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The problem often is needing to fight with less technical higher-ups for adequate time and resources for tooling/testing/infrastructure work.

As someone who's family is from a former Socialist/Soviet Bloc country, I have to note that "one failure" is a bit of an understatement...

"Feeling tired" is a bit subjective. There are numerous studies indicating that caffeine enhances cognitive function, improves test scores, reaction times, etc.

Personally, yes, I feel less tired after drinking coffee, but seem to get diminished returns after the first half cup.

YES to whether it's relevant. Regardless of opinions about PHP as a language, it's way too widely utilized to be irrelevant in the near future.

Whether it's worth investing time to be a PHP master is subjective. Personally, I won't be excited about being a crackerjack PHP dev, but if you find certain aspects of working with PHP compelling and suited to whatever you're building, it may be worthwhile. There's also plenty of work out there for people with PHP skills, so it could be pretty relevant with regard to employment.

An adolescent isn't a fully developed human being, aka an adult. That's medically verifiable.

By “Tesla Doubters” do you only mean people who don’t believe it’s a viable auto manufacturer? It seems pretty clear that it’s a viable auto manufacturer -- as in it manufactures and sells a significant number of vehicles. But I think many reasonable people have serious doubts/concerns about some of the issues with the vehicles themselves and leadership and future of the company.

Really? I don't know that the story is especially important, but it seems like plenty of other tech-related stories which are equally or more political or business focused, don't get 'flagkilled'.

Frankly, I feel like people here are often a little too quick to flag anything that they simple don't like, and it's annoying and kind of cheap.

I assume "Show HN" items aren't necessarily news, but just someone showing the community something new that may be of interest. There already appears to be too much flagging around here just because someone doesn't particularly like something. Let's not encourage more.

1) Propose your ideas in an email, preferable with someone else cc’d on it.

2) Propose your ideas to several people on your team at once.

3) Find someone more trustworthy if you need a sounding board.

4) Talk to your manager.

5) If you don’t have good relationship with your manager AND your tech lead, it’s pretty clearly time to find a new job.

This isn't about American vs. non-American workers. It can be hard/impossible for most humans to do quality mental work for extended stretches of time.

For a long time, I felt that Firefox was just less nice to work with than Chrome and couldn't quite make the switch. However, Firefox developer addition feels pretty "Chrome-like" and I've yet to experience any noticeable performance or stability issues.

Managers who call meetings for the sake of meetings.

That's cowgirl to you.

So, if we prioritize, say, addiction treatment, more people will want to be addicts. Right.

I mostly agree. But, surely, you'd agree that personal experience, especially extensive personal experience, might give one an inkling about whether a particular statistic is accurate. I wasn't arguing anything more.

I've looked at a number of studies about this. In general, it's hard to find much agreement between them about actual numbers. I suspect some of that is related to how "homelessness" and "mental illness" or "addiction" are defined by the people doing the studies, but most indicate that some kind of majority are influenced by one or more of those issues.

We’re not talking about “getting in people faces”, we’re talking about a situation that is extremely unsafe, for everyone, homeless and non-homeless alike. If you’re suggesting more of that, there’s something seriously wrong with you.

Why are you assuming I'm a bro just cause I'm on hacker news? 1950s are calling you.

Get back to me when you have something logical to say, not just ad hominems...

I don't disagree, but in Seattle, the streets are a huge problem.

To be clear, I have volunteered with a number of organizations that help the homeless in Seattle. I don't know where you're getting 25-30% from, but that doesn't match with my experience -- I'm inclined to believe it's much higher, but it can really depend on what neighborhood you're in.

Agreed, there are many problems worth solving in Seattle, but some are more clearly urgent public health problems than others.

I agree that both are problems worth solving, but one is pretty obviously a more urgent public health problem, and unfortunately, the more difficult one to solve.

When people are talking about Seattle's worsening homeless problem, they're talking about the presence of needles and fecal material on the sidewalks, and being harassed, and sometimes even attacked, by clearly mentally ill people, not about people living in trailers in non-urban areas.

I'm not against programs to help people who can't afford normal housing. However, that's not the specific, hugely obvious problem in Seattle.

This isn’t popular, but I’d challenge anyone who thinks homelessness in Seattle isn’t primarily an addiction and mental illness problem to go spend a few afternoons in areas with significant homeless populations (3rd Ave in Pioneer Square is a great place, if you need a suggestion).

It’s not that affordable housing isn’t a problem in Seattle. I know people who couldn’t live on their own in Seattle anymore due to rental increases, including members of my extended family. But those people either move away to more affordable areas, moving in with family or friends or into (sometimes questionably legal) group housing situations, but they don’t live on the street.

This is just a PR move and isn’t going to help Seattle’s homeless problem at all.

As an engineer who gets a lot of resumes from HR to make decisions about who is coming in for in person interviews, I would be rather annoyed. I would feel that you were dishonest and lacked respect for my time.

Saying you have nothing to lose because you're unemployed makes no sense. You would be losing potential job opportunities.

You'd be far better off putting your time into creating a neat, readable resume.

Also, it would be helpful to know more specifically you're hoping to achieve by the end of that year. A software engineering job?

By self-taught, do you mean you don’t want to take classes, even if they’re online or get any kind of mentorship, or just that you’re not going to go back to college and getting a CS degree? Also, do you have any understanding of programming/CS basics?

It's not that they "don't count" but that it's relevant to include the calculation.

So...are those people on food stamps? And is this adjusted for part-time or seasonal workers?

> Meanwhile, thousands of Amazon workers rely on food stamps because their wages are so low

I'd be interested to know if this is actually true/where they're getting their numbers from, and if these are full-time, or seasonal employees.

So the average teacher's starting salary is more than 30% higher than the average person's salary in Texas.

I understand that teaching isn't a highly paid profession, but when you only work ~75% of the year, that doesn't seem so terrible...