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A few years ago I booked a hotel suite through Booking.com for a convention, about six months in advance and for a group of friends.

About an hour before I checked in I got a message from Booking.com saying my reservation had been canceled. I called them and they said the hotel had canceled the reservation. They attempted to find another hotel upon request but there wasn’t one that would fit our group within 45 minutes of the convention center (the original was a block away).

Without many options, I showed up to the hotel to attempt to check in anyway. They told me Booking.com had canceled it several weeks prior. I denied any knowledge of the reservation being canceled and we got our room with little issue.

I’m not sure what was going on, but I’ve never used them since.

Are there studies showing that porn has a negative effect on people's lives to the point that this would be justifiable?

I work together with my team and I socialize IRL with friends, family, or sometimes coworkers essentially every day of the week. I’ve been fully remote since 2018. Your comment makes no sense to me.

Also, likes commuting? You can listen to your podcast anywhere.

Oddly erythritol is one of the few things I'm allergic to - it causes me to break out in hives.

Since I have to watch out for it, I've noticed it's becoming more and more common as a sweetener.

Sure - it's fairly personalized based on what I'm looking to get out of my career, but it has questions roughly like this:

  - Am I free from feeling frustrated/stressed at work once a week or more?
  - Am I free from work stress/anxieties outside of work hours?
  - Am I keeping up with my hobbies?
  - Do I feel respected and valued, with the ability to influence my work environment? 
  - Do I feel proud of my work and confident discussing my job with others?
  - Am I learning/growing?
  - Am I excited about the company's direction and secure in its stability?
  - Do I feel like my job is secure?

I score each item 1-5 (1 = rarely, 5 = always) and track the total. If that total stays below my cutoff for a few months in a row, that would trigger me to start looking. Sometimes I include notes beside any low/high scores for context.

Friends have challenged this, asking if I can't just feel when it's time to move on, which I can, but I've found this leads to me being more thoughtful and proactive about it.

Over ~15 years I've switched four times. Three if you don't count being brought over in an acquisition.

- 6 years

- 3 years -> triggered by matrix

- 3 years -> until acquisition

- 5 months -> acquiring company, triggered by matrix

- 2 years, on-going

For my past several jobs, I've put together a job satisfaction matrix that I fill out once a month. If it scores below a threshold three months in a row, that triggers a job search.

It helps me because I have a habit of fixating on the team’s mission and ignoring my own happiness, so the monthly check-in keeps me from staying somewhere longer than I should.

I’ve been playing it for the past few days and I’ve been really enjoying it.

I normally get bored of JRPGs quickly but the game systems, music, artwork and story have all been stellar.

It's generally considered one, yes.

The way I've viewed something similar is top-down vs bottom-up thinkers.

top-down

- makes decisions based on intuition, rationalizes them afterwards if necessary

- quick reactions to new information

- more flexible (sometimes inconsistent) beliefs

- faster to adopt new ideas that align with their feelings, but also more resistant to ideas that they don't like

bottom-up

- systems based reasoning

- builds internal frameworks around ideas

- consistency is paramount

- slower reactions to new information

- can be seen to have more "unique" thoughts or insights through drawing parallels in their internally developed frameworks

- can be more rigid when it comes to new ideas, but not stubborn. it either fits into their frameworks or it doesn't

I'd say it's a spectrum, but people tend to significantly favor one way or another in my experience. I feel like top-down thinkers would be much more likely to be story-based, and bottom-up fact-based.

> Still in these very days we meet random people who in normal random conversation tell us (as part of other matters) of coincidental devastating effects.

You may have. I haven't met anyone who has had any effects other than feeling mildly sick for a day or two afterwards. That's the thing about anecdotal evidence.

I saw a video a few weeks ago where an individual involved in an VC-backed open source project (SST) spoke about this topic for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-w0R-leDMc - starts about halfway through.

If you just need to host a static page, then sure something like Express is a much better fit. But most web applications have at least some if not all of the following:

- Auth, sessions, secure cookie handling, etc.

- DB interaction

- View templates, layouts, etc.

- SPA-like interactivity

- Form handling & validation

- File uploads

- Asset handling

- Emails

- Background jobs

- Security (CSRF, XSS, SQL injection, etc.)

- Logging

- Internationalization

- Testing

- Real-time functionality

With Node/Express, you're either searching for other people's libraries to use and integrate, which aren't guaranteed to synergize, or writing it yourself. You have all of that baked into Rails, tucked away neatly so you only have to write and focus on what matters. You also have an opinionated architecture so you know exactly where all the custom business logic should go.

I think if you have extremely simple requirements, or you're at a stage where you want to learn all these things by doing it yourself, it would make sense not to use Rails. But if you want to focus on delivering value ASAP, Rails (or similar frameworks like Django) are for sure the way to go.

Agreed on the principle (using the better product) but interestingly I've had the opposite experience when comparing Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT 4o.

Claude's been far and away superior on coding tasks. What have you been testing for?

I use Cursor primarily with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Overall a solid productivity increase depending on the task.

I have a few observations:

- I vastly prefer Cursor's Copilot++ UX for autocomplete compared to GitHub's in VSCode, which I used until a few months ago.

- The Composer multi-file editor (cmd+i) is easily its most powerful feature and what I use most often, even when I'm working on single files. It just works better for some reason.

- It's far more effective working in popular stacks, eg. Typescript/NextJS etc. It's rarely a time-saver when working in Elixir, for example.

- In a similar vein, the less 'conventional' your task or code is, the less useful it becomes.

- As the context increases, it gets noticeably less useful. I often find myself having to plan what context I want to feed it and resetting context often.

- It's very effective at 'translation' tasks, eg. converting a schema from one format to another. It's much less effective at generating complex business logic.

- I only find it useful to generate code I confidently know how to write myself already. Otherwise, it doesn't save me time. The times I've been tempted, it's almost always bitten me.

Well, OP's POV is challenging you to reconcile your views with the information they presented. You say you prefer in-person for productivity reasons. TFA provides several sources indicating that working remote actually improves productivity.

So, you can either disagree with the books/studies based on your anecdotal experiences or specific circumstances, in which case the rest of the article isn't relevant to you (and unless you consider yourself an 'elite', it probably never was). Or you can understand that you may have a flawed understanding of the relationship between remote work and productivity, leading to your current opinion on the matter. Or you could have another motive, which may or may not be one of the reasons presented in the article. Which one sounds the most likely to you?

Maybe yours is... they aren't all like that.

nostalgia?

If you're using SQLite on Rails are you effectively constrained to one machine/server?

So if I attempt to rob a bank with a gun and use a getaway car - the car company and gun manufacturer are responsible for facilitating my heist?

I'd argue there's nothing in RoR that's more 'magic' than "use client/server".

Odd take. There are plenty of products, restaurants and services that use a first name as their name. I don't think it's a big deal, or negative at all.

It was mentioned in the OP but: GitHub, Shopify, AirBnb, Stripe

I think they are simply saying they’d rather not have the platform at all than pay for it.

Which is fair.

> The reality is they need office attendance to meet tax agreements with the cities they’re located in.

Why don’t they just come out and say that?

I faced a similar dilemma which led me to leave a big 4 consulting firm to join a non-profit focused on a mission that I could get behind (substance use, my family has had a history with it). I don't regret the decision at all.

I took a massive paycut, but I feel better - and I'm still writing software.

Neither of you are wrong, but it depends on where you're at.

You need enough motivation to get across the finish line and ship a product. Many, many people fail here.

If you're able to ship you need to be realistic about failure so you can iterate your product or move onto the next one with lessons learned.

I'm sure it's not perfect but I've solely been using https://www.newsminimalist.com recently and have been happy with it

Otherwise, https://www.allsides.com

What you're describing is generally how bad decisions are made.