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For me though the most important thing is grokability. Our monolith is to a point literally no one on earth can understand the whole thing.

Even if the system is complex, the individual deployables being fully understood by some number of engineers is extremely valuable and drastically reduces search space for the cases where things don’t go as planned

If it was convenient, if they seemed interesting, respectful, etc.

At Earnin, our mission is to create a financial system that works for people. We have grown tremendously over the last several years.

I myself am a backend engineer, we are in the process of decomposing a monolith built in dotnet in C#.

We use AWS extensively, and we are looking for strong generalists and care very little about previous C# experience, though it is a plus of course.

You can email me at g<HN USERNAME>f.golder@earnin.com

You can also see a list of all open positions here: https://www.earnin.com/careers and apply directly if you prefer.

This is a wonderful place to work, we have lots of hard problems to solve, and we (or at least, I) feel very good about the work we do. Dog friendly work place here in Palo Alto, well stocked kitchen, very flexible remote policy, getting almost everything right here.

Assuming good ones, I’d tell the truth to the leads boss. Say you think the lead is struggling, way you think you could do better, and in the meantime provide as much help to both the lead and the leads team as possible.

If you tell your boss you’re going to take a more active role and it things start smoothing out, you’ll have a very good case.

I certainly would. I had been using Safari on mac only because it was fine and I had no need to switch to firefox or chrome.

Now I will definitely not be using safari anymore.

It’s pop literally because it’s popular. The people who have the freedom and interest to travel the world are not “typical” citizens in any country.

Of course we evolved with hunger being a regular part of our experience and only in modern times can the gnawing feeling of hunger be avoided almost entirely by many people, or addressed immediately with a convenient food.

I am no biologist but my own experience and some reasonable assumptions would point to the idea that there are biological processes taking place during hunger pangs which are part of our overall energy systems.

Why would it be unwise to think it works for everyone? Does doing sit-ups make everyone’s core stronger? Does doing squats make everyone’s legs stronger?

I have no idea what you were doing when you were meditating, but having anxiety about it is certainly not proof that it doesn’t work.

Maybe you didn’t have good guidance? Maybe you were having some benefit you didn’t notice or measure?

Preferring exercise over meditation doesn’t really make any sense? Exercise and meditation do not serve the same purpose. It would be best to do both with a good plan, it’s essentially impossible to do zero of either of them.

If someone told me exercise didn’t work for them, I’d simply say the same as I would to you, you must be doing it wrong (for your situation), or it is working, and it’s not at a fast enough pace for your liking.

What I would guess is going on would be loosely similar to someone who starts to exercise and does it with bad form and not enough conditioning for the exercises they try. So they get hurt or too sore and just think it won’t work.

However if someone else wrote their own code to do the same thing, it would not be protected, which is the point.

That’s like saying exercise doesn’t work for you.

Maybe you are going too hard too fast and getting injured or any number of things that make it difficult.

But meditation works, even if it’s (like exercise) a difficult habit to pick up.

Seems a very good candidate to me to get people to believe something they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Really great timing on this for me.

It’s on another level imo.

I think the productivity aspect would only be true in that case, as the things that “just work” are (for me) external libraries, GitHub readmes, sdk examples, etc.

I am just providing context for how to think about the problem in a way that (much) more closely maps to reality than low-earners getting displaced due to gentrification and wage stagnation.

But it doesn’t account for people addicted to meth, or alcohol, or people suffering from schizophrenia, etc.

However, the vast majority (writing from a phone on train so I’ll have to challenge you to prove me wrong rather than cite, but the statistics are clear on this) of homeless people are deep in the throes of addiction or, mentally unstable.

The working family that can’t make ends meet absolutely exists, I am not in anyway challenging that.

But, go to one of these tent cities yourself , where these exploding homeless populations exist, and it will be apparent that people are so addicted that there is not rent that would be “affordable” as their basic human needs aren’t even being met for them to be functioning in a positive economic way.

Essentially these people are sick, in a genuinely diagnosable way, and that sickness manifests in self harm. IMO, it’s pretty clear that this mass sickness (primarily the opiate crisis) is the leading cause of these exploding homeless populations.

I am not sure if this is naivety or if the author is being disingenuous to make a point, but the housing crisis in these big cities is almost entirely an addiction problem, where it's not an addiction problem, it's almost always a mental health problem.

Not to minimize the plight of Cokethia, as the economy is clearly broken (and getting rapidly worse) for those who can't demand premium wages.

edit: s/and have a lot of dependents//

Of course their holdings have to do with their belief in US debt, those dollars could be spent on many things.

I am not a chemist nor biologist, but ethanol escapes through mucus membranes and afaik, thc does not.

So, I am curious what mechanism has thc in the breath while people are “impaired” but not while they are heavy users that haven’t had any thc for 24 hours.

Incredible to me this isn’t the case and they have this type of status. Especially with the recent “exposé” showing the CEO owns some of the buildings WeWork is leasing from.

I don’t get to do near as much these days, but the lessons I’ve learned have made me a better developer for sure.

Type safety and pure functions make debugging and refactoring an entirely different beast