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Is it possible that the author suffering from undiagnosed depression?

I've been a regular meditator for a few years and one thing I've found is that the the initial stages, meditation enhances whatever you're feeling subconsciously. That is why some people have intense emotional experiences at the beginning.

Secondly, mindfulness is not a 10 minute scheduled practice. It has to be followed throughout the day. However, you need to gradually ease into it, starting with 10 mins.

It's like pouring milk into a glass. If you start gently, there won't be a splash. But if you turn your milk container upside down over the glass, there will be a big splash and possibly spilling.

I might be wrong, but what you have mentioned as businesses are only mediums to achieve a (business)goal. For eg. - Goal can be 'showcase your expertise on XYZ topic to attract specific kind of people' and the medium would be podcasts or newsletter. That way, if your medium is unsuccessful, you can always change the medium without losing sight of the goal.

I don't think it's dying, just transforming. How successful the transformation will be, remains to be seen.

Do mosquitos aid the ecosystem in any other way, apart from being food for insects?

> a large number are using third party app stores or installing APKs

Any source for this? I wasn't aware that third party stores are used by the general population as commonly as the play store anywhere.

This is a worrying development for my company. We have B2B products (that can be used from the web and mobile) that customers pay for per account, in bulk. I hope they don't start to apply the 30% cut there - our customers would find it impossible to pay 30% more for every user who uses an iPhone. We would have no choice but to stop having an iPhone app in that case.

This.

IMO, every successful founder has had at least one of these things in plentiful when starting up - money, connections, or deep insight into a painful problem. Luck, of course, cannot be overlooked.

I think learning what worked for someone is good. But more important is learning what did not work (which is only realised in hindsight)

There is a subreddit called r/shutdown. I keep visiting it from time to time to learn what not to do.

Sorry, oversight on my part. I didn't know this wasn't the original.

Here's the link to the original source : https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers

The only time I use giphy is through google keyboard (yes, I send a lot of memes). I guess google will have to pay them now? Or will keyboard stop supporting giphy?

I had read a comment(that I completely agree with) from someone here on HN (sorry I forgot the username), that the current WFH is working because EVERYONE is working from home.

The moment half of the work force starts working from the office again, the dynamics are going to change. Those offtopic, face to face chitchats you have with your colleagues or boss hugely help your career growth. The WFH people are going to miss out on that.

One positive that this crisis has created though, is all businesses and institutions will take remote work seriously, and take the steps required to make it possible, especially as another wave of COVID19 is expected.

Yes it's entirely possible to build an app that is anonymous.

What's missing is the legal framework to prioritise this anonymity (during emergencies like this pandemic), the political will (long shot) and the understanding the general population have about privacy in general.

The last point in also somewhat debatable, since people are scared currently. So, without having a certain level of knowledge about the technology and the implications of lack of privacy, they're more likely to 'barter' their privacy for security against getting infected.

They're considered the same nowadays mostly because they've been doing overlapping jobs. Even worse, 'entrepreneur' is something that tells me absolutely nothing concrete about what the guy does.

But to come to your point, in my mind - an engineer is the one who designs the software, a programmer is the one who actually writes good code to make that design a reality, and a developer is a blanket term for someone who does both (or more) jobs.

It might just be a problem with me, but I think that the level of articulation that a book can offer is way higher than what a video could. A book is written down, read, edited, and thoughtfully compiled, with the possibility of new editions coming out regularly. With a video this is less easy to do unless you want to keep re-recording.

I agree with your opinion that you do not 'need' JQuery. I'm saying that people will use it nevertheless, even if better alternatives are available.

I think programmers focus on aspects of the program - like memory optimisation, speed, accuracy, correct data processing, storage, database optimisation, etc. Good software engineers focus on aspects of the system as a whole - like the technology with the best memory optimisation, fastest filesystem, most suitable database, etc.

Engineers look at the big picture as a whole, programmers make sure the detailed aspects of it are working in the best possible manner.

For example, a good programmer will tell you to never use nested for loops, but an engineer may go for it nevertheless, if he feels that there is not much difference in the speed and memory consumption. He will make some tradeoffs depending on different factors.

Because working is a collaborative activity, not a social activity.

By nature, social activities need your brain to be focused on things happening around you.

Work activities need your brain to focus on that task at hand, and not on your surroundings. Hence your brain needs to overcome all the distraction to focus on work, if you're in an open (social) environment. No wonder people feel exhausted at the end of the day.

That said, I think having a completely closed office is equally bad. I think a good office is one that combines the best aspect of both.

Maybe not the big, funded websites. But I'm sure a lot of people doing small, static-y websites for MVPs, personal websites, or small products will use JQuery for a long time to come. JQuery is a no-brainer for anyone with small website with limited interactivity.

JQuery is like the PHP of front-end - inexpensive to build with, easy to use and loads of information available on stackoverflow.