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> Bored of boards? Switch to tables.

I love this. I don’t know why the “agile board” became a thing. To me it always seemed like a poor way to visualize what is a list of items.

My problem with agile boards is that they place tasks into separate columns to denote the task state, which often cuts off the task description (and can require a lot of horizontal scrolling). It also prevents using columns for other fields like the Assignee (as the table view in the new GitHub Issues does).

Unions will never take root in the tech industry because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed top performers :)

Even Amazon FC workers, and SV employees who had their wages suppressed by illegal collusion, it seems.

Agree. Some people have modeled this, and attributed emissions back to household consumption:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289373031_Environme...

For me, it's reducing me down to a set of "$X years experience with the $Y language/framework/tool" dot points.

Followed closely by "how much are you currently earning?"

> I don't know how much of the file is frameworks and how much is responsible for making editable code

I don't think very much. This is a contenteditable <textarea> element with a CSS transform to project it onto the screen in the photo.

From digging through the minified js, there's just a small amount of code that sets it up and puts some canned text in there (of which there are a few choices, but still not a huge amount).

I agree with the point about non common top level domains. I was considering getting firstname@lastname.email at one point, but decided against it because I imagine I’d have to explain the concept of the .email tld to a lot of non technical people.

You're not an outlier, many people (myself included) feel the same way.

> So I think it's awesome that some people want to do this work. I hope they do it full-time, and that lets me do my thing full-time.

If you're lucky and your company lets you pick whether you want to apply for a SWE role or an SRE role (like Google), then it will work out ok. But a lot of companies just used "DevOps" as an excuse to get rid of their ops teams and dump the work onto the dev teams.

Some places take it a step further and get quite toxic, and have a culture where there's a complete lack of sympathy for engineers who have a heavy oncall load. The idea is that their code is shit so they deserve to be woken up in the middle of the night, as some sort of punishment.

Other than digital forms?

The printer at work, which is free and convenient if you work in an office.

Or the one at the local copy shop, which is 10c a page. I probably spend ~$1/year printing out forms, there aren’t that many left…

> If you must use your phone, set it steady and level, in portrait orientation.

This may be good advice for Zoom, but is bad advice for Microsoft Teams.

When Teams displays your portrait-shaped video in on a computer, it crops the top and bottom to make it fit in the grid view, which has landscape rectangles. So what you're left with is a zoomed-in picture of your nose (or thereabouts).

> Video and audio quality need only be adequate...microphone in your laptop are sufficient

This one's questionable. I've got an external microphone and that the difference is huge. I would suggest people try to record themselves using a voice recorder app (there are websites that do this) and play it back just to test.

Good audio is probably more important than anything else IMO. Sure, some interviewers will have hangups about whether your home is tidy or whether you're dressed well, and these biases might unfairly change their assessment of your skills. But being unintelligible causes actual misunderstandings and slows communication.

On the other hand, where I live the marginal cost of an extra bedroom (to put a home office in) for a city apartment is about $1000 a month. In some higher cost of living cities it will be more.

It’s be cheaper out in the suburbs, but even then it might be another few hundred a month.

I’m surprised that people are talking about things like electricity costs when real estate costs are so much higher.

My favorite was:

> Facebook engineers rave about Phabricator, describing it with glowing terms like “okay” and “mandatory”

If you're looking for an issue tracker to use with Gerrit, that's open source and developed by Google, you could try Monorail: https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/infra/+/refs/heads/m...

Your friends might have to form a union to stop you from exploiting them through this app.

I had the impression that it was like a dynamic version of https://xkcd.com/891/

I wish that code smells were a sign that this is about to become dead, but where I work that’s not the case :(

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26908076

This is a much better way to do it imo. The 5 minutes at the end is usually just a courtesy, and the interviewer isn't expecting to get grilled.

Some (not all) hiring managers even treat this as an additional way to assess you, to see if you're the type of person who has done their research on the company and asks intelligent questions.

Much better to set expectations upfront and ask for half hour chat with the hiring manager (or even other team members such a tech leads) separate to the interview.

> Bitcoin is a way to convert cheap or excess energy anywhere in the world into money, much of it renewable or energy that would go to waste.

Is there somewhere where I can get good data on where the electricity for Bitcoin mining comes from? The article itself says this:

> And the electricity the Bitcoin miners use overwhelmingly comes from polluting sources.

Wearing a cloth mask in a community setting is like leaving your pants on while dry humping someone. It will reduce the chance of pregnancy :)

Yep, that's why I used the word "harder" instead of "impossible". At that point, the situation would be within my threshold of acceptable risk.

For that particular situation, I'd stay silent. I agree there's a risk, and that this is a problem.

Longer term though, I'd make sure we hire female investors into my VC fund. I'd take them along the journey of investing with this startup, and if I felt a female CEO needed to be replaced with a man, I'd discuss this with my investment partners. Any harsh feedback, if given, would be coming from all of us, and a mixed panel would be harder to accuse of sexism.

Maybe not, but Mercury predates LLVM by almost a decade, so I can see why they targeted GCC rather than LLVM.

A country where everyone is equally poor is going to have more corruption than a country with high inequality between the middle class people and the billionaire oligarchs.

I'm not saying everyone in Egypt is living in poverty, while no one in the US is. But the poverty rate in Egypt is something like 30%, vs 10% in the USA.

Having said that, the US has tipping, so there's that.

Work is also not the only place that is shut right now. In a lot of cities, it's not easy to go to meetups or bars to meet people and socialise.

I realized two things lately: 1) the vast majority of people hate their jobs, and 2) most people end up unhappy when they stop working. Life is a hard game to win.

Rio de Janiero, according to the article.

I probably hate it for different reasons from others on HN, but I move countries (and change numbers) and travel a lot, and SMS just isn't a reliable way to reach me. On top of that, attempting to log in to a website from a foreign country is often itself a trigger for 2FA, and exactly the moment when I'm not reachable by SMS.

This has bitten me a few times, sometimes in desperate situations. Like when I've needed to log in to Airbnb to message a host, transfer some cash from my bank account, access my frequent flyer account, etc. Far too many sites don't provide 2FA over email, or through an app like Google Authenticator - they can only do it over SMS.

Yeah, I know I could set up roaming. But it's an easy thing to forget, since I change phone numbers every couple of years (for both personal and work phones). And it's not always cheap.

It's also just a huge pain to have to go through and change every account I have, any time I change numbers. A lot of accounts that I only use occasionally are configured with one of my many old phone numbers, which don't work anymore. This usually involves a call to tech support to fix it.

We already have variable length days ;)

Same here, and I've also thought about writing the same app.

I've always wondered why our system of time is built around the point of "midnight", when what we really care about is "sunrise". DST is an ugly hack that we use on top of our midnight-based time system to roughly approximate a constant sunrise time.

Imagine if 00:00 was defined as the time that the sun rises. You could set your alarm to 00:00 and start work around 01:30 or 02:00 every day.

There'd be no need to worry about kids going to school in the dark, and the shift between summer and winter time would be continuous instead of an abrupt shift (so no more DST-induced heart attacks or traffic accidents). We now have computers that could do timezone conversions quickly and easily, and places like Iceland that go for months without seeing the sun could use an arbitrary point in time to represent sunrise.

Ancient societies have used systems of time that are based around the time of sunrise, e.g. the ancient Jews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_hour. For whatever reason, we ended up with our midnight-based time system instead.

To provide a financial system that can continue to operate without management by a central government, and without the logistical challenges of gold.