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i think what you're missing is how good removing a layer of abstraction /feels/ when putting things together. it didn't quite click for me until i built something with it. it ends up being a question of "where the work is done" i think, and the work being done within a string in your component just melts away layers of friction

I think you can still succeed at development if you want. Interviews are stressful-- don't take that trip up as a gospel reflection of your knowledge. And there's a chance that your "not very good" is better than a lot of people.

But it depends on what you want. There are plenty of tech paths from where you are that don't require hard cs knowledge. You can lean into the people side, building teams. You can focus on wiring up big systems with flowcharts. Or you can imagine this a speedbump and keep going in the direction you know.

Much of the data they use is open source, coming from OpenStreetMap.

You're conflating issues, and that's fine because you're frustrated. But we are over-represented in tech, and not anywhere else. There are obvious systems-level hiring problems that this company has and they're trying to fix that. It's so strange and selfish to hear "they should not try and fix this".

I was hoping the article would at least mention Pleistocene Park, an effort to mitigate climate change that depends on the recently extinct wooly mammoth. If it had, the question in the title would be better stated: "Can We Afford To Not?"

Some solid info on the project is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleisto...

The original jquery source w/ annotations: http://genius.it/5088474/ejohn.org/files/jquery-original.htm...

When thinking about the API only, any one of your line implementations seems just as good as the other.

But if you also ask "which of these makes sense for the client application" that will likely narrow your options down.

Indeed, the parent PDF says that before even writing any code, write use cases. "The implementation should adapt to the user, not the other way around."

Pun intended?

Anyways, a university experiment video that went viral [0] is the first I recall seeing a quadcopter in action. Maybe the tipping point if you care to investigate further.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4

YouNow and Tinychat are the ones left that I know about. BlogTV was big but closed down and was acquired by YouNow.

I'm working on a general-purpose streaming site, but with a twist in how broadcasting works. Not quite enough for a 'Show HN' yet however.

Shaders have always seemed like some kind of dark magic to me. Would love to see this book happen.

I am glad I read this article because it alerted me to the existence of NASA's robot astronaut named Robonaut [0].

[0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/robonaut.html

Maybe just the idea of podcasts is broken. RSS has dying a slow death for quite some time. Why not just build a better podcast?

Neat; glad to see HSL values included!

My prediction average of 3 people is more than twice what I currently make.

The estimate I made for someone was 70kish before I went on to see my similar one. I wonder if that's just the safe number lots of guessers are settling on?

AH, apologies. Thought your current was $5 per MONTH, and were comparing to the TB plan.

twice as much pay.

And a text-only version with a bit more player agency http://jsfiddle.net/dariusk/3Evm4/10/embedded/result/

I had planned on writing up an email gleaned from some HN comment insight, and citing the comment.

"I'll just do that tomorrow" I thought. But, as we found out, there was no tomorrow.

Simple Dwarf Fortress Clone in 58000 lines of Python

joining in with the Tetris variants: Futilitris http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris

Would that as applicant idea be too meta?

The fastest way to degrowth is [growth] ??

Looks like shipping barcodes to my untrained eye.

If CLANG stood for something ridiculous then I'd be in.