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I’m in Australia and people are starting to get back into it. Cannot say about Bay Area as it’s been a while since I’ve visited.

Well depends on where in the world you are. Preferably something in person of course.

I used to be in a situation like that. Couldn’t change positions due to a visa requirement and management took advantage of that.

What helped me:

- Have a light at the end of the tunnel, i.e. issuance of my permanent residency which would put an end to the suffering.

- Have a VERY rigid separation between home and work. 2 laptops, 2 phones. As soon as 6 o’clock hits work phone gets turned off and put on a shelf.

- Personal side projects that kept me interested in IT and helped me uphill. This bit is important to make sure you don’t start associating your vocation with mental pain and understand that the industry is still fun, your job just sucks.

- Regular exercise.

- Taking regular breaks during workday, have lunch outside with a friend, etc.

- Participate in meetups and other community events, volunteer your time to help others (gives meaning).

It’s a tough situation, so good luck. If you can leave though - I would recommend it. Life is too short to work in an environment you hate.

Not that long ago. 2 years.

Ah, no - I meant why “pause in trading” is a news item.

That’s one of the fun things you get to do in a giant company - careful performance tuning on large systems can yield some really massive results. And because of that it’s easy to get leadership support for those types of projects.

Saved tens of thousands of cores myself at GOOG once by doing some careful autoscaler tuning for 3 months or so.

That’s completely normal practice, I’m not sure why this is a news item.

Either quit and take 3 months off before you start looking or find a new job ASAP and put your start date much later.

Life’s too short to be in the wrong job. Mental health damage takes a long time to heal so don’t let it get that bad.

Market is jumping, use the opportunity. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

I would apply Occam’s razor for this - the topic is becoming less and less relevant: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

Sadly have to agree with this. And it’s not only security too. The amount of bad advice on r/SRE for example is worrying :|

OWASP Slack may be a good place to ask. In my experience the quality of answers there is pretty high: https://owasp.org/slack/invite

YMMV though.

I used to work for GOOG and one thing I can attest to that bias is taken VERY seriously, so it’s not quite that simple.

Yep. Have to do that with medical/chemistry queries all the time.

Not the OP but I think he might be referencing this study from Columbia where they found that the “Featured” articles were mostly left-leaning: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300683

The cause of this is debatable though - be it editorialisation, unconscious bias on behalf of people working on the algorithms or some common qualities to the websites that lean a certain way politically.

Yeah I often have to add “reddit” afterwards and hunt for links there or use “site:” predicate to get decent results in addition to using a results blocker to filter out a lot of useless SEO results (e.g. Pinterest/Gitmemory)

This is really neat. We have some Kafka transformation/deduplication use-cases that we can leverage this on.

Thanks for sharing!

I think the public transport is a US thing to be honest.

I’ve lived in 10+ countries by now and the only place public transport completely sucked was the US. Everywhere else it’s been clean, efficient and fast. Even in places like Russia.

It’s not everyday we hear something good about American healthcare. Kudos to those who worked on this bill!

You can use https://projectifi.io for that. I use it since I'm Ozzie and it's properly accounting for Australian Superannuation.

Because it’s sometimes hard to discern from Backscatter (malicious bounce messages).

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)

Some suggestions from a person who spent a long time tinkering with the AV setup:

- Switch out Scarlett Solo for Scarlett 2i2. Solo doesn’t have any control over the Monitor volume so if you’re using headphones dialling volume back and forth will get old fast.

- Just get the Elgato CamLink. Yes it is more expensive but you won’t be constantly fighting with your no-name webcam adapter in the middle of an important meeting.

Aptly put :) Thank you!

One of the constants I've seen in the past 15 years is soft skills and leadership - learn how to work in a team, how to socialize ideas, lead without authority, do cross-functional work.

This will make you stand out from your peers and ensure a good career path for years to come.

As an OSS maintainer myself writing something like that on the bug tracker would make it less likely to be worked on as this indicates complete disregard for maintainer’s time and efforts.

I know for a fact that I have at least one trillion and multiple billion-dollar companies using a piece of my (somewhat obscure) software. Somehow they’re always the ones asking for urgent fixes and never the ones contributing patches.

- Crashing an airplane

- Recklessly endangering other people in the area (this was not far from established hiking trails)

- Getting investigated by FAA

All for barely 200k views on YouTube. Wow.

At this price the deal probably minted quite a few new millionaires, so I think it’s a good thing for people who worked on something for 10+ years.

It’s no S1 but for a lot of early contributors it’s probably a ticket to never having to work again.

Woah, mate. I think that way of thinking might be more-than-slightly career limiting.

The community does play a role in the ecosystem you’re buying into. You will most likely need to send PR’s / bug reports in at some point. If the core team tends to ignore bugs/external contributions, it is a point to consider.

Furthermore, if your first knee-jerk reaction to the behaviour you think undesirable in reports is to “limit their reach and upward mobility” I think you need to think seriously about what mentorship means.

Worked at Google. Wouldn’t doubt this story for a second. Met a ton of amazing people at google but also some _very_ interesting characters. Ratio of good-to-questionable has been pretty good though, so can’t complain.

Not defending this at all but this does show you’ve never visited Singapore. Before entering you repeatedly get many many notices of a death penalty for drug traffickers regardless of the quantity and type. It’s even written in large bold letters on the immigration card.

That’s not how this works - cars go at a speed limit set by the road they’re on. The speed limit is selected based on safety factors present on the road.

By your logic, one needs to move 30mph on the interstate to make sure they can react to whatever jumps out at them. Or am I misunderstanding something here?