heisnotanalien

If you work on a team then you end up talking about rather than actually doing stuff quite a lot. Often people talk to show they know stuff rather than actually producing results. Quite often it can just devolve into a battle of egos. Even if the people are nice, a lot of people are not aware they doing a lot of stuff from their ego.

It's not good for teens or people before 25. Again you're trying to be silly when a serious discussion is what is required.

I don't necessarily think it's unwise as such but I think it's good to clear and honest with your intentions. If you're doing it for status then be honest with yourself about it.

Do you just want to work at FAANG to gain a modicum of status in your peer group or are you actually inspired by what they do?

Meditation to develop single-point concentration.

Why would work not be getting done? It's just a weed stereotype. Some people are inspired or more productive after smoking.

It's not play if you're doing it for such reasons. To do it for play means just to do it for the activity itself with no ulterior motive (including career growth). Similar to kicking a ball against a wall - you do it because it's fun not because it will get you somewhere. The problem is everyone is trying to get somewhere these days (essentially to find security in a world that doesn't really offer any).

Stick to the basics, make it fast, ignore what the PM has to say, and avoid feature-bloat.

I agree with everything you said but for the problem then simply becomes how do we do all that but do it remotely? Like why not just encourage more social chat? Have lunch on Zoom etc

What do you mean unmatched even among large cloud providers? AWS doesn't innovate fast?

Find a programming language you actually like and want to use rather than what will be popular for this is the way to true happiness. You don't want to have to code javascript just because it's popular.

I follow people whose reviews I like.

If it's not broken, why fix it? I go to goodreads for the high-quality book reviews and community. I literally don't care about UX or fancy algorithms. I'd rather use an old algorithm called 'talking to someone I know' for book recommendations. Right now it feels like a clunky old site made for books reviews and I like that feel. I don't want some Amazon product manager who only cares about monetising (where can I smack ads?!) to touch it thank you very much. And god forbid some UX person gets hold of it and redesigns it in the boring/minimal feel (so it loads fast and we can smack lots of ads on it).

There is always Medium for the 200 things I do every morning for a happy and productive life type of stuff.

Because instead of fixing genuine problems and making it easier people invent new languages and frameworks to do things in their own way.

What you call goofing off playing video games others call research.

Funny because in my experience people are good at math tend to like playing games. At a certain level, every game is math after all.

I find it so curious you think of something like a marathon as Type 2 activity. For me it's the supreme Type 1 activity. As in when I am running there is nothing else I'd rather be doing even with the pain etc.

Go to a real world park instead.

Everyone is already a phone head. Can't say I am looking forward to everyone being a VR head.

Good. Let's hope it stays down and the world will be a better place.

You write tests not only to hopefully catch bugs but so that you can change the software reliably significantly in future and not lose forward momentum.

The whole Lenovo page just feels tacky to me.

Pro-tip: if you're going to market a high-end laptop then don't make the marketing/landing page look like a cheap knockoff with bad copywriting. Apple is the only one who gets this right.

So basically no?

It might be great but it's still ugly.

Well that's a nice change!

I am guessing it doesn't have Cloudformation support? So I have to spin up instances manually and this is 'generally available' for production use?

I remember when I'd read genuinely thoughtful posts on Livejournal. There would be no stupid memes, no instagram style selfies, no ad spam, just people in my city or from across the world, reflecting on their life.

My office has a mail shelf that overflows with Amazon packages every day (medium-size tech company). Similarly, my local news agent is now mostly an Amazon depo with a HUGE stack of Amazon parcels behind the counter awaiting collection.

I myself spent over £6000 on Amazon last year. I also use AWS at work...basically Amazon is my life.