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I'm one of these missing men. I'm currently 35, and have been working as a software engineer since I was 19. Two years ago, I started experiencing excruciating, unrelenting low back pain that eventually required me to leave my job and go on long term disability.

I loved my job. I worked at MongoDB in Palo Alto for 3 years, contributing to the core database (C++) and designed a performance testing platform (among other things). It was a true pleasure to have worked with some extraordinarily brilliant people throughout my career. I biked ~5 miles to work from the house I shared with my partner in Atherton. Life was perfect.

I now live with my parents in Florida, and have symptoms that have progressed to what could be MS (I'm undergoing a complete work up at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL).

Life sucks. I'm depressed, but who wouldn't be? I also take prescription pain medicine, which helps me get out of bed and shed some of the 105lbs I've gained since this started. Being 6'2" and 285lbs is depressing in it's own right.

That said, I want to stress two things:

1. Opioids are daemonized by the media, but there is no better option (aside from suicide). The implied correlation with pain medication in this article seems to reinforce the stigma I've been facing; that somehow I'm lazy, weak or an addict. But all I can offer is my word.

Like most people who enjoy software engineering, I gained immense gratification from solving difficult problems, learning new things, and completing a piece of software I'm proud of. Opioids don't replace that feeling (for me anyway). Nothing does. But the lesions on my brain make writing software effectively impossible.

2. Debilitating conditions predicate losing a job and starting pain medication. Maybe some people are just lazy and hate their jobs, but please don't punish me (and others like me) for it. Even if they're in the majority, please don't punish me. I suffer enough.
> Anyway, back to the IDE, I pay Jetbrains and give them great bug reports and they fix most issues.

Just had this experience - reported something in the grails slack channel, and one of their engineers hit me up, we exchanged info... he wasn't quite able to replicate my exact issue (but I wasn't able to either, reliably), but based on the stacktrace, he found the likely source, and patched it. No pull request, no forms to fill out, etc. Was a pleasant experience. :)
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As someone who has spent significant amounts of time 'funemployed', I have to disagree.

There's a great line from Madmen about people that retire early. They play golf, they go to parties and then they die.
>Pensions are long gone. They have IRAs. If you're worried about retirement, set money aside right now.

Pensions haven't gone anywhere, unless you mean Defined Benefit ones where the company assumes all the risks and guarentees a salary from retirement - in which case yes those are basically gone everywhere except the public sector.
If I understood it correctly, one big problem is that some "clean" energy like solar and wind don't accumulate, i.e., it must be used as it is produced, and that doesn't scale well with spikes in consume during the night and so on.

In that sense, using electric cars as batteries seems interesting. They would charge during the day and discharge during the night. The fact that they move around is a bonus :)
An excellent point. Thanks for the clarification!

I would argue, however, that hedonism is a human philosophy that leads to pleasure maximization, which means consumerism and excess compliment it.

There are other ways to live your life, that seek to maximize the impact of your effort in other's lives, which do not work was well alongside consumerism.
>When 330 million people don't know the truth, how can they make good decisions?

This isn't just America. See the brexit vote.
The scrolling is messed up and I cannot share the original link easily. And non amp pages load just as fast if I just disable js.
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"Contributing to the labour force" isn't a religion; it is a necessary condition of life, without which we starve.

.. and that's why we turn pensioners out into the snow once they cease contributing.

Oh, wait, no we don't, because we recognise that they're human beings and members of society.
What is different today is the Internet. Before that we had TV and radio, which also magnified fear, but not to the extent as the Internet where you can find the "news source" that best fits your particular fears.
What games keep you on Windows? It is my job to solve that problem, we'd love to help you out.
>That said, I think a lot of overconsumption originates from traumatic childhoods (people trying to fill a hole in their hearts) and the welfare state (people don't know what things truly cost).

What about incessant advertising?
Please, somebody - stop the planet, I want to get off...
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There is no feasible way for me to agree more with this.

I very much belong to those negatively affected by this phenomenon. I'd wager many a HN commenter is. My RSS feeds are a carefully crafted web of information, as much of a not-echo chamber I can create. From stuff I don't agree with on almost anything - Breitbart and its national counterparts, neocon blogs, libertarian thinktanks - to sources I think of as pretty neutral - like the simple feeds of press conglomerates just feeding headlines - to the stuff I agree with vehemently and thus view as most dubious, I get it all, all day, all the time. Even syndicated across devices. I'm very rarely the one to ask "what are you talking about?" and constantly the one to explain topics. It's okay, being the AP of your social circles isn't the worst role to fill.

But it does something to you, doesn't it? I feel like my view of this world has darkened over the years. I'm only thirty years old now and I feel like we're headed for disaster on a dozen different concurrent tracks. My view of man has become shrouded in a perpetual gloom, my idea of a future a cycnical dystopia.

I know that isn't fair or true, but it's become increasingly hard to think otherwise.
A couple of takeaways from this article:

Apple has a problem with leadership. When managers aren't buying into a vision, mostly because it's murky at best, that is a big problem.

SV hubris believing you can go into any industry and disrupt the incompetent incumbents is laughable. FB found this out with phones and it sounds like Apple and Google are now figuring it out with cars.

The Netflix idea works here too: Apple and Google have to become more like GM and BMW before GM and BMW become more like Apple and Google. GM will have an awesome electric with a better range than a Tesla Model 3 this year! If they ever figure out aesthetics and software they will win.

Finally this article highlights what Musk has done at Tesla. They are the closest SV company to actually figure out manufacturing. It still remains to be seen but if they do it Tesla will be the market leader in cars.
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But it will take years for the government to do anything about it.

Longer, perhaps, if Hillary is elected with Eric Schmidt's help.[1]

1: http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working...
It's funny how this blog post probably explains quite well how the indiehackers (the site this article about indie shuffle is hosted on) guy builds his community.
> By open sourcing your core you give clients something to fall back upon if your company gets bought/goes bust etc. This might result in a competitive advantage over proprietary only competitors.

I work on a proprietary product (SaaS + on-prem models), but this is also a very strong consideration for us in choosing basically anything we use (whether part of the product or part of our infrastructure).

If you're a small shop and not open source, unless you're literally the only option (or you're trivially replaced by a dozen other products), you're basically ruled out, unfortunately. This includes SaaS stuff.

It's not that we don't have the money, it's we don't have the risk tolerance. If you disappear, or get purchased and stop offering your product, or decide not to fix our bugs because they're too niche to us, I don't want to be hung out to dry.
I'm in a similar spot. On one hand, it can be annoying to have a relatively higher threshold for novelty, interest, and engagement. On the other hand, even while these tendencies have made me a bit of a dilettante or a dabbler, I also find that fiddling around on a lot of semi-related (or even unrelated) things can bring a different sort of experience and perspective compared to that which comes from deeper exploration of fewer fields/topics/skills/etc.

I'm not saying there aren't definite drawbacks but when considered like "it just is what it is" I can at least see some of the benefits. There's something to be said for in-depth knowledge and exploration on a specific field or topic but there's also something to be said for having a breadth of experiences and skills. In many ways it can make you more adaptable and when you find yourself needing to draw on skills and experiences, it's a lot easier when you're at least familiar with them even if you're not an expert.

Like I'm not a skilled electrical engineer but I've wired up a house and tied in a breaker panel as part of a job I held for a short time years ago. So when I need to replace a fixture or a garbage disposal, where friends might hire someone and pay several hundred dollars to have it done, I can do some quick research and leverage my limited experience to do it myself. For bigger jobs I still hire someone but that's just how it goes.

Or the fact that I'm not a software developer or network engineer but when I need to set something up on my home network or troubleshoot something at work, I at least understand basic concepts just from screwing with computers for so long and I can usually sort things out with some research or assistance. Most other friends and acquaintances outside the field would just look at something like setting up a home subnetwork and file server for IP cam surveillance as beyond their abilities. My general familiarity means I can sort it out with a bit of trial and effort.

Same goes for just about anything. If I've tinkered with something related as part of my neverending quest for novelty, I don't need to start from scratch every time I need to do something similar. And when a task or endeavor is outside of my abilities, those people who have dedicated themselves to a deeper exploration of a skill or field can come in and make use of their way of doing things. Can't run the economy on just tinkerers, obviously.
> If it is the US government moving to constrain other powerful media establishments that could counter their voice, it does make you wonder what they are so worried about being released.
> Are the emails really so bad they could lose Hillary the election? That would surprise me.

I think who the leaks hurt or don't hurt isn't really the problem. The problem is that a foreign power is selectively leaking data from one political party in order to influence the outcome of the election. It would be just as bad, imo, if they were leaking Trump and the RNC's emails.
I now get what you are saying, thanks for the clarification.

I agree with you, democracy can be traced to the British, and further back to the Romans, and even the Greeks, but it wasn't until the French Revolution that the core concept of it was implemented; namely that there are no divine rights of kings (Britain also contemplated that idea, it is a shame they didn't follow thru).

Democracy is not only about voting or rights or property, it is also the idea that the people can decide for themselves they way they want to live. Voting is just the best way we've come up to decide that until now.
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I can't really argue because it was a while ago, but if I recall some of them were considered critical and you could postpone them time and time again, but not really disable them

Plus I wasn't really opposed to safety updates as such, and wouldn't want to take the burden of remembering about them upon myself - it's just the arrogant, disruptive manner in which they are delivered that never sat well with me (if with anybody...)
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Of course the existing moderation policy constitutes a background of censorship, so your claims should be evaluated within that contest.
Isn't that what SVG was supposed to be for?
Agree. The actual sensor itself may be the same substrate/silicon/CMOS whatever, but the color filter array, and processing are totally different.
Rebuilding what nation? The U.S. was unscathed and came out roaring. Everybody could get jobs, college was cheap, home ownership was a given.

And don't forget, millennials have been shouldering this global war on terror crap for the last 15 years. While WW2 was horrific, at least they were fighting for something they believed in, and at least it was over after 4 years. Oh and then add in the second worst financial crisis ever putting millions out of work, and crushing student loan debt in order to even participate in the workforce.

The greatest generation fought the greatest war, but their kids were the worst American generation we've ever had.
Have you ever felt this sense of weariness on the internet? The idea that nothing is new, you've seen and heard it all before, and just a state of the brain being fried? This happens with increasing frequency to me, and is part of the reason why I seem to be gravitating, inexorably as it were, towards a low-information diet. No facebook, no instagram/snapchat/social media du jour, minimal news, and certainly no trump fever.

I have a feeling the future will look more like the past than we'd like to believe. That eventually, similar to banner-blindness, we'll develop clickbait-blindness and long form, carefully researched and nuanced pieces will be a prerequisite if one wants attention.

That or /r/forwardsfromgrandma, but I hope it's the former.
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> Cost

I'm interested in seeing data backing this. It is taking real wind turbines/PV panels lifetime and real production? Nuclear reactors have a lifetime of 60 years, wind turbines/PV panels less than that.

> Security

Some GenIV reactor designs also should be helping with that.
It all boils down to the play of intrinsic/forced choices.

But remember, AI may change things a lot. It'll not be a problem of you will work so I can sit, but more a problem of you and I will have some machines working for us, so what's left for us to do..

One of the implications I was talking about, is that the human psyche is built to function under survival pressure, when the pressure is removed, then depression may occur. So it's going to be very tricky, unless we train ourselves to function in a different mode.. where we are the masters.
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But content isn't really valuable anyway. If there's less of it, then I'll make breakfast a few minutes earlier - that's all.
There's a very interesting essay from 1989 written about basic atomic theory while avoiding latin and otherwise non-germanic roots as much as possible called "Uncleftish Beholding"

You can read it here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...
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I doubt if leisure is even possible (at scale) in a free market economy. More than freedom of the market, what works against it is competition. We cant rest our laurels and say heck this is efficient enough. Someone would do it better and there goes my paycheck, to the point that profitability is small enough that it cannot sustain leisure for a significantly large population.
They are here:

https://isocpp.org/

http://cppcon.org/

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...

http://erdani.com/index.php/books/modern-c-design/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh279654.aspx

http://stroustrup.com/Tour.html

http://elementsofprogramming.com/book.html

Most of the C++ bugs I found happened to be written by former C developers that disregard using C++ stronger type safety, RAII, the standard library containers and usually use naked pointers alongside malloc() and free().

And that is the biggest problem with C++, its copy-paste compatibility with C, which allowed its adoption by C compiler vendors, but made it as safe as C when developers disregard best practices.
I think you are trying to say (in a misguided way) that wage stagnation has severely affected millenials, which is absolutely true. With enough short-term distractions like phones, games, weed, porn etc, who needs long-term goals? Life is still kinda sucky, but hey there 's just enough fun to keep the grind going. There is no sense of collective "going forward", which lessens the peer pressure to exceed others. It won't be forever like that, but i don't expect grand changes for at least 5 years.
I agree with you for point 2 & 3, I also hated installing KDE apps for this exact reason.

But I can't agree on the first one.

I have not checked what these exact thin wrappers are, but most of the time thin wrappers are really useful for testing and switching to another library without being tangled in the old one.

It pretty much follow the "D" (Dependency inversion principle) in the S.O.L.I.D. principles:
"Depend upon Abstractions. Do not depend upon concretions.”.

Again, I have not checked the KDE libs you talk about, so I'm assuming this is what these wrappers are used for.

(Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_(object-oriented_design)
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Well in this context we're talking about software dev so. College graduates still makes a lot more over their lifetimes, debt or not, than high school grads.
>Previous model of this Fujifilm camera also got raving reviews from Verge and was mocked in photography circles.

I've found "photography circles" to be ignorant pixel peepers, who wouldn't appreciate good ergonomics or know how to take an actual good picture even if their live depended on it.

(Have worked, among other odd jobs, as a freelance human interest/travel photographer back in the day).
Yeah, closed source tooling is garbage. I need to be able to fix the tools I use, or customize them for my purposes.
they make it so that you get companies to bid on your design, you can also sell slightly unpolished products to the backers and then create a bigger batch with either the same company or another one.
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I am in the same age range as the poster. Life is tough. Get over it.

You want nicer things? It has to come from somewhere.

And our parents did not have it easier. I would say if anything, they had it harder, and didn't get caught up in all the bullshit commericalism that is marketed to us today.

This is anecdote, but still, my parents worked 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 20 years, with one single vacation, so they could raise me.

You know what they have to show for it? Social security that pays about $800 a month and barely covers their mortgage, and a pension that pays $40 a month (yes, $40). That pension was from working a full-time job for about 20 years. And yet, they manage just fine.

So, no, our ancestors did not have it better. They just don't whine about it, and did whatever they had to do to survive.
https://galliumos.org/ has done a lot for this space. They're doing a great job at normalizing a *buntu distro across the various chromebook hardware.
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OP here.

I welcome feedback of all sorts, but especially suggestions for feeds to include, be they yours or not.

I'll try and swing by throughout the day to address any questions, concerns, and comments, too.
As a Windows system admin, I can confirm this is incredibly rare. Windows is pretty darn good at recovering from broken update states.
To begin with, the open source community supports free software and looks down upon profiteering beyond a basic sustainable income, preferring no income at all from open source contributions.
>My experience has been that it is very, very difficult to find dependable, trustworthy employees who work diligently and productively

You forgot to append the most important part to that statement, and instead chose to leave it implied: "at the wage I am willing to pay." Pay your employees more money and better labor will come. So say the laws of supply and demand.
single-window mode! That is so much better. Don't know how I missed that for so long.
I'm not familiar with Grails, I assume yours is an example for when getting support for free stuff worked?

Without an actual reward-connection though this comes down to luck on many levels. I mean it's nice for me when somebody gets paid from a completely unrelated source and yet is willing to help me, but that's not a very reliable thing to rely on a population level, or let's say I think the success rate can be greatly improved by establishing a reward connection.
Elm compiler knows more about the code than Closure compiler. It can safely remove more and do a bunch of other optimizations facilitated by the types.

There was a DCE branch at one point but it never got finished.
"The updates drove me away from Windows 10 years ago."

This is amazing because Windows 10 is barely more than a year old!
It's amazing how slow the development community en masse has been in "discovering" containers. I remember I worked for web hosting company that offered containers as a web hosting solution back in 1999, I then ran my own little host offering FreeBSD jails and then Linux containers (based on the excellent Linux-VServer project) in 2003, and I do remember how when I tried to explain to (pretty technical) people how this is way more efficient than stuff like Xen they'd go "but it's a hypervisor..." (as if that meant "magic"). I eventually gave up on it and sold my little hosting operation because it was too much work and not enough money, it looks like it was about 10 years ahead of it's time.
It depends... pebble beds were supposed to be the future, then it turned out the fuel spheres were unworkable in a number of ways.
I think it's mostly OK. A lot of my problems with mobile would be alleviated if I could get a browser to reflow text on demand. It used to be you could set your zoom level, double tap and the page would reflow to the new zoom level. This doesn't seem possible now, so I'm always scrolling side to side if I want to be zoomed in a bit more.

I have a few other minor problems about how Wikipedia's mobile page handles without Javascript enabled, but one big thing is that there's a minimum zoom level set. I can zoom in, but I can't zoom out, which means if I want more text per line, there's nothing to be done. This again feeds in to the lack of reflow in mobile browsers. I have no idea why this feature went away, but it completely ruined the mobile web for me.
Solar can certainly solve the energy problems for many countries, given that cheaper energy storage really is created. But not for e.g. northern Europe. There just is too little sun, especially in the winter.

Also, it seems transports will be radically electrified the coming two decades, which will strongly increase the demand for electricity.

I have no problems with environmentalists, my problem is that so many of them rather burn oil than build nuclear plants.
I do not know, but it feels that you equal the consumerism and education. Perhaps this is an misinterpretation?