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With nothing to back me up except the general impression I have, these numbers look out-of-whack even for the highest-paying employers in the Bay Area.

Yet they do it anyway.

Bitcoin isn't used for anything except to transfer dollars from regular buyers to miners and/or large early adopters.

I don't have room in my apartment to even learn about building physical objects! I'd love to turn my various Arduino doodads into coherent forms but my workspace is a desktop.

Stack Overflow curates its public-facing content, and so do I, when using real-name accounts. Given a choice between being seen taking shit from someone, investing time in arguing with that person, or just erasing the exchange altogether, the third option is sometimes the most expedient. I don't do it often.

Ideally people would just be polite, and questions could just be answered by anyone who cared to answer them, with low-scoring exchanges de-emphasized instead of being shut down.

I've never had a question closed, but I have had to deal with condescending responses. If I've gotten too much shit on a question, I usually delete it after I've gotten the information I need, rendering the evidence unavailable (even to myself as the poster after a window of time).

> The sixth floor of its low-slung headquarters was redone, with a large section just for executives, including an exercise room.

Building an executive oasis in the office probably counts as some kind of warning sign. Departure from reality.

When it comes to big-money issues like housing, self-interest takes precedence over professed ideology. Ostensibly liberal California not only has rampant NIMBYism, but is also in contention for the most regressive property tax policies on Earth via Proposition 13.

Moreover he's using the large amount of wreckage to argue that the Darwinian process of selecting "category killers" isn't working, which is completely backwards.

If "category killer" is a winner-take-all competition, then there are going to be a vast number of losers, and we do see a vast number of unmaintained projects. It's just that no one is bothering to remove them from view when they're defeated.

Sure, you can do one thing better than two, but that doesn't mean the optimal trade-off is going all-in on one or the other.

If your side-project has a low probability of a high reward, then having a steady paycheck from a job is a good floor to have under you, if you're not floating around on a cushion of wealth. The author closes with "I hope you have what it takes to commit and become a real entrepreneur" but the reality is "what it takes" is to a large extent money. If you don't have it, you need to get it from your day job.

This is exactly why I rent my dwelling and drive an inconspicuous car.

If he, as an employer and entrepreneur, feels he's not getting his money's worth out of an employee, he should just fire that employee. If he is getting his money's worth, he should stop complaining.

But trying to get more effort for the same money by anathematizing side projects breaks encapsulation on the employee/employer relationship. It's obnoxious and involves matters that are (literally) none of his business (at least in California).

Wow that was exactly what I hoped existed! I especially liked the one where you end up beneath reality, hurtling sideways past yourself into a never-ending void.

I don't play video games, but if someone created one that was entirely glitches like this, I might start.

Taking your hyperbole at face value for a moment, at least whoever put the true item in there will be allowed to do so, instead of needing approval.

> This same tutorial cites pip-tools, hatch, poetry. Does that mean that they “endorse” these tools as well?

Those tools are relegated to a small section at the end, whereas the main body of the text says "Pipenv is recommended for collaborative projects..."

I'd say that counts as a specific endorsement of Pipenv. I guess it's an endorsement by the "Python Packaging Authority" rather than "Python Core" but it's pretty hard for someone at the tutorial-reading level to perceive the difference.

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Interestingly the New Yorker manages to take the edge off of head-shot photo competition by using caricatures of its regular authors instead of photos.

I think it can work both ways, but I was looking at it from the perspective of the parent post.

> Why should I learn Node instead?

Node is a gateway to Javascript fluency for people that get a headache dealing with the DOM in the browser. You can write command-line scripts, run them with "node [scriptname]", and learn.

Having done that, I've found that Node is great for fast prototyping of servers, even if those are going to be written in C/C++ ultimately. In not-super-formal work environment, you can very quickly write something that runs with the correct behavior, and treat that as the spec for the final performant code.