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I had a bout with game addiction for almost my first two years of college. At some point, I decided to fight it, and devote myself not just to breaking that addiction, but being dedicated to retaining the ability to break any addiction I wanted to.

I managed to survive college with dual BS degrees in mathematics and physics, and attend a prestigious graduate program in mathematics, although I had to pay my way via loans for two years because of the damage I did to my grades my first two years of college. I was secretly dejected after leaving graduate school after 4 years, but was fortunate to land in software engineering. I don't play too many games anymore just due to being busy, but I still am tied into the game industry due to my tight network of friends, many whom became successful in the game music industry, or games or music.
Part of the issue is that for decades sprawl was preferred by many people and development followed this path while many more dense areas suffered from neglect. Now there's been a strong shift towards density, but the amount of people who want to live in dense areas is greater than the amount of desirable dense areas available.

At least around here, I've noticed that developers in the (often cheaper) suburbs are making a push towards building high-density walkable devevolopments.

It's worth noting that in many cities, there are still a lot of affordable options (some even cheaper than a few decades ago), but they're often not in the hip areas that people want to live. When people talk about how unfair it is that others got good values in the hip areas, they often don't realize that those areas were once the cheap undesirable areas.
> Millennials also have helicopter parents.

Helicopter parenting is not new (except for the name), and is neither unique to nor universal among parents of Millenials.

> 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.

To be fair to the Boomers, while they certainly failed to fix it, the damage was mostly done by the "Greatest Generation" (the strong economy the GG often gets credit for was created when the GG were in their youth and the Lost Generation was running the show.)
When I was in single digits, my mother and I were coming home from an international flight and the plane was struck by lightning. We lost a bit of altitude (felt like a TON of altitude subjectively), and yeah... it was a damned good thing we'd all been told to keep those seatbelts on. It was literally the difference between seconds of terror, and someone being seriously injured.
I agree. Unfortunately, the US patent system doesn't.
> Folks love to talk about how they do “design strategy” and want to work on “new big things.” They’ll tell us that they can do the details, but they’re better with strategy and developing new concepts and their time is better spent elsewhere.

This is of no surprise. Regardless of your job, but especially so in one that is aesthetically driven and judged, working on the high-profile/sexy stuff is usually what gets you promoted or gets you more industry recognition. If you are career (progress) driven, working on the small stuff probably isn't going to get you there as quickly if you can delegate that off to a junior.
If you have a more or less fixed workload then AWS ends up being a lot more expensive. If you have a highly variable workload and you have a bunch of servers sitting idle most of the time then it becomes more competitive. AWS lets a small startup go from one server to 10K servers without breaking sweat, at least in theory, but it's not for everyone. At the same time not everyone wants to build DCs with thousands of servers in different geographies all by their own.

But yeah, AWS generally is expensive, which is part of why it's making so much money.

It definitely makes business sense to try to avoid locking yourself in to AWS but at the same time it's a good place to ramp up or test your business ideas without needing to invest a lot of money in servers, real estate etc.

[You can probably substitute any other cloud provider for AWS here]
Whenever I read about guys behaving this badly, I always get a sneaky suspicion they've been free riding their whole career. If you don't give a shit, it's a hell of lot easier to just take credit for others' work than do any of your own. And all this drama sounds exhausting. I can't imagine trying to hold down a meaningful contribution to tech and doing all this bullshit on the side. Easier to free ride and try to get your name in the paper.
Not sure how this is being downvoted - the truth hurts. We just have it too damn good, and without any wide-scale struggles to know how good we have it.

I would like to a read a serious response from a detractor.
There's a reason that people with money and power don't always experience good outcomes. Sure, you can do what you like on your jet, and therefore expose yourself to risk that most people never experience. Likewise skiing off-piste or a number of other equally silly activities that you can do, but absolutely shouldn't.
Yeah, I've never tipped an Uber driver. Not because they haven't been excellent, but because I don't carry cash, and it's supposed to be frictionless. I.e., easy. If this happened to me I'd never ride another one.
Ultra-finitist logic is a perfectly rigorous field of study in its own right. I think OP is making a point that this logic and us related branches are quite understudied.

It's encouraging to note that with things like Homotopty Type Theory, we're finally starting to come to grips with Fundamentals that aren't tied to the ZFC implementation.
Not the OP, but the theory I've seen with those terms posits that the increased upward marketplace pressure toward tech jobs and office work have drastically increased competition for the same jobs which were typically "feminine" roles, or at least "woman-friendly" roles. Meanwhile the masculine role-workers like coal miners are being pushed out due to environmental regulation and manufacturing is currently largely automated - and as the manufacturing becomes more and more automated, the upward pressure on tech increases because we don't need factory workers, we need robotics specialists and skilled machine operators.
One thing was really odd here. A guy you don't like or trust comes into your room and asks you 3 times to put eye drops in your eyes. And you do it? WTF?
In the 1-2 minutes between this thing booming past them, and being sent into a spin... you want them telling people to buckle up? That doesn't seem like the easier solution; it mostly sounds like a way to have people still hurrying in the aisles when it's too late.
I completely agree with this.

My immediate family and I came from having next to nothing. We busted ass and have money now. We aren't rich, but we're enjoying life in ways we couldn't growing up.

If we, instead, believed the rhetoric that life is screwed unless you came out of a "lucky vagina," we would still be broke, in Brooklyn, trying to make ends meet, and I would be another socially-inept dude that spends way too much time on games and "computers."

It's not just us either. I graduated with a bunch of people who came from similar situations and are now doing great.

Life is what you make of it.
Um, what? I've spent 20 years implementing EHRs. You seem to be implying that hospitals were using paper until 2009. I've implemented lab systems with electronic charts in VMS. The systems weren't, and aren't, interoperable, but they were definitely recognizable as EMRs.
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One thing that's great about gaming as an addiction: it's very inexpensive. This has been changing for the worse with all the pay to win stuff, but there's still a fair amount of cheap gaming out there. With a gaming addiction, never leaving the house and a minimal food budget I wonder how much the average gamer subsists on each month.

I had a friend whose brother would go to work and come home and play video games every day. That was literally it. Work, pay rent, game, eat sleep. I watched him repeat this cycle when we were hanging out. He didn't even have much to say most days.

The hikomori in Japan are already adopting this terminal frugality en masse.
I have to disagree with you there. You're taking the passive approach. Go out make a name for yourself in the market place in the field you work in. Do some volunteer work as a example to build up a client base and contact list. Advertise your services to other businesses and go to business functions. Get some offers on the table, and then you know where you stand within the organisation. You cannot do it if you're a slave to your job and you're literally working 10 to 12 hours a day. Cut back, turn off the phone after work. Go for a jog and go and have a beer with competing businesses or colleges.
Analogy; Can a non-programmer manage programmers?
> This is particularly true in the fraught area of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), where difficult explanations often cry out for a student to replay a portion of a lecture, or simply to take a pause while comprehension works its way to consciousness

Or to do a couple of exercises until students really grasp the subject matter. Often it feels like we can grasp something in theory, only to be stumped by practical applications. One of the greatest benefits a course could have is example problems, with fully explained solutions. If the problems are fun to work through, then it makes for a good course.

What I'd like to see is a promise on the likes of:

> Do these 100 problems and you'll grock X (where X is probability, calculus, functional programming, deep learning, etc)!

And the problems be well chosen, well explained and fun to work out.
Have 2tb of mostly photos and home videos on Amazon cloud drive. Unencrypted. No issues, I heard of people with 3-4 times as much and not having issues. I assume these services have users with much less than 1tb with a fee outliers who use a lot of space making the unlimited service feasible as a marketing feature.
Rails works great for that.

Rails works great for every web task except the very big and the very small. Very small being anything you'd want to put on a Raspberry Pi.

The learning curve is reasonable, and can be made easier if you get the basics of both Ruby and MVC down by using a simpler Ruby framework like Sinatra to build out a few toy apps before jumping into Rails. Once you feel like you need more out of a framework than Sinatra can give, it's time to switch to Rails.

Ruby and the web go together like Captain and Coke.
Someone should figure out a way to embed mechanical turk tasks into video games. Then young men can at least get paid a little bit for their game play.
Instead couldn't you just whitelist the online banking sites and intercept everything else?
Agreed. But until they do the pressure is on us.
> They could've just turned on the sign as soon as they saw the A380 so that people could fasten their seatbelts then

In a car you usually fasten your seatbelt all the time so that you don't have to guess when the risk is going to occur. In a plane there's no reason not to act the same way.
I agree it may not be possible! I think you need money, or you need to convince someone of the value of what you are building and get them to help you for equity. That's a super hard sell though.
>>It's possible to create a lot of useful things that don't have good design.

Usefulness is good design.
As a counterpoint:

When I was 20, I had a great job and was happy with my lot in life, certain that everything was going to be okay. I was going to continue working in the public library, get the Assistant job, spin that into my MLS, and take up a Reference Librarian position.

I just turned 30 last week. The bottom dropped out of my world when the budget focus shifted to a strongly anti-education agenda when I was 23. For 7 years I have floated between jobs, trying to find something that gave me even a significant fraction of the satisfaction I had at 20. The world is harsh, cruel, and unbeatable. Some days the tabletop, online, and video gaming that I do nightly is the only thing keeping me from jumping in front of a train.
I thought controllers space aircraft based on their takeoff weight for this reason. Is this true?

A380s are HUGE, so this isn't surprising. wake turbulence is a killer
Yes, patent reform is needed. I do what I can to support that effort. In the meantime I have a business to run and I need to work within the existing legal framework to keep it protected. Access to patents for defensive purposes / patent exchanges are one way to do that.

I do not see how this, in itself, is bullying on Microsoft's part at all. The Apache 2.0 license has a similar mutually assured destruction proviso w.r.t. patent suits. It's one of the reasons that the Free Software Foundation recommends using that license. Is that bullying / FUD?
Is it at atmospheric pressure though?
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simple solution is just using shell scripts.

if you are looking for a product who's primary goal is to create identical machine images check out Packer https://www.packer.io/intro
Most if not all health care systems are implementing FHIR as a layer over HL7. Most of those systems don't have people really conversant with web technologies. Interoperability is, I think, a mirage built on top of already overworked integration staffs.
I wish I had learned this trick 50 years ago.

Sit on the couch and get feeling "good" and guilty about not doing a given task.

Then, promise yourself that if you get up and just get it started (assemble the materials, or scrape the dishes, or define the variables...) you will have pushed the project forward and earned the right to sit back down.

That's surprisingly easy to do. Once your are started though, there will be no way you will want to sit back down. You have got this thing on the run. You are wining!

I KNOW it sounds silly. It works for me, and it works for others I've talked to. It's your life. Good luck.
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WASM has it's uses, for games and such. But on the web, the more weird stuff you do, the more friction you tend to introduce to your users. You can boot a JavaScript app, but the startup time will push people away. You can take months to replicate iOS animations, but the lack of bookmarkability will hamper your virality. Now you can compile C++ and run it in the browser, but you can't use any of the existing web frameworks, and browser support is hit or miss.

The real questions are: what are you really doing that actually couldn't be done with Craigslist-level technology? Does your application need to look and feel the way it does because you want show off what you are capable of, or because your customers would actually like you less if you did less?

What people keep missing is that the Web isn't a platform, it's an idea: It's the idea that the lowest common denominator, or whatever crappy text-based document format is supported in every single device ever made, is actually good enough for almost everything. And you can add fanciness, and you can add features, but the weight of the web pulls all content towards that lowest common denominator.

This drives iOS developers crazy, because they want to be special snowflakes who make animations that run at 100hz and might make Dieter Rams notice them in the lunchroom.
Platform after platform keeps challenging the web, and the web keeps chugging along. Because the web is not a tool, it's the idea that we should communicate with as many people as we can, and to do that we should use the simplest technology that will do the job.
I have a $20K passive income of and living expenses of $10K. My hobbies are really cheap and centered around building skills. Programming / construction / sports. I do miss my friends in SF though. That's the biggest downside. I've been trying to encourage more to come down.
If you go to rural Kentucky, you will see how wrong you are. Likewise, if you go to rural West Virginia, you will see that you are wrong.

Visit the farms in rural Arkansas, spend a few days, engage some farmhands in conversation. If you talk to at least 4 such people, then at least 1 of them will be addicted to meth. You can often detect this simply by looking at them. Often their teeth give them away.

Spend some time in rural Missouri. Go to small diners and try to engage the waitresses in conversation. If you stay a few weeks you will get to know them. You will hear stories about husbands and boyfriends who are unemployed, or who can only get sporadic work. Whole families surviving on what one woman can earn as a waitress at a small diner.

I've done a bit of traveling, and I've seen people struggling with hard times all over the USA.

And in the examples above, I'm talking about areas that are mostly white. If you really want to feel like Dante, and descend into Hell, go visit the mostly black counties in Mississippi.

For many decades now, the interior states of the USA have become increasingly poor. Wealth has been concentrating into the coasts. Farming has been mostly automated. Mining has been mostly automated. The number of coal jobs in the USA peaked in the 1940s and has declined (with some ups and downs) rather steadily over the last 7 decades.

As to automation in farming, remember that the novel "The Grapes of Wrath", by John Steinbeck, was published in 1939. The opening scene of that novel shows us a man trying to get home to his farm (after he spent some time in prison) and finding that his family has lost the farm due to the tractors, which both reduced demand for labor on the farms, and also allowed economies of scale that caused a great consolidation of the land into bigger and bigger corporate farms.

And remember too, in 1961, Ralph Abernathy (the right-hand man of Martin Luther King) gave a speech in which he warned people "The civil rights movement is in a race with the tractors." He meant that the tractors were rapidly replacing black labor on the farms, but the blacks had been kept out of most other professions, so it was urgent that the Civil Rights movement open up the rest of the economy to black people, before black people lost the last remaining farm jobs.

Most historians of agriculture in the USA will point to the 1920s as the era when farms hit their economic peak. The rural areas of the USA have been facing decline for 9 decades now.

In observance of the etiquette that is expected on Hacker News, I've tried to stick to the facts in responding to you. But I also want to be clear: your advice is terrible.
The proposition that there is no such thing as objective truth is itself a proposition of a supposed objective truth.

Postmodernism is therefore paradoxical and logically invalid, in a broad and categorical sense. Adhering to it is therefore irrational and no different than any other non-falsifiable religion that must simply be accepted on faith, without any logical proof or reasoning.
A while back I remember seeing on HN there was a issue with a certain vendor and ChromeBooks because Chrome used a newer TLS(And the mitm vendor vendor was noticed in advance too, and didn't update their product).

I wonder how schools and banks plan to react to this... Apparently financial firms have to record everything their employees do for some regulations.

To me, schools doing this sort of thing is wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if the principle would grab people's passwords and login to their accounts even. I know some schools even went as far to demand students hand over their passwords to social media when they report bullying... Which if the school blocks social networks anyways, I don't see how it's a school issue for what happens outside of school...

If this sort of thing really needs to be done, at-least people should be warned and aware they are being monitored. If it's for a bank and it's only company equipment everything is being monitored it seems a bit more okay to do if everyone is well aware. "You are only to use work computers for official business." sort of policy.
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Very interesting. I wasn't familiar with Toyama. But I spent last December and January in Sapporo. People mentioned last year in December they had most snow in last 15 years. I was comparing my experience in Sapporo with living in Ottawa. Both places seem to have similar winter. I can see myself living in Sapporo in winter but not in Ottawa. The main difference was the snow ploughing of roads and sidewalks. It was much better in Sapporo than Ottawa. Also Sapporo has very good subway and underground walkways so your exposure to winter conditions is somewhat reduced.
Well, the world just got a lot more competitive and there are a lot more people trying to get a PhD.
Sorry I am going to have to disagree. Parents used to be strict, far stricter, sure. But helicopter parents is just pure putting [kids in a bubble](http://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-the-helicopter-pa...). I do agree that it isn't universal. Anecdotally, my friends who are doing best in life right now are the ones who have less helicoptery parents (obviously not scientific, this is just my observation and trying to make sense of what I'm seeing). One friend in particular, grew up in a rural area and had to work very hard. He's now a PhD and works at Bosch.
How do you deal with citizenship/visas?
I've done this and the results product tastes great in dips/soups but for me (and it seems many commentors) the onions turn to complete mush (almost like a jam texture). Were you able to get your onions to maintain some texture?
Our team uses LiquidPlanner but it requires a lot of training and workshops to start using it right. Devs within the team struggle with the initial learning curve so we integrated Bugzilla and it works really well. The biggest feature we rely on from LP is predictive estimate ranges. For teams relying on the software releases of other teams the managers of each can see different uncertainty estimates and plan accordingly.
Marxism should never be "easily dismissed". It should be respected and fought for. The problem is that we're afraid to go out and actually fight the Permanent Revolution; because we've been cowed by those who currently hold the power.
Same story with Superset, their homegrown BI system. Why re-invent the wheel?
Don't think anyone disagrees with that, but choosing between two evils, you know...
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> Self-healing: We don’t have a dedicated devops team (yet), so search needed to be able to tolerate failures with minimal to no operator intervention.

Do people not hire small business support technicians anymore? I worked for a guy when I was a teen who took support contacts to manage small business networks. He would call me and send me to fix a router when something broke. He couldn't have charged more than $2K per month, basically just to be on-call. That's 24k a year for an on-call ops tech, that's fairly cheap I think.

(Also, "self-healing"? Is this different from hooking up a service request with timeout to an APC with remote power and rebooting the sucker?)

> Of course, this entire search infrastructure would be incomplete without a way to discover clusters and the hosts within them from the application layer.

((If you want something that isn't complicated to use or maintain, why would you rely on technologies which use complicated decentralized algorithms just to find them??))
> I've never been able to figure out how non-programmers can sift through mounds of freelancers to find a good developer.

I'm not convinced programmers can either, they can just find the ones that think like they do and weed out the worst of the worst.