It breaks my heart thinking about the little kids walking on the way to school before the break of dawn here in Japan. While my grown ass is still in bed they are up and marching to school like good little troopers. Why can’t those kids just sleep! I have a soon to be 2 year old and I’m freaking out just thinking about what he has to to through, waking up super early.
Couldn’t agree more. Homework was something I dreaded all the time. I skipped most of my homework whenever possible and my grades reflected it. For some odd reason I did well on tests, possibly by cramming the night before - a skill that did well by me through college. Doing well on tests got me by enough to get a 3.4 gpa through high school despite skipping most of my homework. When possible I did copy from other kids and sometimes did some assignments in class before the homework was to be turned in. I’d literally sit there writing things down in the 10 minutes before we were to hand in our assignments. My algebra teacher noticed this and just shook her head but seemed to be totally fine with it - I think deep down inside she knew there was too much homework.
I’m from US and live in Japan. I know first hand about the lack of availability of mental health services and even the basic acknowledgment of depression as an issue that requires treatment. I would wager a large majority of these recluses are suffering from treatable depression.
What I can’t stand is the default practice of recording phone calls. “This call may be recorded for training purposes” with no way to opt out. Sure, I could hang up but what if I absolutely have to make that call. I don’t want my calls recorded by default, I want to be asked and the answer will always be No. If you are using my calls to make your company money by training your staff, I want to be compensated.
The same can be said of many online service companies who use outside expertise to do the actual work and mark up their services to cover the cost and essentially profit for by talking to the customer. Welcome to the real world.
I think it’s just an indication of how much more addicting technology is than people care to admit. To say that there was nothing fun to do back in the olden days would be false. These days there are way more options that are much more addicting and gratifying. Why play in the park when you can blast people online. Games are designed to build addiction and sure enough it works - kids would rather fame than do anything outside.
I don’t know if there is any easy way around this. I personally struggled with gaming addiction for the longest time and kept lying to myself that I was in total control. Looking back I feel sorry for all the kids who are sucked into the world of gaming now, especially when adults who grew up gaming themselves are nothing wrong with it. I tuned into a random twitch stream one time with this grown ass guy playing some mmo and his little kid came in the room and asked daddy to play with him. He just dismissed the kiddo and told him to go find mommy. Really fucking sad.
This is definitely not true or long form sales pages wouldn’t exist, nor engineers would bother reading details to make sure the product will work for them. It al depends on the audience. My guess is the person who wrote it wanted attention.
Indeed, I too was shocked to see them come up with a patch solution vs recognizing that perhaps the plane design and the oversized engine are the areas that need attention. Sorry Boeing, some things don’t blow over. I think the public took note and the damage is already done. The best thing they can do now is own up to their mistakes. I have a feeling it will take all the lawsuits combined to make any impact though.
Seems neither the FAA nor Boeing can be trusted. How can anyone without expert knowledge have the final say so in technical certification? It sounds like FAA just chose to cut corners and passed the problem down to the company. Do family members of victims have a solid case for lawsuits here? I hope they do because this process has to change if the people are to trust in those who are supposed to be looking out for safety.
Much of the niceness in japan is superficial. I don’t know one person who doesn’t gossip about each other behind their backs. I attribute this to boredom, loneliness and overall lack of fulfillment.
It’s affiliate marketing content locking. I did this in the past but not at this scale. My guess is millions are being made by a network or a very smart and ambitious Russian.
The same thing is happening with PDFs. Google any popular business or finance book and append pdf and see the results for yourself. Google has been gamed by affiliate marketer - my guess it’s the same guy who was outed a while ago and had his address shared online. It was a HN headline not long ago.
I have experience this exact issue described in the article so many times. It is so frustrating when trying to reset passwords because other than the time stamp, each email looks identical.
It feels like there is an online service business idea in here somewhere. Some sort of way to verify the items that impact your life every day are safe and updated.
Not to mention you have a fairly good chance of surviving a car accident whereas a plane falling out of the sky is almost ways bad news for passengers.
I use webflow regularly. Recently they updated the UI but didn't bother addressing the hundreds of other requests for obvious missing features. If anyone here has the capacity to make a dumb webflow - you'll make a lot of money. Include all the basic building like drop-down menus, tabs, carousels etc... And make some freely available premium themes (I can help with this) and you have yourself some loyal users myself included.
Nothing is more infuriating than a UI redesign to fix what's not broken.
I was confused too. When it worked on non Firefox browser it was a pleasant surprise. I'm guessing this is just to promote Firefox browser. Wouldn't surprise me if they added higher file limit after usage grows and with it a paid tier :)
Simple: scope creep. When companies want to expand the scope I don’t want to argue with them or say “no, look here” or even to sign another contract. With a weekly rate I just work as long as needed to complete the work. There is trust involved of course. If scope changes, no problem- I won’t make any fuss whatsoever and nothing needs changing, we just work the same we have been. Edit: I should also note that I have a much easier time closing leads when they see pricing broken down vs full quote up front. It’s the same price basically unless scope changes but psychologically it’s easier to accept.
Sure, If you make it your own policy to work on one client at a time, you could have downtime that you still charge for. It doesn’t have to be this way though, retainer does not mean you have to be limited to one client. If you feel guilty that you don’t provide enough value for the work you do, go ahead and charge a half daily or a daily rate, and work on other projects on other days. Personally I will take on 1-2 clients max because that is all I can handle at a time without outsourcing parts of my process (have yet to try this). Essentially you can end up with 2 higher paying “jobs” and charge twice or 3 times what your colleagues are making in-house. It all depends on how you want to do things - you’re the boss.
It depends on what you do. As a developer you may explore a day rate or a half day rate. I am a UX consultant and my minimum billing increment is 1 week. If the scope is less than a week I simply do not accept the work.
There’s nothing wrong to work for an employer if it’s easier on your life. Some people prefer solo for whatever reason - whatever works for you ya know...
It’s been said many times on HN, but if you freelance and in case you missed it: 1. Double or triple your rates (if you are fairly new to this you’re likely not charging enough. 2. You are now a consultant. You don’t provide a service, you provide solutions (if you are not sure what you are solving, figure it out). Forget the term freelance and anything associated with it. 3. Stop charging hourly. Try day rate, week rate, bi-weekly. Experiment. 4. Be picky. Fire clients if you have to. You are not a tool, you are a business, act the part.
Not having to deal with the politics of the office or working with people you don’t like. Setting your own pay. I dunno, those seem like good ones to me.
My condolences to your family. But seriously, this is concerning and I feel terrible for the people that lost their lives and their families. What a terrible way to go. I cannot even imagine.