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Maybe it’s the intangibility that lends to an attitude of less respect.

Designing something in the physical world like a road you can’t screw up or people might get hurt. You could say the same about software but only in a very few instances. There’s no necessary reverence for the laws of the natural world. Electricity and gravity will kill you.

That’s about how I use it. Don’t really need/use other services except I do need Netflix for the Seinfeld episodes. YT Premium is my only must have subscription.

See that’s where I think YouTube dropped the ball if they had got some of that popular content instead of funding new creators.

I feel it’s more to present a compassionate attitude, and prevent instability, big spikes. Plus there’s a cost in kicking people from their homes.

My YouTube usage is about 7 hrs per day for the last four or five years and I don’t think I have ever clicked on an original, and it was always in my feed.

Definitely always seemed like a bad fit. But I think the idea of crowdsourcing content like tictok or youtube which is those platforms, doesn’t work for longer form, episodic shows or movies. You get established stars.

There’s no real finite limit on the amount of tictoks can be created people will like but is a finite amount on the talent available to make a watchable movie or show.

Post-PayPal Musk or for instance a big movie star risking every dollar of their life savings in a venture is different than the worker who has saved up their stake over 30 years.

2000’s Musk from his Paypal reputation can easily get a very lucrative job if things go completely to zero. Current day Musk can make six or seven figures just by sending a couple tweets. The movie star with nothing other than their name land a job or six or seven figure deal. They’re never really risking it all.

I'd call plumbing a craft, same with auto mechanic. I admire someone who put in the years to not only fix the thing, but knows ridiculous details of certain kinds of bolts or whatever. That's having a hobbyists perspective, and the enjoyment of something just because you're fascinated by it.

Obviously, some would consider it a waste of time. 90% of their colleagues would say, "I don't get paid to know unnecessary stuff about the bolts. I get paid to screw this to that according to this diagram." Which is what commercial software work is. Different thing from being a hobbyist.

Who cares what companies want or trying to chase some huge payday. It’s all very boring.

What we do is a craft. Those things on lc are the foundations of our craft. I want to know everything about my craft, and a lifelong student of it, so I like sites like lc.

I’ll take it over trying read page after page of some big comp sci book.

G could just offer an ad free tier included with Google One or something.

I suspect that’s an oversimplification and the build up of acetaldehyde plays a part.

Toxic chemical flowing through your body, makes sense to me.

Upon account creation or reset, can't the user select a password, that hashed as the private key for a keypair and just the public sent to the server? Then when logging in they just sign a challenge on the client. Only thing stored is a users public key on the server.

I've no doubt when they get VR sex with robots incredibly realistic, it will be a huge business.

I think the main problem we view depression as a disease when it is a symptom with several possible causes. Most people I know haven't done the deep introspection when life circumstances or past in some cases preverbal traumas exist.

Additionally, we're generally told quite a lot of lies and made to believe fantasies from the earliest ages about - the world, who we are, and our place in the world. I have a theory and it's just a theory when we get misaligned with certain, let's call them, cosmic truths - there's a mind and body reaction, often outside of our conscious ability to recognize the problem.

Also the importance of intuition, but going against the crowd can be a lonely road, not for everybody. I'm reminded of warning not to read too much. "When we read, another person thinks for us, we merely repeat his mental process" - Schopenhauer

I like Google, or better Stack overflow, when you’re at your desk writing code. Books (preferably paper books), to browse in free moments when not working.

I used to keep a paper copy of “JavaScript pocket reference” on me, and pull it out on the train, or just sitting around at night, to help get the concepts.

Alone also, and that's ok. Don't be afraid to seek out help when you need it.

You have to take "companies doing good" always with a grain of salt. They're profit seeking companies, who act aggressively in their own interests.

It doesn't have to be a debate on "good vs evil" I've always hated those terms applied in these contexts, it's childish and for the naive. Fix the problem and move on.

Highly recommend ClipX (with "Disklog" plugin), one of the few apps I've kept for years. All clipboards go to a text file which can be easily searched.

When I need to save something I just Ctrl-C it. Its my code snippet manager I can instantly find something I wrote years ago. https://bluemars.org/clipx/

I don't get the shock that few own most of the btc. It's awarded in perfect proportion to your means to invest in creating it. Even a small time gold miner in the 1860s could possibly win an outsized reward, given his available resources. That's impossible w btc.

Not exactly. imo and just a perspective, but code review is one method of KT. Sending someone a document can also be a method of KT.

Code review for KT is one thing. Code review for finding bugs is another. Code review for following style guidelines is yet another.

I would like to use a baseline style guideline for JS is anyone aware of one that isn't too huge?

I think the important thing that it would be impossible to disprove a conspiracy, even if there wasn’t one, so that idea will always be alive.

But I’ve never heard a reasonable argument in favor of the magic bullet theory. This could only be resolved by non-circumstantial evidence which may or may not exist. Every release of evidence is important however, even if proof of a conspiracy is never found.

Interesting about prayer as it seems positive visualization, law of attraction type mental activities seem to be more popular than they were 20-30 years ago, by people who would never call themselves religious. I’ve always found them to be similar. I think rituals similar to religious rituals but not religion per se come in to fill the void where organized religious practice used to be.

If you take an intellectually honest argument and inject a good amount of greed - since the biggest proponents of it are all big owners of it - you're going to hear some unreasonable claims.

The flaws in most of the arguments in favor of cryptos are quite apparent. When you don't have a personal financial interest in it! Some of these arguments only continue bc people have ALOT of money tied up in its success.

More money, more legitimacy. Cause that's how finance works. The dollar is only the dollar cause people BELIEVE it's a dollar. Tech don't work like that. People have arguments based on (usually) honest intellectual and observable evidence.

Not sure the holy grail exactly, but several of these new frameworks are probably on the right track. Particularly those that prescribe workflows and coding conventions that are just intuitive and easy to be expressive, instead of big frameworks with new languages and apis to learn.

My theory is, you can afford one big abstraction (React) on top of platform (HTML/JS/CSS/Browser). Try to abstract beyond that, and things get unnecessary, bloated, and difficult to reason about.

It's impossible to answer the question for someone else, you have to address things like, what are my real values and priorities in life, not just work.

But some lessons learned. Manage your money carefully so you're not always in a inflexible spot, and manage your stress levels carefully. Pay attention to what is affecting you and why, and be good/take care of yourself emotionally so you're not always in stress/reactive mode.

I just hooked up auto save I was hitting ctrl-s obsessively. I put it at 1000ms but I never see the dirty flag anymore on a tab.

It's a good route if you're lazy. I worked my ass off as an IC and always joked with manager friends that they don't work too hard. They didn't like that, but found out I was right.

It's not for everybody for sure, but if you don't like working it's better than solving hard problems.

Win-win-win for Apple with this move. New revenue stream of expensive parts. Those iphone repair shops scattered all over the country that are getting pissed at you - just made them your customers. Keeps people with broke phones in the ecosystem. Puts down calls for legislation about right to repair. Takes a shot at the third-party parts market. Preserves the ability to have the firmware reject 'non-genuine' parts.

Some of the comments in this thread are wild. Huge dependency trees are bad pattern, plain and simple.

The problem isn’t only ridiculous amounts of untrusted code, but thousands of new developers of the last 10 years who think this is the way to write reliable code. Never acknowledged the risks of having everyone write your code for you, and overestimate how unique and interesting their apps are.

If you must participate in this madness, static analysis tools exist to scan your 10000 dependencies, taking security seriously is the issue.

These packages serve a very useful purpose in that they illustrate dependency abuse, but the fact isOdd DEPENDS ON isEven and isNumber is pretty funny.

In my manager days I simply assigned a factor to each team member based on the type of work, so one person may be baseline hrs * 1 and another hrs *.8

This had to be accurate, as it’s consulting, if the hours are wrong we lose money.

But only a direct line manager can do this, anyone else won’t have the knowledge of the staffs capabilities.