was good at first, and not just someone's weird personal code style choice.

I thought it was just people being "Enterprisey" which I'd encountered many times over the years.

Once I committed to unit testing, I realized how necessary it is.

Unfortunately I still encounter customers who haven't bought into it and as a result have untestable code. It's so hard to go back and retrofit testing.

Not sure if it is a resolution, or maybe just some "New Years Cleaning", but I'm trying to curate my social media feeds a little more.

I have already done of good job of eliminating the toxic depressing people in years past, so that is not the problem.

But I now realize there is another type of person who affects how I feel in a negative way: the super-successful advice peddler.

I have recently unfollowed a handful of people on Twitter and LinkedIn who seem perfectly nice, yet give too much advice, or are always acting like they are trying to help me achieve their same level of success.

It feels good so far. It reset my mind so that I can focus on just being myself and forging my own path without worrying about what other people are doing or how I'm not as successful as so-and-so.

So I guess my New Years Resolution is to carry that forward. Do not consume content from people who humble-brag in the form of success advice.

I'm actually playing that right now on PC.

I never played it before and was looking for some cheap, fun RPG games.

I finished Baldurs Gate I a couple weeks ago and then moved on to II.

Your inability to afford a Lamborghini or fear of crashing it doesn't make it less valuable.

I get what you're saying. I don't drive, nor do I want, a Lamborghini, but that fact does not reduce its value.

Agreed culture is important, but no amount of culture can make up for a lack of IT investment.

Is it possible for a company to be too culture-focused though, where they are so enamored with how great their culture is that they neglect other important aspects of their business?

I also wonder how often a company has a "good" culture overall, but it doesn't extend to IT. With outsourcing, I think you can see that happening, and the rest of the non-IT workers can be oblivious to it.

> Therefore the Toyota is better.

I didn't say Lamborghini were better, just that they are more valuable.

Are you saying a Toyota is more valuable?

I would like to buy a Lamborghini from you.

One starving child does not determine the global value of biscuits.

This title is click-bait.

Despite that, I'm not convinced that SQL syntax sucks, and certainly not convinced by the specific rollup example in the blog post.

Personally, I find SQL easy to understand and flexible enough to achieve any result.

I haven't heard of Malloy before today, but to me the syntax just seems... different, not better. Maybe for someone who hasn't learned SQL yet, it would be better? I don't know, but have my doubts about that.

I'm not trying to say Malloy is bad (I haven't used it!), just that coming in with "SQL syntax sucks" seems like not a winning approach.

> Culture is far more important than IT

Is it though?

I'm not saying culture is unimportant, but IT seems pretty damn important to them right now, given the situation, which culture didn't prevent and won't fix.

More people drive Toyotas than Lamborghinis. So Toyotas are more valuable?

Yes, it's about as useless as relying on Amazon reviews.

Affiliate marketing and SEO optimization have pretty much destroyed the usefulness of searching for product reviews.

I usually just add "reddit" to the end of whatever I'm searching. It's the only way to read what real, mostly-unincentivized people think about something.

I wish Google had a way to "downvote" results. Sure they would have to mitigate artificial manipulation, but what they have currently doesn't work well.

How cash strapped?

Personally, I would just use something managed like AWS's RDS for PostgreSQL

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

Then you don't need to worry too much about administrative tasks. As a bonus, you can start out small and easily scale as you grow, versus self-managed.

It doesn't have to be AWS. You can find similar offerings from pretty much any cloud provider.

1. We will learn that one or more traditional banks have taken on cryptocurrency exposure and will need to be bailed out to prevent another financial crisis.

2. Politicians will introduce legislation to regulate AI, with the initial focus on copyright protection, but it will be defeated. Court cases are brought against companies for training ML using copyrighted data, setting up an eventual supreme court battle in coming years.

3. AI will drive advancements in medical treatments, especially in pharmaceuticals and personalized medicine. While this has already been happening to some extent, the recent interest in AI will cause an increased investment of money and resources to companies working in this space.

4. Year of Linux desktop!

5. Remote work will end for many, due to the recession making employers feel more powerful to enforce back-to-office, for which which many middle managers will advocate. Companies who have thrived with a remote culture will remain that way, but those who have struggled will "force" employees back to their offices full time.

I haven't seen what you're talking about here on HN.

My impression is that a lot of people here, including myself, have been taking sort of a wait-and-see approach to Twitter, to avoid overreacting.

Are you misinterpreting that as being "Elon orthodoxy" as you called it?

Sort of.

Each of those have their own k8s implementation.

It's a standard way to define and run container workloads (jobs, services, etc) and related resources like storage, configs, secrets, etc.

Of course 50 is not too old as long as you have a growth mindset.

But you already had a software company and it "fizzled out" and you got burned out.

So more importantly, have you learned anything from that, and how will you do things differently this time? (That's a rhetorical question for you to ask yourself)

> [1]: please just forgive this term as a stand in for the personality traits that express in people with sufficient testosterone and success as defined by the society

What a world we live in, where people have to apologize for using the correct word to describe something.

> a lot more work than just contributing a patch.

For you it is.

But for a maintainer, reviewing and accepting a pull request can still be a lot of work, especially if the code has been stable for a long time.

This is a great point, but if true, Apple should do a better job of communicating the reason, including specifics, not just say "your app is rejected because it is outdated".