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What a horrible thing to happen to you and your family. </3

Assuming you aren't one of the very few people on earth that make those decisions (made obvious by your choice of phone earlier), then saying your pet theory is real and obvious.. is unhelpful. I would posit (as the most profitable company on earth) that the reason Apple makes iPhones they way they do is simply because they sell better to normal consumers.

If you carry a phone based on which explosive gasses it can operate near, you are an extreme outlier when it comes to consumer behavior. Perhaps the things that are "real and obvious" to you.. aren't.

"Advertising doesn't work on me!"

If this is true, congrats. You are the .000001%. It works on people really well in the broad scope. It makes them gobs and gobs of money.

Isn't this usually thought of as a disadvantage? E.g. You have to buy more glass ($$) to get smaller mm equivalents?

They also all three share the trait of not caring at all what we hacker newsers think :D There just aren't enough of us.

Interesting explanation, thanks!

Seems like 1k is well beyond the state of usefulness for most people. Isn't it faster to re-google something than find the tab? And if there is a nice tab search.. is it better than google? Why keep a local cache?

A horse can't change their circumstances the way humans can. A horse can't learn to provide different value. It can only be a horse.

Please forgive my ignorance, is this based solely on the united states election?

y’all do remote ?

Is there a precedent of something like this ever happening? Seems like an enormous leap, but who doesn't love an underdog? :)

Committing to iOS 13 is a lot easier than SwiftUI in entirety.

Put in fake data and move on with your life?

I think we agree!

I totally agree that it's possible for people to produce a ton more value than others. I just think it's super rare.

In my experience it's a lot more common that I see people churning out 10x the AMOUNT of code (or some other insane metric) which generates an enormous amount of work for everyone else to keep up with, fix, maintain, understand, etc. These people are praised for their output. But are they making the TEAM 10x more productive? No way.

Prolific output doesn't always mean 10x value created. I know people know this, but I think the reason people are sick of the trope is because they've been burned by a "10x'er" that was all output, not actual value.

Producing 10x value is actually.. really, really hard.

Is it time? Absolutely, yes. Will it die? Unfortunately, never.

how about, "I've had all the alcohol I want tonight, that's for sure!"

Would be interested if remote!

very cool, thanks for putting in the work to share!

After reading the article I'm not sure, but.. it seems reasonable to assume that you can do both. Inline and separate files. The same way TypeScript does it.

Hopefully, anyway!

Ruby was invented? :)

There are a row of numbers at the top of the keyboard, don't need two sets.

Checkout `DevToolsSecurity` on the command line. Could help with d. :)

Yes, and! Things are often less black and white than this. The more I dig into what I think I want, the more influences I find. I want to impress my parents, I want to provide a super safe and comfortable life for my partner, I want people to notice the company I work for and smile and think I'm smart. As I take the time to pull those things apart, and wow does it take time, the call to teach and write is quieter but maybe truer? I don't know. I have to test it out.

TL;DR I think disinterest is driven by a combination of capability and soul AND (sometimes very loud) outside influences.

I definitely should have clarified my statement further as I agree with yours and you seem to disagree with mine. Let's go with yours.

"... programming for the sake of programming is a fast way to get bored or to burn out."

That's exactly right.

I appreciate this insight so much. I'm in the thick of working through the feelings of failure that are associated with an honest preference. There is a voice in my head that says "you're a failure" or "you just can't hack it" when I honestly just don't have the preference to keep learning in that direction.

Someone else in this thread mentioned therapy and that has helped me immensely in this pursuit but.. It also helps to relate to other people in the same situation.

May we all feel some peace!

It's possible, though I don't know you, that you're too smart to be a programmer.

And maybe "programmer" is the problem. Be a _____ who can also code. Zed Shaw said it best in the final pages of learn python the hard way. Programming as a career is rarely fulfilling to anyone. But being a teacher/doctor/librarian/entrepreneur/warehouse worker/farmer/etc. that can code is a super power.

I'm basically talking to myself with this pep talk so I appreciate you bringing it up but.. let's both go find the thing that we like and apply programming to that thing!

You're a great writer, thanks for the account!

which emoji? :)

This is so true and so sad. It was so good!