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Future investors would avoid the company?

All managers I'm sure! /s

I don't think backend people deny frontend is hard. The problem is frontend is hard for all the boring reasons.

correlation vs causation

To be clear, the staff in coffee shops do ask you if it's your first time and give you guidelines for how to use them safely, and usually informative leaflets are attached. At least in tourist places.

You're completely missing the point. The code style doesn't matter as long as it's consistent across the codebase.

Being familiar with this situation, I can tell you that this type of manager is only viable/typical in the outsourcing business.

Somehow the room I imagine never seems to actually fit the description well.

Especially if the text adds details later, I won't be able to add those in most of the time.

For example, for the fragment you quoted, there is no carpet in my room no matter how hard I try to add it. And the walls are made of wood.

Maybe HN should tag the posts automatically and then present a personalized homepage with topics based on your usage history like upvotes,clickrates, time spent reading the comment section and other engagement metrics?

I realise building and maintaining such a recommendation engine is not cheap, but a funding model can surely be found with such a big audience e.g. ads between comments.

Yeah... no.

If german administration is a shit-show then administration is a shit-show everywhere. There are always people who will say "the 'administration' should know better!!!".

People have too high standards for leaders. They are also human.

I bought UV blocking glasses and the purchase has been a life-saver.

Like the GP I had serious eye-strain issues that caused headaches and photosensitivity. The new glasses eliminated the issues almost entirely.

I am not 100% sure though if this is caused by the filter or by my previous pair being really bad.

Now consider what you and the sibling comment say in the context of a representative democracy.

How many of the people that truly have no food to eat will go to vote?

Or, how easy are they to corrupt?

I saw a loading spinner and immediately went back.

Wild plants growing around in a city, the horror!

The best programmers I know never had a portfolio.

It does get kind of ironic if you realize that streaming is getting more and more popular. I guess that's a much more cost effective form of entertainment?

> 171 were randomized to the Proxalutamide arm and 65 were in the placebo group.

Maybe I'm missing something but, how does that happen? I'd expect a 50/50 split

dang, should remove the misleading title, the article has nothing to do with any google engineering director except for a quote

> there’s almost zero reasons for it to go down since it’s not really tied to anything tangible

Or... every reason?

I definitely hear you. As a heavy gamer myself, and a person who likes to do things fast to avoid slowing down my train of thought, our current tools are insanely slow.

The researchers telling me I don't notice 100ms delays are smoking something. Yes, human reaction time is 200ms on average but we process information much faster than that. Moreover, the delays make it impossible to do "learned" chains of actions cause of the constant interruptions.

Hackers typing insanely fast and windows popping up everywhere in movies? The reason why that looks very unrealistic is just that our tools do not behave like that at all.

Ah but that's the krux of the issue. If we're talking about mastery over "programming", can you really only count time spent coding?

That would be pretty dystopian.

I've had similar problems and I've concluded the main driver was stress after all.

I think spending days on planning is really valuable. Spending weeks is counterproductive in most cases.

This is the perfect summary. We can all be 10x for some period of our lives. The hard part is to not judge your coworkers when you're in that period.

> Couldn’t we have stayed more civil in the first place?

I feel like there's a disconnect. Movies may not depict it so, but curses and profanity have always been a part of language. So the "shift" is happening in the opposite direction the way I see it.

Automattic is not in the same league as FAANG, it doesn't really apply.

> things and lead similar lives yet our senses can be so different to a point where something fatally painful can be so pleasurable to others.

If you ever try even a small amount of psychedelics you'll be amazed how different the world can feel just by modifying your senses a little bit.

Valce is also probably not for sale.

PHP mostly competes with Ruby, Python and Node in the web space.

It is generally faster than Ruby and Python.

It's not the mess that javascript is.

Has a sane community with a wide range of well-maintained packages.

Symfony is easily a rival to Django and RoR. At that point it's a matter of preference, but Symfony is top-notch quality. I wouldn't care for the ActiveRecord usage in RoR for example.

I'm not sure that people saying low barrier to entry know what they're talking about. It's the same barrier to entry as for any other scripting language. If you're telling me about FTPing files: this is not how the PHP community has been working for the last ~10 years.

All those people commenting "I have no idea who would start a PHP project today" live in a bubble, probably based in SV.