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Your current pay rate isn't working — who cares what other jobs pay in comparison? Pay $10-15 more an hour and you will see more applicants.

It's crazy to think but people do drink the kool-aid, despite history.

I wasted a decade+ on my life arguing online all day. I see what coldpie says. It is legitimately a pointless waste of time.

Obviously I am still on HN so I still do it, but I definitely feel it's futile and it's a guilty pleasure. But even here, I've lurked or posted for many years too and I can't recall anyone changing their opinion on anything.

Stacked teams go home early all the time in WCs. France getting to the final again is an exception.

France went home early to Switzerland on penalties last year at the Euros (Mbappe missed a penalty!). That could happen again in 2026.

Getting to the final and winning the WC is very difficult, and will be even more so with 48 teams. France could've gone home earlier at many points, same as Argentina.

Even getting to PKs was partly luck. That handball penalty could've easily not happened or not been called.

While it's likely France will be a contender for the next decade or so, there's no guarantee of them making into to the final and winning. Plenty of stacked teams have gone home early before (even in this WC).

Our field rewards mediocrity though, so it's fine. A mediocre programmer at an enterprise company can make a comfortable middle class salary.

I pretty much re-read at least two or three books a year. I do sell books if I don't like them or feel neutral about them, but nowhere near ruthless. I still have a decently-sized collection.

School, at least in the US, gives you plenty of quick rewards. In my high school, we got report cards every other week. On top of that, you get homework and quiz results back quickly as well.

While the real reward is admission to a good college, you get the feeling that you are progressing towards that goal often.

Different taste I guess. I work in Python and always go out of my way to write "if thing is True" or "if thing is False" nowadays to make conditions clear and uniform.

In my experience, nowadays almost everything comes within 3-5 days, at least to NYC. Only exception is budget services like Media Mail.

Nothing technical, but want to keep up fitness and socializing.

It would be nice if we Latinos actually showed up to things on time though.

Take a shot every time a HN pedant types "Why don't you just X".

Someone that was a "rockstar" 10 years ago is probably in a high level IC or managerial role now.

HN is put together with lisp-flavored duct tape. It is not reddit or a Discourse forum with robust admin tools.

I had to email dang to change my username (quick response btw!).

I'm happy with VS Code for Python. It does everything I need and it's fast enough — never had any major bugs with it. I keep my setup simple though.

The people teaching in CS departments aren't interested in nor are knowledgeable in practical programming.

They'd need to hire people with experience in software engineering, but those people are busy making $200k a year.

My college had a couple night classes taught by people who worked in the industry and were semi-retired — I learned a lot of practical advice from them!

Lol. If the author had really tried to fix the internal tooling by himself in such a top-don huge corp like Amazon, he would've gotten himself laid off much quicker.

Of all the hyped React stuff I feel like RN really didn't pan out. I always had a gut feeling it wasn't worth it.

I only turn my camera on when we have a new team member to welcome or a very important meeting (perf reviews). Otherwise, I am faceless. Hasn't affected my career at all.

West Coast imbalance is due to industries (tech, military, planes etc.). India probably because families didn't want daughters.

Properly taxed wealthy people and corporations.

Discord is already considered a groomer hotspot, at least in joking. You can join servers based on interests alone and find yourself in a server with very young people.

Because it's the only major platform with a robust API.

In 2022 I don't think any other major service has a public API that lets you perform as many actions as the official website or app.

> Adjacently, why don't they allow non-first-party apps?

Because if they are the only option, then people will only use their app, which means they can do whatever they want with it and people will still use it. Additionally, they no longer have to maintain or work on a public API.

Even after Zodiac Age (which I liked fine, btw), the majority people still feel that way about XII's combat. In 2006, XII was a very hyped game (the last single player mainline FF was in 2001). In 2017, the people that hated XII didn't buy Zodiac Age, but the people willing to give it a chance or liked it did, so the discourse leaned positive.

I personally find it less engaging and very MMO-like - I'm not an MMO guy so I would not want to see the gambit system come back. I respect it however and am glad they tried something new. Its influences can be seen in later games.

Seems like everyone was in a hiring spree in 2020 and 2021.

Thing is no one's going to read a blog post that he would've linked to. As bad as they are, Twitter threads guarantee a way larger audience.

Not only is this common but it's how some companies have built their reputation and money, see Bluepoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluepoint_Games#Games_develope...

Reddit is home to hundreds if not more of porn subreddits, including some that the majority of people would consider vile/controversial (rape, race play, etc.). While Reddit sometimes goes on a subreddit-banning spree, they often don't touch the porn ones as they generate a lot of traffic and I guess revenue (via awards). They are also indirectly used for escort services.

I wonder if they'll be gone if they IPO.

Because most people are OK with getting a generous paycheck every two weeks for work they don't find too stressful. They can have fun outside of the 9-5.