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I don't think these match up very well. While Gibson's most iconic guitar is the LP and Fender's is the Strat, they still make a bunch of different guitars that are NOT expensive, but play great. This is moreso true of Fender, who makes amazing guitars in the $500-750 range. They also don't come with any particular image associated with them. Strats have been used for all sorts of music, from Iron Maiden to John Mayer.

Gibson feels a bit more stuck to an image, but it doesn't feel old and crusty the way Harley does.

I bought my first bike here earlier this year aged 35. I took the MSF course at a Harley dealer and talked a bit about what bike might fit me best for riding as a casual/weekend rider (up to maybe 5k miles per year if I ride a lot). No one really recommended a Harley. I got a couple Indian recs, but mostly it was Yamaha and Honda. I ended up with a 2017 Honda Shadow Phantom after sitting on it for a while in the show room of the Honda dealer and I'm quite happy with it.

Harley absolutely feels like a fashion thing to me. I know a few folks who really like them, but it doesn't seem to be based on anything other than "they're Harleys, man." I don't think the Harley brand is going to die off, but it does feel a bit pigeonholed right now as the rough and tumble, leather & dome helmets type of rider right now. Honda doesn't feel like any particular type of bike. I don't feel like I should be wearing anything in particular on it, and I haven't had anyone look at me oddly for riding a matte black cruiser with a high-vis helmet yet. I feel like I would've if I were on a Harley.

I can't speak for all Western countries, but I live in an extremely humid area with high pollen from around March until November. High humidity means your clothes take forever to dry and they're going to be covered in insects. High pollen means your clothes are going to be death-coated for anyone with even mild allergies.

It's really not feasible here. Some people hang their clothes to dry inside in sun rooms, but it's not very common. It's easier to throw them in the dryer.

Hispanic refers to Spanish-influenced cultures, not all of South America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_America

I think that's why it's largely considered Latin America instead of Hispanic America.

Mr Jumbo/PHP doesn't use an elephant logo. Is it the color you're concerned with? Mr Jumbo reminds me more of Bing Bong from Inside Out.

Foxy/Gitlab logo is _very_ close.

Moby/Docker is a stretch but I can see it a bit.

Steps/Webpack isn't that close. It looks closer to the old Windows Registry icon to me.

Fall/Endomondo seems like an obvious ripoff.

Apple I see no problem with (conceptually, at least. I wouldn't personally use something with an apple in the name/logo for obvious reasons.

Cosmos/CircleCI ehhhh, it reminds me more of the Colorado stickers I see all over, even using similar colors.

Watchbob/Datadog in no way are close aside from having dogs. Datadog has a very distinct, happy puppy look to it. It looks more like some sort of Jenkins clone in dog form to me, but it's distinct enough.

Most of these are more of a stretch to me than anything, although two of them do seem to be almost clones.

I have recently been interviewing and people have been asking me very CS-specific questions that, quite frankly, never come up in my day-to-day work. Not only that, but they _haven't_ come up in the past 15 years of work. I had to really think about some of the answers because I just never do it.

The roles were for more CRUD-related gigs. I don't really get the emphasis on those CS particulars when you don't really run into them much.

Anyway, no my job is not interesting. The challenges are organizational and political rather than technical.

I do. I've only had two jobs I truly enjoyed doing the 9-5 work for, all the rest have been a slog to get through to pay for my other interests and family-related stuff.

The school district my kids are in does this. High school starts 1 hour after elementary, and the buses just run the same routes twice.

While I appreciate the value people get from TypeScript, I do not use it and would prefer if it were optional (along with babel). Looks ok otherwise.

The drills don't make sense to me. If it's a drill to protect the students against one of their own, that student has also been in the drills and knows that quiet rooms still likely have people in them.

If I remember correctly, the last school shooting had the kid shooting through a door's window into a classroom and killing people who were hiding in the corner. Obviously he knew they were in there already. The drilling he was in would've showed him that.

So what is the point of it? You are giving away any and all secrets to the potential assailant. It's nothing like a fire drill or a "mother nature" type of drill. They should really just stop doing it.

I've always liked Baltimore, but I never lived there. I used to visit every year when I lived up North, but since moving to Richmond, I haven't been up at all. I kind of miss the weird grittiness it has.

> A five year old computer running a recent browser will also struggle with new websites.

My _gaming rig_ is 5+ years old and still runs new games fine. I don't even know where you came up with this. My wife owns a 2012 Macbook Pro and it still runs everything fine, even the newest OS and MS Office applications.

But why does it matter to a general user if there are real or fake users behind twitter accounts? It makes no difference to me whether I have fake followers or not, as I'm not going to be forced to see anything they're posting (or not posting). I can just ignore them and follow who I want.

It seems like it only matters from an investment stance.

I'm not saying it's lower, but you know the risks when you use the software.

You choose to give your data to Microsoft/Google/Facebook/whatever other private company you're complaining about. There is no agreement to give things to the NSA.

I've worked at quite a few companies in my time, and almost all of them have complete garbage for their internal tools. It's always perceived as "something we need, but it doesn't matter what it looks like" -- but this shows exactly why it _does_ matter. I actually prefer working on internal tools if given the opportunity, because I get to talk directly with most of, if not all, of the users and get real, continuous feedback.

This is an extremely naive view of living situations and how "easy" it is to just move somewhere.

I worked for a company in NYC for years and lived 8 miles from work. It took me a minimum of 90 minutes to get to work.

You seem to think I can either just uproot my family and move to some sort of utopia city with short commutes, good public schools, and well-paying jobs; OR I can just change New York City itself.

The fact is that most people in the US have commutes of 25+ minutes. Folks who walk to work are not the norm, and city schools across the US are a complete failure and joke. Don't assume your situation applies to everyone.

* According to the US Cencus Bureau: https://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html

> Easy to procrastinate, easy to give false reports which then leads to regular overwork in the days just before a hard deadline.

This isn't a remote problem. I see this _all_ the time with people at work now and I don't work remotely.

This is more of a personal issue -- some people do it consistently, others don't. I never had that problem working remotely, and I don't pretend to be somewhere else in my regular reports in the office either.

I don't find it difficult to be a casual user. I've disabled all email and notifications from them. I look at it maybe once every 2 weeks. There's nothing really ever on it aside from a band mentioning they're touring again. All the other stuff is just noise. Photos of babies, photos of people at landmarks, shared news articles and outrageous comments.

That's why I only look every couple weeks, though. There's nothing worth looking at on the site. I probably should delete it, to be honest. I never post and I rarely find something worth looking at.

I never felt like I had any problems, to be honest. It was so quick and easy to write things, I never worried. There are a decent amount of plugins out there on github, though. Give it a shot!

I still say Mithril (https://mithril.js.org/) is where it's at. I am at a company now that uses Angular 4.x and I'm not impressed with it. IMO, it's a way to make JS seem more like Spring/Java (especially with Typescript) rather than understand how JS works and use it as it is.

Not to mention the learning curve even for senior developers. Mithril took me maybe 30 minutes to understand. The entire source (https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js) is easily read in a few hours. They have multiple committers and an active gitter chat room for any problems. Plus you can use JSX if you like it that much. And it has a nice license.

More folks need to try it out.

We should only let people have one release of anything. That way there are no extra man hours spent on anything that some random guy on HN thinks is shitty.

There are extra lights on electric that go down to 7s. The fact is that the standard strings for acoustic are 12s and the fact that a usable acoustic starts at $500 new kind of shows how much of a misfit it is for people who are looking to try something out. My first guitar that I spent that much ($500+) on was 22 years after I first started playing.

There are tons of great $100-200 new electrics that are great for playing from almost every single brand now that a beginner isn't going to be forced to restring immediately (and remember that beginners don't know how to tune guitars, let alone string them).

Acoustic light strings are 12 gauge though, compared to electrics which are 9 or 10 gauge. There is definitely a large difference between those to a beginner.

For what it's worth, I actually use 8s on my electrics, so the jump from electric to acoustic is kind of annoying.

I completely disagree with the acoustic recommendation as well. They're harder to play, which means it's much easier to give up on. You can get a 1w belt-clip amp if you really need to plug in, or you could just get a semi-hollow and play it unplugged.

Learning to sing is unrelated to playing guitar. I'd argue most guitar players do not also sing whilst playing. If someone wants to sing AND play guitar, I'd actually argue that it's easier to learn one before the other, not both simultaneously. When you know how to play guitar (and a song), it becomes almost mechanical and singing on top is much easier.

Instead of just learning the pentatonic scale, try to learn basic music theory and learn the fretboard. If you know where notes are on the board, it's much easier to land somewhere that fits musically with what you're playing. Not to discourage people from experimenting, but if you're just noodling around randomly with no idea of how notes work together, it's going to take you much longer to figure things out than if you just took a few weeks to learn super basic music theory.

In what way is instagram "modern society?" You can stop using it, you won't even notice.

I have one for work and absolutely hate it. No tactile feedback at all, so it's easy to mis-hit a key. I also echo the guy who said he accidentally hits Siri now because of it. It happened to me A LOT until I realized you can change what shows on it by default. Now I keep mine with expanded controls at all time. It's still annoying because I have to look down to be able to press the right key. I prefer having physical buttons.

EDIT: ALSO the keyboard itself is AWFUL. The absolute WORST keyboard I've ever used. It's terrible to get stuck typing on.

It _is_ a modern language, and people do start learning it when they get jobs that use it. It's just syntax, and it's a really good tool for certain jobs. You should give it a go with Lazarus IDE and see if you still feel that way.

http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ has been around since 1999. Not like it's _that_ old, but for technology, it's pretty old.

What is about community strength? If he's creating applications and enjoys doing it, why does it matter who else is using the same language? Worst case scenario, he can translate libraries from other languages into Object Pascal, but realistically it has a decent-sized community.

I don't see the modernity point, either. Object Pascal has modern features.