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I like to say that I am a 10x developer 10% of the time. My work tends to be very "bursty" followed by long bouts of low productivity. It probably has more to do with my mental health than anything else. :/

Yeah honestly I was surprised too... it was a while ago, so I don't recall if I asked for the reason, or if they volunteered it.

Like I said, I personally see it as dodging a bullet. I probably didn't want to work in that kind of environment anyway. But there may be other people with different situations than mine who would've been rightly miffed by it.

I'm pretty privileged as things go, so I tend to not complain a lot about ageism and discrimination based on family status because there are a lot of folks who have it far worse than I do (even though I recognize it as a legit problem and feel like I've seen it firsthand). This company sorta tipped their hand without saying anything illegal.

Yeah, it is, but honestly what am I gonna do about it? :/ I suppose I could've reported them to... somebody? Sue them for a job I didn't even really want?

In retrospect I probably should've left a bad review on Glassdoor explaining what happened, but it was so long ago I just sorta forgot about it.

During my last job hunt a little over three years ago, I encountered what I think was some subtle ageism or at least discrimination based on family status (lots of questions about my family life when interviewed by the CTO and CEO, ultimately turned down because they didn't think I had the energy/disposition to be devoted enough to the company to put in extra effort when needed).

I ultimately got a job at a better company anyway and probably dodged a bullet, but it's pretty naïve to think it doesn't happen sometimes, especially at startups or places that pride themselves on a "startup mentality."

Another commmenter posted this above: https://www.convergencialatina.com/News-Detail/324197-3-8-Da...

I'm not even close to an expert on economics, either... but I think what you're describing sounds similar to what's called "Modern Monetary Theory" or MMT.

If I understand the very basic gist of MMT correctly, it's basically that the government "invents" currency simply by spending. If the government wants to finance, e.g., an enormous infrastructure project, all it has to do is will it into existence and the money will get printed - mostly because the full faith in credit of the United States Treasury will make sure the right people are paid.

If this is true, what then is the point of taxes? Taxes are a buffer to "sop up" excess cash in the economy to keep inflation under control.

Another central tenet of MMT is that the end goal of tuning these knobs should be 0% unemployment, because that's when your economy is producing maximally.

I'm sure I got a lot of that wrong, because (like I said) I'm not an expert, but what you described reminded me of the MMT Wikipedia rabbithole I ended up in a few years back.

I still think about the quote I once heard around that era... "Made with Bootstrap" is the "ft. Pitbull" of web design.

At my current employer, everyone's salaries (and the number of options they've been awarded) are in a Google spreadsheet that's viewable by everyone in the company. It's actually kinda cool to have such transparency and has forced standardization of things, and I have to imagine it has reduced biases and made things fairer.

Actually I've been doing a bit of exactly that... 1. I've been writing a Forth interpreter on the side for fun. 2. I'm learning how to distill liquor. :)

for me they feed each other in a sinister feedback loop... burnout makes me incapable of doing my job, which makes me feel worthless, which makes me feel depressed, which makes me unable to do anything, which makes me more incapable of doing my job, etc.

It's a tough hole to get out of.

OMG you've nailed exactly what I've been feeling for the past six months or so. :/

Sorry for my ignorance on this matter, but why do safe harbor provisions not apply to the Internet Archive? Shouldn't they have been served a DMCA takedown request bu the publishers, and then been in violation of those rules and paid the applicable penalties had they not complied and removed the offending content?

I would definitely consider moving to Linux for my next laptop - unfortunately I do a decent amount of iOS development, which I realize isn't impossible to do on Linux, but I can't imagine it'd be worth the hassle. :/

Worth noting that this isn't all ANSI-SQL... e.g. I'm pretty sure WITH is a Postgres thing?

I used to work (sort of) in this space. A lot of the functionality that companies want to tie to their ODB hardware is getting rolled into the cars themselves by the auto manufacturers and app platforms like CarPlay and Android Auto. Companies like this had 5-10 years before facing obsolescence.

Yeah, so is https://glsen.org ... that's a big yikes.

I'm sorta reminded of the Onion article from years ago, "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own a Television":

https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...

Area man doesn't signal.

Hear me out - we could all start using Gopher?

I wonder if a curated, moderated Amazon could work? Probably wouldn't scale very well, but perhaps if there were more live humans involved in the process of choosing which items were available for purchase, it'd work a little better?

I sorta feel like the future is in smaller more boutique sites for specific things. Like Wayfair for home furnishings or Chewy for pet supplies. A bit like going to the local pet store instead of Walmart for your dog food.

Sounds a bit like Tettra? https://tettra.com/

Our company uses Quip for this sort of use case, but that's not really the same thing as what you're asking for.

I wrote an open-source cross platform app entirely in XUL + Javascript once and it was an awful experience - incredibly hard to debug and get all the bindings working right. Congrats to the Mozilla team on what has to be a very satisfying improvement!

It might be a bit difficult (but not impossible) to do that... the APK you download is not the APK that the developer uploads to the Play store. Usually, developers upload a "bundle," and then Google optimizes it by stripping out irrelevant media, i18n, etc., to deliver a smaller optimized APK to the end user.

So you can't just generate an MD5 of your APK and match it against the store description like the good old days when you could make sure your Linux ISO was legit, but there's probably some way to make it work?

EDIT: It might be possible to circumvent Google's bundling/optimizing by just uploading a regular old APK, but IIRC that was becoming more difficult these days. Unfortunately I'm not an Android dev expert.

BBC News, France 24, Al Jazeera, NPR..?

I've been using an eyeTV on an old MacBook Pro for this functionality but the support for it has gotten terrible since it was sold by Elgato to a Geniatech. I'll have to check this out - too bad it's not compatible w/ the tuner I already have.

IIRC Hibernate supports it (haven't used Hibernate in ages though).

Yeah, it seems like a tool like that wouldn't be hard to build... hmm... :)

If you're only using a small subset of FontAwesome (as I suspect many people do), I'd imagine at some point it'd make a lot of sense to use data-uri's to effectively embed them directly in an existing request, which would be faster than a CDN?

I saw a talk by someone from Smashing Magazine where they basically did this for a subset of their WebFonts (downloading the entire font asynchronously afterward), then they cached their WebFonts in LocalStorage, but it seems like it make even more sense for an icon font where you're using a very small subset.

I incorporated w/ a basic LLC pass-through back when I started freelancing just for the liability protection. I don't freelance (much) lately, but I've kept the LLC going in the meantime and run my very small side projects as part of that LLC. If you decide to do a side project w/ an LLC you might want to read up on "piercing the corporate veil" and be sure to keep your project's income and expenses separate from any personal stuff. I personally have a completely separate bank account, again from my freelancing days, and keep the two things separated paying myself w/ distributions occasionally. I'm no lawyer or accountant so I don't know if this is "enough," but I figure it can't hurt.

Here's a similar list on GitHub for Remote Work (with less of a Freelancer bent than the OP)... it's not maintained by me, I just stumbled upon it once a while back: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast...

My middle school had about 6 Model III's in the library around 1986. One of the science teachers taught a programming class during study hall on those things, so it was one of the first computers I ever programmed on. A year or two later my parents bought a Tandy 1000 and I was hooked.