mastersummoner

Modafinil is one.

For the record, there are lots of people who love living in extremely dense urban situations. There are benefits to being exposed to so many different people living different lives, it's one of the things that cuts down on the bias of icky being exposed to an extremely homogenous group with homogenous opinions.

Obviously urban centers can be improved on, and many people living in them wish they had more personal space. But there are advantages too.

Why not plan ~ten years ahead and expect these buses to be self driving then?

Honestly, at this point it's only quasi-political. It was a joke, and a pretty funny one.

I can't believe how well you were set up for this one, haha.

If people find it interesting, then the answer is yes.

Just chiming in - my absolute favorite GB game growing up. Fantastic storyline, amazing music, fun secrets. One of the best ever made for the system without a doubt.

Chronic is an awesome date library, agreed.

It was long because there were a lot of steps to describe. But for each, the writing was concise, interesting and entertaining.

Question is, how much influence will be retain? Assuming this ever happens.

Fair point! I'd say what I'm most aware of having saved me the most time is knowledge of the shortcuts and features available _in_ SublimeText though.

Not a program, but being very familiar with the keyboard shortcuts in SublimeText has saved me countless hours of dev time.

Things like Ctrl-D to highlight multiple instances of a word, plus the ability to put on Caps checking in the search bar first so you're only highlighting correctly capitalized versions. Make the same change in multiple locations. Saves so much time.

Knowing how to highlight a letter, a word, a line at a time.

Ctrl-shift-down to make your cursor span multiple lines at the same point, and have copy/paste respect the copied text from the respective lines.

So many things add up to hours upon hours of time saved, and frustration avoided.

This is mentioned in other responses, but keep in mind that frequently, it's urban sprawl which endangered these animals in the first place.

We're not going to start closing up our cities to let animals come back. But we can take steps to make the environments around them more hospitable: bridges under highways, reserved areas for wildlife. Once these are in place, some reintroductions to kick-start the process makes more sense.

A lot of the animals being reintroduced were key parts of the ecosystem before they were eliminated in areas, and their absence can lead to unexpected imbalances. Reintroductions makes sense in this context. Or at least, introducing another animal which fills a similar niche.

I managed to get into professional software development in my early thirties. My college track was for that, but took a severe detour after graduation. For me, a programming bootcamp helped me turn things around and get me my first job as a professional developer, though the ecosystem is a lot different now and I'm not sure how good even the best is. Highly recommend doing a lot of research before plonking down a chunk of change.

I also had my first kid at 39. It's hard, but management. A kid in your forties isn't unheard of at all, and you can absolutely meet a wonderful woman at any point in your life.

Strong agree on seeking therapy. You have a lot of options, but getting your head and heart in a good place will make the path a whole lot more evident and smooth.

I suspect it's "not very complicated" for anybody with a decent grounding in the tech. Which is very much not me!

God love you, your idea of "not very complicated" is absolutely fascinating.

I live in a predominantly Chinese area of a major US city, with many people who speak virtually no English and many stores dedicated to catering to them. Including clothing stores.

The amount of engrish I see on the shirts and jackets of people walking around is a wonder to behold.

I've been really lucky with my startup experience so far. The two I've worked for have both had really great, though different, environments. My most recent startup was 4 to 5 people and it was absolutely fantastic.

To me, break implies it was chosen for personal reasons. But I'll let GP answer for sure.

I loved soulseek. Finding someone with interesting tastes and browsing their collection was great - found some artists I still love to this day that way, like Bogdan Racyinski (you don't turn down an album called Samurai Math Beats) and the Dresden Dolls.

What does she think you should be doing instead?

Alternately, you could make enough money that you are able to bequeath upon your ilk sufficient money to not need to worry about it too much.

Though if you're doing this, highly recommend not letting them realize you're fairly well-off until they're old enough to know the value of a buck/peso/ruble/euro.

When I was first learning to code, I once told someone that working with SQL felt like trying to wrestle with a mainframe, and I stand by that assertion.

Science.

American here from a very large city. Mine did not, and even if it did I can almost guarantee you I'd never have stepped foot on it regardless.

American here, and I have effectively zero instinctive idea of how large a football field is.

Was made a team lead recent and it's... interesting.

I always saw myself as an individual contributor, and rebel against the path that leads to what's effectively project management with zero daily coding. But being the lead of a smallish team, making sure everyone's working towards goals and helping more junior devs when they get stuck, is a surprisingly interesting challenge.

Actually, that... would explain a surprising amount about government dysfunction.

Yup, same recommendation. That was my first time even hearing about this massive, landscape shifting chestnut blight; I have no idea how it isn't now commonly known.

And it was just a really great story in general. Definitely recommend.

I wrote an Android app that splits checks. You pre-create groups of people (Adam and Jane are a couple, John is solo, etc), then for each line item on the bill you decide which groups should be charged for it. You can split tax and tip proportionally or just evenly along people/groups.

And it uses OCR to scan the receipt and read the items, amounts and tax. I was amazed how well open source Tesseract worked for this out of the box.

Finished it but never marketed it, too much of a perfectionist. Worked really quite well though.

This was maybe 6-7 years ago, and I've since seem other apps doing basically the same thing.