mclightning

this question tells more about your own biases rather than the commenter above honestly.

As a non-native English speaker, I dont get this. Can someone explain it for me?

I guess nostalgia is a powerful force in JS world.

if you think that's a lot, you haven't checked your network tab for any considerable production site lately.

This thread is exactly a great example of why I love HN. I am really enjoying reading all this replies. These are the kind of points I miss reading on HN. Some of these, I would say, I learnt and applied on HN throughout years. But this thread reads like a reminder of the experiences that HN community shares. I like it.

I am here with you on this one. I have been a programmer since I was 13, that made me a generalist developer who likes to jump into many different things, because building stuff was my "toy", my entertainment. And every toy gets old.

I am almost 30 now. I feel it gets tougher to be a generalist as any industry matures. Take Frontend / Backend development, versus Web Developer of the past.

Frontend Development alone has become more complicated than the total mental load a Web Developer would endure delivering both backend and frontend.

In that moment, as a generalist, as suggested above, you find yourself without a foundation, but rather crumbling ground. You better know how to fly.

Most stuff I desire nowadays, are pretty cheap. I work as a consultant and self-employed. I don't know if I am making too much or I am happy with small things (e.g. a Mechanical Keyboard, some new 3D printing resin) which has a cost less than an hour for me.

This presented with me a different problem. I have to instead look at life quality improvement it provides purely. Most products in market, are never absolutely perfect. One brand will offer you X but not Y, while other will do opposite. Then you end up not buying anything, but be burdened by thinking about it for some time. Then eventually, you just buy it to save yourself from mental tax.

I also found it more rewarding to spend money on experiences; a new sport, a new hobby etc.

I don't know where you get that I'm offended. It is more frustration and isolation. People can be living in a country for many reasons, not involving an interest to settle or learn the language.

I won't dive more into "who is to blame" discussion here. This is not the point or the forum to for me to open up further on details.

In regards to culture shock/language: I have been in this country for 8 years roughly. I have been more relax about people not speaking in language I can understand around me. But only recently, I have lost emotional capacity to be cool with it. I worked with an international team for a while before Covid, and it reminded me how much nicer life used to be.

So I am planning to explore my options to move to US or UK, even at the expense of loss of income.

Quit : I mean "terminate the contract with client". I am a consultant.

I have been considering it, but I have not done yet. I have taken 1 month break, went on some great vacations. It could have been enough, if the work environment presented wasn't a worse version of my previous one.

I migrated into a country where everyone "can speak English". After 7 years living in this situation, I have ran out of emotional capacity/patience to handle this situation.

When people only choose to speak in a language you can understand, only on a "need you to hear/engage on this" basis, You get stuck between isolation and exhaustion.

I am trying to move to US or UK. I feel I should be solving Leetcode puzzle instead of working at a job I hate.

Yeah, there might be legal/monetary implications to it too, as I have taken this role as a consultant through my own company.

Oh, are we doing this now? I mean, if we are, let's get rid of JS/TS and move to Rust or something, anything really.

"True of just about everything" If I had a dollar for every time I heard of this against an anti-crypto sentiment...

I would have at least 10 dollars

Too long didn't raw?

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I'm in the same boat. Dropped out from B.S. in Computer Engineering in the very last semester when I got a job offer from Sony abroad, initially seemed to be for SF then shifted to a position in Sweden.

I was a rebellious/idealist kid who read all the success stories here in HN and had an overblown confidence.

I am doing very good economically, but when it comes to visa and mobility internationally. Having a diploma helps a lot, I found. Beside having access to more intelectual communities of people through a master's programme for example.

Indeed. I'm not really saying one or the other is wrong. My last line was more to poke fun at the situation.

But it is pretty interesting and good to be perceptive of this, when taking in public feedback.

It is pretty interesting how depending on the direction of the headline & article, a certain subset of readers become more expressive in comments, giving a false perception of the popular opinion.

Take this topic, or Apple Touchbar threads... For/Against groups voice their opinions more openly when article matches their opinion.

Where are my contrarions, misfits, non-conformists?

Ah true, that I agree %100

> Also beware of employees that are overly eager to have more access than they should

Another side of the coin, I always felt shy to ask for access to tools in big corporations that I worked at, unless I am offered access directly by a manager or co-worker directly.

This can backfire, if you act too strictly around tools, some employees will never even try to get a hold of the tool you potentially pay 100K$+ a year.

I observe a similar thing in HN. I suspect HN gathers a specific type of techie-crowd, who has missed out on the crypto-scene while working hard on "conventional" tech projects. I have been and I feel the sentiment.

HN is not exactly an early-adopter community for a specific time period (say 5 years of early inception of a new tech). It is a busy-working community.

Are you saying Israelites that relocated to Israel today are ethnogenetically closer to the region than the Arabs that lived there?

I would suspect most of the Israelites that moved there are actually western/european descent, whereas I would not be surprised if a lot of the Arabs there had actual ancient Jewish genes.

All that aside, are we really discussing who can claim ownership to a land based on ancient history, rather than human impact of change of ownership?

I'm all on board with DJI FPV except for the fact, it is an acrobatic drone with proprietary parts which will be costly to replace...

I want same feature-set on a DIY frame, or at least DIY-able.

Case in point; the whole concept of "lobbyist" in US is crazy. It feels so from an outsider, european perspective. There are non-elected officials, openly charging money for their very open connections with politicians to manipulate political discourse.

How is this even legal... It's like bribery but legal and shamelessly open.

I love my touchbar.

I will repeat it here again. Delete all your friends and content on facebook, and use it as a shell account for logins, events and messenger.

Change starts with you. This is simple.

I have done this 2 months ago. It works great so far. Most people have moved onto IG/Whatsapp already anyways. I know those are also FB owned, but do this as a protest.

>> Also, $40 per cable is completely and utterly ridiculous. That's 5-8% of monthly salary of Bulgaria (EU country) for a short cable.

That's why you don't buy a $40 usb cable for charging. You don't need all the pins in usb-c standard for all purposes. You can have a few USB-C cables for various purposes. Fully-implemented ones are easy to identify, just by their weight difference really.

>> Even charging from cable to cable is completely different. But I do not believe at all that regular people do not ever have the need to connect their device to a computer. They might not most of the time, but that one time they do they'll be kicking themselves over it.

I wouldn't say they will be kicking themselves over it. If they really cared and knew about transfer speeds of different cables, they would be one to invest in a better cable ahead of time. If they didn't know about those details, they will have no surprises to begin with. Because it works on par with USB2.0 at least.

They always do. These things have mechanical physical standards as well as the electronic/software side.

Micro-USB requires more force because of its 2 teeth underneath, that's made to latch onto the socket. That was a mistake. In comparison, Mini-USB don't have this problem and slides straight similarly to USB-C in that sense.

A lot of thought process goes into this mechanical interaction of male/female plug/sockets.

I design/3d printed a lot of mechanical stuff for hobby for some years now. You can't make stuff work without calculating these tolerances. I am sure professionals who work on standards know/do better than me.

I know what I should expect if I am paying a cable $5 vs $40.

Just because tip of the cable is looking like USB-C, you shouldn't expect it to support HDMI etc.

Most people are not looking for full set of USB-C features. Most people are just looking to charge their device.

I don't remember last time I wired up my phone to my computer for any data transfer, and I am a nerd who reads HN. Think about the average folk.

If we go further, a big chunk of people, don't even use anything like a file manager.

In short, biggest reason we have cables around these days is; To Charge Up. That's it.