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> 19

19 year old Spanish guy. Hear me clearly: YOU HAVE SO MUCH TIME!

One of the big down sides to being a millennial (maybe you're Generation Z?) is that we've grown up in an era that makes us believe that if we aren't Zuckerbot by the time we're 22 then we've failed and are slacking.

Simply not true.

Plenty of other commenters will give you advice related to other things, but let me just say again, for emphasis: MAN, YOU HAVE SO MUCH TIME TO DO EVERYTHING AND ACHIEVE EVERYTHING. In no way have you "f@ck3d your life permanently". You have so much time. Make the most, out of the rest of it :)

Cheers

> Stablecoins seem like they would achieve most of the goals of the original cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin

Correct me if I'm wrong but Stablecoins sound like the opposite type of thing that Crypto-anarchist(s) behind Bitcoin tried to achieve.

> I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority

This reads in a hilarious way. Kind've like saying "I've found a perfect way to buy a car - I suppose the only drawback is that I'll actually be buying a lawn mower"

> So if they don't bring it up on their own I'll ask questions about emotional state and emotional reactions to situations

This! All too often management thinks the "Tell me what's on your mind" covers them with the ol' "Well I asked and they didn't say anything" excuse. It absolutely does not.

As a newer hire on my team, sure I feel able to discuss deeper things with my manager. But for better or worse, that doesn't mean I always will. It's leadership's job to get the ball running with these types of deeper questions, rather than just asking "Tell me what's on your mind". Just asking for someone to tell you whatever is on your mind is much too ambiguous and needs to be narrowed in scope.

> If you do not believe that people should profit from increasing the lethality of the military, then you do not believe in the utility of having a military.

A clearly and incredibly flawed statement, and dare I say a successful attempt at trolling. Nice to know this is what takes up the first 50% of the thread /sc

I really hate that 50% of this thread has ran off on a military-related tangent. Could have been a good discussion about facial recognition, morality, and authority, but instead, because one looney posted some "super-uber-pro-military" comment, the first 50% of my scroll is related to that one topic.

Will post this in ASK HN another time, but HN really needs some sort of drop down mechanism where we can show/hide a top-level comment's thread at will (mobile & desktop). Makes no sense the way this current setup is.

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Ruins the UX when I have to scroll aaaallllllll the way down to get to the top level comments. Not saying we should discourage constructive discourse by any means. Just saying we need to better organize how that discourse is reflected, so as to make for a better UX.

> The question is: Why can't a new party come up? Is it due to the system itself or the "will of the people"?

I honestly and genuinely don't think that's much of a question.

I encourage you to read Lawrence Lessig's "Republic, Lost"[1] - which talks about how the big money behind campaign financing makes average Joe's feel as if they're choosing a politician based on their will, which turns out to not really be the case. Rather, they're choosing from a select group of politicians already rubber stamped "OK" by deep pocketed donors.

A good quote (not verbatim) from the book is basically how deep pocket donors have a sense of: "Let me choose the potential candidate options, and I don't really care who wins".

So it's the "will of the people" only so far as the people's will aligns with something they have 0 control over - the intentions/ambitions of those with money - which doesn't sound much like free will.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Version-Lawrence-Lessig...

The Mandlebrot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

I too started w/ web dev (PHP and HTML (so funny to think about those first days starting out)), but ended up moving to the backend (Apache Suite) for my current job, and took up lower level programming from there, so here's my 2 cents.

#1 - throw out the "systems engineer" title. It's ambiguous, can't really be achieved, and I've seen guys out there who are actually Systems Engineers (in job title) who are so good that it's almost sickening - makes me want to quit. So first, get rid of the title.

#2 - Learn a low-level language. You seem to be already doing this (I'm a RUST guy myself). Here you'll probably see (if you haven't already), that there's a focus/efficiency that isn't necessary for CRUD apps (e.g., passing references, using as little memory/cpu as possible, etc). But that's kind of what I like about lower languages, you get almost intimately close to the machine and understand on a completely different level that a web dev.

#3 - And this is something I'm still dealing with: switch your dev mind from higher-level web work, to lower level work. What do I mean? Well a lot of times in web dev, you're building at the application level (e.g., CRUD apps). However, I'm noticing for a lot of lower-level programming, you're building beneath the application level. I'm working on a load balancer at the moment, which isn't really a part of the application, but kinda sits underneath it. The thing about lower-level dev work is that it's not really the show-boaty type of thing that a React can be (oh look at my shiny UI). And in my opinion, it doesn't get celebrated like it should have. I have SO much more respect for lower-level guys, after jumping into that world.

TLDR; systems engineer title is ambiguous, learn a solid low-level language and stick with it, reframe your thinking when it comes to designing/planning what you build

I tip not because of guilt, or because I feel like I need to pay for the service.

I tip because I frequent local restaurants, bars, coffee bars, etc - and the 20% is a little good will towards the establishment. How can I walk around complaining about Amazon and big corp dominance when I won't even cough up 20% for a small local place?

*note how I'm only mentioning local establishments. To hell with everyone else

> I wish I understood the community college path when I went to school

Same here. If you can't afford full 4 year tuition, it literally makes 0.0% sense to go to a university for 4 years, when you can go to a CC for 2, work, save some money, blow through your courses then transfer to a university.

If I could do my collegiate career over again this would be my move.

I've always wanted to use IB, but once I saw that I couldn't use special characters in my password on signup, I decided it was a no-go, haha.

There's an interesting chart (two paragraphs in) that basically shows how heavily-speculative NTFLX stock still is

Anyone have the non-paywalled version?

> "Nice, efficient, low-friction"

^ Completely adequate description - especially low-friction

Won't need to force people to do something they'll willingly do themselves (e.g., police each other via their ignorance in regards to IoT devices and their use)

Your statement reads in a pretty funny way:

> This seems fairly reasonable...

> ...as long as they keep the commitment...

I mean, I feel as if everything seems reasonable as long as the original commitment is kept. Thing is, the original commitment is rarely if ever kept at all. This is nothing more than a problem waiting to happen, as are most things where large bureaucracies involve themselves.

Once I read that the data is completely unencrypted (oh, I can do a man-in-the middle and just send my own backend a copy of this video stream? awesome!) and anyone's face (i.e., those simply walking by) could potentially be recorded, I pretty much gave up any hope of this working responsibly.

But hey, just read another comment about Walmart apparently sending surveillance video to the Feds (which sounds like a very Walmart thing to do actually), so apparently we have larger issues to deal with.

While I agree generally with what you're saying "We're screwed indefinitely until the incentives change", I like to remind myself that IBM was once one of the most dominating companies in the world. Yea, IBM (and my parents were children during this time). All companies come and go, literally all of them. In a few decades we (i.e., our descendants) will be looking back thinking how funny it is that we (i.e., us) ever got sucked into this so viciously.

I agree with the parent comment in that - Google and Facebook and the like have exposed some serious problems, that they can't fix (as they are financially incentivized not to fix them), so someone, someday will come along and eat their lunch? Who what when where and why? Your guess is as good as mine.

Emphasis on the long term in my comment ;)

So fiber can transfer 20 Tbps+ ? Mind = blown. Great cursory read

My first thought when reading this on BI was "the public markets will never value Slack at $7B long-term". But after checking my cynicism, that thought changed to "It's nice to see one of these unicorns IPO, and hopefully more follow soon"

Netflix: "The Farthest: Voyager in Space" (2017) - "This documentary chronicles NASA's 1977 launch of twin space probes, sent to capture images of remote planets and bear messages from Earth."

https://www.netflix.com/title/80204377

+1 This is so funny "https://outline.com/[url]"

I'm guessing outline.com has a subscription to WSJ, and can therefore share the content?

I get what you mean, but it depends on when/where you looked for the options. Basically saying at some point in the day, there were no OOM call options - which still...makes the point.

Thanks for the catch, trying to make the edit.

Personally, this is starting to look like a pump scheme.

Which is weird...

Because Tilray supposedly has a decent business (just Google "seekingalpha Tilray"). But the price action to date has been (as others have noted) nothing short of insane. The CEO has been on a press tour the past few weeks which culminated in an interview on CNBC, and he's yet to even reference the stock price. Another commenter mentioned the craziest part, "You can't even buy $TLRY call options that are out of the money as of today" - meaning, absolutely 0 people foresaw the price action going this crazy.

Why let it get this out of hand? It's a legit business doing legit business? Why do they need the stock price at these insane levels? The resulting burst of this bubble is only going to hurt the retail investors, and cannabis stocks in general (at least short term). Obviously my first answer is the ol' Jordan Belfort pump and dump, but outside of just pure greed, it seems Tilray hardly needs this to happen.

I also learned via Bloomberg that the Tilray CEO, is a leading partner in the (private equity) firm that owns 75 million shares of unlisted Tilray stock. Which makes me wonder if he's working for Tilray, or for private equity (still).

Something is just very, very fishy about this to me.

Well apps are just the web...on mobile. But technicalities aside, mobile. I'm getting into react-native without care for any other front-end honestly. It's mobile or bust

Shameless plug - I'm actually working on a small tool at the moment to help with this[1] (the repo is a mess as the project is very much under development).

But my new approach to cookies, especially with Google (I use Firefox over Chrome actually), is to just remove them from their physical location - the sqlite database that browsers put on your computer.

I imagine Google plays all kinds of tricks and games in their browser to prevent their cookies from going away (another reason I stay away from Chrome).

[1] https://github.com/ralston3/moz_cookies

You'd definitely want to narrow down what you mean by "self-taught software engineer". Once you've done that, you'll have much more clarity in regards to whether it can be done in a year.

E.g., writing crud apps WebApps in Go? Definitely possible in a year. However, building a robust compute system in C++ from scratch -- probably not so much (for someone new to the field).

So just define what "self-taught software engineer" means to you, more accurately.

I ended up uninstalling the Linux subsystem (after reading through this thread), and going with a Hyper VM using an Ubuntu image. Enjoying it so far.

Also where can I find the dir for this Linux subsystem? (still a Windows noob)

> Ultimately my opinion is if you want Windows/Linux and not buy into the Mac ecosystem, it's better to just dual boot Win/Linux

This was my first impression, but after seeing this really streamlined option available, I thought I'd give it a go. Haven't tried to go too in-depth as of yet. If this route doesn't prove viable then I'll probably go the dual boot route.