partisan

I found this article frustrating to read because of the lack of details, explanation, or attempts to educate the reader. Overall, it is just the reporting of speculation and nothing more.

That said, I wonder if this is the type of news source we need. Anyone who wants further details can and should research the topic before drawing conclusions like the pre-baked ones we usually receive from our news sources.

Plus amazing views.

It’s the exact opposite for me. At work, we had 3 monitors, standing desks, great chairs, a gym, free breakfast and lunch, full private bathrooms with showers and towels and toiletries, amazing views, etc. Now I compete for space with some children, a spouse who also works from home, and I work on a 14 inch laptop screen from a couch. It’s a downgrade and I would work from the office if it were practical. We can go in, but some of these amenities are no longer available to us.

Since working from home, we’ve had many more meetings than we used to, which is a drain, mentally. Still, I am almost as productive as I was before, but no thanks to the environment at home.

Consider drinking seltzer. Canada Dry is surprisingly good. Let it get really cold in your refrigerator. For some reason, it tends to have a better bite and stays fizzy longer when it's opened while colder (Sources needed).

Seltzer helped me to quit a Pepsi habit in college and while I occasionally drink soda, it tends to taste super sweet now to the point of not really tasting good to me anymore.

Working at a public utility company: "Do you want to learn JCL and COBOL?"

Working at a company after just a few months, just a few years into my career: "Do you want to manage the team (of very senior developers)?"

Every so often, an uber alert pops up telling me how long it will take me to go home from where I am. Usually it's at an inopportune time. Sometimes when I am showing someone my phone and then they see my home address. This has happened several times already and I should just delete this app at this point.

It is also a little strange that the app is nagging me to go home. I'm out and enjoying myself and the app is telling me to go home? As if I will look down and see that it will now take me 43 minutes to go home instead of the usual 45 and that would be the final straw that will cause me to end my night.

I’m not sure how things work in the EU/UK, but wouldn’t it make sense to make sure you have a viable product before moving for the ease of setting up a company? In the US, my partner and I had to think about the overhead/operations/regulatory part of the business maybe once a quarter. It was a pain, but in the grand scheme of things, it was so inconsequential to the entire picture. This reminds me of the usual questions around what new and unfamiliar technology one should pick when creating a new startup when the answer is really just sticking with what you know to get your product complete and in front of customers (who don’t magically appear, either, btw).

This was my reaction as well. If you have company-provided presentation materials then use those. What benefit is there in not doing so?

I’ve had pret in London on a brief visit. I had the Peking duck wrap. It was delicious and I had it as often as I could during that trip.

I came back to nyc with a healthy respect for pret and often ate from there at my last job. I will miss it, personally speaking, but I understand when others see it as unworthy of eating.

That is why a market with variety is so important, different tastes are served by those who serve them best.

What were you expecting to find there?

I use sql on a daily basis.

Many of my etl processes are based on stored procedures. These are large transfers usually via bulk copy (bcp).

Crud operations are done via orms (Entity Framework) or a light orm, Dapper which requires sql statements at times.

Generally, I try to avoid complex sql statements though they are necessary.

One possibility is that a twitter employee was blackmailed with some personal information and forced to do this.

My wife plays video games with a group of players and though they all know each other’s real names by now, they still call each other by their game names. They call me “Mr. YYYY” where YYYY is my wife’s nick name.

Would I take the job? I absolutely would.

Why? I’m a 40 year old programmer. I will hopefully make this year, what an average junior programmer at FB would make. To be sure, I like my salary, but at FB I would make more.

How would I justify it to myself? As someone who probably doesn’t come from a typical background for the average FB engineer (minority, father of 2), I would convince myself that I can be part of the positive change that the company should be looking to make. It can start with people of conscience at all levels.

Would I be bothered by the moral hazards? Absolutely.

It is strange. How did you notice this?

Agreed. They were active in the F# community in NYC until the purchase.

Stream of consciousness, but as a New Yorker, here are my two cents:

Anecdotally, one of the first things I noticed while driving through the Upper East Side about a month ago was the number of lights that were off around 8pm. It was a little disturbing to see, but people have their own prerogative and there is no way to tell someone that they should stay in the city to support the people who live here. Lately, I do still see people moving out. Typically one or two cars loading stuff. A lot of furniture on the sidewalks if you’re into that type of thing.

I am keeping a pulse on things by watching rental prices on Craigslist. I enjoy seeing the sublet ads that ask for someone to take over a 3000/mo 1 bedroom apartment in Hells Kitchen. They’ll be back in September. Until then, pay their full rent to live in a neighborhood that was sketchy before, but barely habitable now. I don’t even feel safe driving through there after sundown.

Which brings me to the point: I think the racial imbalance in terms of who gets sick is clearly driven by the ability to work from home, ability to actually socially distance, and the ability to just leave the city and go back home until things blow over. I’ve lived in a three generation apartment in the boroughs. If one person gets sick, they all do.

It recognized my attempt at drawing an elephant, but didn’t recognize when I converted it to a penis with a few deft strokes.

Peace of mind.

I’m not a python programmer, but isn’t this a good way of turning truthy or falsey answers into actual Boolean values?

Prior to that, there was WebSpades which was free to play and tons of fun. They were bought out by one of the bigger sites and things went downhill as they often do.

I played a lot of spades and backgammon on Yahoo as well. Is there a replacement for these types of sites nowadays?

When I started using the Internet in 1997, Yahoo had a feature where it let users upload their favorite sites. I would browse through those sites puzzled and delighted by the seemingly endless, random content. That was how I came across Peep Research (http://peepresearch.org/).

I came across TWOP kinda late in the game, but in the era before streaming and fragmented forums (fora?), it was a good way to catch up on Project Runway and get other viewers perspectives.

I wonder if a site like that could reach critical mass nowadays.

I got a Tandy 56k when I was about 7 years old. I tried following the programming instructions in the book with limited success, but I do wish I had an adult who could have helped me along with it. I wanted to make a game like Excitebike.

In college, depressed and unsuccessful in my chemistry major, Quake found me and I fell in love with pc gaming and thought, once again, that I might make games. In junior year, I decided to take Java but though I got an A in the midterm, I couldn’t even get a program to compile. The next semester I transferred to a public college and started a computer science major using C++ of all things where I did really well, made lifelong friends and found my love for programming.

Today, I’ve yet to make a real game, but the journey to trying has taught me much and I really do enjoy creating applications that make things easier for my coworkers so the dream of making video games is on the back burner.

I’ll add my experience here. My wife got it first. It was several days of fever and intense sinus pain. The fever broke and then she had a cough for several days more. She lost her sense of taste and smell as well. She has also experienced some stomach pain. The worst part is the fatigue that has accompanied the entire process and still persists a bit.

My experience, starting about 5 days after she showed symptoms was more or less the same without the sinus pain. The fever broke after 2 days. The fatigue has been the primary issue and I have apparently lost about 5% of my body weight since quarantine began. Losing your sense of taste and smell seems to correlate to not having an appetite.

Our two young children ~7 years old are ok. One had sinus pain for day, but a warm compress helped with that. I assume they have it and we are all quarantined inside as a result.

Feel free to ask further questions.

> in my day job people are often blown away by how I seem to know a lot about everything

This has made my meandering journey worthwhile as well. I don't have many completed projects under my belt, but I have gathered quite a bit of design and coding techniques, different languages, technologies, etc.

The one completed project (completed in a programming sense, but not a business sense), was one that was done just quick and dirty with no patterns, no architecting of any kind. I resolved to not learn anything in the process (besides understanding the dataset I was parsing for human consumption). In this way, I was able to actually "finish" something. That said, I did learn about deploying on digital ocean, about the importance of having a repeatable deployment process, etc, so it was actually a good learning experience in the end.

I had nothing but good times playing TF in 1997/1998. I joined clans and made friends online in a way that seems almost impossible to do nowadays.

Action Quake 2 and CS through 1.6 offered similar opportunities to make good friends, but TF was the advent of that for me.

The government should take ownership of these underperforming properties and make them available to first time business owners in partnership with the SBA.

Those validation rules are scary to look at. They are cryptic strings that express some limited form of logic in that can only be verified at runtime. Is this the state of the art for Go?

I tend to see this type of issue with people who are not focused on any one particular thing. It’s almost like a fear of commitment. You are 80% of the way to being a developer. Take the time to understand algorithms and data structures. Commit to it. On the other side of that commitment is the confidence to apply for the types of jobs that you want, not just the ones that appear before you.

This isn’t a “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” pep talk. This is an appeal to you to achieve your potential.