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> The UK is infamously known for not appreciating programming skills.

Not sure what the basis is for this. I'm a SWE with 10 years experience and I've been shopping around for countries to escape to for more than a year, I didn't really want to consider the US but currently my options based on salary expectations are only the major US cities.

Nowhere in the world that I've seen offers comparable rates to London/NYC/Bay area. You could include the rest of the UK in the statement I quoted, but then you'd have to also include the rest of every other country. I doubt you'll find a competitive tech salary for a non-remote job in Arkansas or Düsseldorf.

edit: Someone else mentioned finance salaries in this thread, I haven't worked for a company anyone here would likely know and this was all true before I moved to a finance-adjacent business

> JS the language isn't great but it's JS the culture that is the real problem.

This is the money quote of the thread for me. From the perspective of someone whose main language has been JS or TS for about 8 years, it's getting worse since some of the biggest names in the discipline just seem to be people with large social followings giving terrible advice. This advice is then eaten up by hoardes of bootcamp alumni who have been given a loose understanding of React and unleashed on the world as "junior developers".

But maybe I'm just cynical.

I don't know if there is a "main reason" for all instances. For me, on this kind of project at one of the Biggest Co's, it seemed a bit like the safety net point you make and it creeps into everything. There didn't seem to be much pressure because the project was never going to be pulled and had infinite money. This seemed to manifest in "good people" (my opinion) working at about 40% capacity and new hires having a background in companies more like BigCo than InternalStartup.

Edit: To clarify my last point, my assumption being that the point of InternalStartup was to allow deviating almost entirely from BigCo's approach to everything and that those people from OtherBigCo would be less likely to have that mindset.

To be fair all Apple products do come with the handy caption "Designed by Apple [for] California"

I had a similar experience with a company called RateSetter.

- They email me some marketing

- I respond with DSAR

- They acknowledge receipt of DSAR

- 6 months pass

- I bump the email thread

- They respond saying they have deleted my data as per my request (I requested access, not deletion)

- I point this out

- They apologise and offer £100 to drop the complaint

- I refuse and complain to ICO

- Obviously nothing happens

GDPR is toothless.

I also missed it, I'd say it's not a good example. Apple is not a generic word, it's very specifically about fruit or tech which are concepts with little-to-no overlap. Element is a word that appears throughout life and technology with both specific and generic usages which will often closely relate, in a confusing way.

I had been thinking recently as I've been using Firefox more that Google maps had got clunky. With a little fiddling prompted by your comment, it turns out Maps sniffs specifically to reduce fluid animations on Firefox (and probably some other browsers).

Relevant but not exhaustive:

https://monzo.com/help/legal-stuff/information-facebook

You're right, it does assume a certain screen width and doesn't scale at all in any way. I was also thinking when I returned to HN from the article that I couldn't actually read HN because the white-on-black was such an extreme colour scheme, my eyes took about 10 seconds to adjust.

My DoH in 71.0 and 72.0 is off by default, I haven't changed those settings.

I assume mentioning AL is a joke. Hadn't heard of Kabbee before though, doesn't look outrageously expensive for one of my common journeys.

Cost is only one, relatively small, part of Uber's USP in London. The general shittiness of Black Cab drivers about taking you anywhere close to the edges of zone 1 is the biggest issue for me. Night tube only runs on Fri/Sat nights so I literally couldn't get home from a late week night without Uber.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Uber riders blocking taxi ranks if Uber actually stopped operating, Black Cabs serve very few Londoners.

Edit: Not "literally couldn't get home", I would just have to spend over an hour on a night bus.

This was optional on the ESTA form when I completed it less than a month ago, maybe it's different for different countries.

Not a good direction but also not enforced in my experience.

The audience for the product is not the same as the audience for the website.

It's been obvious from the beginning that the aggressive idealogues decided she was a mascot for progress, regardless of her willingness to participate.

It's a shame that the genuinely colossal achievements of Katie and her colleagues are being trivialised by this toxic "progressive" coverage.

> If however only or predominately females encounter attitude and males dont, then it is likely gendered issue. And vice versa.

Every frontend dev I've ever worked with has received this same treatment, so I would find it difficult to believe it's even predominantly females; but maybe I've met a lot of exceptions.

I'm not sure if this is satire or nonsense.

> ...women (and men) who feel their roles as front end devs are considered less...

> I didn't see it as a gendered issue until it was brought to my attention by female co-workers...

Female co-workers bringing an issue to your attention doesn't make it a gendered issue and you literally refer to it as a non-gendered issue, though parenthesising men.

As a full-stack JS dev, having come from a .NET background, through a pure frontend job, to a full-stack position, I regularly have to shoulder banter from Scala colleagues' (both male and female) snark at Javascript - primarily because it's existed for a long time and been a barely justifiable mess for most of that time.

It's fair to say GS has credibility for running a profitable business, not necessarily doing so while adhering to any given ethical (or in some cases legal, since 2008) code.

Also, as pointed out elsewhere in the comments, Malaysia has changed government quite recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Malaysian_general_electio...

It feels to me like Bluetooth consumer products are a lot like consumer printers; for 90+% of users they will be obsolete before they "just work" to any layperson's definition.

Every Christmas, you will have to fix your parents printer/wireless home device which hasn't worked for months and won't work in 2 months.

If you didn't use JS for date pickers, you didn't have very inclusive browser support - especially for something like a healthcare website. [1]

Were the designs and layout of these SPA and HTML5/CSS3 website also identical?

[1] https://caniuse.com/#search=input%20date

Paying attention to what other people think is vital for converging on an agreed "right thing to do" as the social challenges become less obvious and more complex. This exercise requires proponents of ideas to engage in civil conversation, something which those given the most air time or who shout loudest seem completely incapable of. The natural response to this level of aggression is disengagement in the interest of self-preservation or spending one's time wisely.

This would be my complaint having had a quick look at Fastmail. Their mail client provides only the most basic of email functionality - folders, filters, contacts etc. It seems like you're paying a monthly subscription for privacy when you may as well host your own if you don't need any features beyond what IMAP offers as standard.

They seem to be using Na as a justification for using N, since the other chemical symbols don't match the acronym either. Unless they're just using the first letter of each symbol, either way it's not a great name.

If she were doing an interview with playboy you may expect them to dig into her love life and other such things but she is an engineer interviewing with motherboard.

It seems the player needs to click words to make them vanish, while letters continue falling - this is the first thing that should be changed.

I would argue the only significant area for improvement is in fact the compactness. There is too little whitespace on the listing pages to easily read the links, the fonts are small and the lines of text are too long. The latter can be fixed by browser zooming-in, if you want to make your users take actions to read your content, the former needs css.

I don't know what you mean; I've just been working on 3 Node lambdas, deployed by CircleCI to AWS infrastructure provisioned by terraform which take a CSV from an email and output multiple CSVs.

> It tends to mean i don't know about volcanos eruptions till hours after everyone else - but I usually get something like "did you know volcano/Bourdain has died" from a human within hours.

A friend of mine was telling me how he doesn't actively consume any news media anymore and that it hasn't affected him because he always hears it from people within a reasonable time frame anyway - and has the ability to figure out what is fact and what is the sharer's individual bias/spin. Does it really matter if you're unaware of all those things that have no bearing on your life for a few more days/hours?

I haven't managed to cut it out completely but I definitely reduced my consumption after realising its very limited value.

It's far more useful to spend time consuming more abstract literature exploring the cyclical trends of human nature; equipping yourself to analyse the news of the day in the context of humanity and human history.

The fact that the Microsoft of the past 2 years is "getting better" at something they've tried to do for many decades is a great reason to be worried about them taking ownership of a product they are unfamiliar with.

e.g. "GitHub is really starting to improve again" - Devs in 2050