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The few podcasts I listened to with obnoxious ads won't lose much with my lack of listenership (Tim Ferriss podcast)

They usually require more than just a few skips also (last I listened the Tim Ferriss podcast had 4-6 minutes of ads at the beginning and due to the variable length I couldn’t just set an auto-start to when the actual show starts).

I do wish more podcasts had alternative support methods other than advertising.

Unless the podcast doesn’t have ads and is done mostly out of passion and the host's own growth (The Collective) or I can pay to receive an ad-free feed (CANADALAND) I’m not going to subscribe to the audio-equivalent of a TV talk show.

Understandable that you’d want to exploit any resource that can give you answers during a time crunch.

But if given enough time, going through the pain of debugging and fixing something on your own – with at the most some documentation – is still superior.

If one has learned, knows and remembers the first principles of their domain, then knowing what to Google becomes less valuable (not saying your colleagues don’t know their stuff). You can rely on yourself for even the trickier situations you get into.

The Slack integration is a bit rough still, but: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

Many hotel/flight booking sites – Expedia, Booking.com, etc. – have been using this pattern for a while. I assume it works, at least in that context, very well.

How many hours have you spent writing CSS versus the programming languages you mention?

I don't think there's any art to writing CSS or having an easier time with it. It's just putting in the hours to know what works and the energy to understand the foundations (box model, cascading, etc. which are concepts you only need to commit to memory once).

Maybe CSS clicks better with some people, but the others can offset it with time. When I started writing CSS 15+ years ago I never thought I'd be able to do anything useful with JavaScript. But then you put in the hours…

Small companies would fit the best, that need all their bases covered but can't afford the costs of hiring an army specialists (nor do they really need them at an early stage). Especially those outside of the general internet/computer software market but understand they need to take a harder look into tech and UX to solve their business issues

Depending on how well your freelance or indie hacker career went, it may be very difficult to find job opportunities with startups that can exceed what you already had. But they are out there.

I think you already know how to position yourself – technical person that can solve business problems – you just have to throw out more nets to find the opportunities that actually fit.

It’s pretty sensationalist but I don’t disagree with the content of the message: by sticking with a float or flexbox-based grid system from a framework, you’re not learning the intricacies of newer tech like grid.

That being said, for most of my professional and personal work I only see grid as an incremental improvement over flex. It’s cool but time I spent learning it I could have just used what I already knew and create more things the customer actually cares about.

Not just you. All I see is mostly a Dribbble feed, so I can’t really connect these random shots to the alleged purpose of the site: “top digital products and trends in design”

Plenty just stick with the Financial Independence without getting into Retiring Early. But the latter does imply that you withdraw yourself from work, at least from being a sole contributor to a business you don’t own.

Other than the biggest costs—housing, food, transportation and perhaps healthcare—I doubt people that FIREd have withdrawn 100% from inconspicuous consumption. They just focus that consumption on more necessities than frivolities.

To most of my family in the Philippines, from children to elders, they only started using the internet heavily when Facebook was available (cell phones and decent data coverage were big enablers of that though).

Facebook provides clear utility to a society that has had no decent online method of replicating their group/communal way of sharing experiences before. Do they _need_ to share their experiences or communicate through Facebook? No, but it’s an obvious extension of what they’ve already been doing.

FWIW the issues I see with Facebook here in the west—fake news and divisive nonsense specifically—are exacerbated there, so definitely a double-edged sword.

Doesn’t work in Firefox for me past turning notifications on/off. Accurate.

In particular, this kind of low-tech spoofing could have been mitigated if the email client had highlighted the fact that the sender’s “name” was nearly identical to the sending address, and therefore likely a phishing email.

Think a smarter, more sustainable usage model phone companies should depend on is controlled use, not addiction.

You eventually just get an unhappy userbase that’s about to burn themselves out of your ecosystem with the latter. Think this is what the OP is hinting at since Apple has pricing models that are less reliant on the latter.

Did you know what caused your 3GS to pass on?

Wondering how many phones out there could be given a second lease on life if just given a battery replacement.

My first freelance gig was a friend whose startup just came out of a YC co-hort and needed UI/front-end help (I had just left the company both of us had worked together at at one point).

He already knew what I was capable of so there wasn’t much marketing/selling involved. That came after, through local networking and finding odd projects on Dribbble and hiring websites that had a section for remote designers. I had kept my main site sparse—and still do—so I had an easier time to drive initial conversation towards business goals instead of pixels and colours.

Maybe compartmentalizing happiness scores to how one felt during work time, during personal time and overall for the day would help mitigate this.

If they are consistent you can probably use your ad blocker's element picker to selectively remove them.

True. Companies are hitting a lot of friction getting node sizes down to 7nm when compared to sizes from years or decades ago.

Until we find ways to add more bloat to the user requirements that will require a server-of-the-future to be more than a server-of-the-present.

This is more of a societal problem and to fix that requires some re-education of people that are coming into and only have been that society for a while, namely:

- Be open to strangers

- Be open to chance conversations (ie: remove your damn headphones once in a while)

- Introduce yourself to your neighbours and help them

> The alternative is to give up all your friends when you move overseas or change cities, which seems absurd given the wealth of communication tools the modern world offers us.

But why continue communicating with old friends using, IMHO, a shallow form of building a bond when you can develop new relationships with people where you are now and can meet or have fun face-to-face?

I’m actually seeing an over reliance of people using digital communication for everything, to the point where they’re starving themselves and potential friends of a meaningful way to have a relationship.

This ties into the other comments that point out that we’re starting to favour global, weak ties to people instead of local, strong ties. I’m not a fan of that personally.

Where I am in Canada, I haven’t found suburb libraries to be a safe haven either; you have bored, angst-ridden teens wanting to start fights there instead and there’s usually not as much security to stop them compared to an urban library.

Have/had a similar issue. Many of the good friends I made in this city over the past years have moved, specifically to the more popular ones in Canada. Trying to rebuild that circle hasn’t worked out. I either run into acquisition problems like you or the relationships that do turn into something more end up ending due to them leaving the city as well.

At this point I’ve resigned to believing that the types of people I attract don’t want to stay here, and maybe I should just follow the herd.

Are these mostly public groups you’re joining? I think the friction towards turning notifications off stems from Slack being primary a tool for work, where you’d probably have more reasons to be notified of events than in a public channel.

I see an article about this issue pop up every month or so. But what’s actually being done about it? Seems like the solutions are not catching up with the possible hurdles that get introduced.

We’re also now augmenting the problem with bluetooth earbuds becoming more ubiquitous, even if they’re not actively being used.

At least for me I find it a bit more difficult to approach someone if I think they’re listening to something or on a call.

Seems specific to where you are. Like another poster I run into neither of those but people are still guarded and unwilling to chat to strangers, especially millennials, and this situation likely isn’t the same in other places facing a similar issue.

Already mentioned, but Meetup and its kin (Eventbrite, Facebook events) are good gateways into meetups that you’d have enough interest in that the possibility of connecting with someone you’d get along with is high.