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If you have roughly the same rating both of you should be gaining the same amount on a win. However many rating systems have some kind of aging factor. Meaning the more games you play the more stable your rating gets.

So it could be that your opponent has played significantly less games than you. However if he loses he also should lose more points than you would.

The color you play has no influence on the rating numbers. And also the type of win/draw/loss does not matter at all. Ratings are just statistics of your results.

Sometimes an honest and humbling feedback early on can be very helpful even if it sounds cruel. The aspiring world-class rockstar programmer may be in for a bad surprise if he just gets feedback like: "learn, learn, learn, practice, ... and success will come" and then it turns out all differently.

Or maybe it doesn't make a difference at all because people have to experience things themselves.

To be honest.. if I needed to consult a lawyer for a new job I would just find another job.

It's the same for me. I really sometimes miss my colleagues but not in a way that I get depressed, sad or lonely (I have a family and 2 kids at home). I just miss talking to them, drinking a coffee or having lunch together. We still try to do this from time to time but it happens only every few months.

For working my home office is far superior.. less disruptions, better ergonomics, no commute. The only thing that I think is really better in person are whiteboard sessions. Sure you can do it online via whatever collaborative tool but it is not the same.

For a few years I am working on the side on a HN client. One thing that is really sad is that there is now way to handle authentication properly as a 3rd party. The user basically has to trust you with her/his password or you have to "steal" the auth token from a login.

I've used Echo on a few occasions and it is nice little Go web framework.. or more a library.. it doesn't bringt much extra fuzz.

The reason why I chose Echo among all of the Go web "frameworks" was that it didn't use FastHTTP, which is used by many (most?). I however ran into a (simple) pattern of endpoints a long time ago that you could not be matched by FastHTTP and realized the speed improvements may not be worth it. There was also no http2 support back then. Too many people just look at micro-benchmarks for these frameworks.

What a great quote. I fully agree with the part that we don't actually know what we want most of the time. I have begun to ask myself exactly this question if I feel unhappy about something vague. Often I cannot really answer my own question.. or lose myself in if-then scenarios or plain uncertainty.

I guess my own realization is that there usually are many satisfying goals or outcomes and those change more often than you'd like. That's why "the path is the goal" is also a great quote.

Yes I was considering trying Bridge again. Thanks for book tips!

Ha interesting. This reminds me of Latrunculi, an ancient Roman board game. I once wrote an Android app maybe 10 years ago. It was on the app store for long but finally phased out because I didn't want to spend time updating it anymore (it was free).

I will certainly check out your site.

Many think that perfect play from both sides will result in a draw but there is no prove for that yet. So I'm reality we do not know.

Just use some simple CSS framework that you like/are used to plus maybe jquery if you need more than vanilla javascript.

This will get you a looong way and you don't even need npm for it.. just copy the minimized files into your source folder.

I did not see this mentioned here but I think the most important thing you can do now ist meet with good friends in real life.

Also ignore social media at least for a while because it never makes one feel better.

Good luck.

I guess this is the first step to nanosites[1] from "Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.

[1] https://en.gyaanipedia.com/wiki/Nanosite

It is a claim without proof which discredits people failing in a remote job. Comes pretty close to an insult TBH. Considering that success and failure in remote jobs does depend a lot on the team, the organization, the planning etc.. not only the person itself.

Also e.g. this sentence by GP raised red flags for me:

> Most software engineers produce more effort than they’re worth and skate by with meetings, “pair programming”, etc

Let's leave meetings out because I agree that too many meetings are bad but pair programming can be a useful tool, especially to transfer knowledge. And that MOST SWEs produce more effort than they're worth.. lol.. what a blanket statement.

> In Germany, you don't need to know what neighborhood you're in: they are all roughly the same in terms of crime

I was never to the US and maybe it is worse there. Don't want to compare but your statement is just plain wrong and the people always telling this as a mantra just never have lived in a bad neighborhood and/or do not have kids.

Ha thanks for telling me. Now that you say it I even remember that it was AMC. So I was blaming Netflix for the wrong thing.. my bad!

But then there is even less left that I really want from Netflix. This also explains why this show is so much better than the other stuff on Netflix.

BTW if you don't mind me asking.. why would you prefer a weekly model as a consumer? The only reason I can come up with is that people fear to read/hear spoilers from other who are "faster". Is there something else?

I just cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago. The only show left that I watched was Better call Saul. I was already annoyed when they changed their shows from releasing all at once to a weekly cycle but since I don't have that much time to watch TV it still worked for me.

However they also create artificial breaks now. When I realized that BCS is interrupted for many weeks before the show resumes I finally quit. I am not paying for watching nothing.

Sounds like an early rapper lyric :)

Yea so maybe that degree thing is a German problem. I do not know the other markets/countries. Here, what I said is certainly true.

A standing desk is better than no standing desk but won't correct everything by itself. Taking a break and walking around is fine but I still need to get back to staring into the computer screen to do my work.

I don't know your age but for me it started with about ~35 that I realized that this has negative effects on my body.

Your comment already has a lot of responses but one thing I didn't see mentioned is about the tough physical labor. It is often neglected that working at the computer is really bad for your body. Sitting for hours is unhealthy and creates all kinds of problems: obesity, disc prolapse, bad circulation, so much more. Also your eyes suffer a lot and become worse much faster than in most other jobs.

I agree that being a SWE is certainly not the worst thing in the world but it has also a lot of bad properties that often are overlooked and the most positions do not have moon salaries, that we see on HN regularly.

Also to do whatever lower income job you don't need to study for 5+ years (master). You need to compare with jobs that have similar requirements to your education.

Maybe it's true in Australia.. however here in Germany e.g. your chance of being a top earner if you have no degree is near nil. Usually you are expected to have university degrees for tech jobs. There are also some without but it's the minority and their promotion prospects are a lot worse.

TBH 1,3 and 4 of your arguments are just subjective. You are used to something different and not willing to learn this way or dislike the appearance..

For 2 you can see it that way. Or you are glad there are no exceptions and prefer the explicitness of error handling in Go. So in the end it's also subjective I guess.

I remember when I first looked at Go ~7-8 years ago I also didn't like the syntax. However it grew on me and now I like it. Opinions change. These days I try to not instantly judge something on my initial feelings.

Yes. It might have been addicting too back then but no one I knew of was checking news/social networks 24/7 and was always available online.. because these things did not exist in the way they do today.

You went online to do something specific: play, research something or whatever else and you were not distracted by 500 services fighting for your attention. It was a much healthier way of consuming.

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Yep. After a while I disabled notifications, so Slack just doesn't disturb me when working. Sometimes I just quit it completely for an hour or two so I don't look at it because it usually sits on screen 3(the laptop) and I see stuff moving in the corner of my eye.

If someone would question my work ethic or similar because of my Slack status I would explain to them that this is bogus. If they insist, I would complain about them with their boss. If that all is not futile I would just find another job.

It also makes it harder to debug or do performance profiling. Or to manage builds in CI/CD.. there is a lot of cost to CGO.

I still would not rewrite SQLite. It's just too good how it is.

In my experience people mostly don't really think about these things too deeply. They see it as an epoch where their country was successful, proud, expanding etc. They look at this very superficially and don't think about the harm caused.

I think this becomes more prevalent the poorer/less significant the country is today compared to their great past. It's the "good old times" phenomenon.

Oh I wasn't advocating it. I just wanted to show the hypocrisy in these "stop business with Russia, it's run by a despot" kind of arguments. They apply to so many countries the western world continues to do business with.

> With enough time you could stop trading with china

Maybe.. maybe not. If so this would take a lot of time and money.

How about not buying goods made in China anymore? That could prove hard though..

Perfect user name! Also this was my comment of the day.. nay week at least!

> It also made me reflect about Diablo III and how I felt about it. While it was a fun game, I found it too safe to be enjoyable. Players have separate loot, loots always matching their character class, items bound to the account, and no trading. People were siloed, making it a game played side by side, not together.

Very much agree with this. It is true for basically all games today. I remember Ultima Online in the early days where you could basically do anything. It just made every discovery and achievement more valuable and exciting. I miss the risk in today's games. Maybe I am old but games these days rarely can excite me at all while I still like to play old games from time to time.