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As for the meaning, yes, everything/nothing. Your blog is about everything and nothing. Seinfeld is "a show about nothing."

I had an e/n site in the mid to late 90s with some popularity. I think StileProject probably coined the term. There was a whole group of people who were "internet famous" at the time whose names have been forgotten but I see "derivative work" every day.

At 37 and having suffered some truly bad burn out between 33 and 36 I think your view is being colored by your current employment. Lots of places treat code and programmers as a commodity. As soon as one burns out, replace with another. Those are just shitty places to work. What you're describing feels very familiar.

Or even that their interests and yours are even remotely aligned.

They sell you a widget/service. That's where your relationship ends.

That really seems like wishing.

In an ideal world you'd want Youtube's (Google's) legal teams working for you, protecting you against DMCA abuses and alike... but they don't. Not unless you're a top-tier YouTuber and even then it's laughable dice roll as to whether they feel the bad press is worth their time to do anything.

And I don't believe from a bottom-line perspective the shareholders believe it's worth their time to do anything more than provide a platform (no matter how problematic) and market it.

Will Cloudflare do everything they can to keep your content accessible? Sure. Anything above and beyond that? lol. Good luck with that...

Yes! Left me make my own bad life decisions and get out of my way.

Nothing makes me immediately dismiss a site or piece of software faster than nannying me, especially from go.

Your bottleneck should probably be managing your requests, not saving the document/assets. I'm dismissive that language speed is non-negligible in scrapping. Rate limiting and being smart about how you're fetching data should probably be your concern. ... sure, if you don't mind slamming a server with concurrent requests, your language choice might start to matter if your IP isn't blocked first.

FB, despite their acquisitions to stay relevant, will follow Friendster, MySpace, and the others. Something will come along to knock them off their perch.

I left FB (and social media in general) 4-5 years ago. I haven't missed any of it. My hope is that people will start swinging away from the frivolous noise of most social media. It provides a valuable service but the vast majority of it is garbage.

That said, like the other comments suggest, you're crazy early in your path. Adjust expectations and reality accordingly.

I've been building things for the web since 1995. I feel you-I started rolling my eyes about 5-6 years ago with all the JS fatique (I love js but the community has become tiresome when you've been in it long enough) I left frontend (as much as I could) and moved into the back. At first still basically building crud apps. I've moved into and out of GIS a couple times and found it an actually interesting problem area. You might consider taking your dev skill set into GIS. My only warning is that GIS is an enterprise ecosystem so it definitely feels like sand in my crotch given my personal preference for simple/oss.

I don't know why people have down voted you. It's not as if the US government has a history of accessibility and transparency.

Call a spade a spade.

That was Habbo Hotel. Was that shenanigan used at CP too?

>most people are now using py3

Citation? Still feels about 50/50 to me and even that number feels a little generous to Py3.

Theaters can't die soon enough. They have all the charm of public transit but with laughable pricing.

I can see the clunky from Jira seeping into Trello over time. Especially if some of the devs weren't part of a package deal.

I like Jira but I understand why others aren't fond of it. I'd argue it completely depends on how you configure/use Jira. Administering it is annoying regardless though.

Neat but this is underwhelming considering who it is with his resources. I've seen dozens of setups like this from random nobody developers over the past 10 years or so.

One-off home brew projects like this are neat but until someone creates and releases a good, extensible foundation to build on top of, meh... And even then it would probably be terrible because they would try to spin it into some business effort (which hackers will avoid b/c they don't want to be glued to someone else's product) instead of an earnest open source effort.

In short, I'm suggesting let them think you are considering legal action.

It's surely not worth the expense (money, time, energy) but at least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you made a number of people scramble and she will now have a scrutinizing eye on her.

This job is just a stepping stone to somewhere better.

First, I would ask an impartial third party if you're right or being over sensitive. Not that I'm suggestion you are... you just want that sanity check before you move forward.

I would not be afraid. I would have a direct, civil (but still with a "I'm not fucking around here" tone) and tell them you don't appreciate it. Have a list of examples, ideally with dates, you can point to.

If at the end of that conversation you feel things are not going to improve, I would immediately start A) looking for employment elsewhere and B) getting materials together to burn her. Will she get fired? From your story, probably not. Can you make her life and those above her painful for a while? Yes, and you should. Set that fire on your way out the door. From my stance, everyone impacted will deserve what's coming even if it's just some extra stress.

You'll be doing nothing wrong. It's a standard grievance that, at least in the states, is potentially legally actionable. Even if a company has the money and lawyers to deal with EO complaints and alike, they do not want to deal with that! And, again in the US, they put themselves in another potentially actionable place by communicating with potential future employers.

As long as your complaints are valid, what do you have to worry about? Just tell prospective employers that you gave the position 6 months but wasn't happy there and are looking for opportunities to continue learning.

Sure but every jump is opportunity cost. The older you get the harder it's going to be to pick up yet another language with its own ecosystem, tool chains, frameworks, the works.

Are you always picking up new skills or perspectives by doing that? Sure. Do you still have to be stingy with your resources (time, energy, interest)? Absolutely.

It's a nice notion but are we going to see an exodus from Google? Facebook? Apple?

I left Google and Facebook but me and the other 3000 people don't actually matter. You'll never get a non-negligible number of people to forsake their comfort zone for anything so trivial as rights, privacy, etc.

>Marissa Meyer should be deeply ashamed of herself.

Fixed that for you.

But they have all the facilities to do it in their own.

I'd say if you believe there are any real checks or balances to the NSA's power you're naive.

Spend N years getting to be proficient in a technology. N+1 years later most have abandoned that tech. Do you jump techs or go into management?

I assume that's what he/she means.

I hear a lot of hiring horror stories. Perhaps it's because my career has been on the East Coast, or because I only apply to places I'm generally interested in and have researched/stalked (vice a shotgun approach) but I've never suffered any hiring silliness. Maybe I'm just lucky? I'm 37 now.

I generally assume the absurd hiring practices are either large companies that have become institutionalized and thus have terrible processes free from the scrutiny of sanity (Google, etc) or are small companies that don't really know what they are doing or need. Both sound like terrible places to work.

When I was younger I'd apply regardless. Now, I won't even bother without a minimum being listed.

I'm far enough in my career that I won't allow my time to be wasted. And if you're hiding your pay scale, you're wasting my time.

What's with him and birds? Let's not address why I had this saved though: http://imgur.com/a/iGMmb

Yes. Also, there absolutely are all three functions. I don't know what the hell he's on about. https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html

Or when you lose one. Or when one falls out and someone steps on it. Etc.

It hadn't occurred to me to look at CoC as cargo culting but the more I think about it, the more it seems to fit.

Is 'developer evangelist' just the term for a sales rep who makes their personal crusade everyone's problem? Seems as much.

Also, a terrible title. It induces eye rolling as much as rockstar or ninja.