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Jade_Jeton The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis

You’ve spelled out exactly how I feel.

Jade_Jeton Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

To be fair, in my case, I did not. I actually received one as a gift last Christmas. I never got around to setting it up (still in packaging). I was planning on trying it out when I had some free time. Now I have a useless device that I can’t even return since I refuse to create a Facebook account.

Jade_Jeton Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

Considering that the police force were initially created for slave patrols, it’s not really surprising that white supremacy is a part of police culture.

https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

Edit: Note that this is not a right/left thing. This is just literally history that gets ignored in our schools.

Jade_Jeton Bash $* and $@ (2017)

I’ve seen the same thing happen with any language. Generally tends to happen when a dev hasn’t thought through the scope of what they are doing beforehand. I’ve written some ugly python in my earlier days due to this as well.

My point here is it is less to due with the language and more to due with the mindset when solving a problem.

The main issue I see with more inexperienced devs with bash is that they tend to think it’s okay to be lazy with the code because it’s just “bash”. If you would write safety checks and comments in your python you should be doing the same in bash really.

Jade_Jeton Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

The phrase “a good work ethic” to me describes what you are saying exactly.

I am not passionate about computers, I like solving problems and streamlining the tedious. Personally I don’t have a passion for my company either. I like them, I like what they pay me, and I like the benefits and culture.

I see my paycheck as a business transaction that is favorable to both myself and the company I work for.

With that being said, I do actually enjoy the work I do, but would never use the word passion to describe it.

Jade_Jeton Ask HN: How to hire when your company and Glassdoor reviews are genuinely bad?

You didn’t specify how many people they are looking for but if it is multiple people, you could reduce the headcount and double the salary. This makes the pay more competitive and will attract more engineers.

With that being said I’ve always avoided giving real feedback during an exit interview to prevent accidental bridge burning.

Jade_Jeton Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA

You are right, edu sites... I changed the link to http.

Jade_Jeton Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA

http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/Medical.html

Leeches actually are valid medical science. There just were not better alternatives at the time, and they sometimes can still be used today.

Jade_Jeton What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?

Same situation for me. I wonder if I'd get treated like a liar and a criminal for not using a commercial product.

Jade_Jeton Ask HN: Every website wants to send me notifications

Thank you for that, I keep getting annoyed by that and keep forgetting to look up how to disable that. I finally just disabled it.

Jade_Jeton Elementary OS

Fair enough, I believe I misinterpreted your comment then.

Jade_Jeton IoT Growing Faster Than the Ability to Defend It

Can we please stop trying to force everything to be connected to the internet? I have no issue with those that want to make a smart house, but it seems like it is increasingly more difficult to find certain quality appliances that are not connected, televisions as an example.

I find this whole iot thing very frustrating as a consumer.

Jade_Jeton Elementary OS

Didn't they make it so swift can run on any OS now?

Also it sounds like you want the ability to develop for osx on a non-osx device. That seems counterintuitive.

Jade_Jeton Don’t go to art school (2013)

I went to art school and dropped out. In high school I had immense pressure from my guidance counselors to go to art school, specifically a private one. What I was told was that if I didn't go to college and get a degree I would be working fast food the rest of my life. Being a dumb 17 year old who had no concept of debt, I listened, I gave into their scare tactics and went.

After my first year, I felt like I was wasting my time. Gen eds were at the level of what I learned in 8th grade and art class grading was completely opinionated and based on what type of art the teacher liked. I hated it and wanted to drop out. But fear of failure and a realization of what debt really was kept me locked into going to college.

I scraped by my second year while becoming more and more jaded. I felt lied to and swindled out of my money and future. I ended up finally dropping out when the realization that I really was wasting my time took over.

I spent a lot of time with computers on my own and taught myself how systems work for a few years while I worked multiple dead end jobs to scrape by and attempt to pay off my debt. Eventually I managed to land myself a jr sysadmin at a company which saved me from drowning. Now I work as a full fledged infrastructure engineer making a very satisfying amount of money and working on an extremely interesting set of problems. I'm actually happy now.

Art school hurt me horribly. I had to dig myself out of a massive hole with sheer willpower and determination alone.

Screw art school.

Jade_Jeton Facebook is talking to the White House about giving away ‘free’ Internet

And of course Facebook is considered a basic internet necessity by Facebook. I could potentially understand an argument for .gov addresses (still would be against it) but this is just a weakly veiled attempt at forcing Facebook down more people's throats. Sadly I wouldn't be surprised when this or something like it becomes a reality.

Jade_Jeton Companies would benefit from helping introverts to thrive

This describes me perfectly as well. I have very little need for social interaction. But I'm usually one of the most talkative people in a room.

Jade_Jeton Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social

I'm very much introverted and like doing my own thing a lot. My wife is the same way. I was worried about the same thing you are. The key is to find someone who gets you and can relate to that feeling. My home is still a safe escape for me, but my home is my wife now as cheesy as that sounds.

Jade_Jeton Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss

I started work at 9. I'm responding to your comment while eating lunch at a restaurant. I plan to leave around 5 today. This is my normal schedule. I'm salaried and live in the US as well. My last two jobs were the same way as well.

Jade_Jeton Our Week Without Slack

I'm also in the same field and I find Slack (really chat in general) to be highly distracting. The problem isn't in chat itself, it's that people use it to post non-work related things, gifs, large scale notifications that should really only be sent to one person as a private message, etc. With email, I can filter these things out much easier. But I'm expected to be available on Slack during working hours.

Jade_Jeton Digitally weary users switch to ‘dumb’ phones

This is my situation. I have a bare bones Nexus 6P where all of my apps fit on one screen without scrolling. Only the phone, SMS, and Pagerduty apps send push notifications.

Jade_Jeton Choose GitLab for your next open source project

Just wanted to say that I use the CE edition (self hosted) at my job and we love it. The built in CI has been a major game changer for us and has really helped in preventing bugs from slipping through on our MR's. Keep doing an awesome job and I'll keep telling people how awesome your product is.

Also as an ops engineer I love how hassle free our Gitlab instance has been to maintain.