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Where do you get stats for short-term rentals? Anecdotally, our last landlady illegally evicted us, converted the house to an airbnb, and then bought the next-door house from the long-time owner to make it an airbnb as well. Not in a vacation town, just downtown in a second-tier city. It seems like a pretty common trend in our neighborhood, I'm wondering if short-term rentals are clustered in dense, walkable areas and the stats are skewed by exurban owner-occupied homes that are 30 minutes drive to everywhere.

A&W Canada is kicking ass with plant-based offerings - their veggie burger is delicious, and they're in every rest stop on the highway so I end up eating at least one every road trip

In my experience companies don't have long-term plans or vision for their products, and it leads to work becoming tedious. You come in excited with no understanding of the product, you get knowledgeable and learn what's good and what's bad. Eventually you fix the bad you can fix and learn what bad you can't fix, and then the frustration outweighs the enjoyment.

I've tried to bring up these kind of big picture frustrations with managers before, but they're always focused on surviving the next 3-6 months.

Tickets by themselves are a symptom of a good process and not the end goal. If you don't know where tickets come from, why they exist, or when to do them, then the whole process is nonsense.

I've seen this repeatedly at places where they want developers to track what they're doing, but they don't have any product function to populate the backlog, groom it or prioritize tasks. It's basically anarchy but the devs just document what they felt like doing. Of course developers come to resent this system because nobody wants to read their diary - everyone else wants to know how close things are to being done. But because the whole project hasn't been scoped and broken down, it's impossible to get that knowledge from a snapshot of what people have been doing.

same, i joined a place where it turned out a small group of people basically held all the power and had created a byzantine system only they could reason about. management was also trapped because the devs who knew the system held all the power.

Lol I've seen this in action, lots of staff devs being architecture astronauts or diving super deep on a hot new technology, and meanwhile some intern is building the stupid webapp that actually gets used and makes money.

The concept of the data mesh makes sense, but I'm not sure what it means in practice? You have one big redshift and a catalog that says "this team owns this dataset", and that team does their own ETL? Likewise teams own kafka topics, etc.?

I'm excited for generics to land in Golang so we can have efficient set implementations instead of abusing maps.

I would love to hear a theory for how the supreme court could take this case. Free exercise?

Yeah I can't read the article, but as an applicant this would immediately trigger a yellow flag. If the CTO/director/whoever decided can justify it as a unique differentiator then maybe it's fine and it's a cost of doing business. If they just don't want to deal with k8s because they like their home grown thing, it's going to be a drag on the company long-term to maintain.

Do other people feel like this at startups? When there's no clear direction and everyone is just working on whatever they find interesting, I just tend to check out. It's just not interesting to build software for the sake of building software, I feel there has to be some product vision or clear feedback cycle to keep me motivated

It seems like a distinction without a difference, this article for example uses them interchangably: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/21/brief-history-...

Isn't this the free market at work? How would all the companies collude to collectively bring in more marginalized people? It's like saying "I want higher wages but I don't think one company raising wages will achieve that". The companies are competing because that's the system they exist in - some of that competition will be zero-sum, but according to arch capitalists some of it will be a net positive

Where other people see fully automated luxury communism, you see the end of the human race? There's more to life than working

Just off the top of my head, big cities include Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener. You make it sound like Toronto and Vancouver are walled cities in the middle of a vast wasteland, but most Canadians live in places with >100k people, and even more can drive to a mall within 20 minutes.

Do you want to break up the country so all the money and people are in one part, and you and a bunch of dirt roads are in the remaining part?

Good luck! FWIW in the past I've been happiest working on a project with a small team that has some clear product goals - maybe your current company can provide something like that?

Re: compensation, I think it's important to realize whether or not more money will make you happy. If you feel undervalued it might, but you might be chasing two rabbits trying to switch projects and get a raise simultaneously.

Personally I've made way above-market for the past 5 years, bought a house, and the only benefit is now I have a safety cushion so I can take time off to recover. I would have traded comp for a more fulfilling job, in retrospect.

I'm in a similar boat, I've been working for 10 years and I was burnt out before the pandemic, but the last year has been brutal.

People in the replies are saying "get a hobby", which isn't a bad idea if you find yourself over-working. Personally, my burnout is more like inability to initiate tasks and focus during the workday. I can go cycling or play video games no problem, any time, but work specifically is a huge barrier.

The only solution I've seen work is to take an extended break, and identify what about your work is burning you out. Do you need more autonomy? Do you need more guidance? Purpose? Connection with your coworkers? Personally, I realized I wouldn't ever use our product (it's very complicated for little benefit compared to the competition) and it has mountains of tech debt nobody cares about cleaning up, which has really killed my motivation. So I'm going to quit soon and take a few months to deliberately search for a company doing something that seems valuable/important.

Consulting is a little unique in my experience - if there's a steady stream of work, you never really stick with the same client full time for the full 5 years. It's a lot easier to keep your skills fresh and move around to find interesting challenges

Conversely, I've worked at places where the people who had been there for 5-10 years were just coasting, the product was stagnant, and constantly hiring new people was the only way to get out of a rut. They were paying these people for maintenance and to hold on to institutional knowledge, but everybody was so comfortable that very little got done.

Ethiopian food is very spiced in my experience - mitmita and berebere are the two distinctive spice mixes that come to mind. The local place makes doro wat so spicy that my partner can't even eat it!

Pretty sure slavery is the definition of external oppression

> Northern Europe, not known for their abundance of slaves, is wealthier.

Northern Europe didn't import a lot of slaves but they sure as hell benefitted financially from the slave trade.

> Colonialism was not a huge success for England when you look at how much it cost. It was great for national pride and as a symbol of their "greatness" however.

The motivations for colonizing were primarily economic. Do you think the belgian congo was created to satisfy king leopold's fondness for cutting off hands too? The idea that colonialism is some kind of beneficent force that exists to civilize savages is painfully condescending

I don't think you should be downvoted, but the polio campaign was lying to citizens of other countries, not domestically, which I think is the crucial distinction here.

I had an abdominal ultrasound recently - the actual process of placing the probe and annotating the images seems like a pretty specific technical skill. I don't think any old person (or even a doctor) off the street can just rub the wand on you and find your kidneys for instance.

you're so close...