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> Something HR is more than willing to exploit to get them to work ridiculous hours.

HR works for management and the board.

As an American I will have a hard time forgiving anyone that voted for Trump. He telegraphed his sick obsession with Putin and still was voted in. I am sorry.

I hope we still have a country 4 years from now. He is a saboteur as is Musk and both should be considered foreign agents IMO. Yet they are running the country. Makes me want to vomit.

That's been my career mindset. I've been in roles where my management has referred to me as a "rockstar" and it was a burden not a compliment. I'd rather be in a supportive team environment where everyone carries their own weight.

Compensation has been decent with this approach over the years. I could have made more staying longer in a darwinian bigco but the work was not fulfilling.

I feel this way about documentation. I do it, a lot. I get compliments and positive feedback on it. It helps me remember things I would otherwise forget. I hope that others would be inspired by my example but it hasn't happened. I could be selfish and horde my own documentation and let others sink or swim. But that hurts me too as I'd have to pick up their slack.

Generational trauma is really hard to resolve. A therapist once told me "family systems don't like change." The really old family dynamics have a way of being passed down and reinforced. We settle into roles that perpetuate them.

Interesting that there is not just social pressure but also genetic pressure that may be perpetuating the trauma.

My grandfather drove a tank through Europe for the allies during WW2 and I know that is still impacting me and my kids. He self medicated his presumed PTSD with alcohol and died young before I was born. That impacted my father and the way he related to me. And I am sure it impacts how I relate to my kids too. I don't drink anymore because that history scares me. The rise in fascist and nationalist ideologies scares me too.

If we forget history we are doomed to repeat it. Both at an individual and societal level.

It can teach him game development better than I can. I have zero experience with it but I can teach him about the software development lifecycle, version control, and whatnot.

If it sparks his interest he has a lot of life ahead of him to go deeper with it.

I have a teenager and a elementary schooler and both enjoy PC gaming.

The elder is interested in game development through his love of Roblox. I hope to help him get started with an IDE for lua, git, and a LLM and turn him loose on it.

Why not Prudhoe Bay, AK? Cheap access to natural gas for fuel that is flared off anyways, and sub-40F high temps for 9 months a year.

> Anything in their possession that is private can be exposed by subpoena or other court order.

As is anything in possession by a corporation

It's s deterrent. Very common in Latin America. Most crime is opportunistic and thieves can be in and out well before police or private security arrive. Justice can be hard to come by and police could even look the other way if they are in in it with bribes or in bed with organized crime.

It is shocking at first to see razor wire, electric fences, perimeter sensors, shards of glass embedded at the top of concrete block walls.

In the US you don't know if that house you are targeting has someone inside waiting with a gun. That is shocking to many outside cultures too.

I'd take that income for side gigs in a heartbeat. Pluse OP said hourly work is not their go-to anyway. Not sure why this deserves such harsh criticism.

The body shops that spam me for data software contract work quote well below that.

I never thought of crontabs as revenue drivers until I read this.

How do you manage the crons and monitor for uptime?

Getting through winter volunteering commitments that end soon, and daydreaming about learning some new skills.

I have Python experience as a data engineer and I want to revisit Django. And my kid is getting into the Roblox studio GUI tools and I want to work on a Lua project with him to get him started with SDLC concepts and an IDE.

TBD exactly what that will look like or what direction it will go.

Company trade secrets probably shouldn't be on the device? Edit - or the device's cloud backups?

More like byebit.

Unregulated asset exchanges. Haven't we been there before a loong time ago?

Does this mean I should treat travel to the UK the same way as China and only bring a burner device with no information on it or on cloud backup accounts?

Trump has blood on his hands. Full stop. He made Putin's war his own and embraced the idea of the US annexing other countries.

Things will get better once more brown people are at Guantanamo. /s

Are SAAS and frameworks getting that good that we need software plumbers and fewer software engineers?

What I really mean is that each party takes the opposite position of the other. Over a long time horizon the party platforms have completely flipped.

The two major parties stand for nothing and have no morals to guide them.

For example, Lincoln was a Republican and ended slavery. The new Republicans are now embracing racism and xenophobia. 180 flip.

> I'm not into fear porn that this is the end of the world, H*tler, or whatever.

Are you are okay with Trump splitting Ukraine with Russia and blessing Russia's war on Ukraine?

There are historical parallels with Hitler annexing other countries. You not being into that reality is a choice.

Maybe they do though the most powerful movements are grassroots. If it can get enough momentum to outpace the demonization that surely follows growth.

For example, who wouldn't support anti-fascism? That morphed into "antifa" which became the source of all the worlds ills according to the orange goblin. Yet only a fascist could be afraid of anti-fascism.

That won't stop Russia. It just buys them time to regroup and keep pushing.

I don't think they are equally bad. GOP are rotten to the core. I don't understand why a new party has not formed to leave the batshit crazies behind.

Lying and blaming Ukraine for starting the war and taking sides with Russia puts blood on his hands.

That an aggressor nation can walk into another country's sovereign territory and annex it with the blessing of a sitting US president is a disgrace.

And the only better experience than that is killing a new greenfield project before it gets to production because the old software was good enough and the problems were organizational in how the software was being used.

The coup started 4 years ago. It's just continuing. Now with immunity almost guaranteed by the supreme court.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely and we are just getting started. The checks and balance that get in the way are actively being dismantled.

Inspiring story!

My favorite business course in undergrad was production operations management. Some time later I realized that in data engineering, critical path analysis is useful for optimizing directed acyclic graphs.

For example, it doesn't make sense to optimize the longest running task when it's not on the critical path. If you are optimizing for $, sure. But for time, there are better tasks to optimize.

Feelings come and go. They aren't who you are, just a part of you.

You are welcome for 3 years of therapy in two sentences.

OP, way to funnel your energy into your project. Nice work!

I'm a big fan of adding `WHERE 1=1` to the first line of a where clause. Then all remaining lines are prefixed with `AND` or `OR` which is nice for readability and indentation, and makes it easy to comment out a line while iterating.