robertAngst

Since the article sucked, I'll give the 2 best engineering advice I've received from 2 different senior engineers:

>Remember when you'd go to eat at a restaurant, and the kids menu has that game where 'What's the difference between these two pictures?' That is Reverse Engineering. You have a part that works, a part that doesn't work. What is different?

>"You just kind of figure it out". Not sure how to start/solve a problem. Figure it out. This means researching, doing math, proving, and testing. And as I've done this more and more, math is really really useful to prove things.

Awful article for this reason.

Learned nothing.

Do people treat you like a foreigner? That would be my concern about leaving America.

I have many friends who moved to Europe who say the locals never let them speak their language and keep their distance.

No kids yet?

We loved the location we were in, but the school districts were awful.

Right?

I suppose that is why it doesnt exist anymore.

>You could say "out of thin air", but its really "out of social expectations that you pay your debt eventually"

You missed that- Since its 'out of thin air', the interest on this debt is artificially low.

When interest rates around 0, things that would otherwise be a bad decision, become feasible. Or, things that are a good idea, are sold and the cronies who get the loans make even more money.

Don't just say No.

You need to explain why.

Also, I agree that the person you replied to was oversimplifying.

As I've read more about this topic, what if the lady was going through a divorce + busy?

I know that doesnt absolve from responsibilities, but I cannot imagine that experience.

This affects me daily.

I run a popular website that has saved hundreds of thousands of people money and time. Its been cool, but I lose about 1-3k/yr.

Often people tell me to run ads, or put affiliate links, or whatever.

The issue becomes, I wouldn't be saving people money.

The entire purpose of Efficiency Is Everything is to help people. If I'm shilling some crappy mutual fund or promoting an expensive protein shake- I failed my purpose.

/rant, but I do not think I will be profitable unless I contradict my original purpose.

> but at what point does posing for glamour shots take away the fun of enjoying the places you go? Why do people follow these people? I don't get it...

That is exactly it, it becomes a job.

Its not really different than watching cable TV and hearing someone review a travel destination.

>This can't be healthy.

I think this is 'grass is greener on the other side' effect. What makes traveling and growing your influence unhealthy?

Its that we want this ideal lifestyle, and are jealous(?).

Whatever the case, most people are not making even 6 figures off their instagram accounts by just posting pictures. OP's article talked about offering an additional service.

Paid followers are a real thing.

Check out these people's website/youtube on Alexa(or similar). They are dead.

Or check out the comments and see how fake/active the posts are.

>Yet for me, IG feels so fake

Its pay to play for sure. You don't get shown unless you are providing Facebook with money.

This is why the content feels fake. Only highly profitable instagrammers can afford to pay to promote.

This reminds me of the confidence Alt-coiners had in their alt coins.

>I don't see any downside to spending money on projects like this.

Would you rather spend billions of dollars on unproven energy solutions OR anti-cancer research for poor children?

Ask questions like this, resources need to be allocated.

Although, given the US government, probably spent on the military.

>it seems odd to me that academic prestige isn't controlled by the universities. you'd think that that's something they can create on their own.

The older I get, the less I respect published papers, and academia.

Politics over proof, it keeps showing its ugly face in results, in the process of picking a topic to study, and who gets the research money.

You say this is a good thing, until you go to Europe and get treated terrible service.

I was seriously confused why our waters werent getting filled up, despite walking 10+ miles before noon. Or why the waiter wasnt coming to our table to take our order. Or why the waiter didn't check on us.

After sharing this story with locals, it seems their expectations are far less for restaurants.

I don't have much of an opinion on how to pay waiters, but Italy did not impress me.

Careful, we don't want to start using the word Monopoly wrongly.

When real monopolies exist and are dangerous, we need to be able to tell them apart.

This is one of those things that as a Dev, fantastic.

As a customer, meh, less competition.

That said, there seems to be tons of competition on various formats, web competes with podcasts, mobile apps, and I would even say websites like Medium/youtube.

I disagreed with that point, thinking through things means not making the mistakes later.

Presenting your data should spark questions or proposals or agreement regardless how much time you put into it.

I agreed with the first 4 points, but the last one seemed weak.

Life is good today, people are panicking about tomorrow.

Tech moves too fast, I dont think we will need to worry about a monopoly when FAANG stock starts falling.

As an aside- I do not like desktop linux or anyone that defends this awful status quo.

Its desktop, the user should not have to type anything ever ever ever. The community is toxic and harmful to the future of linux by telling everyone that terminal for the average user is okay.

I love my ubuntu server, its the greatest thing I've ever used. No problems ever.

>I can't really reply to anything else you posted, there's reasonable counter-points to all of it.

The reason these things have happened is due to the insane pressure from upper management.

Sure they can fire the guy who tried recruiting me, but that person was likely under insane pressure to get new bodies to replace the many people who left Tesla.

There is a reason these things are happening.

>it seems seriously overpriced to me.

I havent bought Apple products, but the obvious anti-consumer and anti-developer practices are a no brainer.

Tag for interest, I have no interest in using Apple for anything, but I need to compile my RN app.

Apple products are anti consumer and anti developer.

I consider using Apple products on par with using Keurig, its bad capitalism.

> considering that you get a Mac ecosystem

People consider this a good thing?

EDIT: To clarify, the cost of their proprietary devices mean spending an additional bit. Every other company uses USB C now.

2012 model work for iOS programming? I'm writing in react native, hopefully I only need to hit compile and never have to use an apple product.

Do you read Reddit and post their complaints like its reality?

The US has no problem with ambulance quantities, but why take an expensive taxi ride?

Even if it was 'free', its not really free.

I completely agree that the US medical system is corrupt, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

But you have seemingly no understanding of how insurance works or how deductibles work.

I was a big Tesla fan until-

>A Tesla recruiter called me, high pressure tried to get me to move to California, ending in- "So you don't want to do anything important with your life?"

>Elon's marketing team spam reddit and manip upvotes. This was my first wakeup call that we were being tricked

>That Tesla =/= getting to Mars in 2023.

>The Chevy Bolt was car of the year. Tesla's will be unreliable for ~10 years until they work out design related issues. (This is unavoidable for every new car company)

>The horrid conditions of employees, seems like we are taking a step back in employee conditions in favor of 'progress'.

>Manipulation of news, numbers, etc... make the company seem unethical.

I still have Elon as my wallpaper, with a motivation phrase telling me to "Get to work". But I've sobered up, he was a cult of personality.

Ive been doing the 'buy 2' high quality products instead of the 'buy 1 apple product'.

Now, I dont actually buy 2 products, but I simply replace with the latest high end product when I want/need to. I am unsure whats cheaper and better quality.

Im curious in studying this for comparison(I run a consumer website), what are your quality metrics for service and warrenty?

So far I have:

>Time to fix/repair(downtime)

>Cost/deductible/copay

>Annoyance(losing contacts/photos/etc...)

Can you think of anything else?