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This surprised me by offending me. I got bored of this thread in that instant.

Personally I, on the worker side of this relationship, enjoy the tracker - but I seem to be part of a tiny minority.

That being said, I've been involved with the hiring side of IT contracting before, and I can say without nuance that it would be a train wreck without some form of tracker.

Is the above just a personal squeak of disapproval or do you know of a way to avoid it while hiring strangers from around the world?

Yes. That's true in most cases but let them youn uns have some fun will ya!

I get it I do, but please can you try moderate your tone? First post I open, and I already am faced with this kind of feeling. Now my breakfast will be just that little bit more bitter.

Be kind. I think it was that dang fellow who said it. Yip here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In another life I'd be clever with you and say something to the effect that you should educate your own self, and read them. And then we would have our very own little reddit subthread here for our selves, and it would be my fault, and mine alone.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

It's a lovely thought.

Our finger memory for ^a is now ^a-a. In all apps, everywhere. Mostly that just results in something like select-all+select-all, but occasionally it's awful

My ex had some time in the hospital before i met her, she told me sincerely that electricity applied to her head was the best thing that ever happened to her.

The effect of a grumpy person sending Bob to jail is also not immediate or enormous (unless you are bob or bob's family).

Your comments feel like you want a reddit style battle of wits. You throw words like ignorant around rather freely. I downvote these comments because they lower the tone of the discussion. We're not here to talk about each other or feel smarter than others.. Well I'm not.

My home currency is worth ~20x less than USD. I fall totally into this category. But I feel enough dumb pressure that I'll cave. As a result I simply avoid these types of interactions. USA is the weirdest place to be poor! One somehow feels shabby and less-than, even while walking past endless homeless.

I had only one job so far where code quality was a primary objective it was fantastic, but it was also extremely slow and expensive. Slower and more expensive even than what you're probably thinking right now. I was shocked.

Please say more about "legal frameworks for life management solutions". You can't just drop those words in that order with no further context and walk away.

I think they're talking about one of the short stories in The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks

What a great read.

How bad does it have to get before it stops working, I mean like phone a friend brittanica yellow pages bad? Quicker and more deeply we get there, the more effort and traction gets behind some breakout solution. Maybe it's just pure cynicism: burn it all.

Remember email spam? It got so bad, that we fixed it. I mean email has its issues and how but spam isn't one of them. I built a spam juggernaught in my day (got bills don't I :)) and I feel like I contributed a tiny bit to our almost-spamless latter days.

Progress! The world is on the march.

How bad does it have to get before it stops working, I mean like phone a friend brittanica yellow pages bad? Quicker and more deeply we get there, the more effort and traction gets behind some breakout solution. Maybe it's just pure cynicism: burn it all.

Remember email spam? It got so bad, that we fixed it. I mean email has its issues and how but spam isn't one of them. I built a spam juggernaught in my day (got bills don't I :)) and I feel like I contributed a tiny bit to our almost-spamless latter days.

Progress! The world is on the march.

Even if you get it to work 100% of the time, it will only be 99.something%. That's just not what it's for I guess. I pushed a few million items through it for classification a while back and the creative ways it found to sometimes screwup, astounded me.

I live permanently in Airbnbs for 5+years now and have none of these... Oh wait the sink fell right out of the counter while I was washing dishes in my last flat in Buenos Aires, week before last.

Well, I bought some glue and I glued it back in. I didn't have to do that, if I have real problems Airbnb has always refunded me, and hosts have always been great... But i didn't mind.

Was your trip in USA? I get a weird kind of feeling that Airbnb is awful in the states... But I'm not sure that's an Airbnb problem specifically. I feel like in the states it's a business, where the rest of the world is more easy going?

I love this type of interview. I code with the goal of showing how it's done, not how much I can do, and they very soon realize that they won't see finished code on "this" call. It's an opportunity to teach non-coders that hidden intricacies exist in even the smallest ticket. Usually just a few minutes in they're fatigued, and they know who I am.

I should say rather, Thinking.

I've no coworkers either, and over time both I and my code suffer for it. Some say thinking is at it's essence a social endeavor.

Maybe he's a bad guy, but prison is worse than you think, and probably doesn't fit the crime here. Imnsho.

I've used i3, dwm, and xMonad - currently found bliss in qtile, since it's extremely easy to customize any part of the environment, from the bar, widgets, layouts, hooks, etc.

- a button brings up a rofi to select one of the folders in my home dir

- It automatically creates a window Group ("desktop") when one of these is selected, and chdirs into that folder.

- There are keys for a browser profile (qutebrowser!) and tmux session for the current group, which are always created or focused with the same key, so if I close one mistakenly, or power-off my machine, these keys bring me right back where I was.

- I have a key for the "main" application of a workspace - typically the IDE - but this "main" application can be configured per workspace with a little marker-file.

- I then have mod+s, which switches between all windows that are not one of the three above (what xMonad would call 'boring' windows).

- I have another rofi for showing all open apps across all groups - and switching to the selected group + focusing the selected app.

- I have one more rofi, for selecting a group (or directory name) to move the focused window into it.

- Offtopic, but I also have some rofis for workspace-specific clipboard history and a workspace todo file, the top-line of which is echoed into the bar, to keep me on track.

The layout is the smallest part of it all, although being able to have whatever my imagination can desire in terms of layout IS kind of nice. I default to single-window 'monacle' layout, and spend most of my time in a standard "columns" layout.

In qtile's column layout, we can 'maximize' windows in a particular column, instead of stacking them vertically. now, windows can be hidden ("lost" is the commonly used word), but knowing exactly which key moves to which window means it becomes more about "feeling that I need X" rather than "finding X" - it just appears when I want it.

It's one of my favorite moments, and it always comes - when someone's watching me do a merge, or i'm having a skype session - people can't really believe how fast I can move. I have to narrate with the brakes on. And watching someone use regular window managers, even with some tiling shortcuts, is inexpressibly frustrating.

I want to help them, but I can't.

Do you live in a particularly expensive area?

Although as you point out, if I lived in the states I'd be poked. I visit there often enough, but family is kind enough to put me up and I take the time to save.

I travel serially :) After covid settles a bit, I'll continue trawling south america, until then new zealand, who knows.

There are often jobs that pay more, but they're either the fixed-price ones, or have fewer hours.

That's an incredibly long time!

Well you knnow, after all this time you can find a place to "coast" with your skills.

Example, I've always been a bit put off by the plethora of syntaxes and frameworks in javascript, and I lawnmowered my toes off with angular one fine july, but recently discovered svelte-kit.

It's a cinch, a few practice projects, a few paid ones, and one upwork refund later, I'm getting quite confident in my abilities to turn out decent stuff fast.

And the "fast" is the most important thing, with my new found impatience for not being thirty anymore.

I did finally cave, for some "easy money", and backslid into a job with that same system (which has evolved in really nice ways since then).

I might have to give the deposit back if I can't start soon :)

I took 8 months off fishing in the ocean, and never could really look that code in the eye again.

After that, I found it helps to move between teams and projects often. I last about 1-3 years with overlapping contracting jobs. Pays well, about $30 an hour on average, for as many hours as I want.

Honestly, I'm still edging the ~buildout~burnout vortex, so when I start to feel the first tendrils of that morning-sickness, I just let clients know that their number is up and that although I'll give them some time, they need to replace me.

It's happened that doing that in slack revitalized the whole workspace for a few more months.

edit: I neglect to mention, after the Great Rest my wife and I started serially travelling... so work is something I snatch time for, instead of "waking up to the grind". Covid put a pause on that, but it's in the air!

San-Francisco. My group's eating a (fairly pricy) pizza. I step outside for a smoke. I'm respectful; I roll small cigs from sweet tobacco, and I stand downwind and apart.

A woman (passerby) approaches me, and asks if I could please step into the street with "that thing".

I do so. She walks on.

Downtown Redmond restaurant/bar: a chap stands a the entrance, right foot outside, left foot inside. Smoke in his right hand, beer in his left. Sticks his head out the door for a puff, sticks his head in the door for a sip.

The smoke blowing back into the restaurant was terrible (and I'm a smoker). But the rule-lady didn't mind: as long as the beer is here, and the smoke is there.