jacksonkmarley

I think I read somewhere that the DNA studies showed genetic transfer in one direction only, S. America to Polynesia, and not the other way, which seems like a bit of a counter argument.

Good point, I didn't realise that.

Not sure if many others made the same assumption, but that landing page feels to me like it should have a more obvious way to feed into the text-based content.

Title could be more helpful if it included "(video)". Then I would not have clicked through.

So you're saying the things they do that annoy you are: ignoring you until after you got a good job because you didn't have a CS degree, using devious tactics, and spamming you. And having so much power to affect your career that you don't even like to admit when they annoy you.

> Notably usually absent or poorly followed: - waking up early, at the exact same time, every day.

I think not being able to wake up early at the same time every day is actually a symptom of insomnia. If you've been up half the night and only fell asleep an hour or 2 ago, jumping out of bed when the alarm goes off is pretty hard actually.

Maybe there is something I'm missing, but if you're not tired what is the problem?

I mean sure, it's not like I want to refuse all responsibility. And I'm all for paying the person who does the on-call in line with doing what I consider a tough duty BTW.

I guess my point is more that maybe that separation of roles actually also reflects the differences in personality and how different people work.

I mean I guess it's pretty dependent on the company and product, I just know if I see "on-call" or "support" in a job ad, I pass. Perhaps I'm just screening myself out of certain business areas.

My experience was support during business hours as part of my job as a software engineer. I used to hate hearing the phone ring, and it was rarely if ever a problem directly related to what I was developing. I felt like it was just a huge disruption to my work.

I don't know how prevalent my opinion is amongst developers, but the reason I will never take another job with a support aspect is not because of some detailed assessment of the software lifecycle. It's because I don't like it.

And I can't think of anything more annoying than being on-call for work outside regular work hours.

So I think it's awesome that some people want to do this work. I hope they do it full-time, and that lets me do my thing full-time.

Obviously many developers like the mixed model or accept it. I'm curious about whether I'm an outlier or lots of others feel the same?

Actually I read it before you deleted it haha.

Curious if you think some sort of independent contractor style would work in your situation? I'm not experienced in that type of workstyle, but it seems like companies with less long term investment in training, benefits etc would care less about age, as long as you deliver.

That does suck. I guess there are different approaches you could take to work around it, e.g. spamming more companies or filtering out certain types of company, what kind of numbers did you put in? Do you think an early, unpleasant rejection could have discouraged you prematurely?

So do you make a living from your current company, or are you living off past income/superannuation etc.?

I was thinking more of Assange's options for not being confined for the rest of his life. Honestly I think the odds are low of the UK government releasing him/declining the extradition, and less than even of the US government dropping the charges. He has already been practically imprisoned for years, plus actual imprisonment recently. Leveraging the threat of a Supreme Court fight against a face-saving US govt. approved light sentence might be a valid strategy at this point.

The author seems to have thought about some of the issues around how we approach our working lives, that's not a bad topic to write about in itself. However the tone was a bit ranty and negative, and the Tim Ferris hating got a bit monotonous.

This article could have been more interesting if the author started with a bit of the 4 Hour Work Week, then left it and Ferriss behind for more fruitful content.

If Assange ends up back in the US facing trial, does he have the same option as Ellsberg mentioned of triggering a Supreme Court action? Or is that only for US citizens?

I guess that would be good plea bargain leverage if it were possible.

Anecdata incoming: a few years ago when I was doing stuff with c# it seemed like everything I needed was already on SO answered by some dude with like a million kudos or whatever.

Recently I need some python + mariadb answers and most of the top ones are out-of-date enough that I can't even use them (deprecated packages). I was a bit surprised TBH.

Also TIL GitHub Discussions is a thing.

Understood. I have noticed before that controversial headlines get changed, pretty curious whether it is lazy editors rubber-stamping journalist submissions, then fixing them, or something a bit more deliberate.

Now the published headline has been changed. Updated the title.

I agree, however I left the title as the BBC published it. Actually I would class that particular headline as a lie, not just misleading.

This is a good article, and the story is certainly emotionally appealing, with the maverick who goes against the prevailing wisdom being proven correct in the end.

I wonder how this sort of story would look when put into the context of a large scale investigation into military strategy and dissenting voices. When these contrarians pop up are they usually right? Maybe there are heaps of them and 9 out of 10 times conventional military strategy is the better option?

Modern military history seems to have so many examples of leaders being wrong, including 'successful' ones, it's hard to extract a clear narrative in many cases.

Something I have zero clue about, do everyday Russians see Belarus as an ally and Lukashenko as a good guy?

Good point about resisting EU control of Eastern Europe, although this doesn't seem like the optimal way to do that. Maybe this is step one, then step two is to cut a deal that imposes some limits on Belarus' actions but puts Russia in the control seat of negotiations etc.

They did mention in the article some captive breeding attempts, but not sure if that was a case of 'too little, too late'.

What does Putin get out of this? I feel like such a strong show of support for Lukashenko on this issue (above the existing general level of support) probably has some pretty significant strings attached.

It seems like a poor HN title for a very interesting article (which has a perfectly serviceable actual title btw).

The saddest thing is that there are apparently technical solutions to this that could have potentially saved the species. The article mentions fish ladders and bypasses for dams. I'm not sure if the ladders are suitable for a huge fish like this, or whether it has the necessary jumping ability, but some sort of fish bypass seems like a good idea. Hopefully this can be implemented in the future for other similarly endangered species.

> Yangtze dam separates Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct

What does this mean?

I wonder if it is just filling when the number of matching search results are low. I don't recall having memorable problems like that.

For me seeing pictures of what friends far away are up to, a la facebook, is actually pretty nice. And twitter is best when a quick thought is linked to a more in-depth article or post. Plus news links to some objective source. And no promoted content. I'm not holding my breath.

> a vast circle jerk in the cloud

Well, that has the ring of truth, when applied to the newsfeed. And the final conclusion that you should just get on linkedin when job searching and then get off again is fine. I find it incredibly useful for job searching, to the point that I don't even bother with other sites.

However, the job search experience is badly spoiled by secondary recruitment postings. These are especially annoying when the posting is cut off so that you have to follow an external link to get the full info. And having to apply from external sites is also a pain. Linkedin seems big enough to be able to enforce some rules on those sorts of things.

I think the newsfeed stuff that this article focusses on really only affects people who buy into it. Personally, after reading a few posts of the type '5 reasons your boss should stop doing that thing you hate', I stopped paying attention to the newsfeed unless there was a robot video from boston dynamics at the top. And the secondary features don't really seem like they have enough meat to stick.

Yes this has the ring of truth, I went through a very similar experience spending some time working in France. Totally legit, paid by my company in another country and hosted by a French company for a short placement.

Total bureaucratic fail, the French company just told me the specific visa was not going to happen, so I cut my stay to fit the tourist limits and went on that visa.