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The way most of our biggest companies and wealthiest are just lining up to do Trump's bidding is what I would expect from unstable 3rd world countries but never from the US (I know cause I came from one).
Regarding mocks, there are mocks that can hurt you and mocks that will help you. Mocks that can hurt you are mocks you generate by hand and it represents an idea of what production is, or maybe the untested, specified contract. Mocks that help you are the ones that are automatically generated representing actually what production has. Mocks like these have saved me from potential P1s many times - and millions in business losses. In an ideal world, I wouldn't need mocks, but also in an ideal world LLMs would do my testing.
I joined HN back in 2008 and I am mostly a lurker, but when I see an article that just plainly promotes bad practices with no samples of code or without going in depth. An article that would have been voted down or ignored to oblivion back in the early days of HN. I have to say something. I have seen enough bad code (specially in recent years) - I am afraid the new generation is getting their tips from all the wrong places.
What got me through is that I love coding and learning, specially as a new grad. In hindsight, these are the times when great things happen - we just cannot see them. It happened in 2000, 2008 and I hope it happens again. Don't get demoralized, keep going at it and remember why you got into this profession (hopefully not just for the money)
One interesting thing they do is that for things like new decks or replaced ones, you need to submit an application for approval which should include a building permit by the county. It gives prospective home buyers assurance that certain things were done correctly. Before a house is sold, the seller needs to provide an HOA disclosure which triggers an inspection for which a seller needs to ensure all changes were made with the approval of the HOA. Our seller (an investment property management company) had to fix several things in our house to being them up to code to get those approvals, which helped me as a home buyer.
Besides that, the HOA has been very responsive, we did replace our windows without their approval but it was relatively easy to fix given that they were similar windows.
Why? Because it's a ponzi scheme. People who made money off this already (and are not holding the line) are not the people affected by the man. I don't believe my plumber, my electrician, or the busboy at the restaurant are investing their money on GME stock using Robinhood. Who do I see doing it? My friends, mostly young white collar workers with money to invest/lose in a bid to trying to get rick quick. Your typical reddit user of sorts.
I mean, my first few years on this country, while going to college at night, I worked construction. I worked with all kinds of people, from all kinds of lives and believes. When 2008 happened, many of them lost their life savings or their houses. At that point, I was working as a software engineer already, my older colleagues lost a chunk of their 401k - which they probably have regained and built upon by now.
Sticking it up to the man? I don't think so. The end of this will be fast and painful to many.
That's why being a politician takes some skill.
"Listening to Senator Byrd I felt with full force all the essential contradictions of me in this new place, with its marble busts, its arcane traditions, its memories and its ghosts. I pondered the fact that, according to his own autobiography, Senator Byrd had received his first taste of leadership in his early twenties, as a member of the Raleigh County Ku Klux Klan, an association that he had long disavowed, an error he attributed—no doubt correctly—to the time and place in which he'd been raised, but which continued to surface as an issue throughout his career. I thought about how he had joined other giants of the Senate, like J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Richard Russell of Georgia, in Southern resistance to civil rights legislation. I wondered if this would matter to the liberals who now lionized Senator Byrd for his principled opposition to the Iraq War resolution—the MoveOn.org crowd, the heirs of the political counterculture the senator had spent much of his career disdaining.
I wondered if it should matter. Senator Byrd's life—like most of ours—has been the struggle of warring impulses, a twining of darkness and light. And in that sense I realized that he really was a proper emblem for the Senate, whose rules and design reflect the grand compromise of America's founding: the bargain between Northern states and Southern states, the Senate's role as a guardian against the passions of the moment, a defender of minority rights and state sovereignty, but also a tool to protect the wealthy from the rabble, and assure slaveholders of noninterference with their peculiar institution. Stamped into the very fiber of the Senate, within its genetic code, was the same contest between power and principle that characterized America as a whole, a lasting expression of that great debate among a few brilliant, flawed men that had concluded with the creation of a form of government unique in its genius—yet blind to the whip and the chain."
When he was sworn in as a senator - after his wife and daughter died in a car accident after he won the seat. He said: “If in six months or so there’s a conflict between my being a good father and being a good senator, which I hope will not occur, we can always get another senator but they can’t get another father,”
As a father, I understand the feeling. It also shows me he is a fighter, he has always been. We need someone like him to unite us and move us forward.
Funny enough that my country of birth, Peru, just declared a national emergency and declared quarantine for everyone in the country. Peru is a democratic country - at least for the last 20 years - but it had to enact this to stop the virus from spreading. It's a bold move, it's not a popular one, but it's the right one imho.
We should be doing the same, our current leader is - unfortunately - a coward who will always be afraid of taking a risk. It's on us then, as responsible citizens to make sure we don't go out unless we really need to for a while - at least that we can control. Just my two cents.
My son just turned one year old a month ago. He is going through his cutest phase yet. He wants to play, walk, talk and say hi to everyone. I think often of what she would say to him, what she would cook for him, or the advice she would give me on raising him. So many things to wonder but then I see my son smile. He has my mom's smile and he loves to smile and laugh.
Life can be funny like that. Besides the teachings and memories I have of my mom, I am lucky enough to be also reminded of her smile every day through my son.
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