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Colleges should just open up. Young students are low risk that they're unlikely to be very sick if/when they contract disease. There will be some old or unhealthy staff members that can be protected.

California and NY have stronger lock down rules, but people should just transfer to Texas, Florida places that are more open.

Agreed its very good, but has same problem as Cron with a single point of failure. I want to add I can handle a single point of failure if all job definitions are in git or a directory of flat files.

I've tried to use Airflow but was way more complicated than I expected. I just want to run a couple hundred jobs, why do I need a database? Surely a few files would suffice.

It seems a big gap in the market. I can't rely on cron as its a single point of failure. I have my own hardware so dont want to use AWS Batch or GCP Cloud Scheduler, any other ideas?

The problem I see is 9/10 startups have stupid ideas but manage to pocket millions before the company crashes and burns. How do you get ideas like that will let you live well, but not necessarily be a good business? Doing sensible businesses just isn't viable in SV these days.

> Stay away from people who are world-weary and belittle your ambitions.

OK maybe that just is me.

The guys on our team who have been working together in the office for a while are continuing to work together online. No Problem. The two new guys we hired get little help and they're drowning I suspect. Its just too difficult to help them. If anyone has success with onboarding new people remotely I'm interested in hearing tips.

I've struggled with podman, esp when following tutorials for docker when podman doesn't quite replicate. Is it worth persisting?

> Anyone can already take your job, as long as they are willing to relocate,

This where immigration restrictions make a difference. A Brazilian developer has trouble working in SV, but no trouble working remote.

> in many cases returned to near-shore / onsite work

Do you have any examples? I dont see this at all.

This is the crux:

> No one will interview someone young to a senior position and vice versa.

Actually grad tech roles pay 200k and lots of senior people would like that. If you think that "No one will interview" someone like that you're right and that is blatant age discrimination.

I can't read the article but does it say what it was before covid? I'm not sure if this is a virus related thing or just a longer term trend.

clap looks cool, thanks.

Agreed, if you look at cable news channels these day its all about division and fighting.

You're right, its getting better. Main problems were older JREs, G1 in 11 is better but still locks up. We haven't used ZGC in prod yet.

The main thing is dotnet had this figured out 10 years ago while Java is still struggling.

Most AI guys I know are just interested in playing around in pilot projects and learning stuff while they train to get a job at Google. It'll only be a few years before managers figure out there will be very little delivered.

Well it works much better than the JVM one so they must be doing something right. I never saw processes GC lock up like JVM until I worked on a big Java project.

> Else than that rents can't just be raised.

Can you clarify that? To be clear its normal not to change rents during the contracted period. When contract expires what are the rules for permissable rent increases for the next contract?

This really doesn't impress me at all: > Obviously you will have outliers who have started companies at 16 and sold them for a few hundred thousand etc.

What does:

Organizing parties. Knowing a wide variety of people and organizing an event takes a lot of creativity skill and chutzpah.

Making music, not just good at a single instrument, but be able to play a variety of instruments, create new tunes, perform and have fun. Knowing the history and influences is a bonus.

Speaking multiple languages. Its always been too difficult for me.

Looking after people that were seriously sick. Parents/siblings with cancer, mental problems or disabilities. Its hard the hardest thing in the world. If you can come out all in one piece I have utmost respect.

Its probably both cause and effect, but low turnover helps immensely.

The joy of working on a project where the whole team has been there for 3-5 years and we had no new people to train was huge. Conversely I've worked on projects where a continual turnover of people means no one fully understands how to code works and no one really cares because they'll probably be leaving soon anyway.

Its different if you are 20s and single vs having a partner with a regular job and children in a good school district. For the latter there really aren't that many good locations around the world. Most of those places already have high house prices. Will be nice to have a summer house though to spend a big chunk of the year.

Yeah the problem is rent is much to cheap compared to other European capitals.

I gave up C++ 10 years ago and switched to more modern languages. I figured the language would die off, so am a bit shocked its still so prevalent. I really dont think there is any reason to use C or C++ any more, except perhaps some low level layer that interacts with the hardware.

Nice! I saw it was made with threejs which I hadnt really seen before. Gallery looks awesome. https://threejs.org/ eg https://bruno-simon.com/

Credit cards only last a few years before theyre expired and replaced. I'd think only very few accounts are unwatched, after 24 months I'd think more than half of CCs would have expired anyway.

The weird thing is the price of windows laptops have skyrocketed with the shortages. New MBPs are cheaper than X1 Carbons and XPSs with 10gen chips.

Can someone please summarize what it does because I couldn't figure out from website? It says its "on Postgres", is it a flavor of PG? or it sits on top of multiple PG instances.

> ClickHouse is simpler and has less moving parts and services.

sounds good to me

This seems to be the right product for loads of systems. I haven't seen much take up though.

I've never really done it, but kinda wish as its a great way to fight procrastination too.

Also our team has been working together for a while so can work from home without too much interruption. But its changing, we have some new guys on the team and no one wants to train them. People are trying out new things but coordination is a mess. Morale is bad but maybe that is just virus and economic related.

I've put on weight, lost a lot of fitness and strength, the stress is taking a mental toll and I skipped a cancer screening test. Its really affecting my health and I'm nowhere near the virus.