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I think fully actualized adults have the capability to be a coffee snob, without being insufferable clods.

I willingly share my coffee knowledge to anyone who asks and never denigrate someone for liking Folgers.

So do I have to be THAT guy?

Fine.

Crypto solves this issue...

I think they meant bread & butter? But OP only used the word "pride", so yeah, it's a little confusing what this commenter meant.

GitHub issues is great, until and unless you work for a company that doesn't allow 3rd party access to the Org where all your repos live. I want and need a one-stop shop for my Kanban board and I could accomplish this using GitKraken Boards for instance, but because of where I work, they disallow GitKraken access to my repo issues. So now, managing a dozen or more repos with an issue tracker for each one separately, is frankly, a pain in the ass.

Back in my day, we used to just telnet into the mx server and RCPT TO

cough Axios cough

"Secure Messaging, Anywhere"

Well that isn't quite true, is it?

https://www.craft.do/pricing lays out the pricing structure

The issue I see here is that Jason Fried and DHH state that this decision lands solely with them. Giving Basecamp the benefit of the doubt is impossible until and unless they center marginalized voices and give them positions of power at Basecamp. Otherwise this decision is cowardice wrapped in some arbitrary policies.

Actually there are legitimate arguments that master/slave in this context (IT) are precisely tied to slavery.

This, on its face, is a terrible idea.

We can't even get police to stop murdering BBIPOC, why on earth would we want to give them the ability to say yes/no to anyone getting a job?

This is directly from Martin (developer of Bootstrap Studio and Mail Studio):

"You will notice that Mail Studio has a different pricing model - it is subscription based. This is necessary because the app depends on a lot of cloud features like cloud saves, sending email previews and syncing with email providers, which are not possible to provide with a one-time purchase."

I bought and paid for a lifetime license to Bootstrap Studio and I absolutely LOVE that product.

Another thing that may help you in the long run and I can't recommend this enough, is a book called, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

I've gotten in the habit of asking if they want someone to just listen or if they want help finding solutions.

More often than not, people just want to know they've been heard.

As for building empathy, this is a tough question and I'm not really sure how to answer it. What makes you think you aren't empathetic already, outside of some rando internet test for empathy? I'm not sure I'd put a lot of stock in that kind of testing. Are you getting this type of feedback from loved ones?

A lot of government agencies lack the budgeting required to go through a process of "as-is" and "to-be". This process is both lengthy and costly and is usually reserved for the main portion of that agencies workload.

As someone who grew up in extreme poverty (eating ketchup soup made with ketchup packets and hot water, extreme), there are so many ways that poverty affected me, outside of this simple article.

The best way I can describe it is that poverty makes you start out life in a giant hole and you're given nothing to help you dig out of that hole to reach the surface where you can then start thriving. I honestly feel that at 54 years old, I'm finally thriving and not merely surviving in this whole of poverty. Yes, it's taken me this long to get here.

I never went to the dentist on a regular basis. It wasn’t until I had an abscessed tooth and was in extreme pain, that my welfare mother took me to a backwoods, rudimentary small town dentist. I remember sitting in the dental chair with the high-pitched whine of the dentist drill and smoke that smelled like burning hair, pouring out of my mouth. It traumatized me. To this day, I still have issues with my mouth and am finally at a point where I can begin getting it taken care of.

I got a job working at the elementary school in 9th grade one summer. I spent the summer scraping gum off of the bottoms of chairs and desks using a container of something that froze the gum so I could scrape it. I also spent long hot summer days crouched over on the black tarmac, painting the foul lines with yellow paint. I was hunched for so long that I developed back problems and of course, couldn’t afford to get it taken care of. I’ve had back problems ever since and it wasn’t until I was in my 40s that I could finally afford to see a Chiropractor and find some relief. And to top it all off, the State of California cut my moms welfare off because I managed to earn $2000 that summer. Guess how much I ended up getting to spend on new school clothes? Only about $200 from what I can remember.

It wasn’t until the past few years that I stopped looking at the price of things I was putting in my cart and making a mental calculation of the total cost of the shopping cart EVERY TIME I went shopping. I no longer do this and get whatever I want from the store.

I developed a weird sense of wanting to have choices. My wife couldn’t understand why I would open three different tubes of toothpaste until she finally realized what it was I was doing. I never had so many choices and I loved it.

I could go on and on but I won't. I think it's pretty easy from here to extrapolate just what poverty did to my productivity overall.

Slanted toward what? Advocating for pulling people out of poverty? Advocating for keeping people in poverty? I'm genuinely interested in understanding why you think this story is slanted and in what direction you think it slanted you and why you think it matters.

I've worked remotely in various forms, for about 15 years. My remote work experience ranges from State Employee (Management) to independent consultant with large clients, to working currently for a small company who contracts me out. I am currently contracted to a Fortune 500 company as a software engineer and business analyst and have been here for the past 7 years.

I guess not everyone is cut out for remote work, just like everyone is not cut out for open office spaces. I personally love working from home (or wherever) because it works well with my personality. I'm not into interrupting peoples workflows to gab on the regular. I generally get into a zone and once I'm there, interruptions pull me out of that zone and it takes me 30 minutes to an hour to get back into that zone again. Sometimes that becomes even more difficult if the interruptions happen in the afternoons.

I've also found that not a lot of big companies understand how to support employees that work remotely. Everything rises to the level of a meeting (interruption) instead of just posting to a Slack/Teams channel. This pandemic has been interesting in some ways because the people that DO go into the office and actually like that setup, have been forced to work from home. What makes this interesting is that they STILL don't use remote tools for collaborating and my meetings (interruptions) have actually increased because of it. I would ask your potential new employer, what they do to help support remote employees and see what their answers, if any, are.

You mentioned you have kids and are divorced. I cannot tell you how awesome it is to be able to take 5-10 minutes to help your kids through something or spend time with them during a workday. These kinds of little things add remarkable value to your quality of life.

Another thing that makes remote work even more awesome, is if they're flexible hours. In other words, you aren't tied to your home office during regular business hours. This minimizes the interruptions (IMs via Skype or Teams for instance) and allows you to work a schedule that fits your workflow. For instance, I start really early because that's when I do my best work and I taper off in the afternoons and sometimes pick back up in the evenings.

I am happy to answer any other questions that you might have.

This is actually a great idea and something I'm likely to bring back to my own teams!

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I'm not sure how any of this relates to each other.

Twitter banned Trump for reasons.

FDA and EPA are government regulatory agencies.

The baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple broke state statutes.

How are any of these things related?

The 1st Amendment acts as a constraint on Government. Private companies are under no obligation to protect your right to free speech.

What's scary about it? Companies are under no obligation to provide a platform for you to say anything.

Here is a link to a screenshot of what he tweeted after the video and which Twitter subsequently removed: https://d.pr/i/Ex15UI/ABdSwruLJz

I have the Series 4 and it's fundamentally changed the way I interact with my iPhone when I'm out and about.

* I can answer calls while driving and not have to fumble around for my phone while driving my truck (The wife's SUV has fancy bluetooth integration)

* I can open and close my garage from my watch.

* I can voice message my family through Messages.

I only wish that the battery life were much longer than it is and that Apple could settle on one method of charging their devices, especially in vehicles with limited room.

We watched this during film school in college. We were told it was one of Adolf Hitler's favorite movies by one of his favorite Directors, Fritz Lang. Watching that movie having been told it was Hitler's favorite, was eerie to say the least.

Training on fire suppression and extrication techniques for cars doesn't take THAT much training. Most techniques would be standard across the board, with a few exceptions for electric vehicles.

Additionally, never underestimate the hours of training that most firefighters go through anyway and get this, they live for that stuff.

Former firefighter here also. We also used to have to worry about the compressed gas cylinders on bumpers.

Not the point.

What is the point is that Sketch didn't have the functionality they needed at the time they needed it, so they migrated to Figma.

Outfoxed.