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> Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place

Agree

> especially newer coders

Totally agree

> women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.

What the actual F*?

You should get yourself a good Scrummaster. Backlog grooming sessions are great IMHO.

Eizo has screens that use DC dimming:

http://www.eizoglobal.com/library/basics/eyestrain/index.htm...

I never tried them though.

I have some kind of "flickering sensitivity" (if this is a thing). I bought a retina MBP about 4-5 years ago and I had to return it because it was killing me. After 30 minutes watching the screen, I had terrible headaches and my vision was becoming blury for the next hours.

Now I have a new (2017) MBP and I don't have any problem anymore, so I guess that they improved the technology somehow.

Once in the UK, the cashier didn't want to take my credit card because there was no signature on the back.

I wondered, which kind of graphology training do Tesco cashiers go through in order to be able to identify a fake signature?

Spouse visa? ;)

Tokyo, domestic 2Gbps FO but connected through Wifi:

    PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=5.531 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=4.420 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=5.450 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=5.438 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=4.231 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=5.933 ms



    PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=6.440 ms
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=4.574 ms
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=4.684 ms
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=4.992 ms
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=5.942 ms
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=5.955 ms

Somehow related to your comment, I wanted to post a link to this extension:

https://adnauseam.io/

What it does is basically to hide the adds from you, but clicking all of them.

This is so messed up for add companies, that Google removed it from their App Store.

I am not saying that they are buying them for just that, but the PR value of this operation is probably worth a big percentage of the cost of the trucks.

Another option is to wait just a couple of months to upgrade, so you give time to the library developers to put their s* together, fix bugs, and write some documentation.

At the end, from all the features your users could care about, your webpack version is not one of them.

I guess that the amount it contains is so low that it can not have any effect on your health.

Just bro science here, but if tofu had a real effect on the hormones, wouldn't that mean that gynecomastia should have a much higher prevalence in the countries, such as Japan, where tofu is consumed daily?

Trump would be able to become friends with the president of Philippines Rodrigo Duterte!

Are you familiar with the term "progressive taxes"?

Consumption tax is the same for multimillionaires and for people who have 3 part time jobs and struggle to feed their family.

Then, imagine that you put a massive consumption tax for cards, for instance. What happens when the car of the 3 jobs guy is broken?

Also, how do you decide which products are the products that rich people buy and which are the products for "the poor"?

"Write your password in this input field to see if it has been pwned"

Me: ¬_¬

> The amount of amateurishness in the cryptocurrency ecosystem is disappointing.

Only in the Cryptocurrency ecosystem? So far, what I've seen in the Startups I worked for is that most of them are staffed with 25 years old developers who work 80 hours a week but barely know what they are doing.

I started going to gym at lunch time. I just eat a sandwich or a shake (Jimmy Joy) in front of my computer and then I go to the gym. It takes me a total of 50 minutes (30 minutes of actual exercising) but I could feel a real change in my body going 4 times a week.

> no smart person regardless of culture would be impressed or fooled with density as a proof of hard work

I am far from being a person who has deeply studied Japanese culture (I just happen to live here) but my impression is that it is so ingrained in the mentality that it works at a subconscious level.

There's as well a cultural factor that, IMO, affects design as well. This factor is the obsession of the Japanese to show that "they are working hard" and the culture of sacrifice. Everything in the company culture is based on that. People staying until really late at work without actually doing anything productive, meetings scheduled on Saturday just because, etc.

That makes that, when they present a design, it has to look like they worked really hard in the design. That's why there is always so much information.

To the eyes of an executive who has no idea of design (most of them) a minimalist design would look like if the designer was lazy and didn't work hard enough.

Of course, I am exaggerating.... But not a lot.

Source: Working as a Web Developer in Japanese companies in Japan since 5 years ago.

For me, this is a no-brainer. Free-market is an extremely powerful tool, but Free-market itself does not have heart or any respect for Human Rights whatsoever.

If we want to create societies where Human Rights are respected, Free-market need to be operated under constraints. Yes, those constraints will slow growth and, maybe, some rich people will be less rich, but the other option is Neo-Feudalism and Barbarie.

So, the question is: how much injustice are we willing to tolerate for the sake of growth? Every society has a different answer, but you can easily see different models in Japan, US and Europe.

In order to be able to tell if you need Redux or not for a project, you need to know Redux; the pros and the cons.

IMHO, too many developers overestimate their intelligence and write awful code because they didn't take the time to learn well the tools.

You cannot learn React in one day. No matter how clever you are. You can learn enough to start coding but, until you understand Redux, how to use selectors with Reselect, middlewares, async-actions and the component lifecycle, you will be writing awful code.

Some people, when they pick a new technology, they choose to spend an afternoon reading half tutorial and then start coding straight away. By the time they finally "get it" and start to write decent code, they already put 5000 lines of spaghetti in production that some other developer will have to cope with in the future.

Don't expect to learn React (or Angular) in an afternoon by reading a couple of tutorials.

Go to Udemy.com . Buy a couple of courses for $20 and spend a week following them.

After that week, you will be able to start programming in React.

> Also, if you visit Japan as a foreigner look at JR Rail Pass. A three week pass for the green car (1st class) will cost ~80'000 yen ($720) and is a comperative bargain if you make use of it.

OMG I regret so much that I didn't take advantage of that when I was on a tourist visa... :'/

Two other super convenient things about Shinkansen:

- You always know how much the ticket will cost, no matter if you buy it the same day.

- If you had a reserved seat but you missed your train, just take the next one and go to the free seat area. Also, if you didn't have reserved seat and the free seat area is full, wait 15 minutes and take the next train.

(And yes, you can fly Tokyo - Osaka for cheaper than a Shinkansen ride, but the convenience of the Shinkansen is really higher than any flight.)

I never eat farmed fish because I don't trust fish farms and it seems that there are not enough regulations to make farmed fish healthy.

I don't buy industrial beef neither and only eat high quality beef that is certified to have had a good diet and no hormones or antibiotics.

I don't eat cheap Brazilian chickens neither.

That means that I eat quite less fish and meat than other people, but every time I eat, I enjoy a good product. Also, that makes me not responsible of all the externalities generated by the meat and fish industry.

I may be weird, but I have a 2017MBP and I love the keyboard.

What about you learn both and then pick the most adequate in each situation? ;)

What about taxing more the inheritances and capital income and taxing less the work income?

I happens the same with cicadas. People abroad think that they are a kind of anime thing, but the reality is that anywhere you go in Japan in summer you will hear cicadas.