iratewizard

There are a lot of how to guides. Anything requiring a longer attention span or curated lesson is not promoted by the algorithm or facilitated well online. I mentor developers on a regular basis. Unless they need a book to get foundational knowledge or a recipe on how to make something very specific, I teach it myself because there's no adequate YouTube tutorial.

There's also no YouTube tutorial to tell you something like "don't mix types of metals for you gas plumbing or you'll kill your family" because there's no professional watching you make stupid mistakes.

You can get around a lot of this by writing or buying infrastructure. What if it changes is most applicable to business logic, and your business logic should be something you can throw away and rebuild without a care in the world.

I've never heard of anything like that. Outside of HOAs, most regulations we see about the front are length of grass, what can and can't be done at the easement, public health issues, and maybe laws about invasive plant species. My wife used to work at a company that codified these laws, and she didn't know of anything either.

After writing code for locking down tablets used by prison inmates, I definitely agree that it's not much of a law.

Not necessarily. An automaton without free will can consume and become the hundreds of bits and pieces of philosophies that are laid out in front of them. You might imagine the automaton to be like Kirby in the original Nintendo games. Never intending to become the laser Kirby, but instead being pulled by the invisible hand of fate (user input) and becoming a crude mockery of the things that cross its path.

Note that I don't believe any of this to be true, but it's an interesting thought experiment.

I'm the first person to criticize the dumpster fire that is Airbnb. I've hosted with them for 5 years and they've made awful decisions time and time again. Scams aren't as bad on Airbnb compared to VRBO and TripAdvisor, though.

We might even form a symbiotic relationship with it. It feeds on the micro-plastic in our blood and we get to live long enough to make the next man-made horror beyond our current comprehension.

The one thing I don't understand is whether or not each chess round is a new game, or if the chess round is paused to start the boxing round. I'm just at the minimum requirement for chess, and not that many of my games end in a draw.

Considering that it's a heavily regulated space, it sounds more like your dream of an authoritarian, centrally planned economy failed.

Do you have any plans to bring Japan candy back to life?

Probably not. I personally think their bet that a slack-first user experience where the internal Salesforce experience takes a back seat is a game changer. If executed right, nobody will be able to catch up at all. We all know how bad Microsoft teams and whatever Google's chat of the year is.

There might be less than you would think. Salesforce's security review does not take kindly to having executable portions of your managed package live outside of their stringent security process. That isn't too say it doesn't happen. But you have to make a case for it being critical.

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Interesting perspective, and I'm sure I've never heard someone talk about their success with therapy because it isn't a topic that's likely to come up.

No, I've never needed therapy. I self examine on a regular basis. I have generally followed a stoic philosophy of life, which means regularly working on my physical and mental wellness. I've steered clear of unhealthy addictions and other problem generators. Therapy is just one tool in a large toolbox of mental health.

I've never needed therapy, but from the outside I've seen people who have been failed by it. It seems like the industry is plagued with one common issue. Therapists aren't incentivized to help you stop needing therapy.

Is this from before or after the 3 decades of unreproducible social science studies?

> Imagine if everyday the bulk of your decision making was literally about every dollar: heat and lights or shoes? Shoes or food? Food or healthcare? Healthcare of rent? Rent or heat and light?

Again, I haven't met these people you talk about among any of poor people I grew up around. I think the "research" you center your worldview on is a fiction. Propaganda of some sort? Maybe meant to make you slave away for more money than you need and to fear being destitute?

The poors I grew up would do things like buy a TV they couldn't afford, then trade it to someone for several ounces of weed that they planned to sell. Then smoke too much of the weed themselves and have no TV for a month or two.

I hear lines of thinking like this about poor people where it's never really their fault and it's just an unfortunate circumstance. It has always struck me as weird, because I grew up poor and grew up around poor people. I've never come across any of these poor people you describe anywhere besides television.

The high school popularity contest continues forever, sadly. You learn to play it or play something else with a few close friends.

You're hearing it from me now too. The music they recommend me is awful and only tangentially related to what I like.

On the idea of being a digital nomad, it's definitely not for everyone. I lived out of hostels and my car for 4 months, and for two months before that, did regular trips further and further from home. I traveled the US, did urban exploration in new and exciting places on a daily basis, and then got an apartment in my hometown. I'm happy to have the experience, and tell stories from my adventures often.

Having lived it, I now know how quickly the diminishing returns of new places can diminish.

Most likely the latter. I've seen a lot of people get fixated on games that are deeply flawed or straight up unfun. Yet, they find the game very appealing.

It works. I wouldn't be surprised if big foot, chemtrails and flat earth all receive support from people who weaponize the label "conspiracy theory"

I personally use Adobe XD for almost everything vector. It's not the job it's made for, but it's way faster to work in and is easier to organize. No need to switch between lucidcharts, illustrator and XD when everything I need is in one place.

Why should I know how to create a programming language if C already exists?

I've seen far more incompetence out of college educated engineers than autodidacts. I've seen far more time spent unteaching bad habits and bad ways of thinking for juniors. Computer science theory is mostly useless and only midwits who are wooed by theory would think otherwise. Big O notate the $80k on a degree you didn't need.

Children born from Reddit addicts are the over-socialized version of crack babies.

Japan and Korea are still high trust societies. I strongly encourage spending a month in either place if social structure interests you.

Low birth rates are overstated as a problem when you accept that prosperity has natural ebs and flows. It it becomes a truly critical problem, fewer women will go into higher education and their society will course correct. While they're doing that, we'll be demonstrating to them how failed our theory of liberal society is.

Rather than just pushups, one should try the big 6 from convict conditioning. Pushups, squats, pullups, bridges, handstand push-ups and leg lifts. That way they're conditioning more of their total body.

Who better to do it?