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There is one problem though. That happens a lot (I have homeless Syrian people in mind) but the government does not allow them the right to work so they can't get out of poverty.

Maybe I am wrong but at least two points mentioned in your comment are US specific :

"It is caused by peoples' jobs not paying a living wage" Where I come from minimum wage is enough to pay for a rent.

"the cops really hate the homeless. Someone can't periodically destroy a bunch of peoples' meager shelter in completely unproductive "sweeps" without developing a view that they're less than human." Again I may be wrong but where I live there are no 'homeless villages' like there are in the US.

You are not going to change the world with this but you can contribute to neocities to promote an alternative web :

https://neocities.org/

https://github.com/neocities/neocities

You (or them) being a bad programmer or not is not really the question (even though you seem to be right).

I think you should step back from the code and talk to the people. Ask them why they did something like this or like that. Show them that you value their work but that it is a shame that you can't fully enjoy it.

Do not start a situation in which it is them vs you.

I do that for some services I rarely use. That works actually fairly well.

> It can’t be more inconvenient than having to go through a password reset process once a week (which believe it or not, a TON of end users do).

That is what I do with many services I use. I ask a reset password link every time I use them. I then just copy paste a random passphrase as new password and forget about it.

The design looks good but what a strange way to see you life ! If you need to write down 'Do 10 minute Meditation for 200 times' maybe you don't like meditating that much and should stop doing it instead of forcing yourself to do it.

Do something meaningful in your free time (and try to work less and have more free time).

That is a given for every resident in most European countries.

Edit: it seems I am wrong. I commented a bit too fast.

You should try reading All men are mortal by Simone de Beauvoir : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Men_Are_Mortal

It is about a man who becomes immortal and experiences a lot of things. Without spoiling you, it turns out not to be as great as expected.

Apart from this there is the somewhat classical : "A famous quote tells us the three things every man should do during his time on earth: Plant a tree, have a son and write a book. The reason behind this quote is generally believed to be that we are only here for a short time and these three things will live on long after we have passed. It’s like leaving a legacy and in a sense achieving a kind of immortality."

I have been learning Japanese for a while and I am at a level good enough to consume native content. You don't realize how hard it is to buy (mostly digital) Japanese content online. I believe it is due to 20th century pre internet zoning regulations. On several occasions I spent a lot of time trying to buy some stuff legally but it was so hard or impossible that I ended up consuming pirated content.

Google apps store does not allow you to buy an app in Japanese from the UK, Amazon.jp requires a different account than amazon.co.uk (which is not the case for amazon.com), Netflix does not provide Japanese subtitles for animes, same for steam, some games are in many languages but not Japanese.

At some point I as listening a lot of nursery rhymes song with my child. When doing this I just let the recommendation algorithm choose the next song for me because I don't really care what to watch next. After a few week I was stuck in a two song loop where song N+1 was equal to song N-1...

Also, the tech may enable wonders but the implementation may suck. If you have an amazing technology but the scenario of all the movies / games using this technology turn out to be the Nth version of the same story (like basically every movie on Netflix) then it is subpar compared to a book.

I think a domain where it can exceptionally shine is the adult entertainment industry.

Where I live mobile plans include unlimited SMS.

Also I have a dumbphone and I am the only person my friend send SMS too. That makes me quite a unique person !

More demand for qualified labour will tend to increase the salary of people offering these skills. Salaries are not written in stone and evolve depending on market conditions.

The people who mention unions have in mind better rights for employees not better pay (no one seriously thinks SV developers need better salaries).

When I see someone working long hours I always think that either this person must be very disorganised or should move to a less exploitative company. I don't see it as honorific at all (I live in the UK).

The obsession of American developers with retirement tells a lot about what they think about their jobs.

I have two personal websites. My main problem is that it is very hard to share them. Half of the subreddits don't accept links thanks to spammers. I don't use other social media... They are not the typical Hacker News link.

Generally speaking, thanks to spammer linking has become impossible outside of social media platforms.

I love this feeling as well. Reading this I actually realized that is a big part of what I like in my role as a data scientist. You are given a ton of messy data and during months you get a very intimate knowledge about how your data reflects the business processes, you understand every edge case, and end up building a nice data model that allows to answer many question that had previously no answer with a simple SELECT FROM WHERE statement. Very satisfying.

* random stuffs happening in my life that I can enjoy on my own and tell my wife when I am back from work VS spend 24 hours a day with my wife

This is your own agenda and I am pretty sure implementing these solutions does not cost you much personally.

What cost have you chosen to bear ? Do you exclusively use public transport ? Have you banned planes from your life ? Home delivery (the last mile is the one that creates the more pollution) ? What share of your revenue do you give to plant trees ?

> You need to send signals like this to the market well in advance so they can invest and plan ahead.

We are talking about billion dollars of investment at stake. You need years to train engineers, develop new technologies, ...

The role of politics is not only to implement policies but also to signal where we are heading so that a decentralized solution can be achieved.

To be fair, pre-lockdown I use to have an hour long commute and that would allow me to study Japanese close to two hours a day and still let me a lot of time to look after my baby once home.

You can add 'a parent' to your list.

My job title is data scientist even though you may not think of me as a 'true' data scientist. Just to give you some context I work in an ecommerce startup. Depending on your industry and the size of your company things may be very different.

I maintain one machine learning model that is very core to our business but doing 'machine learning' is a very portion of my job.

> Think about this - there are a bunch of other software developers who know SQL very well. If your advice was true, then every backend developer would be able to immediately land a data science job and do great at it without having to learn a bunch of math, ML-specific stuff and a whole other tech stack.

In some companies Data scientists are very software development oriented but that is not the case of everywhere. Think about this : software developers who know SQL very well usually don't like cleaning data, they don't necessarily have good interpersonal skills required to solve business problems, they are not necessarily interested in solving business problems, and they may tend to think that more software is the solution to all problems.

If I may give you an advice : Python, R and deep learning are sexy but the most important skill to start in data science is SQL. It will help you get your first data role and will be your main tool to solve 97% of the problems you will ever face.

Bonus point it is very easy to learn.

> Now, I haven't actually watched a movie in years. I think that although there are new movies coming out, the patterns are fundamentally the same and so movies have gotten boring

I completely agree. I used to read only non fiction books. I have started reading fantasy fiction books a year or two ago and the thing that blew my mind is that these books have stories! Not the Nth variation of the same pattern that exists in every Hollywood movie but something I had never encountered before. I had given up on novelty years ago. That is really refreshing.

I have been thinking about it and I think a big contributor to the internet being boring is the improvement made on the ranking of everything.

I used to complain a lot about the "here are the top X" so-called blog posts. But when you want information about a topic that you don't know anything about and for which you have absolutely no will to invest time in they are all you need to know.

Or take reddit. You want to learn about a topic. Go to its subreddit. Sort posts by top with timeframe = all time and after half an hour reading the top posts you know pretty much all you need to know about the topic (mundane topics obviously. Scientific topics excluded).

I could go on and on. It becomes hard to find a hidden gem on the internet becomes gems are not hidden anymore but exposed.

I am not a FAANG SV top notch developer, just a data scientist in a successful but still small European start up so my experience must be very different from the one of crowd here.

I have noticed that most of my time is spent finding what to do, get their opinion about new projects from my team members (who are nice people I enjoy working with), and most of the time I find that I am not the person qualified for the job and the problem can be solved in a way that does not involve data work.

Finding what to do and how to minimize the effort in implementing a solution is 90% of my job.

There are days I write SQL as well and those day I am very focused. The days I am not focused it's mostly because There is no go from A to B job to do.