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Why's it more ridiculous than other restrictions and requirements for employment? Or, on the political spending issue, than what companies and trade organizations spend on the same (though usually to different ends)? Hell, even governments and governmental agencies participate in lobbying (of larger/parent governments or agencies), if we're restricting it to that in order to have a potential conflict-of-interest on the political lobbying front for the union. Should their employees be able to opt out of that and receive higher pay in return?

To head off "if you don't like the political spending of your employer then you can just quit"—right, and you can quit working at a place with a union membership requirement if you don't like the union's political spending. "But that's impractical because almost all the unions spend in ways I don't like". Oh, I know. Guess how lots of people feel about the political spending of almost all employers/companies? Good for the goose, good for the gander.
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It does boost production of NDA+ though, right?
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Take a vacation, preferably to a beach. Use it to learn what processes at your company are dependent on you. Then when you get back, start documenting and delegating every process until you are no longer a critical dependency. Then take another, longer vacation. Sounds like you need one.
I did not, but I understand why some would want to read it as such, because it's an indefensible position to claim that one should be forced to join a politically active organization (or any outside organization for that matter) to become a public employee.

My point is that you should be able to work for a government agency without joining a union. That is a reason for right-to-work laws that has nothing to do with neutering unions. If unions can't survive without people being legally obligated to join them that is on them and they should adapt to meet that reality.
"Ruby-the-tribe" is the right note to strike: so many of us learned programming with Ruby or learned to love programming through Ruby. Some of us are on to new endeavors, but that love remains. I'm proud to be a member of the tribe!
light-markup is definitely the way to go, yes.

except markdown also makes me feel a bit icky --
too many inconsistencies in the various flavors.

markdown's redeeming value is that it's "popular".

which is also why it's so frightening now,
since it desperately needs to be replaced.
(it cannot be improved, because xkcd 927.)

speaking of "popular", that's how you describe
the showdown converter that your plug-in uses.

one reason it's popular is because it was fast --
the fastest converter, at one time, it claimed.

note the past-tense "was"...

because that time has now passed.

other converters, also coded in javascript
(the other big reason showdown got popular)
are now much faster and far more powerful.

without getting into all the surrounding drama,
i'd recommend that you use markdown-it instead:
it's blazingly fast, and has much functionality.

> https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it

(functionality is now a better differentiator of
the worth of a markdown converter than speed.)

mavo's choice of converter is more consequential
than it might appear at the first glance because
follow-on effects of differential functionalities
will surely impact the success of a mavo project,
as will the inconsistencies that will bite users.

all this aside, mavo is a fascinating little tool. :+)
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Is your product going according to plan? 6 months by yourself without releasing is a very long time without feedback or validation of any sort. That kind of uncertainty can wear you down.

Is it possible to release a cut now? Actually meet people or customers for feedback before going further?

On the other hand, if it is not going as per plan, may be it is time to let go. Try to tell to yourself it does not matter anymore and spend a few days away from screens and keyboard. Sleep well and eat healthy. Once you are well rested, go out and meet friends or strangers, who will not remind you of your project. Take as long as you want as mental and physical well being is so much more important than a startup. At the end of the break, you will be able to decide what direction to take.

It could also be that you have a more lucrative/interesting idea on mind and the current project is a blocker. That can make your current project feel more and more like a dead weight around your neck. In such case, you will need to decide what your priorities are and pivot accordingly.

Sometimes, just doing some market research to validate the need for your product can also do wonders to your morale.

If none of these help, pl consult a professional. Do not be afraid. Burnout, just like any other symptoms of illness, is just another indication that for the time being, we need to bring our focus back to us, in our life.
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"The Kin Rewards Engine is an innovative cryptoeconomic structure intended to promote the use of Kin as a common currency.
Through the Kin Rewards Engine, Kin will be introduced into circulation as a daily reward,"

Grow the economic volume every day... Sounds like UBI
> They treat you like a bad kid, you get humiliated 24h/7 by who ever is higher in the "hierarchy".

That is not unheard of even in programming gigs. I've seen it around me, coming from bad management. I've been exposed to it but I've been good enough (at least compared my workplace) and managed gathering enough respect from both my coworkers and my superiors that I've been shielded from it. But it happens, they feel you're new, they feel they have an ounce of authority above you and they go crazy with every mistake(and mistakes happen).
I have seen first hand cases of dissent being suppressed by giving the reason that if the person does not adhere to the majority point of view then there is something wrong psychologically even if the majority is completely in the wrong. By giving strong medication I see them suppressed of their thoughts completely to the point that they are always dazed.

This is why I am always concerned about misdiagnoses or being taken advantage of. For a person suffering from some physical disease it is easy to see and measure but in case of psychological disease it is tough. Here I am not talking about some developed country but in third world countries where medical expertise is limited and hence are regularly cheated.

Hope you understand where I am coming from. I am not against anybody taking medication if diagnosed properly and sincerely hope things improve in the medical field that they can be off the medication and lead a normal life.

Just a quick question. How do you fair in labor intensive tasks such as woodworking or metal fabrication etc? Do you fair better in those tasks than coding? The same thing with physical sports. Does it help you to focus?
I finally got an answer to something I've wondered about for years: How much space is there at the summit of Everest? Is it just enough for a few people to huddle together or could you pitch a bunch of tents and have a picnic? I've never seen a photo taken at the summit that gives a good feel for the surface area.

Well, finally, this climber's blog has the answer: it's 30 square feet (or about 3 ㎡).

Found the answer here: http://www.alanarnette.com/everest/everestsouthroutes.php (search for "30 square feet").
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Their risk is if SpaceX uses re-usable Falcon 9s to up their launch cadence and clean up their manifest.

Imagine if they start launching weekly for example. At current prices they could sell 500lb spots for $2 - $3M. And theoretically with re-usable boosters they can cut prices as much as by half.

Obviously I'm speculating as to how soon and how much, but clearly SpaceX intends to increase cadence relatively soon, and eventually lower prices. I don't really like Rocket Lab's competitive position given that. But maybe there is a big enough market in small payloads, esp. those requiring polar orbits, and those requiring their own specific orbits that can't piggyback on someone elses launches, to have room for both.
Can that argument be made persuasively, though? I for one do not enjoy online "debating" one bit and try to avoid it as much as possible. I see it mostly as people shouting at each other.

Meanwhile, the best "debates" I've ever had were with people within what could arguably be described as my "filter bubble."
Thanks! We also submitted Matterhorn to the Mattermost integrations directory.
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It'd be cool but what's the incentive for any of the manufacturers to do this?
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Theoretically, it doesn't. Practically, it would be a complete nightmare, as you'd have to decompile the source code into a high level language, then come up with some kind of (proper) hack, and run a code insertion tool in your browser to reinsert the changes. And they'd probably break any time Facebook altered their code at all, and moreover, FB could use a polymorphic compiler to make such things impossible. And finally, decompiling the program would probably be illegal if it was to circumvent the intended use of the site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler#Legality
State and local taxes have nothing to do with the federal deficit, so excluding them is obviously correct when talking about the federal deficit.

Social Security is the bulk of payroll taxes, and most of the increase in payroll taxes, and remains self-funded (though that would cease to be the case if the trust fund was to be exhausted and full benefits maintained.) So it makes sense to exclude that.

But payroll tax also includes Medicare taxes (the payroll tax portion, not the additional income tax portion on certain income not subject to payroll a tax imposed under the ACA) as amuch smaller component, and while Medicare Part A is self-funded, Parts B and D have significant general revenue contributions as well. But Medicare payroll tax hasn't changed significantly (and the share of GDP subject to it has dropped as returns move out of labor and into capital), so if you kept it in but split out Social Security for the reason above, it wouldn't change the declining trend shown by income taxes (except to enhance it).

So, again, the federal deficit is driven by declining federal income tax share.
Again, why is required paid membership to a non-governmental group an acceptable requirement for employment by the government? It's a very, very simple question. I don't care what trade groups or companies do.
Sounds like you're talking to more than one potential acquirer, yes? That should give you more negotiating leverage.

Seems to me that if you want to cut the earnout to 1 year in exchange for a smaller total package, that should be something they would entertain.

Another option is to forget the acquisitions for the moment and bring in someone else to run the business, technical enough that they can pick up the details quickly. Bring them in as a co-founder; offer them maybe 20% of the company (with 4-year vesting that accelerates on acquisition) and explain that you want to turn over the day-to-day to them. Once they're comfortable running the business, you can resume trying to sell it, or just sit on a beach and sip mai-tais.
The reason arrow functions and bind don't play well with PureComponents is that they return a new function instance each time. This means that the Data pure component will wastefully re-render even if none of the other props change.
> Even on Linux, there are decent ways to distribute. They're not as good at hard real time as QNX, but they work.

Out of interest: what would you consider to be some of those decent ways, and what are some of the less-than-decent ways?
Yeah, now I'm even more confused!
I believe the assumption is that WebAssembly code wouldn't run on the typically browser API accessible DOM. Therefore chrome extensions, which operate on accessing markup via JS would now be rendered obsolete.
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What about non-developers in the tech industry that are looking to move into development; would 10 years of non-development experience prevent you from applying for an SDE-1?
I don't understand why people are so enamored of personalized ads. Advertising was around a long time before personalized ads were even a thing, yet it managed to still work by targeting publications that matched the target customer. This was accomplished by geographic location, for general consumer ads, or by interest, for targeted ads, B2B, etc.
If I walk into a theatre I don't want to see ads because I'm paying to be there.
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Built studiously.co website with this. Highly recommend the sites editor!

Also using Hydra by the same author for OAuth2. Truly amazing work.
You're misunderstanding Kin. Kin is not "controlled by Kik" it is an asset that will be exchangeable in and out of the Kik ecosystem. Furthermore, Kin balances will be kept on a public ledger and any other company could build extensions and uses of the currency.

It would be as if your Walmart dollars actually had an exchange for other currency. I would see this as a good thing. Then the poor worker who is being paid in Walmart dollars can know exactly how much they're being paid.
Just stop. If you truly want to quit, you are the only one who can make it happen. Mind over matter. Cold turkey it.
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> I guess they just call that function from within the Data component with the correct parameter.

Yep

> Is there a better way?

We're experimenting with some other options internally. Once we have a better sense of what works best, we will post another article on our learnings :)
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Of the eight dark patterns you identify as such in your thesis, Facebook implements at least two, possibly three - I could swear I've seen reports of what you describe as "hellbroadcast", but I don't have a cite to hand. Your "impersonation" I've seen very recently reported here on HN at least, and what even is Facebook if not the ultimate example thus far of what you (correctly) term a "social pyramid scheme"?

In general, while I'm willing to assume good faith on your part, I do find myself moved to inquire further into how you compose, on the one hand, having produced detailed documentation and an inventory of examples on how to develop user experiences which are designed specifically to the purpose of maintaining user engagement in ways largely orthogonal to the inherently engaging quality (or lack thereof) of the underlying content - and, on the other hand, your argument here that platforms like Facebook, which are so broadly known to implement such patterns that to advance the claim merits no controversy whatsoever, do not achieve any benefit, or their users suffer any detriment, from such implementations.

One further point: I don't see the article here under discussion assuming that "people are dumb", or that "social media is inherently vacuous". Instead, what I see is a very reasonable question being raised around, on the one hand, the ethics of social media platforms like Facebook using these techniques to drive engagement, and, on the other hand, how people might protect themselves from being so manipulated - a subject which, while I haven't yet read it in detail, seems to be covered in your thesis as well, under the name of "manipulation literacy". I look forward to reading your exegesis of the topic!
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You can always do that stuff later. Changing the world has always been for those willing to sacrifice.
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Just because someone has an Ops title doesn't mean they know anything about security. I've worked places where the Ops team caused every security incident.

Its a business leadership issue. When teams accept requests from the business and prioritize those requests over security then we have problems. Ops teams can be just as guilty of this as any other team.
>> desperate for validation and connection.. They're going there because Facebook can provide those things, and those things are meaningful.

Yes. Connection. Is that's we've seen a huge decline(40%!) in empathy among college student in 2000-2010 [1] ?

[1]https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/born-love/201005/shocke...
They're all(?) dormant at this time but there are quite a few volcanoes on the West coast, the Cascades in particular, that could certainly become active. After all, it's only a few decades since Mount St. Helens exploded and the main blast area is still pretty, well, blasted.

Rainier is the iconic destination and the park is worth a visit. But it is crowded and there's a whole lot of wilderness and other summits throughout the Cascades.
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Why's it unacceptable?
OOP in it self isn't that hard to wrap your head around.

The tough part is the patterns that are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

Go buy that book and learn to read and understand enough c++ and small talk to read it cover to cover OR find examples in your favorite language.

This book is a trap, because it will take you a while to get out of the mindset of being "pattern happy" (maybe). There is plenty of material to follow up with afterwards to learn the downsides of each pattern, and when not to use them.
Even in some western cultures, specifically christianity, the idea that the soul/spirit provides the body with the energy to move exists. There is not a strict connection to physicality, the line between what we feel as "energy" in the body and what is provided by the our mental/spiritual state and the pure physical resources our body provides in the way of sugar etc. is blurry.

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In christianity, the word for spirit means breath. I find the origins of words and why/how the literal meaning of the original term evolved to describe something much more philosophic fascinating. I would expect that the Japanese used the word "electric" or "energy" to describe the spirit because they saw a connection between the two, in that both are vital. I would not expect the use of that term to be taken in its strictest sense though...

anyway... some thoughts.
Because by targeting the ads they can make eleventy billion dollars instead of just 10 billion.

It's about value. Ads were cheap back then because you couldn't be sure the people seeing them cared. Now that you can be reasonably sure you can charge more for the experience.
Jeffery Way has a way with words: https://laracasts.com/series/object-oriented-bootcamp-in-php
There are professionals out there whose job it is to help out people in situations like yours. Before you make any life changing decisions I would talk to one.

CEO's, Hedgefund Managers, Sport Stars, they all talk to psychologists. Give it a try.
David Brin's book Kiln People is a really fun book which runs along these lines as well.
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No, VCs have told you that "startup life" requires this, and you willingly believed them without question.

It is possible to start a company without turning the first 10 employees into desiccated husks. It's just not possible to do that while also doing what your VCs think is necessary. Maybe that's a thing to work on changing...
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Does anyone have any history on what motivated the industry to commoditize PC hardware? The current trend is in the opposite direction, with apple going back to proprietary components and the mobile phone/tablet market is moving further and further from user serviceable designs. Unless there's some economic driver (being able to source from more suppliers?) I don't see this happening.
So does that mean you're hiring developers?

Hit me up - email is on profile.
I'm kinda-sorta excited by the author's idea, but there are (at least) three major differences facing a would-be do-it-yourselfer between an automobile and a 1990s-era PC that should temper his optimism:

1. For many people, their automobile is their primary mode of transportation. Tinkering with it and potentially making it unavailable for use is not something many will risk.

2. There is a clear difference in tooling requirements between popping in a shiny 14.4k model (90s era, after all) and swapping out a piece of drive train.

3. Component cost
I have two issues with this comment. First of all, the OP just described very serious signs of burnout and stress, but the top comment (this one as of this writing) isn't helpful - you are using the OP's raw discussion of their current emotional state to condemn a faceless portion of society for their privilege to not have to work blue collar jobs. You nitpicked the fact that the OP admitted wishful ideation about jobs and inadvertently invalidated that perspective. That's really not productive.

Less importantly, I agree construction sites are likely not a good candidate for the grass is greener perspective, but you're seriously overstating the difficulty of grocery store work. It's not abject misery the way you describe it. When I was younger I too worked in jobs like retail, restaurant and grocery stores. No, it wasn't as fun and liberating an environment as tech, but it was absolutely a more simple environment to work in. There was far less responsibility, and the stakes are lower when the job is basically just a throwaway one and not impactful for your career. The worst that happens in that context is you fail to sell as many TVs as your manager wanted, or you bring out the wrong food to a table, or you misscan an item as a cashier.

My point here is that I believe the OP is having ideation about jobs that seem less complex, not necessarily less difficult. This goes hand in hand with burnout - those jobs are not as fulfilling, but the OP would not have nearly as much responsibility, and the responsibility of running a successful startup on the verge of acquisition that he doesn't enjoy is clearly causing him a lot of anxiety. What the OP needs is an empathic perspective, not a lecture about how the grass isn't always greener.
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I'm looking for a Jr. UI Designer role at a small or medium startup. However, with the H1B restrictions, USA is definitely off limits. What other cities can I apply to?
I'm not looking for large paychecks, just something that'd allow me to live like just another 20-something in a city.

CS grad, founded two small but profitable startups while in college, love designing and have experience working as a freelancer/intern as well.

Edit 1: I'm from India, can speak English and German, have enough coding experience but prefer UI/UX Design
The problem isn't that that demographic doesn't exist. It's that you can't hire them on as employees.

Driven, talented, experienced engineers have been paid six figures for a decade and presumably have saved some of it. If they don't want to do the start-up grind, they don't have to. If they do want to do the start-up grind, they can do so as founders.
Safety, risk of losing lives, is a factor missing from the constraints imposed on PC manufacturers. Safety may play a larger role as an obstacle on this idea getting real traction.