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In my experience, the topic of parenting always elicits the worst case of "everyone in the room is immediately an expert". People are incredibly opinionated and judgmental about the subject, and often take a dismissive attitude rather than a learning attitude about it.

Part of the reason is as a population, we talk about parenting advice in a universal, context-independent way but the sheer amount of distinct situations in parenting makes it easy to poke holes in universal advice.

Another reason is that we each have our own experience of being parented (often not positive), and may subconsciously judge advice based on its potential to lead to a child experiencing the same bad experiences we had, rather than the overall objective merits of said parenting direction.

A third reason is that we underestimate the amount of negotiating, manipulating, and psychological back and forth that managing kids adds to parenting decisions. Even if the parenting direction is good, executing it properly is an entirely different matter.

Having said that - I agree with most of this article. Control or the illusion of it is a very strong ingredient for mental stability and confidence, especially in undesirable environments. Lack of control in a undesirable situation leads to a feeling of helplessness, which can have cascading effects on mental health.

That said, like most parenting advice, I don't think this qualifies as universal advice. It fits a large body of contexts, but there are several parenting situations I can imagine this having largely little to no effect in.
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Pyeongchang Olympic athletes have highly relatable K-beauty routines
This book is really good, and I'd say that a couple of weeks after reading K&R - you should read this one (given that you fiddle with C during those weeks).
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You said it better than I can, I'll just add another observation:

I grew up in another European country.

We were allowed to roam around quite freely, keep knives (we even collected and made our own) and even practice with the air rifle since we were kids.

However

- we were taught the gun rules so thoroughly that I will still get annoyed when I see people waving guns around, even in a movie

- for the longest time my dad refused to buy toy weapons, and to the degree that we managed to get hold of one we were not allowed to point it at others, making it kind of useless.

- and yes, there were rules for the knives as well
Yeah, it was a long time ago (2000-2003) but I still clearly remember implementing everything twice as a Junior Developer - first my way, then their way.
It's not really mentioned in the article except for the last paragraph, quoting Die Welt: “The conclusion would be clear: more carriages, more personnel, and maybe even more tracks and lines would be needed. Where would the billions for that come from?”
That sounds like a normal organization to me...

> Engineering managers assign projects to engineers

So engineers do only work on tasks handed down to them. We just did not agree on what "task" means.
ProtonMail is quite nice. Just try it out. I would suggest you always keep it open in a tab and save your password in a password manager, otherwise you may "forget" to log to that email and may not use it often. Also make sure you set-up getting your emails into ProtonMail from day one.
I like embedding, joint design sessions, and thorough code review. For explicit junior dev mentor relationships, I like frequent one-on-ones (I’ve even done 2x per week) and quite detailed, joint ticket/work planning. I’m also happy to do pair code analysis/review for areas that I’m familiar with and the junior isn’t.

What I’m not happy to do, and what pair programming is, as far as I have seen, is to sit down with another engineer and figure out a problem together. In addition to being simply incompatible with my mind’s problem-solving faculties, it in my experience produces lowest-common-denominator software that strips any sense of self-satisfaction or -actualization from my work. No thank you.
A large problem with capacity in most cities is due to people NOT taking public transport - i.e. if you replace cars with buses, you can increase the load by quite a few magnitudes
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Can I ask where you're from? The purpose that you seem to imagine coffee shops serve us totally foreign to me. Neither I nor anyone I know would ever dream of staying in a coffee shop for only the duration of a coffee. Either you're passing through and you grab a drink to go, or you've come to hang out for a while (either with friends or to pass the time in a "3rd space" working/reading/studying). All my coffee shop visits are either less than 1 minute or over 60. It would be truly bizarre to leave my apartment and spend 10+ minutes getting somewhere, only to stay for 5.
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Have we reached social media saturation? Facebook adverts in Indian newspapers
This sounds to me like re-discovering RAII and its failure cases in new garb.
This is a value for value business relationship. It’s not mercenary for “coders” to capture more of the value that they created in the first place. An employer is not entitled to get cheaper labor just because it helps them get richer.
Graduated in 1999. Probably never would've guessed he had less than 20 years left. Another reminder that life can end at any moment and we must seize the day.
I find this surprising. My experience is that companies are generally competing for developers, even junior ones. Some actively go to universities to advertise their company for this exact purpose.
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How is it expensive to solve the bullpen issue? Tell people to STFU or build a wall in the office, or at least put up some dividers. It’s not rocket science.

Most CEOs and VPs are idiots, handing money around to each other in a circle jerk of old white guys club, backslapping each other for hiring each other and keeping the hegemony going.

These idiots do not know what they are doing, they have just been conditioned to ooze confidence and ignore critics.
ah cool, I hadn't encountered him before. thanks!
> 1. Gmail is a channel that Google has under monetized for a decade.

I disagree. Gmail brought Google millions of customers. It's all about the ecosystem that they are building, which helps them retain customers. If you use Gmail, than there is higher chance that you will use Google Drive than competition. Another example of this is Google Keep. There is no reason for them to have free notes app, other than making you use more Google products.
Gunman targets YouTubers in home invasion
Oh wow, that's awesome! If they had a location near Caltrain, anywhere from Redwood City down to San Jose, I'd start going there once every week or so.
> So if this was a bribe, why did Trump even bother renovating? Why not just let it sit for 4 years?

Could be because the asset was not conceived as a bribe vehicle at first. Actually it is pretty dumb to use real estate goods for that as their values can be more objectively evaluated than paintings.
Smart junior devs make good algorithm designers. Most senior devs don't remember algorithms unless they do that sort of work - they just call into it.

Hire several and put them to work under a good mentor, on a project that requires little domain knowledge. They won't slow the seniors down, and finding a single successful one is worth the cost of taking a chance on the bunch.

Remember, most startups happened with teams of fresh grads.
Good points!

One little addition:

> Another thing I noticed in Germany, where there is a speed limit, people drive that limit, and not 5 kilometers above the speed limit. The drivers make the assumption that the government must have had some good reason for imposing a speed limit.

I guess the fact that the limits are higher also has some influence on this?

I remember a Dutch engineer telling me that when they increased the speed limits years ago the average speed sunk and it was hypothesized that it was (IIRC) because as the limits became more reasonable more people decided to just follow them.
But here the x2.5 ramping up in price looks shady. For a painting its value is so subjective that this kind of things happens routinely.
I agree with you, through I am pretty confident the seniors were well meaning. Insecure in more then one way, but still well meaning people with no intention to cause anything bad.

It is not that CR is has no place in the process. It is that it should not be primary tool for teaching, mentoring and leading. Nor talked about that way. Every forum and blog posts talks about CR as teaching tool and every discussion about juniors puts a lot of emphasis on CR and none on other tools. A lot of people think and act that way.
I apologize for the tone, I have aspergers and can be a prick by accident, totally didn't mean it in negative, just was curious and felt a tweet wasn't that great a way to announce something like someone important's death.
Okay, I'll jump. Any tips on a good mail/calendaring/contact solution that isn't google, and works and syncs across browser and mobile devices?
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Different authors have different perspectives. Contact several and write a richer article with the whole picture. Or like, a conference call?
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I'm on that all-you-can-eat tariff with Three as well, but tethered data is normally limited to 30GB/month or so. Did you make any account changes to get unlimited or are you bypassing the tethering detection? I haven't seen unlimited tether plans, but it would mean I could work virtually anywhere.
The problem is really bad for those who smoke meth, trying to get them on any alternative is tough. For more casual users you could steer them into something else, but a meth smoker or injector is addicted not just to the drug but also to the process of smoking or shooting on top of it. People who use IV drugs get addicted not just to the drug itself but also to the process of preparing and using the drug.
There's a burger chain here in the Bay Area called The Melt which has iPad-based kiosks where you can order your food, pay for it with a credit card, and pick up a buzzer (to let you know when it's ready) without having to talk to anyone. It's glorious. I wish all restaurants offered stuff like that.
Maybe this could be a moment for you to realize that not everyone cares as strongly about the things you care about and that this isn't an unreasonable thing.
If we’re doing tips, here’s another: don’t use bazillion timers to control your actors lifetime! Timers array gets resorted at every addition and that can really add noticeable lag on slow devices. If you need to, rewrite the add timer method to use an insertio sort instead of adding last then sorting the whole array

(I was using timer instead of collision for bullets since I had the hit/miss outcome coming from a percentage base rile as opposed as game phisycs and expired bullets just at the right time to make them appear misses - maybe not the greatest idea mind you but eh got it working and was cool enough)
> This is true but slightly exaggerated. This problem is not really hard to resist and mitigate if you want (sad thing many people don't want as they have no other feel-good things in their lives. there also are some people that are dopamine-addicts by nature genetically - e.g. these are also prone to gambling).

How it was described to me is that the dopamine receptors in the brain become "re-calibrated" for lack of a better term to the high levels of dopamine that are dumped when they reup on their high. And IF they try and quit the dopamine receptors never come back to normal. So for heavy addicts the only way their brain registers a dopamine dump (for lack of a better term) is if it's artificially triggered by meth.

> By the way what things do you give away there at the centres?

I live in Western Australia and I'm pretty sure we don't operate any meth focused centres or clean needle exchanges. IIRC those services are in Sydney (Kings Cross).

All that said I find there are some people who can be "weekend warriors" and smoke meth for pleasure without being swallowed up by it. That said I've also seen good people hollowed out by meth. I suspect it's gene based but that's suspicion alone.
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Sorry, I have missed out the link:

https://github.com/h2o/h2o/issues/1601
As someone driving on the Autobahn daily, the notion that even the majority of drivers drive the speed limits is laughable. Going 5-20 km/h faster is the norm.
That is clearly a libertarian news site. They may be negative towards both US parties but it's still a right-leaning site, at least in an economic sense of right and left.
The graphs are super confusing. Without reading the story it's hard to figure out if the point is their sameness or if you should keep trying to figure out the deltas.

Given that sameness was the point - just make a single graph with 4 colored lines.
> One thing I never saw in Germany: cops hiding behind trees, hoping to catch people who were speeding. Traffic cops are very common in the USA, but basically unknown in Germany, since the major highways don't have speed limits.

You won't see them much on the motorway, since for most of it there isn't a speed limit, but radar controls in towns and rural areas are somewhat common.

> Another thing I noticed in Germany, where there is a speed limit, people drive that limit, and not 5 kilometers above the speed limit. The drivers make the assumption that the government must have had some good reason for imposing a speed limit.

You'll literally only ever see that when A) the driver is some old person driving carefully, or B) the area is common for radar controls, or has radar traps installed. The unwritten rule is to drive 10km/hour faster, according to the speedometer, than the speed limit allows, which works out to ~5km/hour over the limit, due to the way speedometers are calibrated.
Thanks for giving some context. I appreciate it. Again sorry if I offended anyone by me message/tone.
OK, to the person who tore wallpaper in order to get to a power outlet, I really hope I never meet you, as I have absolutely no respect for you now. Do not destroy/deface someone else's property like that.

And for the café, I know it's not a perfect solution, but beyond solutions like obtrusive locking outlet covers, or turning off outlets at the breaker, you could also look at swapping the outlet out with an L5-15R. That's the same voltage & amperage as a regular 5-15 receptacle, but uses a circular plug that pushes in and turns. You'll see them (or a similar amperage) on certain Metrolink (in LA) and Caltrain Bombardier cars.

You could either get an adapter (NEMA L5-15P to 5-15R), or change out the plugs on the stuff you'd plug in (like vacuum cleaners). And no, it won't stop someone who is absolutely determined, and who is willing to go out and buy an adapter. But it makes it all the more obvious that this receptacle is not for people to use.
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Mercedes-AMG’s C63 S Cabrio has it all: Power, sound, fuel use, and cost
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100 applications with almost no luck sounds really bad but there is a possibility you are missing something in your resume. I work in Melbourne, if you want email me your resume and I will take a look to make sure you are not missing something basic.
Ask HN: As a dev, how have you built up your online marketing skills?
Generating traffic, funneling traffic, converting traffic.

How have you gotten better at this? What do you recommend other developers do to successfully grow their projects?
>Computer have simply become fast enough for almost all users

I think this is a misconception. Computers were "fast enough for users" since mid-eighties. Anything is fast enough if you cannot imagine it working better. What happened is that companies came up with more advanced software products for consumers and that drove the demand for faster consumer hardware.

The reality is that all the cutting-edge computing today requires a modern $600 GPU. The difference is that in the past we would have expected this kind of hardware to "trickle down" to normal users in couple of years. Today we don't. Instead of marketing better computers companies market cloud services. It's a really shitty phenomenon. We're seeing the reversal of the PC revolution.
People are different of cause, they have different types of jobs, and cafes are different as well. However; when I see someone with a laptop on a tiny little round cafe table, I assume that they just want to be seen, or if they're just setting up for an Instagram photo. Their 13" MacBook is often dwarfed by their huge coffee cup, how can anyone work in such crammed conditions? And the noise.... don't people need to think?
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The system is flawed.
Yeah. That's what I'm headscratching about. It's not base64, not ceasar cipher. There seems to be something simple that I'm just overlooking.
Working in an agile team at the moment. I have zero time to be able to help the junior members of the team. Having a mentor is important but having a good mentor, somebody with the right skills and attitude is crucial. I'm watching helpless as the junior Devs take advice from the worst possible sources because they are the ones with the free time
The route of administration (ROA) has a lot to do with it. Snorting, smoking or injecting meth gives a stronger high than ingesting meth, with a correspondingly higher risk for addiction. Chasing after the high can lead to compulsive redosing, which can keep the user awake for days at a time, often without eating due to the appetite suppression. Sleep deprivation and lack of nutrition are the causes of most harms meth users experience (Stimulant psychosis seems closely linked to sleep deprivation). Medicinal dosages are also much lower than recreational ones, Desoxyn pills start at 5mg.
Dropping this soon make sure to check it out on YouTube mrberto544
I had many issues with iOS since their web view component didn’t enjoy full webgl accelleration. This made opening my game slow in chrome and slow when wrapped in a cordova app without using crosswalk, eventually just reduced graphic demands precalculating composed sprites, placing caps on concurrent bullets, reducing the game area etc.

In the end was running well enough from the browser too making wrapping moot.

It’s published at http://increstellar.com and the code is not obfuscated but beware: it’s very amateurish
You're not wrong here, that person is just lashing out because they're emotional.

It's totally reasonable to ask why you should care about a particular strangers death in a world where 150,000 people die every single day.
I wonder how often places will change up their music as a way to shift things.

The example I'm thinking of is Philz in Sunnyvale. Starting some time around the new year, every time I've been there they've been playing much harder & louder music.

When I'm at a place, I prefer to be there without headphones, to show that I'm not completely disconnecting from the outside world. But with some of the music that's been playing, it's really hard to do, and so I've been avoiding it for the past month or so.
Cafes aren't fans of mums with prams either and for the same reason. They hang around for hours while buying very little.
Atom used to feel slower than VSCode, but I gave it another try and it feels more responsive today. I even wonder if it doesn't feel faster than VSCode.

One thing I like very much in Atom, and I miss in VSCode, is the ability to amend a commit: you check "Amend", your commit is displayed, you do your changes, you click "Commit", done.
Trying to use the premises (incl. toilets) to do business instead of leisure is quite the change.

Also it's somewhat off-putting for the people trying to have the leisure.
It's the owners decision to make. Not mine or yours, it's his/her business. And it's definitely not making everybody happy ;)
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That and find a good library. Libraries are designed for people to focus. Cafes are not.
I love Phaser! I've been in love with this framework ever since it came out because it's based on Flixel, which was per se an amazing framework built on AS3 by the same guy. Only Love2D comes close to it.
I had completely forgot about it until now, and now that they added Typescript support I might just pick it up again for a spin. Is the renderer still bolted in? Last time I tried it I wanted to use it as backend for a multiplayer game, but couldn't because Pixi.js was a necessity.
“freedom” is a reflexive talisman of American identity

well said.
They have to add some tariff per hour which feels unwelcome. There are co-working areas that do that but they are not labeled cafes
Well ok. If "task" to you means a months-long initiative with hundreds of constituent parts, what do you call the items that take a few hours to a few days?
On most sites you do. I do this everyday. I should know what I'm talking about.
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I think this is to the point. The senior names will help propagate the news. Due recognition will follow; those who have influence will look further than the NYT.
there's always room for more nuance, but the widely understood left-right model is useful. add more dimensions as needed. on a crude left/right i'd put the economist near the middle: they are far from neutral, but also far from either of those edges.
Thanks, I appreciate the perspective.
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When asked what they most regret, old people consistently say they regret not having more experiences and following their heart. Maybe for some people that experience is wrapped up in university but I bet for a lot of people it's not.

I don't regret going to university but I regret not being more open to the alternatives which exist, existed.
The question is whether they're biased towards one side. I think they're much less biased than mainstream media on both sides.
I have done this.

Print out a page of code and review it with a candidate. Have them explain what it does, or how they might go about figuring that out, and what kinds of improvements they might make. Include some glaring bugs or code style problems if you want to ask those sorts of questions.

I feel like small fragments of code work well for refactoring questions, whole programs tend to have a bunch of boiler plate code, but going over a bigger program to find the real core features quickly is also a valuable skill.

I've done this with SQL too. Printed out a real statement from an application and ask about performance, optimization, what the application might be doing, etc.

Or load a 100,000k line application in their favorite editor and ask "okay, try to find the frobzing subsystem, I want to know how it frobz bazzes". (I haven't done this yet...)
> Cleo, meanwhile, boasts a useful battery life in the 12-15 minute range

For some definition of useful. Batteries really are the worst thing ever. We got dense energy from oil so early, and then nada.
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> so that it causes a segfault if you access it

No, this is UB. It can cause a segfault, but it can also allow bad things™ to happen.
When interviewing in tech jobs I had :
- build an asynchronous communication queue from scratch (which implies building semaphores)
- optimize the drawing of a sphere on a screen

the rest was more regular (I didn't apply to super elite jobs, and both the companies with these two hard tests failed, so it's no indication neither about them, neither about me)