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Title is slightly ambiguous. For those that assumed like me, this isn't saying that being on call is working well. It is saying "being on call should be considered working time".

Can confirm, I got a brand new still-shrink-wrapped copy of FFIX for my birthday just a few years ago.

Algorithms? yes, basic algorithms and sorting and Big O, none of which I've needed in 10 years of professional and hobby dev work. But to say "well you learned data structures and you use hashmaps and arrays so obviously it helped" is a very strange defense of academia. I can also learn "datastructures" online in a few days of studying as a new dev, so that's not really a good defense of 4 years of study.

I studied CS for 4 years and have used exactly none of it since leaving college. Our devs all help with hiring and agree as a 20-person team that academic "experience" means almost nothing unless you have no other job experience. How little academia prepares you for anything in real software engineering has become a cultural meme.

It's too late to stop, but it's not too late to vote with your wallet and feet and stop supporting businesses who feel the needs to betray your privacy like this just because it was buried in a TOS that they know nobody read.

The "What are you still doing here? It's over! Go home!" part. :D

Interesting, I've never had that issue on the browser. I HAVE noticed that if you open the plugin before the page finishes loading, it will error trying to fill the fields. In those cases I tend to just close the plugin and reopen it and it seems to work fine for me.

No idea if your experience has been different, just a thought!

I do not have an iPhone so I am not sure, sorry!

It does, but I have yet to need it. I use the browser plugin for everything. If a desktop app needs a password, I just open the FF plugin and copy the password myself haha.

Highly recommend trying BitWarden! I'm a paying user of it myself. It also has export of data and full self-hosted options as well. The browser plugins work amazingly well. The phone app is...i would say 75-80%. I've had trouble sometimes getting it to popup the "auto-fill" but otherwise it works very slick (supporting biometric unlock too).

The part that stuck out to me was the thick border with _corner sections_ on each window. On all 3 operating systems (although less so on Windows) I have struggled to find the 1-3 pixel tiny window that allows me to manually resize a window so many times it's unbelievably frustrating. Having that massive target to grab makes me very wistful. I would happily give up 10ish pixels of screen real-estate on each side of my windows to never have to deal with that struggle again.

Neanderthals had bigger craniums than homo sapiens (and thus bigger brains), so it does indeed seem like size isn't the biggest factor. Granted, that size difference is much smaller than elephant vs giraffe haha.

As someone who owns an iPad, airpods, and a MBP (just to state some non-apple-hater credentials) I was just commenting yesterday to someone that despite owning all 3 of these products I have no way to plug in either of the first two into the third one. I have zero cords that connect them because of decisions that have been made about them. And despite them being on the same "ecosystem" I have never needed any kind of syncing or wireless connection between my iPad and my MBP. I wish Apple would focus more on strengthening the quality of their PRODUCTS rather than their "ecosystem".

I have a Subaru with assistive braking (EyeSight) and it does the exact same thing on a very specific off ramp. My best guess was that it's detecting the big yellow "turn" sign right before the loop. It's about big enough to be the back of a car to the primitive detection.

That's not a solution for you, just thought I would share commiseration. Your experience with it is slightly worse than mine has been but I leave mine on for the exact same reason.

First off, I did read it, so a TLDR isn't needed. Second, sure that's his claim, but I'm challenging the premise. If your premise is faulty, then what follows is questionable and not proven. Pining for the "good old days" and saying how great they were in your memory does not prove anything about today.

I'll save a lot of you a click and a long-ass read here: This entire essay is 1 part "The Good Old Days"...

> In this same period, young people grew increasingly tolerant of social misdemeanours such as habitually failing to keep promises, using profane language, and keeping extra change mistakenly given by a store clerk – minor incivilities by today’s standards, but harbingers of a changing social landscape where the transgression of established norms was starting to become more common and accepted.

...1 part plugging his own book...

> Paul Howe is professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada. He is the author of Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World (2020).

...1 part social/political commentary (Not going to quote the massive section about Trump), and 1 part whining about "kids these days don't want to be cogs in the machine" (Multiple sections about putting "I" before "We".)

In specific to Tesla: they have found that this exact business model works astonishingly well with their customer base, so I can't imagine they'll have any reason to stop without some kind of backlash to their bottom line.

RE: the problem in general, I don't have any specific answer, but this also relates directly to the "Early Access" program that Steam and games in general have, along with the whole "Day 1 DLC" that may or may not be there for you. It's becoming pretty endemic to our society and I do think it's just because _it works incredibly well_ on us.

> That's not how heresy works. People don't point fingers at you and hiss "heretic!"

I mean...yes that's exactly what they did. Excommunication, run out of town, branded, marked, labeled in public, put in stocks, jailed, killed, yelled at, or just straight ostracized. These are all tactics that have been used in the past to label and punish heretical beliefs. They could absolutely still be used and, if you look at "cancel culture" in the right/wrong light, that's exactly what's still happening.

I don't want to just jump in with some negative comment here but let's start with being honest - 95% of this post is about the history of emojis, how to use them, and what they mean. Which is a helluva lot of information about emojis for an article that concludes that they enjoyed NOT using emojis, and doesn't really have any substantive conclusion to make about things or any follow up.

> [..] it is churning the standards so much that its weapon of monopoly is effectively change --- Firefox can barely keep up, and Microsoft already surrendered.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

What's so weird about that is that Android HAS that control. I was making an app for myself recently, and I needed a datepicker too, and I found a widget that is an exact replica of the iOS "spinners".

This comes up often in these discussions but, barring any indigenous lands, there's nothing especially inhospitable about central aus. Las Vegas is in the middle of a damn desert, and Arizona/New Mexico are both extreme climates compared to much of the US but they are still livable and many people actually prefer it. I can't see why this would be any different in Australia...

This is categorically wrong. I have been able to successfully do this for multiple games, the most recent being KSP when an update broke all my add-ons so I downgraded until they all caught up.

That's probably a fair point but...how many internet ad "campaigns" do you remember? Ever? Even if there was tons of garbage we forgot, the fact that we distinctly remember so many means they at least TRIED to be good, and sometimes succeeded. Nowadays its never about being memorable, it's just about getting that 1 single click from you.

>At the Apple Store, they also asked for the password, but when I said no way, the support person was just "ok, no problem".

Can we take a moment to realize how crazy this is? I'm glad they didn't fight you, but the fact that they didn't means that they know in an instant that _they never needed the password in the first place to do what you asked them to_. This means that them asking for the password is them asking you for the private key to your entire personal life for no other reason than "most people will give it to them".

Can confirm as well - I am about to move from the center of a downtown metro into a small town 45min away from the nearest big city, and I was concerned about internet -- turns out my house has gigabit fiber for cheaper than I can find in most big cities (60/mo)

You're going to get a pretty consistent response from HN because as a generalization most employees of a startup tend to join specifically BECAUSE they care. It's a biased sample pool in general.

As someone who has been on both sides of things but leans much more on the side of the fence you're asking from, my take is: they are looking for someone who drinks the Kool aid.

From a pure efficiency standpoint, caring does matter to an extent. With your side projects, you wouldn't spend your voluntary time doing something you don't care about. That excitement translates to more happiness, productivity, and (more cynically) the decent chance you will complain less if they need you to work overtime. You're in it for the MISSION so if the MISSION needs you to work until 8 tonight then you'll be gungho.

So my extremely cynical answer here is: they often care to have leverage to use on you. Is this true everywhere? Nope. But assuming it's true can often net you a sane work life balance. I would just tell you to lie. Do some research on the product or team, maybe learn what their own corporate BS is that they spout for their mission, and parrot it back to them slightly modified during the interview. When you get the job, then you can fake a little along the way but as long as you remain a high performer people will overlook your apparent lack of "excitement" because they don't want to risk losing you.

To my employer: I swear this isn't true for me. :)

- Literally a google search for that + bitcoin gave me the answer

- No

- Another google search for "bitcoin + <your question>"

- "Yes" for literally the rest of the questions.

This wasn't an exam, this was basically an advertisement for "look what cool things you can do with this"

If I got any wrong, whatever. I have literally never researched bitcoin or blockchain. If I got them right, well... nice try on the exam I guess.

Thank you for the clarification dang I hadn't checked again to see that the title changed. Appreciate the help!

David you're probably just getting nonstop flak for this and as the CEO of the "big bad" here just let me say that I feel genuinely bad for you. Whatever conversation you have to have behind the scenes is a truly stupid thing to have to do in this situation. The CDN thing is dumb and maybe arguably not how this should have been done but your team and their work doesn't deserve to be villified for doing basically nothing wrong other than a very simple email miscommunication.

Good luck with this all.