mbrutsch

Ah, substantive comments, just what we were looking for.

Ooh, comments not visible when not logged in. Very 2009.

Only if one assumes these groups do not overlap. Anonymous is anonymous for good reasons.

Lie with dogs, you get fleas. I have zero sympathy for those who fall prey to closed ecosystem BS like this, including my own wife. People just don't listen.

Choking to death on your own vomit is what you consider a painless death? I hope you have a painless death.

> A DNR is not an order to cease basic life-support post-resuscitation.

And no one said it was; no one even hinted at it.

> For which of these does he deserve to suffer for, more than he has already?

The first, the violation of her express written wishes that led to her "painless death".

Sadly, he's dead, which means his suffering has ended. The rest of us get to continue remembering until we too pass.

My mother had a DNR. She contracted meningitis, and died. She was resuscitated, suffered severe brain damage, and lived another 2 years as a semi-vegetable before dying in her sleep after choking on her own vomit.

If I believed in such things, I would hope my stepfather is in Hell.

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>You don't want to be working with someone who can't work with other people.

That describes me pretty well, and those with whom I work love me. They just keep me in my little box, leave me alone and let me do my work. But they are also a grown-up company that doesn't make people wear 27 hats. PMs do their job, Infrastructure does theirs, Client Support does theirs, etc. Not every job has the same requirements as every other job.

You should know the routine by now. ;)

> I actually upvoted you, for the record.

That's why I said "you and my downvoters", rather than "you and my other downvoters". I am apparently very bad at making simple points.

> But you drew a distinction between "in-house standards" and "the framework's standards"

One is used in-house for all things relevant, one applies to a framework. In that, they are distinct.

> (which are by definition probably taken from widely adopted standards).

Probably.

> If you were implying that those two things might be identical then you did a bad job of conveying that.

sigh. Two things can be true at the same time. I give up.

> naively doing everything your own personal way (including at the team/company level).

You, and my downvoters, all assume (naively) that any in-house standard must somehow be different than "widely-adopted coding standards (that most frameworks probably use)". Obviously, that need not be true, and in my limited 40 years of experience, it rarely is. Not sure how you even got there.

> As someone else pointed out in this thread, a great advantage of established frameworks is that they provide a coding standard for a team.

So it's useful for young, inexperienced developers. Do you kids really not have in-house coding standards anymore, or do you rely on your toolsets to provide that for you?

I've been trying to kill Cortana since I upgraded to Windows 10, she's not dead yet.

That will Streisand on Dropbox very quickly.

Employment == life in our society. They strike when you try to take it away.

There is a segment of the populace who feels that every "wrong" must be "punished", and they generally make life miserable for everyone else. Usually no one will speak up for fear of being punished along with the "guilty".

I disagree. A different approach would be to say "Don't know what happened before, but moving forward Ted is accountable for A, Alice is accountable for B, etc". Knowing what happened before serves zero purpose except to shame. All that effectively matters is what happens from this point forward. You put a process in place this time, to monitor what Ted and Alice are doing. Next time, it's your fault when it breaks, because you were forewarned, and you should have known better. Next time, you know what happened, because you put controls in place.

Or just throw someone under the bus and keep repeating the same mistakes.

Fixing begins at "someone screwed up". Blaming delves into who screwed up, which is usually not required to fix the problem (since there may actually be no one to blame).

I take it from the article that this would solve one of my biggest internal issues: songs getting stuck in my head. It's gotten so bad in recent years that I don't listen to music at all, because it may stimulate a "earwig" that will not stop.

> You should learn more about stress disorders

Uh, why? Am I a counselor?

> allow yourself to empathize with the plight of the moderators

To what end? What possible constructive purpose is served by allowing myself to share (or wallow) in the negative emotions described by others? Does it stop "bad things" from happening? Does it lessen their pain? Does it lessen anyone's pain? Or does it increase the overall amount of suffering in the world?

brb, going to voluntarily take a job that makes me feel bad, so I can cry about it on the internet...

Little different from any historical thought police - we know what's best for you, citizen, move along, nothing to see here.

I think they mean Anil Dash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Dash

I'm early 50s, and I've "learned and discarded" several decades of skills: 8/16-bit assemblers, the entire DEC range of computers, MUMPS and the VA ecosystem, the Perl craze of the early 2000s; I'm in an Oracle/Ruby shop now, and I suspect I'll be learning something new in a few years. Only way to keep up in this field, throw out the details, keep the concepts, gird the loins and hit the books. Well google, no one uses dead trees anymore. I have almost 100 lbs of "replaced by google" books sitting under my carport waiting to be recycled, becuse even schools don't want them.

> Foos is clearly a serial sexual offender

When the "victims" have to be informed, decades later, that they even are victims, it makes you wonder.

I work in this industry, connecting customers' data flows, and one of the biggest problems I have on a regular basis is trying to describe to a client how their ADT data is not matching their claims data (which matches on account numbers, mrns, etc) without using PHI for examples. It's very frustrating.

When you have a "diagnosis" from a "scientific discipline" that cannot be rigorously tested or diagnosed, it seems obvious it would be open to abuse in this manner.

If there were a blood test for crazy, it would be a little more difficult. Sadly, diagnosing illnesses of the mind is just educated guesswork, and will likely never rise to the level of science that most people assume.

I miss VMS, with its 32767 backup versions of every file.

When someone dies that they believe worthy, they do the black bar thing.

Yeah, this really affects old non-degreed codgers like myself. I find it difficult to get "a foot in the door", but luckily my performance always leads to comfortable retention once I do. As I get older though, that's going to get much more difficult.

Which makes it tough for publishers, but ultimately it's their responsibility to create a product that people do want to pay for. (The existence of reddits like /r/shutupandtakemymoney shows that this happens all the time.) The beauty of the internet is that there are so many sources for so many things, I can almost always go someplace free for whatever it is I seek.

> there are the ones avoiding regular society, etc.

Indeed, something as simple as smoking weed (regardless of the reason) will exclude you from most government assistance. Living indoors is not always a suitable trade-off for giving up medications that work.