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With difficulty, but got there in the end.

My education and first seven or so years of working life were all in IT, and in particular in software development related fields.

However as the internet was starting to really take off (1997 or around that time) I got interested in internet marketing. I think the idea of making a good living from home really appealed, and everyone seemed to be making money online, so why not me!

So while keeping my job, I studied online marketing in the evenings. In particular, I found the mental transition from IT to marketing quite difficult.

It's a huge subject, and a completely different way of thinking about things. I think you can often see that in comments here, when people focus more on the technical aspects of a marketing challenge/problem, rather than the marketing and sales aspect that actually generates the business growth.

(For example - if you're getting leads from Facebook at a cost that makes sense to you, and you're converting those leads into valuable clients, obsessing over click fraud is a waste of time and energy. IMO. Focusing on optimising your marketing, rather than the technical challenge of trying to track down click bots, is a far more productive use of your time, and your business will thank you for it.)

There's a lot more information available on marketing now of course, and there's a lot of overlap between the marketing and technical aspects (AdTech for example). But it's still two very different ways of thinking about things, and if you're too technology or data driven in marketing you can often miss the wood for the trees, and you may be ignoring people's "feelings" as abstract as that sounds, and feelings are what actually drive sales. So taking a step back from the data, and really understanding your market and how they make buying decisions, can be hugely beneficial.

So the transition took a long time, and after a few years (a lot of dabbling, only really getting serious the last year or two) I made the move into online marketing full time (running my own sites...etc.) and slowly over time my income grew. Then moved into consulting with clients, and then into starting and running an agency.

Now I have found having a technical background has been very helpful in many aspects of online marketing, but now my attention is fully focused on marketing and my business, and if a technical challenge would require a significant investment of my time, it generally makes the most sense to my business to outsource that. So being specialised and focused on business results, rather than trying to be good at everything.

So to answer your question - yes, I made the transition. It took a long time, and a new way of thinking. But it certainly paid off.
You have it right.

In practice, nobody has wanted support for this so it has remained unimplemented. Note that if your data items are large enough (more than 1/2 a page) they'll go into their own overflow pages, and then won't shift around at all. (But if you delete/modify a value, the new version will of course be in a new overflow page.)

Granted, this could be a case of "if you build it they will come" - before LMDB existed, nobody cared about mmap'd transactional DBs either. And personally, I still see good use cases for it.
"I am particularly irritated by the noise of your keyboard each morning when you write long emails or posts."

My E-mails are pretty short :-). However, I don't enjoy you telling your coworkers about your weekend every Monday morning.

Open offices are just stupid. They cause conflict where there shouldn't be.
Exactly what I was thinking. All these marketing studies that quote How Steve Jobs did it, or Google or Microsoft did it - I really can't relate to. These are billion dollar companies doing a lot of things and they too have flop products regardless of these brilliant tag lines.
I've worked in open offices my whole career. To me its normal and I'm used to it, probably I dont want an office locked away.

I have found the next step down though where I work - hot desks. Basically you get a locker for your stuff, no reserved desk location and a virtual terminal to a desktop on a server. This really does suck.
If someone is complaining about Cherry Reds, I think they're asking for too much. Perhaps they should look for work in the library sciences.
I don't know know if you've ever watched C-SPAN, but in person debate already doesn't work. In fact, the wisdom of the crowds effect works best when each actor in the crowd makes up their own mind without the influence of external actors.
As someone with ADD (who immediately drops focus when someone walks by or when music has lyrics) cubicles are much better than most open office plans.

They just don't look as "cool" or "hip" as a long, open table.
very, very few companies fit this description. So few companies want to send a check that id you're product requires it, you should be in
a different niche.
I am curious about the state of water in Flint, do you know the current status? Do you know how long families had non-potable tap water, even if it is drinkable now?

EDIT - Please reply if you don't like my comment. Just downvotes do not tell me anything. Also, please consider that I just asked questions, I made no statements and I did it that way because I actually seek answers.

If the water in Flint is perfectly fine, then please tell me and explain how public perception got so out of sorts. I would appreciate sources.

I also don't think we are a 3rd world country, but we clearly have more problems than people who believe in American Exceptionalism are willing to accept.
> The Filter Bubble. The idea that you can be shut in your own bubble, not being exposed to new ideas or ideas that contradict your own, is pretty bad

This is a psychological and social question, not a technological problem. Most people are used to being surrounded by broad agreement; continual confrontation over basic values is highly stressful.
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They also make blinds :-)
I couldn't care less for efficiency, I'm going to get roughly the same amount of work done in a shitty office and in a good one, that's just how I am - but it would make me a helluva lot happier and allow me to actually enjoy doing the job I should enjoy.
Well I like and use Kotlin, that's the extent of it. Scala is a non-starter for me.
They also use image recognition to detect nudity and previously classified child porn.
All things being equal, yeah I'd love to keep 10% of my pay, but if I have to give up X to get private space, which would help my happiness at work, I would do that. My happiness is worth atleast 10% of my pay. Life is more then money
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NYC for example was underwater in a recent storm doing a lot of damage and largely shutting down the city

NYC was not underwater. A small part along the rivers got flooded due to poor drainage and river water water backflooding the sewer system. That is, water went into the sewers from the rivers and then got pushed up. The water then settled into low areas (basements and such), causing lots of damage.

At no time was any part of NYC "underwater".
Ever since amazon managed to making a competing Android release with everything Google stripped out, the SDK licenses have intentionally been made very onerous, it's become nearly impossible to get your own SDK extensions put into the SDK manager, and Google has been moving as much as possible into private extensions like Google Play Services. They even strong armed cell companies into breaking contracts with GPS provider replacements, like SkyHook.

I worked for an OEM at the time Google kicked us out of the SDK manager update list, so am familiar with the about face. If you do try to make your own toolkit, you'll have to fight very hard to do so. JetBrains writes IDEs and licensed Android Studio to Google, so there's no harm in Google helping them, but anyone else would be in for a lot of pain.
You are right, I meant ACA.

I actually have whats called "short term insurance". It's only allowed for 6 months, but because of that and because it can set pricing based on pre-existing conditions I get roughly the same benefits of the $1800 ACA package for only $200 a month.

The negative is I have to reapply every 6 months, so there if I get gallstones or my toe torn off, it's fine unless it falls right on the end of the 6 months.

Since all of these policies have $5K deductibles per person, and $10k per family, I"m paying for most of those situations out of pocket anyways. The benefit of the insurance is for really serous expensive problems, which will tend to last until I can get ACA. And that the insurance company will knock down the hospital bill to what they deem acceptable, saving me lots of money there.
All I want from these pay-walls is a instapaper-like experience, and that you cannot get that for $30? With $30 I can buy 130 kid's polio vaccines.
I am sure there is a ton of stuff going on in the developing world were nobody is used to reporting anything.

Edit: Happy to see someone is leaking this stuff given how many flip flops we had to sit threw before someone admitted fake news was a thing.
Honestly, that would be pretty cool to see. Like, yeah, the path there is not 'fun', but a Venician Miami would be really cool if we could just snap our fingers and be at the end point.
Yep, I meant ACA.
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I was born in the 80's, and not in US, so my perspective is certainly different.

But I don't remember ever reading a serious article about running out of oil by 2000 (saw a few about 2050), and about cities being under water by now.

There were plenty of those things in popular literature and movies. But not in serious reporting, even science reporting being as bad as it was.
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The "Jobs to be done" framework has clarified a lot of my thinking about marketing.

The idea is that customers don't purchase products, they hire products to do a job for them.

This is a good description and the first and only time I'll recommend a corporate free ebook: https://www.intercom.com/books/jobs-to-be-done
It's an opinion piece on the opinion pages of the NYTimes. It's not a paper in a scientific journal. It's not required or expected to be "unbiased" or "objective".
s/civil war/checks and balances/
> “Here’s what our product can do” and “Here’s what you can do with our product” sound similar, but they are completely different approaches.

Yes, they are different: I don't want to hear the later in ads or any product description because I want to know the traits of the products and not how many girls will end up in my bed tonight should I buy it (spoiler: zero). This bullshit is one of the reasons I have to train myself to de-bullshittize surrounding world automatically.
I should add that we did not have long open tables. Each person had their own mobile sit/stand desk and mobile filing cabinet for personal belongings. There was quite a few people who positioned themselves facing a corner for that reason.
Fine, I''ll pay a premium surcharge then. Because I'm only going back on Obamacare if I have a life threatening illness that will cost far more than $2000 per month to treat for an extended period.
Many workers at “world-changing” tech companies might as well work at Walmart
I'm a nice guy, I paid the extra $$ for silent mechanical keys (http://matias.ca/switches/quiet/) ;-)
I think to some extent they felt WPF was a strong enough backward compatibility story. Windows 7 supports WPF well. There is a cross-over between WPF XAML and UWP XAML and it is possible to support both with a lot of code shared and even some XAML shared.
> The purpose is for management to save money, period.

Is saving money the real purpose, or the fig leaf for the actual purpose?

If saving money is the real purpose, then Work From Home (WFH) drops putative facilities costs to zero. Forget shaving a square foot here or a tenth of a square meter there: send everyone to their home offices, drop it to zero, call it a day, and collect the bonus check on your way out. No leadership recognition of the valuation assigned to the negative productivity impact of open offices signals that there is no quantified impact for WFH either, despite claims to the contrary. One can't have it both ways, claiming one can measure the productivity impact of WFH and not open offices. In the absence of actual quantification, if saving money on physical plant/facilities was the real purpose, WFH would win.
I've worked at a few places with open workspaces. In the field of law, open workspaces make zero sense. You're always on the phone or always attempting to fully concentrate on the task at hand. Open workspaces allow distractions to fester.

One open workspace was intentionally planned so that the micro-managing CEO could readily see if the employees -- mostly attorneys, mind you -- were hard at work or hardly working. Nothing was private, especially not the condescending beratement from said CEO. I quit and started my own law firm, requiring work from home for my subsequent hires and leasing shared office space.

That firm was acquired by a client, and I was again forced to commute to work since I would be directing a large on-site team of attorneys and paralegals. It was another open workspace but, thankfully, the C-suite enjoyed perimeter offices. I don't understanding why they realized that we needed offices to avoid distractions and to keep confidential conversations in confidence, but failed to consider the effect of the open space on other employees -- also mostly attorneys and licensing guys.

I've since had a successful exit and again get to enjoy "working" from home.
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There is a huge amount of research that shows that broad responsibilities (without micro-management) are correlated with high motivation. See the classic paper "One more time, How do you motivate employees" for a starting point.

So much in dev and elsewhere depends on the specifics of the organization structure and who your manager is.

Good luck.
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Going forward, I can't see any tech companies making the mistake of incorporating in the state of Texas. Better safe than sorry.
Also be careful not to point out that "keyboard noise" is the crux of the issue, since then you'll end up with those employees being told they can't use their nice keyboards that they probably paid a lot for just to use at work, which will result in said employees really, really not liking you if they find out it was you that complained.
Did he say "silver bullet language"? It seemed like a good fit for his use case; I don't see him claiming anything more than that.
I think we can have our cake and eat it too. The all-glass office style at We Work could be adopted. I wish the glass was a bit thicker but the small shared office or bullpen model is ideal IMO.
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Just hiding bugs isn't a good practice! It'll ruin responsiveness with lower resolutions where that content is required.

Actually fix the underlying cause, not just add a quick hack to make it go away.
Help me understand why react+redux would not be considered a framework?
It may or may not work, depending on the details of the process. For instance, the process might only be able to separate the ions if the concentration is high enough. If it's the case, repeating the process on the result will not make any difference.
The noise is from bottoming out. Put spacers on the keycap stems, and it stops being a problem, no matter what kind of switch you use.

This is easy to do and only a little time-consuming. It's easier and faster when you take a cheap Bic pen, pull out the tip and ink tube, and use the body tube to press the spacers down on the stems - it's just the right diameter, and makes the job much faster.

The spacers are cheap, too, being simple silicone rubber O-rings, and as an extra benefit, the rubber eats up a lot of the bottoming-out force that'd otherwise be transmitted up the key into your fingers, which means you type more comfortably as well as more quietly.
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I've noticed Plex has stopped working with my TVs. It's kinda a bummer that the only help, that those on forums are willing to give is "buy a better TV". Is spending another 700 bucks really a tenable solution?
Buy some o-rings, they really do help with the bottoming out noise. Alternatively, train yourself not to bottom out.
Awesome, thanks for the tip!
Open plan offices suck for everyone who needs to think. I don't know anyone who doesn't know this.
The penjulum of "things startups are wrong about" and/or "you succeed despite this rather than because of it" open plan offices will shift back the other way in the next decade to "deep work" and "closed door productivity". Joel Spolsky & co are just two decades ahead.
Do you really think WeChat pays Apple for the file transfers for hundreds of millions of copies of WeChat to customer iPhones every month (when you include updates). Essentially at least 100 Megabytes times 100 to 200 million a month.
Good question. I had never heard of Bombay Beach but it's a fascinating story:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salton-sea

Having said that, I think it has absolutely nothing to do with the article.

Wonder Valley also has an interesting story:
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2014/12/the-last-homesteads-o...

There's a theme here of Southern California desert wastelands.
I don't believe that I limited my comment to cow leather.

It's all interconnected. The price of meat is influenced by the fact that money can be made selling the hides to leather makers and the bones for other purposes, including recovering collagen.

I'm not sure if animals would agree that an easy life free from random predation is much better than a harder life that comes with freedom. One could argue that the Eloi have a similar arrangement with the Morlocks.

I'm not arguing against meat eating or leather wearing, I do both. I'm just pointing out that there are more widespread examples of animals enduring cruel treatment than the circus.
> the sewers from the rivers and then got pushed up. The water then settled into low areas (basements and such), causing lots of damage.
This is not a technological issue. This is a policy issue.

The total size of Wikipedia text is 12 GB. The total size of a state-sized chunk of maps.me is under a GB. The total memory of an iPhone is 32GB - 256GB. I can store the entirety of Wikipedia + the entire geographical data of my state and neighbouring states on my mobile phone and have a Star Trek-esque voice-activated computer interaction without ever uploading a single byte into the cloud. It won't have pretty pictures. I'm happy with that.
No paywall: http://archive.is/tSeuX
I agree with you that open office is the problem, however my old mechanical keyboard is louder than most people with a loud voice and it would probably be used more often.
Im just leaving the gmail and started to use another search engine. I just wanted google out of my life (including phone) also.

I really found google a liar and cheater. My privacy is mine. Now I don't have scare google to delete my accounts anymore..

Google and facebook are sad old players who should be replaced long time ago.
Ask HN: Why is Python popularity rising?
The other day I saw a chart where Python popularity seems to be rising a lot. Is it because of machine learning?

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cjavascript
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This isn't eugenics. I'm not sure why people use that label so much with almost any reproduction-related technology. Birth control is "eugenics", genetic disease screening is "eugenics", the creation of egg cells from other cells is "eugenics".

Eugenics is, very specifically, the application of husbandry to humans. I'm all for anything that has similar benefits without the associated human rights violations.
Can they, though? Most companies don't have the customer base to get real statistical power in these studies. Those that do, are likely winning in other ways.

This is not too say I don't want to see these studies. Just still skeptical.
I'm guessing you mean scissor switch not membrane.
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WSJ thinks that. Not CEOs.

~a CEO
Ahaha, then I guess I don't use it that often. I'll try to remember this mnemonic.

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> That to me just underscores the need for a more fundamental fix to the way that content appears, as it makes clear that the twentieth time posted this was also just going to be do poorly again without manual intervention.

I agree, there's far too much randomness to HN. The two-tier structure is part of the problem; even with mod boosts, it's frequently the case for a link to fall off /newest with no upvotes, while on another occasion, it'll get +100. I see this all the time when checking my submissions: a link will be submitted 5 times previously over many years, and only 1 will do well - obviously, the link quality hasn't changed, yet the ratings are contradictory.
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Oh the irony of invoking the slippery slope fallacy in a post stating "if it exists, it'll be used" :)
how is comparing a small affluent country to a large and econ diverse one even remotely fair?
UI is same as Tower. Doesn't seem that far off for me.
Depends.

Tiny project, Python Bottle.

Flask if project isn't complicated or not expected to grow much or I don't care about model admin. (and maybe even Flask if project is expected to grow... Flask really is a pleasure to work with).

Otherwise Django.
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If we had real free markets, we would have sound money, we would not have a huge federal government with multi-trillion dollar budgets, the change in your pocket would still be worth something, not that anyone even BOTHERS with change anymore. I can go on and on, but the point is we aren't free and THAT is the problem!!!!

Free markets don't experience inflation? A free market-having nuclear global superpower with 300M people wouldn't have huge budgets?
I'm in the exact same situations (though maybe 18 months in).

I play a lot of music to make up for it. The gigs don't pay as well as that other 10 hours a week would have paid, but breaking up my work into two separate fields is valuable to me.
>"Just like the cargo cult Agile pandemic peaked a few years ago, I suspect we're reaching peak open floor plans right now."

Wait, that peaked? That hasn't been my perception. I'm curious where you are seeing that.
> Why would the parties vote for solutions that would destroy the duopoly they currently enjoy?

One can a imagine a situation where Democrats think the change will be safe for them and Republicans will be cast into chaos and in that same situation Republicans think they will be safe and Democrats will be cast into chaos.
> Node + Koa + React (server side rendering) + ReactRouter + Redux + TypeScript + Postgres

This seems like a lot of independent concepts to grok + configure to create a webapp. Especially when a viable alternative might be PHP +Postgres + jQuery. I guess I'm just old and cranky anymore :)
That. My previous employer was a subsidiary of a large US company. The subsidiary was all hip and open plan and I hated our office, even after I got some mild adaptations done (moved team assignments to "positive space" islands and install a 20" sound partition between teams' desks so at least teams had some privacy). The mothership had these neat Herman Miller layouts with team pods. It looked (to my European design sensitivities) butt-ugly, but I loved sitting there. So quiet, and the only bit of interruption you had was probably relevant because it came out of your team. Not a random sales guy strolling by (sorry, sales peeps - love you, but you're a noisy bunch ;-))