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> Men aren't impervious to sexism either.

Men aren't impervious to sexual harassment, that's true. But in my career women have been overwhelmingly on the receiving end. I've seen a woman not be hired by a male interviewer because she was "too hot", I've had one woman tell me she was groped, a number been subject to unwanted sexual advances, and I've seen male staff cat call. I've had a manager massage me out of the blue. It's a gendered problem, the statistics bear this out, and acknowledging that is necessary in order to address it.

> Young women are working ridiculous hours as well.

That's not the point I was making.

> What child care, most of the highly educated aren't having kids to begin with.

That's not the point I was making.

> That's universal as well, not specific to women only.

Again, yes, Not Only Men, but there is a gender component to this that I am acknowledging.

Retain rockstar programmers at all costs, even if they push everyone else to quit over being mistreated. Give them fancy job titles.

Have upper management crack sexist jokes, and HR laugh with them, so that women at the company who are sexually harassed know reporting it will do at best nothing, and at worst risk their own career.

Only hire young men in their twenties, and praise the idea of working long hours. Child care is for their wives to do.

Create artificial deadlines, that have no real-world repercussions for missing. But make it an urgency that must be done, instilling stress, and causing people to work long hours. Then after the deadline passes, note how it was unimportant, and repeat.

Have upper management make engineering decisions without accepting the input of engineers. Then when things blow up in a manner predicted by engineers, blame the engineers.

Pay new grads more than you do women engineers who have been at your company for years.

Have interviews that are focused on sports, and how much fun you would be at a party.

Praise the management style of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

The policies that hurt minorities aren't any policy he's personally affected by, thanks to his wealth and age. His wealth also insulates him from experiences that would foster empathy in others.

Meanwhile, conservative policies favour those who have a lot of money, like him.

Ask yourself to define "interesting" using concrete terms.

Are there specific fields you want the company to be in? List them.

Are there specific roles you want to be in within the company? List them.

How much of your time do you want to spend doing feature development vs maintenance? List that.

Are there specific stacks you want to be using? List them.

What size/phase of company maturity do you want? List it.

Go from there.

I understand that they have Reasons, but it sucks that my Core i3 laptop with 1TB SSD and 24GB RAM is deemed "too old" to run Windows 11 (by one CPU generation), when the current lineup of laptops at Best Buy have way worse specs.

It informed some questions I'd ask in interviews, informed some push back I'd give following crunches, and made contemplating subsequent departures seem less unsurmountable.

Best of wishes to you. :)

There's no right answer for those questions.

I've burned out twice. Both times I quit. Took a year off between the two. I travelled both times, and then just had my own routine at home. I had no problem finding another job when it was time to come back.

- You can tell your boss. Expect sympathy, but, any plan that works for you is probably one you'll have come up with.

- If you leave, I'd recommend not dictating when it'll end up front. Say three months if people ask, but what you really mean is in three months you'll reassess if you need more time off. No actual deadlines.

- I don't know about you, but for me as a senior eng at a startup, work eats into all hours of day / weekend. Do an 8-4. Not one minute more. No weekend. No slack on your phone. No on call. No evenings.

Be kind to yourself friend. <3 Come up with a routine. I found my days filled up without work as they did with, but taking showers, cooking meals for myself, etc. was important.

Congrats on all of these, but especially #4 :)

As a fellow Ontarian, what attracted you to Florida? The weather? Job opportunity?

1. I spent time with my bff. I spent time with my dad. Time with loved ones is what I value most in life; I'm glad I got some good memories. :)

2. I got a job as a backend senior eng; I went from making $65K to $102K a year.

3. I did two trips: Maldives & Newfoundland.

I think learning the fundamentals is a worthy pursuit, but in terms of getting stuff done well, you realistically only have to grok one level below whatever level of abstraction you're operating at.

Being able to glue frameworks together to build systems is actually not a negative. If you're a startup, you want people to leverage what's already available.

I think you're right, but I don't think this organizational discomfort with remote work will be true of the next batch of hip companies to work at. So you may yet get your chance. :)

Honestly, I don't get this debate.

If you were to take the pain points of debug by print, and address them, you'd come up with a debugger. Being able to put those "print" statements anywhere without recompiling, being able to go step-by-step in the code, etc. And sure, that's not always available.

Both end up having impacts on the thing they observe. A print() call can cause microscopic delays that are enough to cause a race condition not to trigger, as can waiting on a breakpoint, etc. If you compile with debug symbols, that can cause some bugs not to surface, as they are only visible when you compile with -O3 or whatnot (eg. a bug involving reading unallocated memory).

Both are just tools. Sometimes one is better in a given situation. Sometimes the other is. I just don't get how this is like an emacs vs vim thing.

What's considered cheap is relative. $12 a month is more accessible than lump sums of $500. It may be cheaper to have your own hardware in the long run, but not everyone is able to afford seeing that through.

As for laggy, Cyberpunk runs orders of magnitude better through Stadia on my only computer - a dated Core i3 laptop - than natively.

You're not wrong. Running it yourself is obviously better if you have the hardware. It's just there is a value proposition with platforms like this that I think can make it so more people can play AAA games than before.

Yes, it's a different problem with universal health care. Here (Canada) the problem isn't oriented around the question of are you rich enough but there's a trade off in wait times. From the Fraser Institute[1]:

> There is also a great deal of variation among specialties. Patients wait longest between a GP referral and orthopaedic surgery (39.0 weeks), while those waiting for medical oncology begin treatment in 3.8 weeks.

Still, the Canadian system is demonstrably better when it comes to outcomes. Canadians live longer than Americans, and have lower infant mortality rates for instance. Canadians also pay half of what Americans do for health care, when everything is accounted for. My partner is diabetic; like most medicines its a fraction of the cost of in the US. A universal system brings with it purchasing power. No system is perfect, but this one seems much better than the American one for the average person.

It's a choice. In my case, I'd much rather the Canadian system over the American. Even when it comes to surgery, I had a vaginoplasty (took 8 months between GP consultation and surgery; $25k surgery paid for by govt). My friend got her tubes tied (took a month; paid for by govt). My other friend was in the hospital for a month (admitted immediately; paid for by govt). My uncle had heart surgery. He did not have to lose his house. My step-dad had hip surgery (took 4 months; paid for by govt). Not to mention all the doctor's visits and tests accrued over a lifetime.

[1]: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...

I use a typewriter and write letters. It's distraction free and produces a hard copy. I use a cast iron pan daily and use a French Press/Aeropress to make my coffee. I use candles for soothing light.

I mean, as a Canadian consumer using American social media platforms, we're subject to American censorship policies. Tumblr / Facebook / YouTube being most notable in their filtering of LGBT content and suspending accounts of LGBT users, because of the American governments stance on human sexuality. This argument of who censors makes sense for Americans, but it's more about picking your poison for people from other countries.

I was 17 when I chose my undergrad. I got a degree in a field I didn't care about for the sole purpose of being employable. Then the 2008 recession wiped out entry-level mining and then oil sector jobs (my field). I jumped into software development, which I've been doing since. I don't have a degree in it but I make a good living.

If your argument about a generation-wide problem involves blaming individuals, instead of looking at the wider factors that caused this outcome to be predictable, you're missing an opportunity to improve matters.

Two women, but yes, agreed - we don't have confirmation on the motives. To be clear for others, that interpretation isn't in the original article. It's only on this hacker news link title.

For a partial list of other actions that contextualizes this latest development:

https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration

Including yesterday's apparent proposed roll back of protections for trans people using shelters:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/hud-rule-transgender...

As a trans person, Tumblr was the best place to find other trans people, having shared experiences talked about, negativity processed, and where I was able to post pics of myself as I shifted seeing myself from ugly (as reinforced in me in movies) to worth loving. It was one of the only places where I didn't have to be bombarded with the hateful remarks of transphobes, as I got to pick who I followed.

I had some of my content censored following the acquisition by Yahoo. It happened to other folk too. I really wish there wouldn't be this shame around bodies, sexuality and gender identity that companies enforce with their censorship algorithms.

Manual typewriters. I have two that I use every week, and they're wonderful distraction free devices that don't require power.

Seems like the the best manual typewriters were made in the sixties.

The news feed feels like a stream of PR releases, people I've never met keep asking to add me presumably to help them find jobs, and the mobile website experience is inhibited by multiple disruptive banners / pop-overs to use the app.

That said, I get people reaching out to me once or twice a week with opportunities for a new job. Most of these fit my qualifications, and it's how I landed my current gig. I don't need to look for jobs anymore, they come to me.

It thrives, but with a subset of the people it could have. I'm reminded of both the low proportion of women (commits on the Linux kernel are 94-96% men) and kernel developer's like Sarah Sharpe citing the toxic culture for leaving.

Sarah Sharpe's explanation for leaving:

http://sage.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/

Gender analysis of Linux kernel technical contributions:

https://blog.bitergia.com/2016/10/11/gender-diversity-analys...

It's so unfortunate that he continues to be so abusive, inspiring a toxic culture with it, and that he has been completely unwilling to change. This community could have so many more bright minds than it does.

I agree, you can't talk about web development history without bringing up jQuery. That said, the moment was right for something like it to come up. The amount of boiler plate code needed to enable rich web experiences of the time went up with the popularization of AJAX, and it was inevitable that something would solve that pain point.

For what I was referring to, it was Tumblr putting NSFW warnings on content. Also censoring content outright. One video I did covering how I did estrogen injections, for example, was auto-removed for being obscene. There was no nudity.

It meant trans content disproportionately faced a barrier to access. It hurts trans youth in particular, who are less likely to stumble on content, but could really have used seeing it there.

Was on there from 2009 ~ 2016. Being queer & trans, it was the first online social platform where I could be exposed to new narratives and interact with others.

Previously it had been forums and YouTube, but neither felt as personal. I ended up meeting a former partner and current one on Tumblr.

Tumblr however was hemorrhaging money. The way they commercialized it following Yahoo's purchase discouraged trans authors: content was marked as NSFW no matter how innocuous and no longer readily accessible to unregistered members, tags that were used to find trans content became inundated with prn spammers.

Nothing has really filled the gap left by Tumblr.

I don't understand. Don't we already pay according to the bandwidth we use on the server side, and don't clients already pay according to the bandwidth they use, everyone paying more if we use more? And don't backbones already get paid according to usage? What am I missing here? It seems like paying twice for the same product?

I created/deployed a system to track a fleet of aircraft in real-time, that then messaged individuals when anomalous conditions (plane crash) was detected. It was inexpensive to run and reliable.

In terms of what's most gratifying though, honestly, giving workshops or volunteering in a way that empowers others. I give workshops to trans and gender diverse individuals. I've volunteered with Technovation to get young women into tech. I've done one-on-one mentorship. That's the stuff that makes me feel better and none of that is paid work.

That's a really interesting way to frame it. Glad you posted that comment.