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It's like people will create their own desired footpaths over fields when the sidewalks are not in the right place, so it seems the word "crypto" is just a shortcut because there aren't any shorter words to describe blockchain.

Is there something for clojure that TypeScript is for JavaScript?

This looks like a bare minimum effort "communications" platform.

What they need is a fourth app called Google Planet

Google, Facebook, Dell, NSA, CIA, DoE (E=Energy), Airbnb, Palantir -- There are literally thousands of people applying for jobs to these companies and a really small percentage will be accepted. So it's not that you are unhireable, but you are applying to places where rejection is almost guaranteed. It's like betting on a number at a roulette table and wondering why you are losing money. The odds are against you.

Some ideas: 1) pick a smaller and boring software services company?

2) Travel abroad and find work there, where the health insurance is not such a big of an issue.

3) Try to make it as a freelancer(you can start at upwork and work your way up from there, start a consulting company etc)

4) Apply for a remote only positions

P.S If you can afford it(probably not), get an appointment to a psychiatrist or a therapist, they can usually spot the problems you might be missing yourself.

Archimedes would have a solution for this.

Gettting 504 right now

Are SPAC's some kind of new financial inventions? I see this term popping up quite frequently.

Paraphrasing, can't remember the exact joke:

Recruiter ask candidate developer: "So, why do you want to work in our office in Mexico?"

"Because I want to be a señor developer"

Where there is demand, there is supply.

I would also suggest a movie called Derzu Uzala, directed by no other than Akira Kurosawa himself. It's about surveyor and a local hunter. Taking place somewhere in Easter Siberia.

4 hours seems like a lot. Do you still have to commute, even amid the pandemic situation?

It's not really constructive to start your comment with a "utter piece of crap".

My mother is constantly complaining that apartment is cold, and then I close the window.

Don't use Teams app, but connect through browser instead... that is if there is no other way to avoid Teams, because you're company has already migrated from Slack.

My problem with all these systems for reading books is that it starts to feel like a work I have to do, instead of enjoyment. I just want to read a book in my leisure time and not fill out templates in my notebook/app, constantly worrying that I might have missed some key idea.

There was some sorts of renaissance of chess in twitch community. All the big streamers were playing chess for some reason. Not sure what happened there, might be related somehow to Hikaru Nakamura starting to stream and growing pretty big. But that was before "Queen's Gambit".

Ahh, QBasic, gateway drug into programming for many of us.

Thank you. I guess PG doesn't want to conform to make his essays more readable :)

Also:

> There may even be a phenomenon like Dunning-Kruger at work, where the most conventional-minded people are confident that they're independent-minded, while the genuinely independent-minded worry they might not be independent-minded enough.

Fake it till you make it

Funny coincidence, I was just reading "Sphere" by Michael Crichton, and the zoologist in the novel was presenting the same argument about the the intelligence of octopuses. Side-note, this book is driving me crazy, the characters seem to be the dumbest persons alive, although they supposed to be the smartest scientists.

Just for your information, from their legal page: "...linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." Not sure what is meant by this, but I found it funny.

Maybe e-voting from sauna? [0]

-[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vUYq_Lfs54

How did they manage to store passwords in plain texts. I thought most of the services (wordpress etc) will create passwords for you with a proper encryption?

Gerald Weinberg keeps popping up in a lot of recommended reading lists. Currently reading "Are your lights on?" and "Secrets of Consulting". He seems to be a prolific author, and seemingly unknown. By cover art on his books, I assume he self-publishes his books.

I have few laptops lying around. I wonder if there is some kind of Linux distribution or some other way to transform laptop into a digital typewriter. No internet, no applications, only a decent text editor (Emacs perhaps).

Some stories are too good to be true I guess. To bad. I'm always wondering how do the directors always find the right guy in the right time just before something is going to happen. I suppose it's just a trick with mixing up the timeline and presenting things in different order.

I hope this will lead into part two of "King of Kong" documentary. One of the best documentaries I have seen in a long-long time.

I saw the unicorn when using firefox, but when I switched to chromium, the PR opened fine