kody

>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

20s

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

9

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

multiple times daily

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

yes, every now and then

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

10

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Quality content and conversation.

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Learn something new. Yes.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

Add: get notifications on replies.

Remove: flags automatically killing threads.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Orange.

Things might have changed. I got my policy Sept. 2021.

There was a whole section of my application regarding cannabis usage. I provided my medical rec. There was a question about seeing a psychiatrist regarding cannabis usage (no). No questions about consumption method. My premium was that of the quoted non-tobacco premium, so I don't think it was affected at all.

The last SPA side project I launched was

- Flask + sqlite3 for the backend

- Svelte for the frontend

- nginx

- Hosted on my VPS

I am currently developing my company's MVP with

- FastAPI + Postgres for the backend

- Firebase/Firestore for the {front, back}end

- React + TypeScript for the frontend

- Vercel

My takeaways:

- Svelte clicks with me because it feels like I'm basically writing vanilla JS/HTML/CS. I can get a lot more done in Svelte than React because I don't have to learn so much React-specific syntax

- The downside to Svelte is unit tests are gnarlier

- TypeScript makes me sane

- FastAPI is awesome, very similar to CherryPy. Doesn't try to force you to render server-side HTML like Flask tends to

- Vercel is cool, but I don't like {S,P}AAS deployment when I know I can write my own CI/CD config and just deploy my app where I want

2 weeks. I become listless beyond that.

YMMV but my prescribed cannabis usage did not impact my life insurance premium. I was worried it would, but knew that the blood + urine tests would show usage anyway. It worked out for me.

I assume it's to dissuade creepy ads that offer rent discounts based on sex/age/appearance.

Qt/QML is my choice.

I don’t bike anymore, but I don’t accept that answer. If someone can be pulled over for speeding, talking on their phone, or any other reason, they should be pulled over for e.g. tailgating a cyclist. There’s no reason why that shouldn’t be the case. But I don’t have skin in the game right now.

I can’t believe how often I start walking when I have right of way and the driver slams on their breaks and throws their hands up, honks, or cuts me off. Then when I’m driving I understand why pedestrians wave me on: it’s better to be wrong and alive.

So where do you suggest cyclists bike?

I recently drove from socal to Colorado Springs and the only cops I saw were speed traps at state lines or pushing burned wrecks off the I-15. I feel like they could be doing a little better.

My second major bike accident (first was being doored) was getting rear ended by a minivan. She treated me like someone in a vehicle, not a, you know, bike. There’s a real disconnect for some people driving a multi-thousand-pound steel piece of equipment where they project their sense of safety on fleshy human bodies at all times.

I used to commute from Flatbush to Chelsea in NYC via bike. Other than tourists chilling in the bike lane, no problem. The rattiest cab and National Guard hummer deferred to my ratty little bike. Now in SoCal, I don’t even feel comfortable walking my kid in a stroller on the left side of the road without some shithead roaring round the corner honking at me cause god bless America roads exist for your Expedition.

No shit. Not only do we simply not have sidewalks, drivers in their gigantic dumb-phone-enabled SUVs and lifted trucks have no incentive to not drive like complete jackasses at all times until they pancake someone. It’s absurd to me that 1) roads are no longer built to be pedestrian-friendly and 2) drivers aren’t constantly ticketed for driving like assholes.

Disclaimer: I’m an NYC-SoCal transplant. But god damn I wish these drivers weren’t so bloodthirsty for road rage ultra kills.

I would scour DRM-free ebooks (Humble Bundle has some good stuff occasionally; otherwise Internet Archive) and load them into Calibre.

If your child is very hands-on/project-oriented, set up an IDE/word processor/image manipulation program and let em make stuff.

Software-aided humans. The market is optimized to lazy investors and idealists right now. Hopefully they lose buckets of money and abandon their hustles and the rest of us can buy homes soon.

Eat the frog. My problem is the most appetizing frogs are side project/education-related and not, say, fitness-related. It helps me feel like I’ve accomplished something even if my work day is filled with pointless meetings, so it works for me.

The Versatile 2, purely for aesthetic reasons.

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=345

I'm serious, but that's because I can't stand leetcode-style interview questions.

I should've clarified - higher than average advertised salaries are almost always a bait and switch in my limited experience.

Red:

- You can do anything (frontend backend ci/cd backend product management IT)

- We’re a family here

- Yeet ninja 10x rockstars, “you friends see you as a badass hacker” (yes I saw the latter in a job description)

- 120k - 165k for a junior position

I haven’t gotten enough jobs to have a clear green flag filter, but my most delightful interviewing experiences have been take home projects to demonstrate ability to reason about a domain that pertains to the job for which I’m applying. E.g. “build a web server that can return X and memoizes results, bonus points for creating a one-click-run Docker image for the project”.

No. Like IggleSniggle I miss the healthy sleep/exercise/social life/hobbies pre-kid, but that’s about all I “lost” and I would choose to have my kid again in a heartbeat. She was born at the beginning of covid and I worked from home for the first year of her life, so I got to see her grow from newborn to toddler every day of her life. That totally redefined my worldview and priorities and made me a more optimistic and (I hope) loving human being. My kid is also just so much fun.

YMMV though; my wife and I were planning on being DINKs for life and we had to make a conscious effort to decide to want our baby. We definitely accomplished that, but I have no idea what it’s like to want to have a kid, or what it’s like to accidentally have a kid and to end up not being able to enjoy it.

There's "wanting to protect the value of your home" and there's "I'm going to vote NIMBY/BANANA and screw everybody else out of a place to live because I decided to 'invest' all my money in this house and expect it to be a nest egg that catapults me out of the working class." It sounds like the parent is in the latter category.

Is the problem "losing value in my house" or "not realizing astronomical gains like my peers"? And if building much-needed housing does decrease your house's value then hey, maybe your house was overvalued at the price you paid and you made a bad 'investment'. Why punish everyone else and artificially strangle housing supply to cover your bad decision?

In fact, I'll actively try to make things worse for them to try and eke out a little profit.

The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk. It might be well-known, but I just discovered it a few years ago. I expected it to be a dry reference book but it's a really delightful read.

CircleCI lets you rerun a pipeline with ssh enabled so you can debug. It's helpful unless your failed step is at the end of a complex 20 minute deployment. I'll usually run my docker image locally, copy over the source, and run the pipeline by hand to debug, but then I have to set up all the environment variables that I get from CircleCI/Bitbucket Pipelines, and even then there's no guarantee that my local tests are identical to what I'm seeing in the pipeline (just today I hit a memory limit in Bitbucket pipelines that I couldn't recreate locally).

Flask + Svelte + Sqlite + Nginx are my go-to.

Targeted exposure and sexual aggression. There’s a difference between “hey dad why is that person naked on the train” and a person masturbating at you while you’re heading to work. Sex crimes due to nudity, or eliminating, are unjust.

As a midwestern conservative [evangelical] christian homeschooled white man, female nudity = sex = sin. As a normal adult married to a woman with a 9 month old baby yeah nudity aversion is ridiculous and actively harms natural processes like breastfeeding. It’s absurd that we parents, along with everyone else, have to pretend genitals don’t exist or some precious thing to hide away and treasure.

I second neatze; I started around your son’s age by modding games (Morrowind). My younger brother got into Roblox, which is still popular.

My main driver was creating stories and cool new stuff for other people (Dad, brother, forum users) and getting feedback. Playing with your friends in a world you spent a month to build is an incredible experience.