samsonradu

Yes, I fully understand your point and I don't think anyone will take my comment as an advice, it's just my opinion.

The problem is quite complex and hard to solve in one shot.

Not sure if your analogy is correct. If someone wants an all white company is discrimination. But if someone wants swedish speaking people and they all happen to be white it's no longer a problem.

Same with the tenants. I might prefer to rent my property to a woman because she takes care of the place better and is less likely to throw a party. Is that a discrimination?

Point is if there's an objective reason behind it then it's hard to consider it discrimination, even if it segments the groups on race/gender/religion.

Probably wasted time on your behalf.

Exactly, just took the 2 MYR ticket since I had no clue how much I should prepay.

Same happened to me after a long flight to Malaysia. Going from airport to KL, meter shows 90MYR and the guy asks for 150MYR adding up tolls, night tax etc. What should I do, fight the guy for 10EUR? Note it was a licensed cab booked from the Airport counter.

Used Uber for the rest of my vacation there and it was great.

I have been using a 15" laptop for dev work for quite some years now. I have an external monitor next to it but most of the time it stays off, only using it to test things on large resolutions.

There are a few reasons for that:

1. It protects my eyes. I felt much more tired with 2 displays glaring at me all day.

2. Most of the time it's just useless information sitting idle on my second screen. I rarely need to work with 2 windows at the same time and when I do (fe. when coding while reading the docs) I can just fit them on one screen. Though I usually just switch tabs in order not to copy paste and try to understand what I'm reading first. I try to keep my mental load small, focus on what I am doing. I for one I'm not that good at multitasking (and after reading Thinking Fast and Slow I understand I'm not alone) so whatever is on that second screen will steal attention from what I'm focused on.

3. There is really not much "realtime" work I need to do so 1 min or 2 until I check my email/Skype is acceptable.

Anyone else doing the same?

How about anti-dumping laws? How is that applied in the US?

Isn't "burning money until you kill competition" inherently illegal?

I assume Uber has the same issue.

Besides all the good technical advice already mentioned here I'd like to add some things I find very important, as I'm watching over the career progress of 2 junior developers.

Take VERY good care of your mental and physical health. Do not overwork yourself. It's a marathon and you will overcome most challenges with time and discipline. You don't have to be a genius/prodigy.

Don't put too much pressure on yourself - and it's hard not to due to all the praising of highly successful programmers - but nobody is an overnight success.

Enjoy your time off.

Can't read arabic :)

Etihad goes further and plays a short prayer before take-off. You can check where Mecca is at any time on your screen.

Not sure where I have read it, nor can I confirm but I remember they also try to avoid scheduling flights during prayer hours (if possible)

> Knowledge about their actions does seem to have an effect on the country.

Can you give me an example?

Take the latest Wikileaks Vault thing for instance. That was a leak that created public discourse, what was the effect? I still don't trust my iPhone and pretty much most of the software I use, were any 3 letter agency looking to get me.

Indeed, who knows. But would it benefit the country if they released their ops reports?

Not that I want to defend any intelligence organisation but war is not a binary thing. Other countries might be harming your country even without you knowing it. Agencies try to prevent that from happening.

Could be that they're hiring.

Makes me feel bad also, until I think of the living costs in US big cities. I would really like to see an European version of this thread. Probably the bar would be set somewhere around EUR 100k?

I'm not sure this would help, as the sibling comment pointed out. I only see one solution on the long term. It's focusing on the education of our young generation, and here I'm looking at kids from a very young age.

During the past 2 decades Romania has been neglecting education big time. Teachers had terrible salaries, corruption was present even in our highest ranked colleges and institutions. Education quality has been degrading throughout this entire time and we need to make that a priority.

Then there is also the psychological aspect of it. We need to make school and education look cool again. We need to use proper role-models for children, like the Americans use Silicon Valley stars to show how success looks like. Meanwhile every time I turn on the TV here I see high-profile millionaires, going to or out of prison, giving preaches about what do to in life and how to outsmart others. These are the popular figures presented by our media.

Mostly, in Romania, education was never cool, work was never cool, paying taxes was damn right stupid and making millions of $ illegally was regarded with admiration. If we can change that our future looks better already.

Firstly I'd like not to attack any party in paticular, all have done bad things in the past years.

Life seems easy when you are young and educated but for old people it is hard to keep up with the pace of technology, even if they are educated. The abrupt transition to capitalism didn't help either. This is a common issue in many countries, not just ex-communist ones. Old people need a safety net and Romania has it broken.

Right, they get older, poorer (since our retirement plans are terrible) and in need of the socialist measures which our left party promises.

I had a very positive feeling about the people's atitude and what they achieved by protesting, considering that the government did a terrible thing from all points of view. There was probably no other way to roll it back but for how things went. However I'm concerned though that the majority of people misuse their voting power and make bad choices. It happened that the oposition wanted to stop this and all the media was encouraging people to go out and protest. Think what happens when both parties/coalitions agree on a bad law/resolution and it all goes under the table.

Point is this is not the way to go on the long term. We were lucky this time but it's gonna fail soon. We need to educate people better in hope that they will cast their vote properly.

I think parent is making a good point. See, in corrupt/poor countries when someone becomes a billionare he does not get the benefit of doubt. The entire legal and executive systems are so rotten and shady that there is no legal way for someone to become that rich unless they play dirty regardless of their capabilities, luck, education or great ideas.

I usually have a Comments first approach. Read the top 3-4 comments and if I find the subject interesting I read the post. Sometimes the comments are so interesting though that I have to read them all before clicking the post. Sometimes I skip the post.

Most of the value is in the comments, specially during these times where a lot of content on the web has a commercial purpose.

They can't, it's a political statement. It will likely not happen but for a small range of high-value products.

I happened to have the Security Notifications on for a while now. I see the message: "X's security code has changed." pretty often. Under what circumstances does a new pair of encryption keys get generated?

Exactly, imagine if Google sends the page content after you log into your bank account.

Also the american culture is very wide spread through media. Watching Hollywood, music, sitcoms, talk shows, stand ups etc. ever since I was 10 yo and able to understand english definitely helps absorbing the culture even from eastern Europe as myself. Visited the US for 2 weeks and really felt as if I was no stranger at all.

Responsive website ahead of its time

True, the email address used when paying would most likely be matched to your account.

I agree, in the end probably everyone is identifiable and it depends on who's after you. I meant it on a more "superficial" level eg. them not having your clear plain personal data.

I m sure there are a ton of throwaway emails, names and such. There are a lot of people surfing porn on the web and many remain anonymous. The problems come up when billing is involved, they need to reveal their true identity.

> Also, when you have a mostly physical demanding job, you can easily socialize with your friends afterwards, with dev work you're brain dead by the end of the day.

This worries me, happens to me lately also. It's probably a pattern that our brain learns from programming, to optimise and simplify everything and actually ignore what does not matter. Probably this translates into our behaviour outside work, where your socialisation skills suffer. What I noticed is that the brain can be resurrected (partially) by exercising. Perhaps we could use the experience of more socialising jobs every once in a while but ... we have our golden-handcuffs.