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It is, but I wonder if it is because I trust it for the status or if it is because I am suddenly blocked on what I was working on so I naturally come here.

Would have been willing to pay for the new version, but no thank you for a subscription.

Seat61 has been an amazing resource for traveling the world by train. Until you just mentioned it in this context, I had never thought to use it for beta about train travel in the USA. Looks like I know what I'm reading the rest of the day.

It doesn't mean anything if you are "right" but nobody will listen to you. To effect any change you have to not only be "right" but also be able to convince others around you of what you are trying to do.

Not just iPhone. Safari on MBP also just a blank page.

Or TP to dry.

For small stuff I still like the simple syslog. It’s usually built in and supports aggregating to a single server.

In the past have created a server just with syslog. Adjust all your servers syslog configs to point to that one. Then log in and use grep.

Not fancy. But gets the job done with a single line config change in your syslog configs.

We also need to consider that content creators might crave an audience just as much or more than the donations.

I think you just argued against a straw man. The article didn't even really talk about salaries. This is about where people are moving from and to.

This is about tracking "business formation as well as employment and education in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics"

There was no call to move there, or statement that they are better places. But surely there is something interesting and possibly something to learn about by looking at migrations of people, especially STEM companies and employees.

I think GameStop makes most of its money buying trade-ins. Perhaps they are more in the pawn shop business than the video game business?

Or maybe an email prior to shipping.

"Want to send this months shipment as a gift to someone else? Click here to change this months delivery address."

I would pop a Ting SIM card in.

https://ting.com

Sprint / T-mobile network, so not as good coverage, but $6 a month and just pay for what you use for data.

I always say that the places that nope out after seeing my age, are definitely places where I wouldn't want to work when I look at work/life balance, etc.

I think the truth is, it really isn't a good fit. These places want young people because they want that kid to stay all night--maybe with a break with the gang for some beers before going back to work.

No thanks.

Satellites can currently move out of the way. Cheaper and less energy to move 2 meters one way and then back again.

Actually we learned in our high school journalism classes that these protections are federal and based off of court cases. Part of our high-school journalism curriculum was learning the court cases that protected our rights as high-school journalists from school administration interference.

Of course, a school intent on interfering with a newspaper is probably not going to make that part of the curriculum.

Can't speak for parent. For me, I don't care if people know the real person behind the post. But I don't want someone to be able to see a list of everything I have ever said. And unfortunately there is no way to do one without the other.

Just like everyday conversation. I can speak without anonymity. But I would hate for someone to go look at some of the things I said 20 years ago.

"Why doesn't this work?". Add debug statement. "Huh, now this works". Take out debug statement. "Huh, now it doesn't work". Try no-op. Table flip. Commit.

I was skeptical of my Yamakasi 4k monitor. But it has turned out well. Just over $300 for 4k.

It is obvious that it is actually 2 different panels on the inside. At one point after being on for a while, the two didn't line up. Rebooting the monitor fixed it. Yup. Monitor needed a reboot.

But I can't complain for $300.

I really enjoyed watching sports in 3D back when ESPN actually was pushing good content in 3D. Oh well.

I like the separation of The Company, but highly disagree with keeping The Customer separated from The Product.

I would like to see more of what can be done as we focus more on combining these, not segregating them.

As a developer the very rare chances I have had to go on a sales visit were eye opening in an astounding way. Sure, maybe don't have developers cold calling, but making product developers a part of the sales process can only help with the feedback loop.

Yeah I agree, once a metric itself becomes the goal then you end up with some unmaintainable tests just to hit a block. I guess I would prefer to see un-hit blocks eliminated, not obtuse tests written to try and hit them. But like you said, I can see how if test coverage is the only end goal, you could end up with some pretty useless tests just to hit some random block.

One benefit I find with code coverage as a goal is that it highlights unused or unnecessary branches, and can encourage me to think about how my code is organized such that code is more easily accessible.

Put another way, those branches that are rarely touched or hard to get to can become a surprise when they are actually reached in some unique situation.

I guess in this case it isn't really the test itself that is useful but instead the requirement to at least hit each branch can cause me to design and organize the code better.

The ominous title and the fact that I couldn't actually read the article scared me a bit. I kind of assumed some bad news about them shutting down.

I have not subscribed in quite some many years. And I can't remember the last volume that I read. And yet. I was suddenly sad and ready support them financially.

I think 2600 has been a good influence. I hope they always stick around.

Note: the message has nothing to do with them going anywhere.

Rising rents and harder to get home loans do sound like the primary cause.

That being said, I also believe there is not quite the same urgency to leave home for current young adults. Just from personal observation they don't necessarily see increasing their expenses just to be more independent as worthwhile. Same goes with getting a driver license and a car.

I don't think it's necessarily being lazy, I think they might rightly see that building up all these expenses just to be independent is a bit overkill.

Mix this with people in general getting married later and I find it quite natural that more people are living at home.

In and around my office had a few try it. It seemed to be about 50/50 Love / Hate.

I would say it was pretty predictable depending on how soft/hard the person typed on their current keyboard.

I tried to find a good wireless headset for my remote meetings. My discovery was:

- Bluetooth microphones are of general terrible quality. After recording and playing back my different attempts at a nice wireless mic, the build in omni directional mic on my MBP always shockingly came out ahead. It really didn't make any sense to me. - Long pair programming or brainstorming sessions with co-workers can outlast the headsets.

In the end, I just plug in my earbuds that came with my phone, which give me audio, and the built-in mic pics up my voice.

That being said, appreciate this question, maybe someone else has found something better.

I tried various Logitech and other bluetooth headsets made for cell phones, I also tried Beats Powerbeats. So maybe I was just going in the wrong direction.

I was taught:

For the first 2 years, live on 50% of your income. Eat Ramen, coupons, live like a begger, and save up 1 year of income.

Then divide that by 12 and use that as a salary for a year while collecting another year. Repeat. Steady income, always a year behind.

Of course this was back when I was trying to go into film. A bit more unstable than software development.

Can't say from experience since I am in the research phase. But I like the outdoors so I want to be able to boondock.

So my current plan is a Wifi Device from Verizon, plus Satellite Internet, plus lots of Solar and Batteries. This is not cheap, and I am pretty sure it will not resale very well.

The satellite dish alone is like $7,000 (http://www.rvdatasat.com).

But I know I'll be working remote for some time, and why not just go hit the National Parks for a bit. Of course, still need to pick and choose. Not sure I could rely on a view to a geo-sat from Yosemite Valley for example, but up high at Tuolumne Meadows should be fine.

We tried about a year ago and gave up after too much wasted effort on getting any kind of a good dev/CI/CD pipeline going. Mainly due to lack of tooling. Things like environment variables, etc.

Taking another look now on some side projects, to get a sense of if all the of the issues have been addressed.

But the big ones were lack of env variables, and the tooling was atrocious.

I really like the concept, and the current serverless (serverless.com) framework has been simplified, runs based on cloud formation, and also allows the project to be run as an express server, and potentially with additional plugins on a competing serverless architecture.

This is a big wake up call for me.

I have everything in google: Drive, email, voice, docs, sheets, etc. I was actually about to sign up for Fi. The convenience of everything in one place is great. But I don't think I had quite thought through a disaster like this.

With this article in mind, need to reevaluate. I guess either regular local backups and/or diversification of service providers would be a good step.