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First of all, assault is not a "minor" crime.

Secondly, you're sealed into a tube with 100 other passengers, over the Atlantic ocean on a 14 hour flight. One passenger who cannot control themselves, decides they're going to punch a flight attendant. Now what? You can't just call the police (like you can on the street).

So now, people who are not the police, have to "detain" this individual to keep them from hurting others. The plane has to divert to land so that the person can be handled by law enforcement. The 14 hour flight is now potentially 24-48 hours total, people have missed connecting flights, holidays, work meetings, etc.

So how and why people continue to compare punching someone on the street with punching someone on an airplane, is beyond me. While they're both technically assault, that's where the comparison ends.

Ok, let's use drunk driving as an example.

If you drive drunk and are caught, you can lose your license, which technically, means you can never drive yourself again.

"We've been trying to track you down regarding your cars extended warranty..."

My curiosity got the better of me. Now I must chuck my Mac into an active volcano just to be safe.

I have the Galaxy Buds as well as the 2nd Gen AirPods. I cannot get the Buds to stay in my ears with any regularity because all of the weight of the Buds, is out at the end that is not in your ear. The AirPods have all of their mass inside of your ear and stay put.

Thank fuck someone said this.

Most users don't want to tweak anything related to their phones, tablets, computers, watches. If everything your app does, isn't reachable within 1-3 clicks/swipes/presses, then forget it.

Someone suggested using two versions KeePass files...one for shared passwords, one for not shared passwords. This is NOT a substitute for clicking Share Password and literally not doing anything else.

Someone suggested storing all your passwords in the browser. This is NOT a substitute for having all of your passwords available at the app level on your iPhone. This is NOT a substitute for sharing passwords with your whole family.

UI/UX is EVERYTHING

Um providing an API endpoint to a closed, proprietary system, does not make one open source.

This is kind of an odd viewpoint.

Whether we spell "shit" or "s**t", you say the same word in your head.

The rules in our house are, the only bad words, are words used to hurt other people.

Having said that, cussing is a rite of passage in our house. We all cuss like sailors.

What obligation does Twitter have to provide anyone with a platform?

Truly a loss to the game of football. I will forever remember his voice while commentating as well as him drawing on screen in a silly fashion, to explain different plays.

You indeed can if there are nuisance neighbors and I believe that is considered a material fact in most states. However, most documents, I believe contain a Real Estate Transfer Disclosure Statement which would have had a line indicating a "yes" if there were nuisance neighbors and it would have been up to you to ask for more details.

Appointing yourself arbiter of integrity of an entire profession, is exactly gatekeeping.

The OP stating he had 10 years of experience, in no way, shape, or form, has any affect on you...whatsoever.

If their stating so, made you angry in some way, then your time would be better spent asking yourself why..

Why are you gatekeeping this profession?

Mediocre HN coder - checking in!

Just curious what you expected to show for doing something for 10 years? Progress? Improvement? CEO of MAANG?

You repeatedly say "I am stuck". What does that mean to you?

What does "being proud of" something you've worked on, look like to you? I've been in this business for 26+ years and NOTHING I've done in my career, would qualify for being "proud of". What I AM proud of, is the person I've become, the relationships I've fostered, the children I've raised.

I get that this career choice can seem overwhelming at times. I've tried to specialize more than a few times, but it didn't work out. Primarily because I was chasing the money. In other words, doing what paid me and paid me well because I have a family to support.

Honestly what you've posted above, sounds so much larger than your career.

Sometimes I'm torn between boycotting a company and understanding that surely not everyone who works for Blizzard deserves said boycott.

Who does a boycott really hurt?

Your app claims to help with OCD, however, unless your app uses Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), other forms of CBT are contraindicated for OCD treatment.

Can you explain succinctly how you help with OCD?

Small point: The author of the article does NOT have this attitude. He's calling it out as a bullshit attitude...FWIW

I'm cheering you on too!

Set your sites on what you want and don't waver for as long as you can. It will happen!

Invariably, comment threads like this, pop up when I provide some current thoughts about my career. A career that quite a few HN readers share apparently, but that's where the similarities end.

Quite a lot of you didn't grow up in abject poverty and it shows.

The hole this puts you in, 99% of people have a really, really difficult time climbing out of and describing what this process is like, is lost on a lot of people. My biological mother made extremely poor choices and never took my future into consideration. We were housing insecure and we were food insecure. My personal safety was at times in jeopardy.

I've been in survival mode most of my life. It's only the last 5 years that I was in a position to finally make thriving choices for me AND for my family. It was only this month that I finally made the ultimate thriving choice to live in a place that I've dreamt of living in since I was a kid. I'm not even going into any other details about what effect this has on you as an adult, like homelessness, how expensive being poor is, etc.

So I'm only left feeling like laughing (and sometimes crying) when someone mentions savings. Shit, it's only been in the last 10 years, that I got over mentally calculating the cost of everything I put in my shopping cart, to make sure I could afford it. To this day, I still have anxiety over swiping my card in front of people at the grocery store, thinking that surely it's going to be declined (it hasn't in years).

I'm only just now able to start dedicating some of my salary to a savings account (or other investments). There is no time left to ultimately retire with anything matching my current salary, so I've resigned myself to work until I literally can't anymore and with a remote IT job, sitting at a desk, that sounds like 30 more years or more.

Change jobs? I guess you missed the part where I'm encountering ageism? I've had to lop off a decade of my experience in order to try to not appear older with my experience alone.

Haha...interesting you'd say that.

I worked for two State Governments, Oregon and Nebraska for a combined 13 years total.

I ended my career at the State of Oregon as an IT Director for a State Agency.

So several things about state employment bothered me to no end:

1. State employee union contracts catered to the lowest common denominator. What I mean by that for one thing, is that you cannot negotiate your salary or your "work out of class" rules/pay.

2. Implementing technology (context was 15 years ago) one always had to consider the public perception. This meant that when iPhones were first introduced, I couldn't consider them as part of my IT planning because of the public perception that I'd be wasting tax dollars on them. Despite the fact that they were superior in every way to what Blackberry was offering at the time.

3. I couldn't buy things off of price agreement despite finding prices lower than what the State had already negotiated.

What a bizarre takeaway from what I said.

Saying I'm 54 and have had a 26+ year career in tech was MY context for feeling spent.

This is highly likely and is worthy of much more research on my end.

Thank you for reminding me of this!

My definition of growth mindset is the same as yours.

I don't identify with it so much as I think of it as my baseline. Does this mean my baseline has changed? Absolutely.

It's still irksome because I too enjoyed looking for opportunities to improve myself or the methods I use to get things done. Now, I just don't give a fuck.

An unpaid sabbatical just isn't in the cards for me at the moment.

This is something I've entirely thought about and likely suffering from.

That being said, I am trying some other remedies before I take Androgel or Androderm and they seem to be slightly helping.

Part of the problem is that I'm a Software Engineer as well as a Business Analyst and Project Manager. I'm also managing a dev team, so it's really difficult to only work 6 hours a day. Hell, I can't even do all my work in a 40 hour work week.

Yes, I realize this isn't a me issue and I'm looking for other work. The problem is that I'm encountering a lot of ageism in this field too.

As a 54 year old Software Engineer, who has had a nice IT career for over 26 years, I'm spent.

This is coming from someone who has always had a growth mindset and had a really hard time sitting still. I used to loathe naps and felt like I was missing out if I took one. Now, I take a one hour nap almost daily and I'm finding that after 1pm I'm basically fried (I start working around 7AM).

I'm not sure what to do about it, if anything. If I could retire now, I would.

I'm trying very hard to get my earnestness about learning new things back and I'm finding that my motivation has just tanked.

I'm afraid this is a permanent state now.

Drink the coffee the way you like it.

If you like to experiment, try different methods of brewing - French Press or pour over are easiest. You can try single origin beans, or blends, ground or whole bean that you grind with a propeller grinder gasp.

I consider myself a coffee snob and even I buy pre ground beans sometimes because I'm a lazy old codger. Frankly I sometimes don't want to go through my coffee ritual in the morning and just want a simple, quiet, pour over to get me going.

Absolutely nobody should be knocking the way you take your coffee.