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This reminds me of a well known comic: https://xkcd.com/1597/

You can see the current trends by looking at job listings. E.g. http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&allowsremote=true

Another good source of info is: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

I think it has more to do with the company itself and less with the tech stack though. There are companies that get remote working (not necessarily new or startups) and others that they don't.

Could be a mini stray back hole caught up in a highly elliptical orbit around our solar system (not much of interplanetary particles there - right) ?

I have not studied astrophysics (quite obviously) - just pitching ideas.

" But the history of astronomy is rife with speculation that is never borne out: The same guy who correctly predicted the existence of Neptune also believed that a planet he called Vulcan was responsible for the wobble of Mercury. That “discovery” caused the astronomy world to waste years looking for something that wasn't there. (Mercury's wobble was eventually explained by the theory of general relativity.) " Buying into the theory though and given that there is no sight of it yet - has the possibility of a small black hole been considered?

I'm curious. Where are you based? i.e. which job market?

Yes - the article is not very good but I couldn't find anything decent (didn't search long though). Put this up mostly interested in what actual people might have to say.

Data point - in my 40s (doing DevOps atm). Truth is in my company (one of the big ones) I do not see a lot of older folks doing technical work (I might be the oldest in a team of about 40 people). So I'm wondering - where is everyone (and why am I not there too)?

Pushing for expansion of remote working would do a world of good with regards to points 1,2 and 4.

Thank you!

> The interruptions often feel pleasant, of course, because they are usually the work of your friends. Distractions arrive in your brain connected to people you know (or think you know), which is the genius of social, peer-to-peer media.

Silly as it will sound I'd never thought of it that way. Cunning , brilliant and cunning again.

Lenovo again. As if the recent thinkpad scandal was not enough. Incidentally I know of another company that went to bed with MS and it didn't work out very well - enter Nokia.

According to the table here https://wire.com/privacy/ it's open source

Never thought of it as seasonal ebb/flow but it figures.

I'm not proficient in Philosophy but I think that we just select to draw the line at some point and accept that perceived things are such and such. AFAIK there is no way to even logically assert that other people exist (solipsism if i recall right) but it would make no sense to go that way at least according to our biological substratum. It makes sense to just assume that such dead-end philosophic avenues are not the way to go. As long as none of them proves itself more correct than the more 'realistic/pragmatic' alternatives we can go about just fine.

A lot of bureaucracy and politics are coming from tech people too. Turf wars, ego issues, you name it. But yes, collocation seems to be of particular advantage to the ones being talented at 'being pleasant to the right people'.

Not sure if I agree with that. Lots of times I catch myself editing my messages again and again thus making them up to the point. You have to be a very good communicator in talking and have very good listeners to get the same amount of accuracy. Communication throughput is less though and what goes missing for sure is context (facial expressions, posture, etc) but for some people that is not a bad thing per se.

I'm partially remote working (RW) at an organization that is slowly rolling back its RW culture(1). The motto for this goes like 'teams work better if they are collocated, yada, yada'. The real reason is that managers want to feel in control (plus they want to drive away a lot of people by taking RW away). "Culture" is used as a smoke screen for more sinister incentives. (I can say that with confidence because I can see that RW is working fine while what hinders productivity is mammoth bureaucracy and politics put forward by the same people that keep blabbing about "culture".

To me it's clear that remote working is (should be) the way to go (why on earth tech jobs and consequently tech workers should cluster in small geographic areas, spend hours in commuting and feed our salaries to landlord rentiers is beyond my understanding). Then again other things in the past were a no-brainer future (e.g. less working hours - see experiments in Kellogs) but the world spinned to a different direction.

PS: Of course RW makes your tech job even easier to offshore which makes the whole thing more of a mixed bag of blessings and curses - like everything else in life :) .

(1) I think the trend started off by M.Mayer's move to roll back RW in yahoo (<cynic>leading to the spectacular yahoo growth we all know of</cynic>) but I'm not sure.

I understand why a parent would want to raise a super-smart children (which makes the title a click-bait) but from where I stand I'd wish to see more people being interested in raising socially responsible children. IMHO we are abundant in (technical) smarts but very low on social/emotional ones.

https://www.demonsaw.com/ That's the company/product. On a quick look this looks like Tor - or not?

All in all you are all just actors in my dream. Or is it the other way round?

> When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged

That's remarkable news. I'm waiting to see the counter-arguments though. Fasting for 3 days seems like stretching the limits a bit. Also it seems to imply that these 3days periods are repeatable over the course of a few months.

Why is not reproducing a problem (to anyone but the Japanese who are against immigrants) ? On a global scale, with almost all ecosystems in decline and a looming climate crisis, not reproducing/falling birth rates is a blessing for everyone.

+1 @poster: Out of interest - where are you based? US?

I guess it's not safe (probably explosive) and even if it was safe how could that be done when it springs up from random holes dispersed in a vast area (Siberia)?

Didn't know that's a tabloid. Can't update the link now. Sorry about that.

Yet the story is a good one.

I understand the votes - that piece is like being written especially for HN BUT it's only just that. It tries to extrapolate a moral story from a few convenient incidents and ignores all the rest. I.e. its method is really unscientific but it poses like such.

Some inventions seem to take long to gain traction - yes. Others though (how many compared to the first set?) gain traction immediately (e.g. lots of inventions in medicine or lots of inventions in -ehm- IT). Others still don't get on ever.

There is no easy moral here. We could derive some statistics if we had all data or some teachings per story. How your invention will be treated by the near or far future is not just a matter of newspapers and general public interest.

PS: Also -as I read in commends here- the main point seems bogus too as Wrights themselves were extra secretive about their experiments.

It is a really weird situation (I'm trying to put myself in your friends position). I guess I'd revert into this BS nice talk as a way to help you emotionally (even though I know it's BS).

So -assuming that I do care and that situation makes me sad- what am I supposed to say? How could I really help?

" There are people who treat the dying as easy prey. " For some reason this hurt most. Maybe I expected way too much humanity off humans.

<sarcastic mode on> Maybe so. But didn't the move create a cool Software Architect job position out of nowhere -wink-wink- ? <sarcastic mode off>

"other MCs aside from the Arduino that are more interesting today" Can you give a few links? Thanks in advance.