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Yeah I can see why this workflow went digital the second it was possible :D Thanks for sharing!

It seems that the only option left for Putin is the "nuclear" one (no pun intended) now that the whole world is seeing that the Russian army lost its morale, and its teeth. Old equipment, young soldiers that are harder to brainwash than in the old days. It is fascinating to see for the first time in the modern age what effect modern media consumption and the internet has on a local war.

While it is undeniably true that open communication and the internet has corrupted the value of information, it seems that for the first time in 20 years we're witnessing the flip side of this coin as well. It's harder to mobilise people behind a corrupt cause once blood starts flowing. Curious to see how this plays out!

And yes - there have been wars for the last 20 years, I know. But if we're honest, from a purely geographical perspective, this is the first war on the European continent in the 2000's.

That was amazing! Love Ling!

I’d say so. You can’t reset an account’s password without the second factor. There’d be very little point to it otherwise.

> I went through my fair share of Walmart black no slip shoes before moving into tech. I hope financial hardship is in your future as well as your past. Maybe you'll figure it out the second time around.

Wow.. I had to check your post history to make sure I didn’t misinterpret your words. There was a clear pattern. You seem smart, maybe you can find it too.

My dear internet stranger and fellow HNer: I hope you find more love in your life and the ability to see it in, and give it to others. All the best to you!

As someone who has been poor 10 years ago, trying to raise a family, that’s just false. We had to deal with the literal situation from the quote: shoes. We could only afford cheap ones for our children and the shoes “broke” before they grew out of them. If you think this only happened 150 years ago then I envy your privileged outlook on life. This quote is as relevant today, as it was then. Being poor is expensive.

I will never let a chance slide to quote one of my favourite passages from my favourite author and fantasy series: the Discworld, Terry Pratchett (GNU!):

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."

Good.

For those that haven't watched them yet, there are 3 John Oliver segments on the subject that will back up the "Good." statement:

Opioids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o

Opioids II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94U

Opioids III (this one focuses 100% on the Sacklers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCaIhfETsM

You sound like a great person to work with and for. And I applaud your healthy look on the situation. Which can’t always have been / be, easy. But you’re wearing that scapegoat mantle with pride, and a touch of compassion. Some people just never learn. Best to stay clear of them and accept the way they think of you. You know better. You did the right thing.

Comfort yourself in the knowledge that for most of the population, it's the other way around. We're all gifted in our own ways, and we need every "type" for a functioning society.

Plus, if things get too wild, and we're facing societal collapse, are at the brink of a robot uprising - at leas you are able to program a backdoor for the robots to ignore you. No amount of social skills will persuade a robot ;-)

This is meant in the context of genetic survival. Homo sapiens were, eventually, better equipped to reproduce and survive. And if you read the article, it mentions at the bottom that part of the Neanderthal genes have been... essentially assimilated into the Homo Sapiens gene pool. Hence why Neanderthals seized to exist, and other species that live in a vaccuum (island) did survive. Many Homo Sapiens today are also part Neanderthal.

He also said “build something small for a small audience” and that applies to the start of all the companies you mentioned. Even Google. Back then, the internet was small, and enthousiasts a small group (relative to the global population).

Someone got to add "Advanced JS" to their resume!

It's the escalator of GPS!

> This is the morality of the Slave State, applied in circumstances totally unlike those in which it arose. No wonder the result has been disastrous. Let us take an illustration. Suppose that at a given moment a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?

This has been a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks! It's a familiar read. These days I prefer the pragmatic approach.

- Test features, not units (the time spent vs time saved is meh). So when something breaks, you can take it from there. Start digging.

- Build features

- Fix bugs by first writing a test, and then getting green

- Never go over-fancy with inheritance and whatnot. Readable longer functions are preferred over smaller once that break up the logic. Keep the poor soul in mind that has to go through your code in 3 years time. That could be you yourself ;-)

- Comment the "why"

That's it really. For web applications. Seems to work perfectly well for a code base that's over 10 years old and has seen many a developer come and go. Yes there's a bunch of legacy, but not a single part of it that's hard to reverse engineer with some effort.

Citation needed; could you provide sources?

Looks like he had a lot of fun getting to the bottom of it :) https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1146136251449278466

Not quite a database, nor the type of Pokemon conflict you were probably looking for, but at least it's a good read! https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/8siha6/father_an...

Here's a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYIBTIHOMxI

Although a tip to the creators: just pay someone to voice-over this. The robot voice is... terrible :D

No that wasn’t the point at all. Corporate death penalty was a completely overblown analogy by someone else. What this is about is that a manager / CEO / shareholder can be held personally accountable with punishment that could include jail time. As a deterrent.

Right now only the company is accountable as if it’s some sort of living creature, and the penalty is always money. Which as you aptly put, they have in abundance!

It does make sense. You're confusing corporate liability with personal liability. The parent's point is that if the investors / shareholders would be responsible. Stuff like this would be severely reduced because resources would be allocated to prevent it. Right now, the only damage is a financial one. And as long as the damage is lower than the cost of prevention, hacks like this will continue to happen.

The key part of his suggestion was “remote”. As someone else mentioned, you’re net positive comparing a high salary, living in London, with a lower paying job, living elsewhere. If you live somewhere else, you could do with less income in a more fulfilling job.

But you need to quit. You’re on a collision course with a burn out. Avoid at all costs. This will mentally scar you for the rest of your career. It’s no joke.

The important part is to get control back over your life. Your happiness.

My advice would be to jot down all your options and how they relate to each other and then go over them _with_ your partner. Maybe have them read your Ask HN post and everyone’s reply if you haven’t shared your doubts / feelings yet. If your partner wants you to be happy, and you want to be happy together, this is a problem the both of you need to solve.

Best of luck!

There were. Keeping Al Qaida “out” and preventing any other terrorist groups from rising was part of the deal. Talks / negotiations between the Taliban and the US started back in 2018.

A lot of people throw the Taliban, Al Qaida and IS on the same pile mentally. But although the Taliban are no friendly bunch. They’ve been the ruling majority in the 90’s, until they made a pact with the devil: Osama Bin Laden. From what I read, they won’t make that same mistake twice. Their interest is purely domestic this time around.

It’s a sad day though, for sure.

As the old ice-age saying goes: it’s not the size, but what you do with it ;-)

Then in order to help you make your case against yourself I waive your statement that the comment was low effort on your behalf. It truly was, _chef kiss_

Which is precisely my point. Amazon is forcing competitors out of business. And once they have a monopoly, history teaches us they will have no incentives left to keep their prices down, and introduce the very shitty prices you speak off. Hence: we’re not there _yet_

And it’s a negative cycle. Those already budget stretched people are getting paid poorly by Amazon, so they too will shop at Amazon. We’re not there yet but the cycle is reminiscent of the factory owners with factory stores and pubs where the workers spend all their money during the industrial revolution. Unions and worker laws stem from that era. So who knows - maybe we’re on the cusp of another revolution that’s similar, but in our current digital revolution!

Wow, I’ll say. That’s 1 CPM per pageload :D

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