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> "For Emily, and for many others, games were not the luxury luring her away from career. They were a comfort blanket and distraction, providing some solace when the working world offered only bitter disappointment."

> And.. why is this bad exactly?

According to the article Emily left her first job voluntarily. Why is that not ideal?

- Felt bad about herself while unemployed/underemployed

- Opportunity cost of not building job skills/experience (for 2+ years)

- Opportunity cost of not building normal adult skills and attitudes, like understanding that work isn't always fun, and adult life is about accepting a balance between fun and responsibility

- The more tangible opportunity costs of not building savings, a salary history, or contributing to retirement savings, which due to compounding interest is significantly more effective the earlier it begins

- The Fallout games really aren't open-ended enough to provide enough entertainment to take the place of a career

> What's the alternative? Work yourself to the bone, fall in love with someone you hate, have some kids that hate you, get a divorce, and die alone?

No idea how any of this follows from staying employed until a better job is available.
It's like the world is catching up to Japan and its problems: slow growth, deep government debt, ballooning social entitlement spending, and un/under-employed youth.

This is just like the Japanese Neets.
> I consult full time on AWS cost optimization / reduction / understanding.

Curious, have you ever consulted a client not to use AWS? As in "your cost optimization is going to be not using AWS and using $x instead"?
Use duckduckgo. Problem solved.
Not quite: https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2930990/D...
Nice idea. But there's no sign that such a market exists. To put it into perspective, Google makes a nickle of ad revenue for every search. Would you pay that much?
I used to use Pivotal Tracker, was forced into using Jira. Honestly Jira ecosystem is not that bad as long as you don't have people passionate about process customizing everything.
Thanks for this. I read a million explanations of how airfoils worked as a boy and they all said the air had to travel faster over the top surface to catch up. Why does it have to catch up? I would scream internally. I'm stunned to find it was never true.
> No idea how any of this follows from staying employed until a better job is available.

If you're arguing that one should stick with a job they hate until something better comes along, I vehemently disagree. That's like saying "I understand your husband beats you, but don't leave him until you find someone else."

Maybe you haven't had any, but some jobs are soul-suckingly terrible and toxic. You only get one life, at least try to enjoy it.
Instagram clone
What is the average market price to hire an iOS developer for an Instagram-like prototype?
What's a "yute?"

;)
You are assuming that a person working is always better than a person not working, but if some of the nascent technologies become mainstream (AI, robotics), it might be that the aggregate offer of jobs dries out. In those conditions, what justifies incentives to jobs that no one needs? Wouldn't it be possible that such a scheme becomes more expensive than a UBI scheme? Another solution would be to heavily regulate AI, robotics etc. in a way that human jobs are still needed, but that would mean paying a very high price in terms of international competitiveness.
This article provides absolutely no evidence of that.

> What these individuals are not doing is clear enough, says Erik Hurst, an economist at the University of Chicago, who has been studying the phenomenon. They are not leaving home; in 2015 more than 50% lived with a parent or close relative. Neither are they getting married.

Yes, that's very clear from many surveys & studies.

> What they are doing, Hurst reckons, is playing video games. As the hours young men spent in work dropped in the 2000s, hours spent in leisure activities rose nearly one-for-one. Of the rise in leisure time, 75% was accounted for by video games.

Ok, so people are playing more video games. That makes sense, not only as they become more ubiquitous and engaging, they take up new forms of media and are easier to acquire. There's even products marketed to people who never played a video game before. More people are gaming, and existing people are playing more. That's logical enough.

They also mention that at the same time, working hours dropped. Sure, in the 2000s we had a massive recession on the heels of a new generation about to join the workforce. Perhaps there were reasons other than gaming that people worked less hours. They don't speculate on that.

> It looks as though some small but meaningful share of the young-adult population is delaying employment or cutting back hours in order to spend more time with their video game of choice.

Uh.... What?

They go ahead and interview a handful of more people who have a story about how they like to game more than they like to work, or how it affected their life. This is anecdotal, cherry-picking, speculative fiction. And this is the only evidence they propose.

Why else would a young adult delay employment or cut back hours?

1. There aren't any jobs.

2. People are getting horrible loans they'll never pay back and can now afford a home with much less money (or none?), so their kids can stay at home longer and don't need to get a job yet.

3. There aren't any jobs.

4. There are less hours available to work, because the economy is crashing.

5. There aren't any jobs.

With those "opportunities" to stay at home, without a job, of course they're going to play video games. What else are they going to do, dig ditches? Go outside and play? These are millennials we're talking about.

The circumstances are new, and the scale of those circumstances is new, but there is no trending ramp in people not working in order to play video games. This isn't Japan.
Useless is 3 different vacuums that have different brand names, colors, attachments, etc... but are all made by the same parent company and all break predictably after 2 years of use.

Collecting game systems that you play and use which are also not being made anymore isn't useless in the least. Comparatively, that is.
Oh don't worry I'm not trying to defend the positions of those I talked to. I started learning Laravel for a small project I'm doing (I wrote some native iOS and Android apps and want to make a web interface for users to get their data). Do you recommend rails for that? I know close to no web (just basic html/css/javascript).
> I'm pretty sure that the analogy with movies is weak

Maybe. My point was only: take an arbitrary decade and [insert cheapest form of entertainment here].

> I think that if you're that annoyed about the idea of this article using strawmen...

I'm annoyed with the article using gaming as a red herring to get clicks. I'm being hyperbolic (or am I? divorce rates are pretty high[1]).

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/09/led-by-baby-...
Craigslist is actually a great design. Just imagine if a UX developer had their way with it. It would look like myspace.
That works fine when they're "clients" and you have a business - they naturally accept B2B situations as equals. But when you're the employee, that doesn't work. If you make it clear that you're only in the job for the paycheck, you're going to get fired - you have to make it seem to management like you have some psychopathic desire to be there busting your ass for nine hours on their inane and unfulfilling tasks.
That doesn't mean there's nothing to see here. The fact remains that the official metrics are getting worse, and the changes can be reasonably ascribed to people choosing to opt out and play video games (among other things). In another decade we'll be reading articles like this one, but the share of young males opting out will go from 14% to at least 20%, maybe even 25%, if the trends hold. How long until 50% of young males are opting out? And consider that as that number rises those are men who are not buying stuff (better for the environment, but worse for the economy), getting married, having kids, starting businesses, etc
> And yes, I am more concerned about the results. Knowing how we got here is necessary but isn't going to change the future.

I see this pattern a lot. People always seem to be concerned about the results. It's drastically inefficient. How is this different from saying you can't fix bugs right now because you need to work on features? Then you'll never fix any bugs. And if you focus on results, you'll never even notice a cause. And you'll always be fixing the big difficult problem and wondering why you never have any time and why everything is always bad.

The result is a natural extension of the cause. If you don't like the result, address the cause. If you fail to address the cause, you deserve the result (not you literally but the relevant collective). So late in the process is too late to complain. Instead, go find the next cause, before all you're left with is results.

> I was thinking of an acquaintance who fits the mould I described. He lives in a shithole town where the are no jobs and no prospects. He complains endlessly about how he'll never find a career. Why doesn't he take responsibility and move somewhere with an actual economy? I know he's not stupid. So why doesn't he try?

There's not enough information in this paragraph, yet I find it trivial to think of possible explanations but here you're asking "why?", as if that's an interesting question (maybe he developed learned helplessness?). I will say that if you focus on blaming the individual, their motivations will close up to you completely and you will have significant trouble understanding them. "This person is just inferior" is an infinite black hole that can eat any and all cause while providing you with zero solutions. I've seen many times when there were obvious explanations, but a person was so engrossed in blame they just couldn't see them.

When you focus on results and turn to blame, you effectively blind yourself to how the world operates, because there's nothing keeping in check how far you can assign blame. And after a while, the sheer amount of blame becomes cause itself.

I bring up blame because your original post was full of blame of people, yet little blame for the cause itself.
You can't search lectures you attend in person either, yet that format has endured for quite some time. This video format provides a certain kind of structure that may be suited to some, but not to others. For those others there are alternatives.
Yeah, down for me as well.
It vastly depends on how much you're trying to accomplish.

How many fully fleshed out features do you expect to walk away with in the prototype?
Millennials also have helicopter parents. This is a totally new hardship. Being raised in a way that is completely incompatible with reality. Then we get to the "real" world and are told we don't know anything. Well gee thanks dad. Judging by the American economy and the state of world affairs, doesn't seem like boomers are all they crack themselves up to be either.
It might weaken TLS, but it also stops the 3000 head of cattle I managed from being able to watch porn (6 incidents) and torrent movies (47 copyright notices). If their internet banking, which they're not supposed to be doing at work, gets compromised then I really couldn't care less.
I completely agree that this is sometimes the case.

The hardest project I've worked on so far was a CubeSat project where I had to collaborate with Electrical/Computer and Mechanical engineers with specialized knowledge (orbital mechanics, the design of the custom boards, etc.) to develop the software. I had to communicate why certain hardware elements are absolutely needed in their design, why certain elements of the Attitude Determination and Control System need to be optimized, and so on. As well as why we needed many of software engineerings best practices, which when you step back and look at them from the outside some do seem fairly odd.

But on the other hand, it is not always needed. Also, I'm confident I could prove my capability without a whiteboard because I could probably talk about the problems and collaboration to resolve them on that project for well over 30 minutes.
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We don't charge any management fees, you can donate through EA funds, and we'll pass on 100% of the money we receive to the charities.

We don't consider a charities' overhead when evaluating effectiveness, in the same way that you don't consider how much Tim Cook gets paid when you decide whether to buy an iPhone. Historically, groups like Charity Navigator have looked at overhead ratios for one simple reason - they're much easier to measure. Unfortunately, overhead ratios are simply not a useful measure for evaluating charity effectiveness, and they are easily gamed by unscrupulous charities trying to raise funding. Instead, we look at the total costs a charity incurs, and add in any costs that they don't include in their budget, but are necessary to deliver their program. Then we look at the outcomes the charity achieves for that funding as a whole. I'd check out Dan Pallotta's TED talk if you want to know more the overhead myth.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
My memory is failing me, but I think I heard a talk once where a (specific?) robot motion-planning problem is PSPACE-hard, aka in a class that contains the problems in NP. Maybe that's another way to articulate Moravec's paradox.
I worked on a few projects where I wished the other coders only wrote virtual classes.
> There's just enough negativity in the media that I don't want to contribute to that... I'd link you to it so you could see all the details but it's personally identifying

I respect that. But 90% of everything is crap, and this is a forum created to worship shameless hustling. Negative reviews are important.
You're absolutely right, but I think the article was mostly griping about Haskell list syntax and how it can lure less experienced programmers into using lists where they're inappropriate.
Figure out the reason you are procrastinating.

For me it was ADHD; the stress of a deadline is stimulating which increases my focus. That's a shitty way to live though so getting it treated helped a lot.

I see another comment where it was anxiety.

If you only procrastinate certain things, you just might find those activities aversive. You can adress that, to a certain degree, by scheduling. Do X amount of the work you hate followed immediately by Y amount of work you like; it's a simple way of rewarding yourself for doing what you don't like. If all of your work is work you hate, prepare yourself for a different job if at all possible.

Some people procrastinate just because they are poorly organized; any system (GtD seems to be popular) can fix a lot of this.

Other times procrastination can just be a form of self-sabotage (there are many reasons for doing this; you think you don't deserve success; you are avoiding the greater responsibility that will come with success &c.). "I left it to the last-minute" is a simple excuse for doing a mediocre job and lets you avoid self-reflection for why you are sabotaging yourself.

There's probably lots of other reasons for procrastination, but the one pattern for myself and friends who had procrastination persist into adulthood was that it was a symptom, and while treating the symptom can help in the short term, treating the problem is a better long-term fix.
Yes, in the tech-industry there's a very high demand. It's much easier to do this as junior than senior (hard with a family). The benefits are: work experience, international experience, expanding your social network, nearly free university education (germany only). There's also cheap health care and 4-6 weeks holiday. There are many downsides too, as the other commenter said (salary, culture shock and many more). The main benefit is work experience and possible debt-free university degree. If I were American I'd first try other states/Canada first though.
It's great that you can afford that stance. It really is. But you can't expect individual companies all to be vigilantes; it's governments and/or governing bodies that need to step in and fix this mess.
AWS isnt cheap either
Eh. e.g. the north atlantic tracks have been around since the 1960s. GPS wasn't available to the public until Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the 1980s.
I'm not as interested in the part about indemnifying use of open source software. It's not worthless though: Google did something similar for Android developers when Oracle started suing (which is a much more recent example than SCO, so it does still happen). Also, my guess is that mid-to-large organizations do see patent suits on a regular basis and that most of them are never made public. So we wouldn't necessarily know how common this is.

Either way, the "patent pick" part is more interesting to me. It gives you some protection for stuff you write yourself. Quick story: I was working at a BigCo about 10 years ago and was told I couldn't embed some HTML in a javascript string and dynamically inject it into the DOM because "that was patented" and "we've been sued for doing that before." Patent pick could help defend against bullshit like that (assuming the litigant is not an NPE).
True.I would think this would be more of a problem for people from US states where wearing a seatbelt is not mandatory.

In other parts of the world (with more sense) such as Europe, Australia, we're conditioned to always using it due to strict enforcement and as such it's not such a novelty.
One of the video that can articulate the whole thing better than me is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM)

It was a long winded written rant. I still use OOP but its more or less glorified name spaces with functions. Today I rather work on procedural code than OOP code. It may have bugs, it may have their own little quirks but its like a old rusted vehicle that still keeps going.
Part of the challenge is that hospitals represent only one portion of the care chain. My mom's GP, for instance, has never used a hospital as their office. There are dozens of hospitals within 30 minutes driving distance, of which few are owned by the same company / non-profit.

KP is in the vein of what I'm suggesting though, just wish it was more widely available.
If docker didn't work for you, because it didn't feel enough like having a virtual machine you can tinker with, then vagrant might be a good choice.
Suppose the amount of sexism in Silicon Valley is average, or even below average. Do you think that means there's nothing we can do and that we should just accept it as a fact of life? I would say that so long as the amount of sexism is non-zero there's work that can be done.
Pensions are the first to go. They already are in many places. Taxpayers will be unable to bail them out. If you think being 20 with a shitty job is bad then consider being 65 with no savings or income whatsoever.
> I don't believe we ended up here due to some grand conspiracy,

> but I do think that the top 1% have gotten so skilled at trapping wealth and therefore opportunity that it's really screwing over everyone else.

I've got news people: the top 1% is not forcing you to watch Netflix, consume social media, or strap a VR headset on.

We live in a generation absolutely devoid of personal responsibility. And it's why ideas that would easily be dismissed as Marxist (which masquerade as "post-modern") 30+ years ago are on the rise today.

Oh, you're just oppressed.

Economic growth is over, we have to redistribute things now.

It's not you're fault that you're addicted. Here, take this medication every day.

Where's the hard work in today's generation? Where's the personal responsibility? Where's the discipline? Where's the can-do attitude?

And let's get straight-to-the-point on the article in question. Nobody cares about men whining. It's just reality. Call it politically incorrect, whatever. If you're a man and don't work to get what you think you deserve, you won't get it. Instead, there's just gonna be more single women and more jobs available for those that do choose to compete.
> No more 'find . -name * .java -exec grep -Hni System.out {} \;'

While ack is great, I just want to point at you could easily do 'grep -rHni System.out --include \*.java'. Granted it's still more words, but the '--include' directive (which you can specify multiple of) is really great for quickly modifying a grep search to restrict to certain filetypes. No need for find/exec :)
Creating Custom Model for Android Using TensorFlow
Did you consult your auditors through this? I would expect their answer to be something along the lines of "Spark? Scala? We don't think we can trust this so we'll need to do a full audit." versus "Oh, you're using SAP, ok."
Reading the title

... no shit.
Proven oil reserves have been at more or less 30 years for the last 60 years. So, take the 117 with a grain of salt. Especially since a significant amount of that helium is sourced from oil.
That is great for other accesing records from other hospitals that use Epic, but what happens if you want to access the records of a patient who also visits a VA or Cerner hospital? You are still in the dark.
Perhaps by possible, but probably not advisable. Consider the obvious alternatives:

(1) having a technical cofounder, or

(2) raising money instead of bootstrapping.

Either of these alternatives will take time — to find the cofounder or the funders — but this is nothing compared with how much slower you'll move if you're bootstrapping and don't have a pot of cash to fund development with.

And the better your idea is, the easier it will be to find suitable cofounders or funders. So if you find these two tasks to be difficult, this tends to indicate that the underlying idea is not as strong.

My background: I am a non-technical founder of a software startup that has been mostly bootstrapped and mostly solo. My path was made possible/easier by the fact that I have savings from having been a corporate lawyer, and by my wife's stable/good job. Without both of these things, launching a startup would have been even harder.
What's the kid entitled to? He has a father. He gets a clean diaper when he needs it, and likely extra attention. Compared to some of the kids of single moms I knew where video game protagonists WERE their father figure, the kid has it good.
In tech they're often less strict. Degree is more important here, but it's not impossible to land a job in tech with another background. Also, university education is nearly free in Germany (less than 1000$ a year)
I run a niche web app that has about 3000 unique visitors a week. People generally agree it's the best resource for its purpose and there was an article in one of the bigger local newspaper about it too. There are no ads or other shadiness on the site. It used to rank between 3 to 5 for the couple of obvious search terms, but since a site overhaul the ranking has tanked. I contacted Google via GWT but no response (though in the past they've been helpful a few times).
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It's complicated. FWIW, if I was the CEO I probably would have fought.
> video games don't contribute as much to aggregate demand

Perhaps, but consistent demand isn't everything. I mean, hard drugs keep people buying, but...