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Sometimes saying "Yes" or "No" is the difference between having a job the next day or being unemployed. It would be different if everyone was declining unethical development, but there is surely someone to replace you. 3 months without work can really crush people - especially those who have a family to support with no safety net.

This isn't always about role models and being upstanding citizens. A lot of us in this field are fortunate enough to be able to decline work based on ethical stances. Anyone can say no. Can they afford the consequences?

>Thinking back to it, I wonder how I was able to use ssh and tools like grep, ps and kill but did not know how to operate basic vi ...

This has become a recurring thing for me to the point where I sometimes feel like I'm not as intelligent as I used to be. I'll need to look at requirements around older existing code, so I use git blame to see the commit history. It occasionally leads to me to some older code that I had written, and sometimes I marvel at how I was able to figure out or troubleshoot the issue.

One of the earliest examples in my professional career is using Threads. I had an academic understanding of threads. My practical knowledge around them was dubious at best. With the help of Stack Overflow and lots of web searching, I cobbled together a thread manager that can spawn separate threads for asynchronous web requests and kill a web request after X amount of time. I even made sure that error handling redirected gracefully should one of those threads get killed. That code (with no changes to the core functionality) still exists to this day.

I'm interested about your entire interview experience, but I really would like more info about this bit:

>I've been asked to do push-ups in an interview

What?

I've done it twice (since moving residences). I received paper spam almost daily at the first place. I contacted around 15 different companies to get it all sorted. The second place was only 5 or so.

About 8 years ago, I wondered the same thing. I looked at the footer of the first or last page of those to find a company name or website. Opting out was very simple for all of them.

Most websites asked for an address only. Some asked for a little more information, but to my surprise, it worked. I haven't received that ream of coupons in years, and in the off-chance that something new appears (usually something credit related), I've been able to opt-out just fine.

Then you're likely in a very different situation. A condensed version of the US situation is that telcos here were incentivised through subsidies to upgrade and update the networking infrastructure to deliver more speeds and bandwidth to existing customers as well as connection to more rural customers. By and large, the telcos did not do that in spite of receiving the money.

At the core of it, MLM is a legitimate business strategy to get a relatively unknown product distributed through a network effect.

I create a meal replacement smoothie. Some friends want to try it, so I hook them up. Then friends-of-friends ask about this smoothie that isn't available, so I let them sell the product to other people in exchange for a cut. I quickly realize that I don't have the capital for to materials. Product is moving too fast, so I ask them to pay up front for some of the materials.

The problem is that this benign relationship that helps both of us can be easily made predatory.

My point is that everyone else, even people who aren't related to me, are now paying the price too.

Take the park example. A group is protesting against my business decisions, so they follow me to the park where I run at 6 every evening. All the other park patrons now have to endure with your protest even though my business has nothing to do with my run at this park. Or the patrons at a restaurant. Or at a sports/concert venue.

You might be protesting me to change my business decision, but other patrons are the collateral damage caught in the cross fire. You might be suffering for what I have done. Why do these other people who are away from my place of work have to as well?

>Start picketing their house, where they eat, everywhere they go.

This sounds so obnoxious and short-sighted.

If I own a business that doesn't align with your values, it's one thing to boycott and protest my business. It's another thing to follow me around to a restaurant, dentist, or park to protest my business decisions. You're disturbing the enjoyment of those places for other people who might have nothing to do with my decisions. I suppose spouses, children and even extended family should have to endure this as well?

Am I going to pay $100/year for the same services and still get ignored when I get locked out of my account? Enterprise users already pay for Google services. It seems like recourse for them is no different than a free tier user (aside from blowing up on Twitter/Reddit/HN). Why would anyone want to pay for that?

> No shit sherlock! I admit that this is a contrived example, but you get my point.

Not a contrived example. There are an absurd amount of libraries that do this and call it documentation. There will be a nice, tidy example of how to use the library with a toy example. That's fine. The intro probably doesn't need to go that deep. Then I move to the technical documentation or API, and that's what they have to offer.

I don't know the intimate details of Windows SmartScreen, but aren't these basically the same thing? This seems to be a welcomed change while SmartScreen seems largely hated.

I understand what you're going for, but this is a legitimate complaint for console-to-PC ports and ports/remasters of older games. There are some ports that I have bought that never ran after multiple troubleshooting sessions.

I don't expect developers to test every combination of hardware in a given market. That's silly. I do think it helps buyers understand the risk in buying ported titles though.

This actually makes a lot more sense now. I was trying to figure out how this wins in comparison to a standard bar graph with markers. It says information density in the OP, but it never gives an example of how it consolidates information without obscuring it.

I once mapped my commute to work using multiple applications. 11 minutes via car, and 14 minutes via bike. However, there was no way to safely get from my house to my office. Even if I bit the bullet and spent 26 minutes on back roads, there were still major junctions that absolutely were not safe for bike traffic.

This isn't necessarily about Gimp, but this is a general problem with software developers creating tools for their domain.

It is easy to create a tool that is specifically tailored to your workflow, because for parts that may tough to code, you manually take care of it. It becomes harder to generalize that tool for public use. It is harder still to add good UX that lets novices pick it up and begin working.

It seems easy, because the ubiquitous tools, libraries and frameworks have years of planning and experience to learn from.

This is one of the main pain points of health insurance policies in the US that makes it nearly impossible to see if you're getting true value. A monthly premium, a copay per visit, a deductible, co-insurance/cost share and out of pocket maximums. Then factor in potential fees from an employer.

All of that aside, it's impossible to know how much you're actually going to visit the doctor aside from chronic ailments.

Somewhat off-topic, but that's how I feel about Sublime Text 3. It's fast. It's snappy. It handles MB-sized files with ease. I use it for text editing, small scripting (shell scripting, JS), repetitive text transformations that can be reduced to a macro, and things of that sort. Anything heavier goes into an IDE.

Very expensive. When you leave a lot of major metro areas, housing costs way less. There are 3+ BR homes on ½ acre of land (approx half an American football field or half a soccer pitch) in the South roughly 15 minutes from downtown areas for $125k - $175k USD. The cost of living in areas like SF and NYC are very high compared to the rest of the country. Housing is a major part of that cost of living hike.

I'm going to made a broad assumption. This is the only leverage that device manufacturers have to get people to upgrade. The tablet experience doesn't degrade the same way that phones do.

>That's impressive. Which Android tablet from 2014 or 2015 is still supported nowadays?

Nexus 7 owner here. No support, has always needed a better battery, and the sensors need a power cycle occasionally, but I still don't regret the purchase. I mainly use it for videos and reading.

> To be credible, it would be especially true for a competitors product.

At this point, I don't think it matter much to the typical consumer. Both camps have their fair share of zealots, and short of a press release stating something horrific, most people don't care to switch to the other side. iOS users claim superiority for their device features like iMessage, cameras, and UX, while Android users pretend like their device is for the technologically enlightened.

Credibility in a report like this is a non-issue for most users. It's not about responsible disclosure, facts, and the truth. It's about marketing.

You can but not necessarily will. It can be valuable (to an extent) to abstract certain parts of process away from new users or employees to aid in bootstrapping. That's the message that I get from GP's comment. What these tools can't do is replace experts that can get between the commands to diagnose the root cause of an issue rather than the taking stabs at the dark of a cryptic error message.

These tools for DevOps are no different than the tools and tutorials for developers. It's fine to copy-paste a tutorial that launches an entire webapp from scratch just to get your project off the ground, but if you don't eventually learn what that 10-minute autorun.sh script is doing behind the scenes, you'll fall behind.

Not everyone has nefarious plans. Some people want to simplify the process for both parties. You have valid points, but there's no need to be so aggressive.

>if you dont want to have a ton of traffic dont buy a house on a major road.

You're not wrong, but Waze directs traffic down roads that aren't considered main thoroughfares. That's part of the issue. There are paths to work that I would have never imagined had I not used Waze, and plenty of those routes take me through quiet neighborhoods.

A good example is the shunting yard I encounter. Most of the time, trains are short enough that if they stop, they don't block the crossing. There is a short way through a neighborhood that adds a couple of minutes to your commute (in either direction) that dumps you out on a highway just on the other side. There are also two longer routes (one for north, one for south) that goes around neighborhoods but adds 10-20 minutes to your drive time. I wouldn't call the short route a main nor major road, but I'm sure the residents who bought those houses more than a few years ago didn't know that the uptick in rail usage would cause much more activity on their street. You can even cut deeper into the neighborhood to save minutes by circumventing the line of cars.

On a related note, I stopped using Waze after watching someone roll through about 5 stop signs. The driver didn't hit anything, but that moment made me realize that I was part of a neighborhood nuisance that nobody asked for.

Sometimes it isn't a matter of people getting along. People don't want to see their pet project take the blame for a failure or completely replaced/defunded, Instead of rationally looking at root causes with facts, people may make emotional responses that are dressed up as logical suggestions (e.g. throw more memory and cores at the problem).

>Because as far as I can tell, conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression.

I have a hypothesis comprised of two ideas.

First, people have been encouraged more than ever to be expressive of their feeling and emotional states. That's the same reason there's a lot of self-deprecating humor with Millennials and Zoomers: it's a way to publicly cope with how you feel while also signalling to others that while everything isn't perfectly alright, let's laugh about it.

Second, people reacting to current events expresses feelings towards a particular thing. It is not necessarily an overall indicator of mood or mental health. I'm happy that it's my birthday. I'm upset that the other team won the championship. I'm sad that my grandmother died. Those things tend to be temporary emotions. I'm personally am upset with a lot of things the current US administration does, but it does not reflect my overall status. As I've seen explained: you can cure being alone by leaving your room and taking a stroll in a park; you can be lonely while surrounded by friends and family at your own birthday party.

I'll add in my two cents.

I had a sneaking suspicion that Amazon's product quality overall was in the toilet due to low qualify manufacturing and co-mingling genuine products with knockoffs in the warehouses, but I didn't really have anything to back me up other than products that I was unsatisfied with. Then HN threads and comments started mentioning the same thing. That stuff has been spreading like wildfire.

I'd argue that voices in unison on Twitter would have a farther reach that a niche community like HN. I know people in my circles have been even more skeptical of products sold on Amazon for these very reasons.

Their algorithm change really killed the recommendation engine for me. I don't mind new content for channels I'm subscribed to. I don't mind similar content to channels I'm subscribed to. I don't like revisiting YouTube after 3, 5, and 10 days later to see the same 3 videos recommended at the top. I don't want to watch a single video of prolific channel and then have their uploads clog my feed.

I want to explore. I want stuff that's familiar, similar and also unrelated that I would potentially like. Their "related" stuff is always so similar that it falls into "more of the same". You used to be able to explore without entering search terms via trending and categories, but the same channels and types of videos dominate those avenues. If you don't like the type of stuff there, you'll spend a lot of time being disappointed for maybe one video that was alright.

It's ok to recommend more of the same, but give me a way to see stuff that isn't the same.

Beneath the title of the submission, you should be able to see an option labeled past. That will highlight all of the duplicate entries.