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dawidwon Ask HN: Does anyone else notice increased incompetence?

> Incompetence happened a great deal in the Soviet Union. It mentally killed people to see it everyday.

Wasn't it result of communism? At least that's my impression after reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago".

dawidwon A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression

>> The biggest culprit for gout is definitely carbs (sugar)

>Citation? Because isn't gout generally thought by the medical establishment to be caused by high-protein, low vegetable diets that raise uric acid?

As I've heard from the person doing carnivore this diet is low-protein and high-fat one.

dawidwon The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition

> Literally the only thing that matters is moving fast

> Code quality is really not important at all as long as the product works and is bug free

According to Robert C. Martin is not possible to move fast without good quality.

dawidwon Is This Legal?

> ability to do the job, without consideration to their ethnicity, age, skin color, etc.

What about modelling? Do those rules apply also there?

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2018/11/218140/choco-media-...

dawidwon Is This Legal?

Why would be illegal for company to want to hire whoever they want to?

dawidwon Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your Systems With

printf is not c++

dawidwon Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

Thank you, I thought that I was missing something. BTW - I've found your page very useful - thank you for that!

dawidwon Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

I have question regarding example of "Retrieving details of a file"

https://www.base-api.io/reference/files

The curl request uses [1] id and in response we get [2] id. Why is that?

[1] 6536fb5e-01b1-4a0c-b05b-33bac00c65ac

[2] ed7066dc-614c-48f3-8456-926598e88473

dawidwon We Have Ruined Childhood

That intrigued me. Why one can't compare rates internationally? I think we can and that what rates are for, aren't they?

dawidwon How to Build Good Software

Using that logic, what would be "working car"? When wheels don't fall apart?

So I think "working code/application/program" is when it does what it is supposed to do. Including not crashing.

dawidwon Ask HN: Our founders are just assholes. What are the chances we won't fail?

What is solution for that underlying problem?

dawidwon One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)

> They have enormous responsibility with the children

Could you elaborate on that? I always thought that there are rules and procedures for everything so the teachers are fine and covered.

dawidwon Urban Neighborhoods, Once Distinct by Race and Class, Are Blurring

> more than half of African Americans are less than middle class

What is the reason of that?

dawidwon Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D

Maybe it's due to heat made by Sun?

dawidwon Ask HN: Can we make an ethical, effective standard for programmer interviews?

If all the interviews were similar, how would you distinguish between good and bad company?

dawidwon Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma

> Anabolic steroids are a Class C drug in the UK so in general are illegal to possess and distribute unless prescribed.

So they are legal - only access is controlled (prescription from doctor).

Alcohol and cigarettes are legal - only access is controlled (age).

Violence is legal - only access is controlled (police).

Tortures are not legal - no one has access to do that.

Capital punishment is not legal (in some countries) - no one has access to do that.

dawidwon Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma

Exactly. Testosterone is just a medicine and it's even prescribed to old ladies if their condition need that (I know one such case). Testosterone gives a lot of power when your body is weak after some other treatment. As a side effect (or maybe desired when due to disease you're losing your muscles) is getting more muscles and energy.

dawidwon Why I Gave Up on Extreme Minimalism (2015)

"It’s hard being this way sometimes, because society doesn’t consider it the norm and provides no guidelines for how us “renaissance people” might build our lives in a way that suits us. We’re expected to pick one specialization and build a career around it."

That's a pity that the blogger didn't say how it was easier/different in old days.

dawidwon Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma

They are legal medicine. If you suffer from serious disease, doctor will prescribe them to you.

Now interesting question is: if someone wants to have big muscles - is it serious disease? In some sense it's similar to silicon breast implants - in both cases it's mental 'disease'/disfunction/discomfort - so some doctor's help is needed. Or surgery due to bad looking nose eg.

dawidwon Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?

Can you share any successful story regarding that service? That someone resolved problem and become rich?

dawidwon Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work?

5:30 AM? What is your daily routine?

dawidwon This is for the fat ones: what changed it?

Listen the podcast, it seems it's perfect for your problem:

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-lose-weight-k...

dawidwon Finland's basic income trial boosts happiness but not employment

Wasn't it easy to predict?

dawidwon Ask HN: How do some people build their careers so fast?

He was just very lucky that MS-DOS was chosen in one particular moment. More in the first comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624887

dawidwon Ask HN: Work-life balance?

> plus I feel weaker generally

Have you done your blood tests? Sugar/insulin [1], vitamin D, Ferro, liver, morphology? There are plenty "new"/silent civilisation diseases: insulin resistance, hashimoto, diabetes...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose_tolerance_test

dawidwon Ask HN: Advise for Software Engineer Moving to Finance

I'd start with [1] and then YouTube. Good luck!

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/

dawidwon Ask HN: Why can’t we eat dead human flesh like we eat dead animal flesh?

That's quite interesting. I've heard that there are some substances which human body need and which can be found in animal flesh. I've just googled for that and it seems there are plenty of articles confirming that. So I don't know who is right...

Here are just 2 random articles from google search:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-ge...

https://www.alexfergus.com/blog/8-proven-reasons-why-vegan-a...

dawidwon Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime

Yes, I am parent of 2 kids: 7 and 4 years old. But my (single) case doesn't matter. From my observations women are naturally much more capable than men to deal with kids. One simple fact: they're more talkative. So the kid has better contact with language. Simple example: when kid gets hurt mum is usually trying to cheer up while father is trying to say something like "oh, it's nothing, go on and play". At the beginning, the attitude of woman is needed by kid, later - the one from father. Both are very different and very important.

dawidwon Ask HN: How do you deal with brain fog? Does coding give you brain fog?

Have you ever tried "alternative medicine"? I mean method like drinking apple juice for 3 days to clean your guts etc. Or drink only wgetable coctails? I've never tried those, however I've seen hundreds of comments from different users claiming that such method helped them where traditional medicine couldn't. I won't share links here because those YouTube videos are not in English but I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find similar in English.

Anyway - good luck!

dawidwon Ask HN: Does Scrum work?

I recommend to read Robert C. Martin's (Uncle Bob) view on that presented in "The Tragedy of Craftsmanship":

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/08/28/Craftsmansh...