In Minnesota there is a vibrant history of adult baseball leagues, but the problem is that if you didn't play in college (or at least high school or American Legion ball) you will probably not be able to compete. Unlike softball leagues, they are generally meant for baseball players (with at least a modicum of talent) to continue playing into their 30's and 40's.
I was a professional developer starting about 1996, so this doesn't apply to earlier timeframes, but there were a lot of people TALKING about software engineering be a craft. In the trenches, there were a lot of people just trying to get things working. You would try to do this "the right way" (cf. how Agile is described vs how it actually works today) but a lot of it was aspirational. We were hacking things together and rushing it out the door back then as well.
Yeah, maybe it's because I grew up with sisters, but "girls not wanting to do secret writing" (if the actual reason) is boneheaded beyond belief. "Keeping secrets in a hidden diary" is literally a standard trope in sitcoms.
Ultimately, the military is like any organization made up of people with the usual politics, interdepartmental turf battles, fiefdoms, etc. Sharing information means giving up "power" and, unfortunately, government employees are not selfless civil servants looking to make the world a better place (maybe on their best days they are), they are just people like us.
I'm most assuredly not a coffee snob (Folger's? Bring it on), but I just don't like the taste of instant. I will say that an AeroPress is one of my best investments for a quick, good tasting cup of coffee (faster and cleaner than my previous plastic pour-over thing that cost me $2).
It becomes corruption when government regulators do things favorable to an industry and then shortly after take cushy positions in said industry. Regulatory capture is a very real thing and, IMO, a much bigger reason for modern problems of governance than "government bad" or "corporations bad".
In the mid-90's Heineken and Becks were considered "fancy" beers. By the late 90's , microbreweries were starting to appear (at least in the Chicago-area where I was living).
I admit that I'm a terrible (descriptive) code commenter and that is after 25+ years as a professional programmer, BUT I always try to add a comment when I add some weird code to fix an odd bug or add some special case.
And I can confidently say that pretty much every descriptive comment I've ever written was out-of-date shortly after it was written, but the "hey, this weird because of X and if you think you are going to optimize or fix something you need to be aware of this special case" have saved me numerous times.
Good for him. The callous disregard for _pre-stated_ wishes and then trying to claim that "akstually HE was the real risk to OUR employees" shows that any sense of "friendly workspace" they are trying to encourage by having birthday parties (??!) for employees is just a thin-veneer over what is more reminiscent of a scene from "Office Space".
I don't think Van Gogh is a good example. There are certain artists whose work outlives them by centuries, not many, but we still talk about Michelangelo, da Vinci, Monet, etc. The rest of your post is accurate, though.
I think he pretty clearly already didn't agree with the USA since he ignored the fact that they told him he couldn't go and violated sanctions. I'm pretty sure they aren't worried about him "holding a grudge".
TBF, that guy isn't doing it for the fun of it (OK, partly for the fun of it) but because Mr. Chickadee is a content creator. Sure, it's a lifestyle choice, but he also makes his living do it. I love his channel, but his lifestyle is as much a product of our modern world as the Java programming language is.
Hacker News isn't an activist group, it's a tech website. Individuals on this site may or may not be "doing" something about Ukraine but there is no reason to associate this with HN being "good" or "bad".
I've seen this sentiment in other places as well. Everything doesn't have to be coopted into activism for the current cause.
You haven't heard it because it's not spin, it's from an engineer's point of view. That's not the view you hear in the news when it comes to these things.
Yes, I did it at the beginning of the pandemic. I'm not implying that they would be working from home simultaneously with caring for children. Just that their schedules could be more flexible to deal with the various things that come up in parenting easier than when working from an office.
Source: myself being a parent that has benefited from this very thing.
I wonder how the wide-scale move to work-from-home will change this. Having more flexible work environments while also making caregiving more possible (because, let's be honest, women still do the vast majority of caregiving, even if they work full-time) AND not spending as much time in a physical office reduces the exposure to these "traditionally male cultures" might make software development more attractive to women.
Just some random thoughts, it will be a long time before we know the effect.
I know exactly how you feel and have been there. It's important to adjust your thinking from "I need to break out of it and I keep failing" to celebrating the individual moments you succeed. One day at a time, as it were. Don't think "I need to start exercising regularly" just do something, go for a walk, lift weights, etc. Don't worry if you are going to do it tomorrow or the next day. You did it today. Good habits aren't things that "start" they occur because you just did something today, and you happened to do it the next, etc. until you just do it because it's a habit now.
I know it's hard, and I have to remind myself of the same things all the time. But I'm successful when I get out of my head and start acting.
Marriage is spending your life with someone else. Life has it's good and bad, just like marriage. You can decide for yourself what you are willing to do deal with and what you aren't, but "marriage" isn't the issue.