colmvp

I don't disagree, but "clearly communicated and well structured" seem to be a very difficult standard for design teams.

I work with designers both internally at my company and designers from listed companies who provide us designers and so often they fall into the trap of designing something that looks great when everything is perfect (i.e. headlines are reasonable, photos are beautiful, content neatly wraps the container) and then fall short when reality hits, i.e. the photos the client wants to use is very visually unimpressive, headlines are much more lengthy than the design accounted for and can't be cut because of legal/marketing reasons, some entries don't have all fields...

Invariably it's often me who fixes their shortcomings. They are fortunate that I have a lot of design experience so I know how to improvise on the fly. But really, it shouldn't have gotten to this point, it's trivial to study the true type of content a site or app is going to use, and make the design resilient to the type of variations that are likely to occur given the type of content.

How does this relate to grid breaking? Well a lot of these same designers don't care for systems and this is just a symptom of that. Might as well throw out that style guide they gave me because they aren't even following their own rules, be it the grid they provided, the specific font sizes they use, spacing, etc.

The people I see the most who want to break the grid are the people it's supposed to be helping: designers, not developers.

I've spent years wearing both shoes. As a designer, sometimes designs felt like they were too boring when everything fit cleanly in the grid. So I would break it to please my CDs who wanted to win awards and woo a client.

When I moved into front end development... holy fuck did I ever hate it when designers would send designs with super custom sections that broke the grid. Great, more CSS that we're probably not going to re-use anywhere else.

Personally I don't find wide sq. footage to be super necessary. My unit is less than a third of your space, and even then on a day-to-day basis I really only use half of that (home office, living room, kitchen).

I grew up in a giant house and spent most of my time in my bedroom / living room.

I will admit it helps to have a nice view and peace and quiet.

> Physical attractiveness is also never a bad thing in the world of streaming.

That's life in general. Even at my company when choosing photos of people to profile to for recruitment posts on LinkedIn, it's pretty clear they lean towards attractive people.

I also notice that with Company Profile page, where who they show is not really indicative of who comprises the company.

I'm not even sure there is a solution.

Anecdotally, a lot of my friends either chose not to have kids even though they were financially able to do so, or 'only' had one kid later in life after they checked a bunch of life goals off their list. And of course there's a segment of friends who never found anyone to partner with.

Furthermore, it feels like the checklist in what people are looking for in a life partner is more complicated now than ever, which can increase the amount of time it takes for a person to find a partner to have a child with. I assume that's a good thing as it may reduce the likelihood of divorce by resulting in a more ideal match, but it potentially comes at a cost of spending TONS of time filtering via messaging, dates, etc. It took me a whopping five years before meeting someone online that actually felt like something with a real future.

From another article (since I wasn't caught up to the affairs of the Netherlands):

> Crime reporter de Vries acted as a spokesperson and non-legal advisor for crown witness Nabil B. who is testifying against Ridouan Taghi, the alleged mastermind of the Amsterdam-based group which is seen as one of the Netherlands' largest cocaine distributors.

> Two people close to Nabil B. are already dead, allegedly murdered by Taghi's associates. In 2018, Nabil B.'s brother was murdered in broad daylight in Amsterdam and in 2019 his lawyer Derk Wiersum was gunned down outside his home.

> De Vries' work exposing the underworld has resulted in repeated death threats. Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, where de Vries started his career, says he investigated more than 500 murders. In 2019, the journalist said he was on Taghi's hitlist.

I think that's fair as consumers will certainly pose the same question.

Is the y relevant? Sort is in place and without a comparator function, it's going to convert the numbers to strings, so the array will remain the same.

If the question is about const, const with Arrays/Objects are by reference rather than value, nothing is stopping them from being modified later in the code.

Honestly, Covid-19 showed me there are 'friends' and there are friends. It changed my perspective of some of my friendships.

I had some 'friends' who I knew for 10+ years who couldn't spare a single minute over the past 1.5 years to go for a walk or have a coffee outside. As someone who was there for them at various points in life, all I could think of was "really, you know I live alone and don't have an SO like you do, did it seriously never cross your mind how lonely it's been for me?" Unless I made the umpteenth trip to visit him/her, they would make zero effort.

I also had friends including those who just had newborns who made the time every single week to jump on a zoom call just to say hi and to keep each others spirits up.

I probably won't let it destroy the friendships because what is 1.5 years compared to 10+, but at the same time, I'd be lying if I said it was easy to forget.

I found a good match via online dating recently, but only after about half a decade of usage. I honestly cannot stand online dating. In all my years real-life dating, online dating had substantially worse experiences.

Last winter on a 'Zoom date' one match multi-tasked while I was trying to talk with her. She was literally shopping.

Another 'left the chat' after I said I wasn't a property developer, I was a software developer. I hesitate to even mention this because it practically reveals my identity to friends who know that story.

I've met women who chatted for a while, and setup a date, only to finally reveal at the 11th hour that they are seeing someone. Sorry! I've also met women who used very, very misleading photographs in their profiles.

I've had 'matches' who return curt answers to very simple conversational questions, as if how dare you attempt to grace their presence with your messages. I'd take a non-reply over that sort of signal. I would not be texting them in the first place if they hadn't also swiped right on me.

My real life experiences dating someone from Meetup/College/Work had substantially more honesty and humanity. In online dating, I truly feel there's a loss of treating others like human beings instead of a disposable item. And to be fair, I am guilty of that sin as well.

But for all the talk I've heard from my female friends about how guys are awful on online dating (and I believe it), I can assure you that it's not any easier on this side.

Kind of a strange wording of the submitted headline, at first glance I thought it meant that Amazon was moving against work-from-home, whereas the articles explains they're going against their initial direction of forcing workers back into the office.

> Which leads me to think it must be really lonely being a single women over 50

On the other hand, if they were a woman who dated an older man, they certainly didn't care about 'taking away' (for lack of a better term) that opportunity from a woman closer to his age. Younger guys are at a disadvantage due to lack of status/maturity and nobody sheds a tear when they go through long periods of bachelorhood without luck.

As a short guy, I chuckled at being grouped with dumb guys, and guys with terrible hygiene lol

You're not wrong though, both men and women love to make fun of a short guys.

Yup, and that's why it's practically impossible to talk about in real life. All they do is push people who experience this into the darkest places of the internet.

Their beliefs that all you have to do is try harder belong in /r/thanksimcured

Some of my best friends are women and have been there for me in ways that my other guy friends certainly haven't during bouts of loneliness during times of lockdowns.

But perhaps it is different when it comes to partners.

I was very physically fit when I started online dating.

The reality is that there are a number of variables you really can't change, at least without surgery which I realize is done in places like South Korea.

You can't completely change your face structure, male pattern baldness, ethnicity, or height.

The funny thing some of the observations described in the post is so true despite being 10+ years old.

When I first started online dating five years ago, I put in a ton of effort in my replies/messages, except I rarely got any replies. That was pretty sobering.

I still put effort in my replies/messages, but I got used to just one or two sentences rather than an actual paragraph.

A good female friend of mine complains about how guys in online dating can barely hold a conversation. I have said to her, you have no idea how many messages your average or below-average (in terms of physical attractiveness) male has to send to get a date, let alone a response in the first place.

It's not uncommon for people to live with parents when they can so that they can save enough money for their future.

By the time my cousin got married, he was in his 30s and had lived at home all his life. He bought a condo immediately with his savings for him and his wife to move into.

My best friend lived at home until he paid off his student loans after which he saved enough for a down payment for a condo.

My other friend lived at home till her 30s, when she got married and moved in with her husband.

My other best friend is living at an apartment with his parents, and has a steady girlfriend as well as thriving businesses.

For some people I don't doubt living at home with your parents would be awful for development, but there's so many ways to live life that I would never generalize the outcomes without fully considering the circumstances.

> I'm not convinced that authorities were lying about masks. The actual situation was kind of complex back then, and certainly prone to oversimplification, but that is still very different from actual deception.

I tend to agree.

My reasoning, at least for Canada last year, was we were following the WHO advice with respect to Influenza. I say this because Dr. Tam is part of the WHO, cited the organization numerous times throughout Q1 2020, and I've read the recommendations document which was published before Covid-19. The document did not recommend mask usage or border restrictions until a situation got out of hand, mostly due to a sparseness of studies suggesting the efficacy of masks.

Of course, IMO the major flaw was they assumed Covid-19 was like the flu. We in Canada should've looked to Asia who experienced SARS with us and follow suit with their rapid strategy rather than assuming we had Western exceptionalism and that it wouldn't come across the ocean.

Hear hear.

For me at least it's been a vice for decades. First it was discussion/gaming forums, then it was Fark, then Digg, and then Reddit.

It's just as detrimental as being addicted to alcohol/drugs/games to distract you from life. In controlled doses it's okay but when it starts to take over an entire day or periods of a day/week from doing other things that could be giving your mind/body some life, that's when you really have to check in and ask yourself is this worth it?

Yup, precisely.

Within minutes of his death breaking the news, someone in the comment posted on HN about this enablement. I had skepticism but it also felt way too specific and out of nowhere for me to think they were lying. It was heartbreaking to eventually realize it was indeed the truth.

> A survey late last year of 9,000 knowledge workers commissioned by workplace chat software company Slack found 20% want to work remotely, 17% in the office and 63% a mix of the two.

That's pretty much where I'm at. I like the idea of hopping into the office maybe once or twice a week to interact with my co-workers, but otherwise I'm extremely productive at home especially without having to endure the 1-2 hours commute.

I joined a company last last year and they moved to this hybrid model once they found there was practically no efficiency loss with respect to moving everyone to remote. But some people still missed going into the office so they re-opened their physical offices albeit at limited capacity.

I had to accept a huge volume of rejection, both doing in job applications (hundreds of applications) and online dating (thousands). All the while being alone during Covid-19.

My advice to those who might be reading is to find a mentor or best friend who you can update on your progress on a semi-regular basis. Those people helped me so much to remain positive and upbeat during the really disappointing moments of 2020. They can also give feedback on your approaches.

The other tip is to accept it's going to feel terrible, but to let the disappointment that you feel flow through you to help move on.

Thinking you're fucked is unhelpful, but it's pretty normal to go full Alien Hudson in a dire situation and need someone else to assure you that things will be okay.

Yeah it's super competitive for entry level jobs. I live in a city with a lot of tech workers and it's not uncommon for entry level development jobs to have hundreds of applicants within a day or so.

I suck at actual technical interviews due to anxiety, but I score exceptionally well with take home tests so thankfully I was able to land a job.

I was just talking to a good friend of mine about how the lockdown and Covid-19 really revealed the people who are friends of convenience vs. the friends who will take the extra effort (e.g. will go for walks, or join Zoom chats) no matter the cost.

Yes. FWIW, I've been in the recent position of not making it past multiple rounds with top tier companies. And of course, it hurts to get rejected.

A mentor of mine essentially said to me it's not personal, think of how much each of those engineers are making and how much it costs to interview you. If you didn't leave a great impression (and I fully admit that I wasn't on my game), it's cheaper to move on. A bad hire is very costly in terms of money/time/energy.

At the end of the day, there's other opportunities. Plus, there's nothing that says given more time improving oneself, one can't land the opportunity they were looking for.

Woah, so weird to use a site that doesn't have dozens of Javascript dependencies to render a page. Loads so fast!

Just to chime in here with the love for VLC, it's very rare for me to continually use the same program for years while it gets updates, doesn't lag my computer, and just works.