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Yes. That should be solved too.

I work for Indeed, and was surprised to hear your experience. So I brought up the site in a non-logged-in browser, did a search and verified that I can still see multiple pages of results.

There may be an a/b test or something, but as far as I know we're not limiting results to push logins. But I wouldn't know, I'm not on that team.

Yes. Take Google for example with exactly this approach. You can elect to put your apps on the play store with commission, or you can put them somewhere else under other terms.

Stores can then actually compete on merit.

I'll give a vote of confidence for Flutter here. I've been using it as a one man show to develop a game ( markmywordsgame.com ) in the trickle of spare time I get. I use Firebase for back end.

Flutter is a dream to work with. Very rapid development with hot reload. Firebase is great for abstracting away almost all the dev ops bs. You can use local emulators for rapid development there too. It's quite a nice stack.

I happen to love Dart, and tolerate Typescript. I get to almost completely escape the js build hell, but Firebase functions do still require either JavaScript or Typescript.

I will include the caveat that Flutter web is not the best target for forms/text heavy projects. Flutter does all is own rendering so you don't get the html stuff like Ctrl f, copyable text, css "for free".

But for true apps that you don't just want to look like a word press site, it's awesome.

Google has recently screwed this up too with Material You where every single icon looks basically the same. App icons should be distinct. They are there for you to recognize the app! Monochrome and uniform shape does not help with this.

I know exactly what I've "lost" by going wfh: a 45 minute commute both ways (and the biking exercise), an open-office panopticon, and being surrounded by coworkers who don't know how to chew with their mouths closed.

I do NOT feel like my relationships with coworkers are any less friendly or social working from home.

Unfortunately, the office environment wasn't/isn't terrible by nature. It's terrible because it's not about work, it's about managers making life awful for people so they can feel a sense of power. And there's nothing preventing them from ruining wfh in the same way. We're already seeing mandatory webcam observation in student and low-status (eg customer support) roles.

Private offices to cubicles could be plausibly justified by cost, but cubicles to open office was entirely about making life worse. The panopticon will come for wfh too, probably even worse, if we do not fight it every inch.

I know exactly what I've "lost" by going wfh: a

I dunno. I feel pretty confident in my measure of "making it" for myself. I will have made it when I no longer need to work to maintain my lifestyle indefinitely.

Note, that doesn't mean I'll be satisfied. But I will have made it.

I was struck by the author's suggestion that "making it" could mean anything less. "Being able to buy a house without going broke". How could that mean you've made it? If you still have to work, you're still a wage slave.

While I like the idea of reactive server side queries, the focus on React and Javascript/Typescript really turns me off.

I use Flutter for my front end, and I simply haven't had any of the trouble they say people are having with Firebase and React. Perhaps the problem is not the Firebase half of that combo.

I do use Typescript for Cloud Functions in Firebase and it IS slower than manipulating documents directly. I'd love having a more responsive mutation path with server-side business logic. But I'd love it more if I didn't have to write it in JS/TS.

I own the domain ilikeyou.fyi and considered doing something very much like this. I rejected that plan for all the reasons above.

It could be done better with public/private key cryptography, but then your audience has to be able to deal with that.

Oh well, it's on my backlog down in the "I'll never actually get there" section.

"Get to know me" is a bad paradigm. I don't want them to know shit about me. But since it's safe to assume that is you're serving content, then someone is consuming it, you can base ads on that content. You know, like TV, radio, and magazines have done the whole time.

I'm still going to block those ads though.

Can't wait for my scumputer

You don't have to work anymore. You won the game. You don't have to play anymore. Or, you can play the unstructured bonus content.

I never got the appeal of open-world sandbox type games either.

If I had what you had, I would just: 1) raise my kid 2) build stuff 3) write fiction 4) consume without guilt (media, restaurants, hobbies and gadgets, etc)

I do React (web, typescript) for my job, and Flutter for my hobby/side-projects. I chose Flutter specifically because Dart is far superior to javascript/typescript, and the fact that I do not have to deal with the absolutely bullshit JS build ecosystem.

Choosing React Native because you can find "Javascript developers" in 2022 is like choosing PHP in 2010 because it was popular.

If you're hiring above entry-level, you should expect a developer to be able to pick up a new framework, non-exotic language fairly quickly. And if you are hiring entry-level, you should expect to need to teach the new hire anyway.

Yes, absolutely. Provided that health insurance benefits are still provided at the same benefits/cost.

Selling 5 out of 7 days of my week is not something I'd ever choose. It's something we're all forced into.

Except that it's actually in direct contrast with Android development, where the tools are available, for actually free, for Windows, Linux, and Mac. And the developer account is a one time $25.

My personal situation: I wanted to add an iOS client for the game I've been developing in Flutter. I did not have a mac or an iphone already. Fortunately, I've been able to borrow them for builds and occasional testing. But, that's obviously not optimal, and there's zero good reason that Apple couldn't provide their build tools for other platforms. Instead, they leverage their monopoly on the app store to force hardware sales to developers.

I had to laugh at the opening: "The tools are largely free", except the bare minimum to develop for ios is a mac and the apple developer account (if you ever expect to publish your app). And a significant subset of functionality only works on physical devices and not emulators. If you don't already have the mac and iphone, you're looking at $600 for a used macbook air, ~$300 for a used 2 generations old iphone, and $100 for the dev account. $1000 is not "largely free".

No, it is not true. You must pay to release any app on either store. Google charges a one-time $25 fee, Apple charges $100 per year.

You may release a free app with no advertisements. In fact, that is the easiest configuration, since charging for the app means setting up payment information. And including ads means payment information and integrating ad serving code into your app. It is not "built in" on either platform.

And it's really nice that they're actually using the physical address for this instead of the given email address. Especially since some imbecile put my email address in when ordering her tests. I was concerned that I would not be able to order my own since my email was already used. But no, I was able to.

USPS gets points for practicality and execution, but is yet another service that performs zero email address verification and ends up with idiots that don't know their own email sending me their info.

A couple of years ago, I was bored at REI while waiting for something and decided to actually scan the NFC on the packaging of some sealskinz gloves. To my surprise, the NFC tag was still writable.

So, if you bought gloves at an REI in Bellevue Washington, and got rickrolled by the NFC packaging, that was me.

Unfortunately, the balance of power will inherently never tip to introverts for the simple reason that introverts generally do not want power over other people. We want power over our own situations. We want to be left alone. That social power over others is then claimed by those who desire it.

So lie to yourself and others. Yeah that's why we don't like sales.

Why is this assumed to be a problem? I'm much happier now that I've accepted that I don't need or want friends other than my wife and family.

One thing I have not felt during this pandemic is any more lonely than before. In fact, probably less. I'd always feel loneliest when forced into social situations that I just don't enjoy: lunch with coworkers, parties, etc. I've been much happier without implicitly comparing myself to the extroverts. I have a few people I regularly talk to, but no "friends": my wife, 2yr old son, in-laws. This quote from the article causes anxiety, not hope: "One day quite soon, a bell will finally ring and we will rush into one another’s arms, like so many schoolchildren."

By that definition it _is_ a dark pattern. The thing people are being tricked into doing is divulging contact info/interest even if they're not going to buy at the eventually revealed price.

I hate this pervasive notion that leadership is unquestionably a good thing. Leadership is bullshit. It's implicitly a dependency on getting other people to do things for you. Instead, we should value the abilities to work independently and in mutual cooperation.

Article is behind a paywall, so I wonder if it addresses what portion of these men find this to be a problem. I have never had close friends other than whoever was my significant other at the time. This is more than sufficient for me, and I don't think it's unhealthy at all. Some people just aren't social.

Agree. Are you hiring to get work done, or to warm your office chairs for a set amount of time?

Maybe that works for you, but headphones do nothing for me for the stress caused by having my back exposed to people walking around.

Apple and Android Pay are not mag stripe, they're proper encrypted nfc payments. Samsung pay CAN be a magstripe emulation, for terminals that don't support NFC.