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I do, but nobody else around me does. I know other countries are different, but in most of the EU WhatsApp is the standard messaging app, everyone uses it.

WhatsApp's success here singlehandedly makes it impossible to introduce WeChat-style commercial applications or Telegram-style bots.
Why does this link have the tracking parameters attached?
It's not an article, it's somebody using HN as advertising dumpster for their company.
Had to read half the article (that lead with "sign stealing is normal?") until it came to "electronics are forbidden".

Wouldn't have been too hard to insert that fact in the beginning, this is not a novel of suspense and mystery...
I'm not an expert but my understanding is that PSAs have a pretty mixed record historically (including some that, strictly from an advertising impact perspective, were pretty well done). e.g. Keep America Beautiful.

In conjunction with other actions, behaviors such as smoking can be altered. But it takes a lot of wood behind a lot of arrows to shift public attitudes.
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Is retail adapting to e-commerce ? Or is it mostly a really slow decline ? This question is still unanswered If you look at the Amazon's recent fashion growth and walmart's grocery pick up.

As for what big industries are under immediate threat ? I'm not sure about how rapid, but in almost every industry you look you see a lot of real term deep innovation(from startups) that, if successful would greatly reduce jobs. Think not only automation but electric cars and mechanics and plant based meat and farmers.

That, combined with the fact that we are maybe starting to be able to mechanize the key skills of humans:dexterity and thinking, seem quite a huge change.

And maybe we can adapt - but we don't hear almost any ideas at all for many more new jobs, even with creativity of the net so maybe massive unemployment is a possibility?
A visible nod, like a little bowing, would be enough.
look good project, i will take part in it.
good luck!!
Oh my god why are there so many people here who don't understand. UBI wont work. If you just think further than the extent of your nose; consider a 2-person society; a fisher and a fishnet maker. They live off eachothers work. Then give them this fantastic UBI. It's so great, the wealth gets distributed and they both have income without having to have a job. Ok. So fisherman goes to fishnet maker and gives him 100$ and says make me some fishnets please. Fishnet maker says nah, why should i? I have this fantastic UBI so i don't have to work. Btw i'd like to buy fish from you here is 100$. Fisherman says nah, you know i got this UBI. WAOW SUCH GREAT, UBI, AMAZE, BEST, SMART, PROGRESSIVE
And as an English speaker I always find it weird how everybody wants to speak our language but nobody wants to conform to our alphabet.

If I was writing in Finnish then I'd chuck in some umlaauts. But right now we're speaking English, and we Englishmen did away with that kind of baloney about eight hundred years ago.

Maybe if the Finnish Empire had conquered the world we could be speaking Finnish, but you didn't, so we're not.
Although the idea of colonising Mars is something really exciting, I doubt we will be able to pull it off any time soon. There are many much more hospitable places that we haven't yet "colonised", despite a long history of human presence -- compared to Mars surface, Antarctica and Greenland interior are practically a paradise.
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I like the overall direction of your comment, essentially make yourself your priority for a bit, but I don't think starting a startup is a good solution for burnout :P
And is the European perspective more valid than the American? Why isn't it Europe that's skewed?

Also I note that "Europe" is a big place and quite politically diverse.
I find I'm doing all sorts of work outside my day job, working on various little projects etc.

In the past I've stopped doing any of that, and just focused on exercising, socialising and watching TV outside of work. You'll be amazed at how much time you have to fill, and how much sleep you can catch up on.

But then the only times I've approached burnout it's been because of all these side projects!
Yes, this replaces their JavaScript while Google remains due to the ads.
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I used to think I occasionally suffered from work burnout, but then my SO became a medical resident, and I realized "oh, that's what burnout is."

What I used to "suffer" as a programmer was the ebb and flow of productivity. As described by books like "Drive" and "Flow". This state-of-mind was perhaps best described for me by my colleague (also a programmer) in this public essay, "Find the right routine to surf productivity"[1].

What my SO suffers as a medical resident is true work burnout. They work 6 days per week, nearly 80 hours per week, for weeks (or months) on end. Their work is not only challenging intellectually, it's challenging physically and emotionally. Their work also buckles under the weight of administrative bureaucracy, which removes their sense of agency.

Recently, after my SO got off a 5-week "night float" block (where she worked 6 days per week on an inverted 6pm-6am night-time schedule), she finally got a day off. It was really a day to re-adjust her schedule back to working "normal" daytime 6am-6pm hours. During that day, she said to me, "Can we look up Maslow's hierarchy of needs?"[2]

Looking over that diagram, we realized her work had her floating around in the first couple levels of that pyramid, whereas in my work, I was very much at the top. My "burnout" feelings were really "not feeling perfectly self-actualized". Her "burnout" feelings were actually "not having access to basic physical needs (e.g. sleep) and emotional support (e.g. daylight, friends, family)."

I am very much in favor of Jason Fried style "Calm Companies"[3], and I think in software/tech, we actually have the ability to "work hard" without burning out, usually hovering around the "self-actualization" level in the pyramid. One of the wonderful things about software engineering, in particular, is that since it is the art of automation, we can actually save ourselves labor, and think carefully about the notion of employee leverage. That is, one employee's code can do the labor of hundreds or thousands.

It's really sad to me that the medical profession, at least during its training period for new medical school graduates, there is an epic contrast: the near-guarantee of burnout, with basically no recourse for residents except to "suck it up and power through".

For those of you who feel your are in jobs in tech where managers "put the screws on you", you should recognize that you have all the power in the world to change job. Employers in tech should be fighting over you, ensuring you feel fulfilled, productive, and balanced. "All of the above" is possible; this isn't a "pick two" engineering trade-off. If you don't feel that way, it's bad management or bad culture -- period. In medical residency, it's "pick zero", and even worse, there is no way for those folks to change jobs (at least, not without derailing their entire career).

[1]: http://lifehacker.com/5955115/find-the-right-routine-to-surf...

[2]: http://timvandevall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Maslows-H...

[3]: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-calm-company-our-next-book-d0...
And the oops-I-did-it spam begins.
How often do you use Forth for your professional /non hobby work?
IBM has some OK offerings but they've really screwed themselves with all this hyped up marketing around Watson. They've become somewhat of a joke within the real data science community and business executives are also increasingly becoming disillusioned when projects based on IBMs mystery black boxes fail to deliver.

The MD Anderson situation was a debacle of monumental proportions. Such claims on cancer care are quite unethical in my view given that it gave a lot of very sick people false hopes and diverted a lot of hospital attention and funding away from stuff that actually works.
> people willing to shoulder the burdens of parenthood

Have you seen idiocracy?

> an argument for human self-extinction

I don't follow this logic. Are you saying that by excluding children from restaurants we would increase the risk of human extinction?
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The scammer gave Mr. X the key, and once the winning lotto numbers were published, the scammer provided the ciphertext. I assumed an encryption scheme that was commutative, like the XOR operator (one-time pad).
It's a bet similar to a startup - your "framework" might not be popular but if it is - for no particular reason other than a cool name and lots of retweets - then you are sorted. How many JS "frameworks" are there now?
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I was close to being severely burned out.

Changed my role at work

Now everything is great.
> Firstly, if you know from the start that you're going to open source the code, then you'll make more of an effort than (perhaps) usual to ensure that the code is well-organised, well-tested and elegant.

This is assuming you even realize that your code is un-organized and inelegant.

There is no doubt tons of software out there written by journeyman developers who don't know best practices or good coding techniques, but just know how to "ship it"..

And, honestly, there's nothing wrong with that..
What about apistar[1]? It recently added support for async/await and asyncio[2].

[1] https://github.com/encode/apistar
[2] https://github.com/encode/apistar#asyncio
I think they meant "hand written" as "unique", rather than "written by hand on paper and posted"? The query they show is just counting the unique first 30 chars (and would count form letters less than 30 chars where the name on the end makes them unique too etc).
It's a problem when you are "gifted" in your early age.

I never had to work at all during school to have good grades. So I didn't.

When reality finally checked in, I didn't have working routines or techniques.

I still miss some of them, and there's not a day than I look back at my career thinking I could have done muuuuch better.
Design cannot be fixed with incremental improvements like a review in a PR. If you don't have talent for eye candy, you don't have it. Hire a good designer.
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You sound like me.

All I can tell you is to fake it til you make it. It doesn't take that long before your lack of experience in the particular subject at hand ceases to be the limiting factor.
1. Firstly they won't be sending it down a gravity well, unless of course there is need for it. And if they really do send it they will likely strictly control its supply. Economics today is quite well done. Even blood diamond miners restrict supply to ensure demands.

2. They will likely be using mined material from asteroids to build space stations and bases.

3. They will only mine as much as they need, given an how much of it is available.

Its like expansion of human cities you extract/mine as much as you need and when you need it.

Space economics is a crazy thing, once you start thinking about it. The first people to start building in space will ponder the vastness and almost a infinite space full of resources and real estate to occupy. Of course the concept of ownership will look ridiculous. This is at least until there is a rapidly growing and spreading population in space.

Beyond that its really how quickly you can spread out. And the economics of that is not money. But trading energy for longevity.

I can assure you we are a very long time away from spreading to the last inch of the universe.
One of the things with tight memory systems is that you don't use malloc to begin with, if you can avoid it. C gives you the option.

When you're concatenating strings, you already have storage for those strings. Maybe you can re-use that storage. Maybe you have a static buffer. Maybe you have a fixed size buffer on the stack and the stack use is bounded.

A language that forces you into making redundant duplicates onto the heap is terrible in these situations.

And yes there are programs that try to deal with failing mallocs. Again, C gives you the option.
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Theoretically? Get up even earlier.

In practice, it doesn't work for everyone. Some of us are night owls, and I don't mean the "likes to stay up late" kind, but "can't possibly get up in the morning without being kicked out of bed by someone else" kind.
Yes. Laptops are terrible for posture.
Yeah it was fiddly to understand and set up but it all worked fine in the end after persisting with it.
I know about that anxiety, what other people might think about you.

The problem with anxiety is, that you just want to get rid of it, the anxiety hinders you in a way to look at it, to reflect about it.

Instead of trying to get rid of it, it might be better to reflect about it. So in the case of the anxiety about the thoughts of others: what kind of effect these thoughts really have, even if they think the worst about you?

The anxiety of the bad things that might happen in most cases have no foundation in your current life, but have bean created somewhere in your childhood.
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I believe this boredom or lack of strong motivation occurs when you don't get the flow effect [1] from your work, which happened to me during my studies and sadly also as part of some of my current work in Academia. Once I started writing novels, I realized that I can quickly 'get into the flow', or however psychologists call that, and the activity is deeply satisfying over long period of time. The same happens to me when I program or make music.

Unfortunately, it's currently not realistic for me to expect to be able to make a living from any of these hobbies. I don't think that's very uncommon, though, and there is no need to worry or be shocked about it. Some people work primarily to earn money and there's nothing wrong with that, even though you're apparently not supposed to state that simple truth in job interviews.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
I find that shitty situation in moder world in general too, yes. There are multiple factors that make it depressive situation - the period while moms stay home with child is considered risk factor for alcoholism for a reason. I haven't seen much gratification inreal world either, where it was done, more like unhappiness and depression in situation where you are supposed to be happy and not supposed to complain.

I dunno. Guys who work long hours and are never home tend to talk about gratifying home life waaay more often then women who stay at home while children were small.

You don't hear such romantic odes on it even from stay at home moms who actually found a way to be content. And when you mention negatives of that lifestyle, they don't get offended about hearing them like workoholic dudes apparently get offended (at least rush to downvote).
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It's actually an interesting debate. Do we care more about a book or a statue than a human life? Shouldn't these resources be protecting the populations first before worrying about books?
Ironic that the posted link returns a 500 "Error establishing a database connection"
It seems like there are powerful groups that would prefer the law to be flexible as regards migration - but not flexible when it comes to IP law, for example, where they want to be able to fully exploit their patents, and to throw people in jail for torrenting a few films.
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My team does standups on slack, it works very well for us.
Seems to be a little too much traffic for their database. Here's a link to a cached version by Google.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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Thank you for these links.
At least Ubuntu ships with both resolved and timesyncd enabled by default.
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I sit most of the days but I also take about 12-20k steps/day walking. So basically whenever I don't sit around in front of a computer I move.

Is that really so bad? I mean you have to rest sometimes.
> many people might value both meritocracy and diversity

So you're saying let's use a site to find like-minded people... in the name of diversity?

What?

Is this just an elaborate joke or is there something I'm missing? (I'll be the first to admit leftist-diversity logic often eludes me)
Only with the right models and features.
I have not been here long, but my current company has absolutely no culture of shaming code. People do some pretty egregious things, and not just in terms of adherence to style, and their work is still lauded if it runs fast.
Seems like a good fit. Bet365 is deeply embedded into the Erlang community.
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Who uses Watson besides IBM?
There is the sharing of ideas. Maybe they couldn't open source it, but were given permission to publish about it. Google never opensourced some of their greatest contributions, just the ideas behind them.
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Thanks for the link, I would like to try something similar. Probably would take on some project for a new command line util at work that I wanted to create for some time :-)

Having it work related would mean that sheduling would be easier. I would try to do that for first half hour of the day. If that really does improve the 'getting into the zone' so much, that would really be awesome.
> You don't even need to go as far as France.

The implication in the comment above is that he's already in France. So going to RI or NJ would be going further.
oh sure, I'm not saying Docker provides perfect security.

The point I didn't agree on was the top comment which basically, to me, seemed to be saying "Docker is not a security boundry" because that's not (in my experience) true.

There are a load of companies running Multi-tenant systems using Linux containers, so if they're not a security boundry, a lot of people are going to be having a bad time :)
Still using an air cooled battery system and defaults to a 3kw charger requiring buying the faster charger or wait for higher tier models.

with regards to the starting range of 150 miles at 30k. I am not too worried, Honda recently released a sub 30k below 100 mile range EV and Kia/Hyundai is in a similar position. Apparently they think their is even a market for below 100 still.

150 miles provides a decent buffer when weather goes cold as EVs can be really penalized in winter to the point that old models were not usable for commutes regularly hitting range limits.
The link points to a news site which probably is not that well provisioned.
I think Riak properly materialized the NoSQL promise of fully scale-out architectures. Have not seen an open source product that delivers on this (no Mongo does not cut it for me). Sad to see they did not manage to make a business out of it... The bet takers may be a good patron to the project, but ideally it is governed by an independent shop that focuses on further development and marketing.
> I've noticed is how common it is over here to just allow dogs in restaurants and pubs and on public transportation. That seems to be the default and only some places have "no dogs allowed" signs up. If the US would take a similar approach, maybe people wouldn't feel the need to fake service animal status.

A culture of allowing dogs in these places needs to go hand in hand with a culture of training dogs extremely well (and not taking advantage of the facilities that allow dogs, if you don't manage to train yours). Dogs in Germany are almost a different species to those in some other countries; the number of times I've heard dogs barking in the last year could very possibly be counted on one finger, despite seeing many more dogs than in other places.

I don't think this would fly in the US, where cultural attitudes tend to be less "we've all got to do our bit to make society pleasant for everyone" and more "it's a free country and this is my dog, I'll train it if I want to".
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More importantly, they acquired Russel Brown ( http://basho.com/posts/author/russell-brown/ )
Given the audience on HN, you could probably be a bit more specific about the old/new domain and get more relevant advice.

Just a thought!
Yup, no more fish nets or buoys, no oceanographic devices or tsunami detection sensors, fiberglass falling apart in small ships, antifoul paint falling from quills and tunnels, no seafarms, seapipes, small submarines, 30 minutes to load a web page located in Dublin because the submarine cable is damaged again...

This 'the last of us' chapter is practically writing itself.
I’m in Puerto Rico. Came down for Labor Day weekend to visit family. I’m stuck here with my wife and our dog.

At least we have been able to help family out.
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Great examples. Really demonstrates the complexities we face.

This may be the best argument for basic income. Why don't we just admit that we just haven't a clue how things are going to pan out? Things could be fine, or things could get very nasty. Looked at this way basic income is not analogous to social welfare/security – when we admit that we have no clue how the future is going to unfold then basic income looks more like social insurance.

This puts me in mind of a thought I had this morning. Why are narratives compelling? Because they explain events. In the past before formal methods allowed us to develop accurate models humans used a narratives even where they are inappropriate. Now, because models have been so successful the pendulum has swung the other way and we tend to over-rely on model based explanations when really we have no clue.

What am I saying? Just suppose that the "elephant curve" has been brought about by automation or the 4th industrial wave as the article calls it. We have many many people predicting outcomes based on economic and social models that may fail to apply in spectacular fashion. Maybe what would be better would be to institute basic income to ride out digital automation while models are tested and refined. But also let us collect stories from now and from the recent past to use as cautionary tales whose main purpose is emphasize the point "we don't really have a clue and anybody who tells you they do is talking out of their ass".
Incredible, your post and the one you responded to describe perfectly how I feel. I also noticed a new environment gives me an overall boost of motivation. Changing jobs makes me super exited the first few months but after that the enthousiasm start to die off.

A result of all this is that now after 5 years of being web developer I'm already bored of the job because the small mundane tasks outnumber the challenging projects by a lot. Already switched of employer twice... Looking to do freelance work now hoping the constant switching helps keeping my motivation up.
And here I was thinking it's my gdm's quirk and leaving it as is.
As I've seen it described here before (by Brendan Gregg ?) Netflix uses FreeBSD for the CDN servers (streaming the video), and Linux for everything else, browsing Netflix, encoding, etc.
> five-minute breaks for every 20 minutes spent on a single task, or sitting at your desk

As a software developer, yeah right! In 20 minutes, I've barely even gotten a problem into my head, and a five minute break would mean starting over.

Also, working remotely is not necessarily a cure for burnout. I've been burned out while working remotely and it had a lot to do with the additional stress of having to be self disciplined, the lack of boundaries between leisure and work, and the lack of emotional support from co-workers.

Other than those two points, there was some good stuff in this article.