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Not like a government. Unless you mean to make unpopular speech illegal.

What I am referring to is a group that makes people accountable for behavior that is legal by the definition of the law, but is otherwise considered anti-social and should be discouraged through shaming or loss of status.

At a small enough level, you can maintain standards of conduct that are civil and fair. Once you reach a certain size, you lose the cohesion and accountability that makes someone feel like they need to be civil. Maybe part of solving that problem is making everyone part of a group where they are accountable and then making that group accountable to a larger group and so on until the largest group is accountable to society as a whole.

Some organized crime groups work this way as a way of controlling the incidence of violence, but the bonds between the members is stronger, in some sense than the bonds between casual acquaintances in the groups we form on a day-to-day basis.

I was thinking about how Facebook and YouTube are delisting and otherwise punishing creators of “fake news” and while it certainly seems a way of punishing and silencing unpopular thoughts and opinions, I do wonder whether a tightly controlled Facebook is the solution to society’s ills. I see people on Twitter being defamed for their speech or actions and I wonder if that is where we start to get our accountability back at a societal level? Where else do we have a group where everyone can be held accountable?

Being confident enough in yourself to say “I don’t know” and being open minded to learn new things.

oik (ɔɪk)

n

derogatory slang Brit a person regarded as inferior because ignorant, ill-educated, or lower-class

At my last job, my manager “tricked” me during the interview. Apparently, he wanted to see how I dealt with criticism. At least that is how the recruiter justified it when I expressed my dissatisfaction with the experience and my hesitation about working for that person.

That manager ended up being all about power trips and it made for a very toxic culture in his team and in interactions with others outside of the team. I left after less than a year despite not having a job lined up.

The only bright side is having found a position at a place that is the complete opposite.

Agreed. I like Nim for game programming. It is much productive than programming in C/C++.

Programming in F# was an enlightening experience. The biggest improvement came when I abandoned OOP altogether and gave myself over to programming in a functional style. Sadly, the job prospects are few and far between.

That is a really inspiring talk. I suspect I’ll be playing with Rust this weekend.

I’ve spent a heck of a lot of time listening to Music for Programming.

Recently, I stumbled upon the following as well and like them maybe a bit more:

- A strange, isolated place (ASIP)

- Headphone Commute

This is pretty much all I listen to nowadays while programming or commuting.

I suspect many of the AI companies floating around nowadays are really just faking it till they make it on the assumption that they will figure it out once they get big enough.

Saw the pine cone, but I don’t see the shawarma.

So to complete the thought, at which age should we expect developers to know nothing about new technologies? Also, are you involved in the hiring process at your company?

I just bought a monthly subscription for a Mac Postgres client called SQL Pro for Postgres. After wrestling with PgAdmin 3 and 4, I threw in the towel and paid for a proper client. It’s 5.99 a month and as much as I hate rent-seeking, it allows me to try the software before paying the 139$ lifetime license.

Wouldn’t that type of job make you really cynical about every other comment you read online? If your posts are hidden ads then what about the others?

There is a difference between an advertisement that is labeled as one and a disingenuous post on a site like this one where that type of activity is nonexistent.

While you might derive some short-term pleasure from the challenge of infiltrating people’s trust boundaries, it can’t be something to be proud of.

Unless it gives China reason to believe that such behavior is acceptable if their position on the world stage is high enough.

I have to imagine that at some point in life, we have to take responsibility for our actions. That is, regardless of how much the cigarette or liquor companies market to me, I’m not going to allow myself to become addicted to their products. I drink. I very infrequently smoke a tobacco product. I don’t consume them in excess because I know it is bad for me.

I suspect that we are going to see this type of movement more and more. It’s more signaling. It says, I don’t need to have social media to have a fulfilling life. My life is fulfilling. See pictures of me in [popular vacation spot]. See pictures of me having casual fun. But again, it’s not solving the true problem. If you needed the affirmation from random strangers, that won’t change.

“Everything in moderation”

She wants to go from the extreme of over-participating to the extreme of not participating at all. Somewhere in the middle is a healthy balance that she isn’t considering.

As humans, we have the ability to understand and improve on our failings. First you have to understand that in fact you allow yourself to reach a state of excess and then understand why.

If you aren’t able to approach the true issue then you will just repeat the same cycle the next time something social shows potential for excess consumption.

I agree that throughout the article, she continues to signal in a way that one would signal on IG or FB. It’s offputting because she seems to miss the point of why social media can be unhealthy.

He was recommended to us by an employee. He was capable and looking for a challenge so I delegated some core framework changes to him. Soon he was making changes that he was recommending himself and I began referring to his decisions and simply taking the time to understand his changes so that I could still hold the entire picture in my head.

The reason he was the best hire is because he is a force multiplier. I felt way more productive once he took on the work that I had not be able to entrust to anyone else.

I was walking through Manhattan on Sunday along Broadway north of Union Square Park and I saw at least 2-3 homeless or panhandlers _per block_ along the way. I was directly asked for money a few times as well.

I grew up in NYC. I spent high school and college in Manhattan. This is the worst I have seen it. There is no cushion for people living on the margins of society anymore. Not here, at least. When I was a kid, my mother was able to raise three of us on her one paltry salary. Good luck doing that on several salaries now.

And as someone with a good income and two earner household, I can’t help but feel that I am one recession away from struggle. I don’t have a home my parents will leave to me in flyover country that I can retreat to if shit hits the fan.

I’ve felt this same way over the years. Worse is that I may have grasped them, if only in the most superficial way, only to have lost those gains to time.

I think one has to take some time to understand the foundations upon which quaternions are based versus jumping right in.

I don’t know, but this sounds as bad to me as if they are actually listening. There are plenty of things I search for that I wouldn’t want to exposed to my friends or colleagues via this approach. I can think of ways to mitigate the violation of privacy, but that is what this is, if it exists.

What tech stack or skill set are you hiring for? I would be interested, though not ex-FAANG.

I encountered these for the first time visiting family in PA this summer.

They are very large, oblivious to people, and were absolutely everywhere. Several of them landed on my since I probably looked like a small tree in my dark shirt and pants. I don’t know if some predator will come along and balance out the equation, but in the meantime, it certainly did appear to be an invasion.

Using google with a vpn (PIA) was a non-starter. I usually had to solve 3 or 4 puzzles before I could get to results. Privacy is important to me and it is just as important for them to deny me it.

I came here to say this. This is a case of bad design and it goes beyond database constraints.

One, as you mentioned, the database schema seems to be driving the functionality, not the other way around.

Two, the application is a monolith in the worst way possible. Marketing and order entry are two completely different domains. Pigeonholing then into one means you don’t exactly capture the requirements of either domain correctly.

The discussion is a good one to have, but it needs to happen at a level above where it currently is.

A religious analogy is that in Christianity, it is not enough to be good. You also have to accept Christ as your savior. Without both of those things, you risk your eternal soul.

Here, the state is asking you to work within the laws they put in place and be a good productive worker by generating value, but you should also show absolute faith in the government and to prove it by achieving a high social score.

This was the reason for my downvote as well. “No it isn’t” is not very much to go on and saagarjha’s post didn’t merit pulling rank.

Don't let this one thing be the thing that stops you from making a game. These types of rabbit holes can cost you an entire project. Keep in mind that AAA games often have several engineers working on this type of component. Unless you have that level of funding, consider just using what works until it no longer scales.

Throw yourself in the deep end of the pool. As a technical co-founder, I had to attend an industry conference and man a booth. All fear evaporated by the end of it. You'll find that people are often looking to talk about their issues and their lives. Even better, most people will be sympathetic to your dilemma and will appreciate that you aren't coming at them from the slimy sales perspective. At least, that was my experience over the course of several days of the conference.