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> "They" may be more modern, if a little awkward in some cases, but the english language is fluid and thus "he", alongside "they", remains a perfectly acceptable for those who wish to use it in that capacity.

Well. I am not sure of your sources for your statements (1 to 3). But would love to read them, as this is a topic of great interest to me. Especially as they go against everything I did learn during my time studying the history of languages (German and English).

I know of language fluidity and I know of a time around the 14th century where "he" was in some contexts used in a more gender neutral way (and even that is debated nowadays). And even then the neutral "they" (singular and plural) was also in use in cases that were clearly gender neutral.

So looking back into the development and the history of the English language I cannot find (or recollect) indicators for your way of reading "he" as being totally fine and acceptable and really gender neutral (and not just a sign of a more patriarchal society).

Talking about fluidity of language. At least in the last some years there has been a development of "he" being incivil and assuming and therefore should probably not be used in a gender neutral way. Also that other alternatives would be more civil and unassuming regarding others taking part in our conversations.

> The message was able to be conveyed, which is the only requirement of the english language.

Well technically speaking that is true. But aren't there always human beings part of every conversation? And imho our wetware isn't a purely logic parser for information. We are flawed and our flaws should be considered when trying to communicate. Esp. if we try to get an idea across and not wanting to "hurt"/alienate others.

We have different "ways" we process information. The purely informational part of a message is but one of them. Ignoring the others might just hinder our arguments/ideas from getting the recognition they deserve.

One model of communication for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-sides_model

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Removed unnecessary quote markers.
Ever heard of natural monopolies? Railways?
Having worked at home for around a year now I have to say I completely agree with your summary. I used to dream of 100% WFH and now realise I am not cut out for it psychologically.

I seem to thrive with a certain level of interaction. Companies I've contracted for remotely have been great but it has been extremely isolating. Where I felt like I had a good handle on the overall direction of things when I worked in an office, moving this 100% to slack and google docs has left me often feeling more like a cog on one piece than a part of the overall project.
You find it frustrating that you have to back up your statements?
Thanks, very interesting.

The second one about musl was very long-winded, it seemed it was written for people who have never even heard about varargs, which made me wonder what the intended audience is, heh. I mean, if you know about undefined behavior enough to use a tool to track it down, wouldn't it make sense to also know about C's varargs mechanism?

Also it made it sound as if varargs is super-archaic and "best avoided" scary monster thing, which it really isn't in my opinion. It's a well-defined and useful part of the language and really helps make better APIs.
TL;DR — It's my daily dose. I come here for the variety of content and the discussions. I very much admire how some people here write and put forth their thoughts (the thoughts themselves are so valuable). I also like how this forum of probably hundreds of thousands of users is polite and maintained that way (wish I could do that elsewhere), and would love to pick the brains of the moderators sometime.

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a. Several years ago, I used to follow a handful of tech sites on a daily basis. When I discovered HN, I still used it to go straight to the articles/headlines that interested me, never looking at the discussions here. Later, I switched to looking at the discussions, and now the discussions are where I start at everyday, and it's only after checking out the discussion that I decide whether to visit the linked site or not.

b. I don't follow all the discussions here, and I do wonder how, with HN's primitive interface, people keep up with nested comments and replies. So I don't look at nested comments below two levels or so, and instead use the comment collapse button ([-]), which for some reason appears only on desktop browsers, to collapse comments and check the high level ones (this also means sometimes missing valuable comments that may be in the replies).

c. I also end up wasting a lot of time because of HN (yeah, I know about the profile options) and the links posted here.

d. On the negative side, there are some topics that I do avoid discussing here because even the most liberal minded/rational people have some limits (please don't ask me about this).
It’s absolutely delicious. I didn’t even know about the protein thing, I just love the taste.
I think it is time for more unicode art.
ASCII is so old generation.
What you're facing is resistance. The reason you code has changed, but you're not motivated by the new reason.

Identify what matters to you in life, what you need to do to do it, and then do that. If programming is part of that, move through it. If it's not, do something else.

But don't wait till you "feel like it". that's a crappy driver. Stephen king writes every day, no matter how he feels. That's what separates the amateur from the professional.

A good book on this, is "the war of art" http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/
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> "They" is more modern

The singular "they" dates back to at least middle english and Chaucer, its proscription is the recent event (~18th century) and went mostly ignored by informal speakers: https://books.google.be/books?id=Lijcg3vt9yAC&pg=PA93&redir_...
I've been messing around with converting videos to ASCII for a side project - it's been a fun learning experience. Obviously I don't think ASCII art's going any where...

https://youtu.be/oRdrMM20keI
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Try opening the URL in your browser it's working. Or use
$host good
to find the Ip address of the server
In my view, you are very lucky you can ask this question. It means you don't have external stimulation big enough to not have time to think about these matters. I don't want to be silly, but if you'd be hungry, jobless or having a lot of stake at risk, your brain would imidiately switch to "get shit done". So much for external motivation.
Internal motivation, thats another story, which everyone need to figure out themselves. Still struggling myself.
Except some studies have shown countries with more equal rights country have worse gender stereotypes overall. And even if the studied were to be flawed, your "men and women have different tasted" theory is pure narrative as well. No study with any solid methodology has ever shown women and men have inherently different tastes when it comes to STEMs, and it's pretty much impossible considering the intertwined nature of nature and nurture and the very cultural nature of STEMs.
Ask HN: Experiences with Gumroad for selling software?
I'm looking at using Gumroad (https://gumroad.com/) for charging for a Chrome extension.

The positives I'm seeing are: they deal with EU tax for you, they don't charge you for chargebacks, the costs per purchase seem reasonable, the pricing system is flexible (subscriptions, one-off purchases, discount codes) and they have a simple system for sending out license keys and verifying them without the need to create your own server (https://help.gumroad.com/11165-digging-deeper/license-keys).

I'm not finding a lot onlin for how people have found working with Gumroad for software licensing though. Does anyone have any stories to share? Would you recommend something else?
If your language can't use signalling NaNs correctly, get a better language.
> Try opening the URL in your browser it's working.

As the parent said, browsers try to fix bad domains by themselves.

> $host good to find the Ip address of the server

NXDOMAIN. if you get something else, your DNS provider is injecting something.
Maybe because these people realized meritocracy is an outright lie and that in any instance there are gender/racial/class/geographical/... inequality, or even biological inequality you right-wingers are so keen to point at, so there's no way to actually talk about merit ?
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I am somewhat confused about this product. I think the Function as a Service approach has really some good advantages on more classic approaches sometimes, but if I want to go that path, what is the advantage to actually use an open source product and maintain the server with all the maintenance required (security updates, platform updates, handling scale, etc...)?

Wouldn't be an out of the box solution provided by AWL Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc... a better and more straightforward option on this space?

I am just wondering if I am the only one with this opinion, what is your experience on this topic?
As far as I can tell there is no .good gTLD.
sure, but status-wise you would be sort of a loser if you didn't have a real one.
"men and women are different" is such a broad statement you sure could say it and then say "duh anyone who disagrees is bullshit". Here's big news : blue eyed and brown eyed people are different. As for the rest of your text, it's all just broad statements with very little scientific value, since theybare then again broad claims. Girls prefer pink, y'know. So natural.
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I think the main reason for success (as in popularity) of Alcoholic Anonymous is how awesome it is from screenwriting perspective.
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I have been working remotely for approximately 17 years now and has always seemed quite normal to me. I grew up on a farm where my parents worked predominantly from home themselves, so that may have given me a model to follow. Really, when you think about it, when we were a primary agrarian society, working from home was the norm. There are probably a lot of good lessons to be found in history.
So those vents, the ones covered in crabs, worms and all the other living things, are going to be ground up into slurry? Didn't Monty Burns try something like this?

A mile down might seem far, but that's where sperm whales and elephant seals feed. This will come back to haunt us.
From the thousands of links we click on HN, Webflow is actually one of the few I can remember without even visiting the website again ;-)
> Work is for working; it's not a debating society

Why does Google shove "diversity panels" down their employees throats, then?
Agree the blog post paints neither of them in a good light, but would have thought a 10% cut could just be compensation for developing a new IP whilst "employed" by someone else?

Depending on the agreements in place at Edgeio, sounds like it could just be an IP deal rather an an acknowledgement of increased involvement?
I'm at around 8 years as well and have the sames as you really. I love working from home, but social isolation is a thing. I should have probably had those 5 to 6 1:1's. Whilst I'm in a team, my skill set is different from all theirs, so mine would be almost purely social chats.

Certainly by Friday evening I need to be outside and chatting to people. I've recently discovered a couple of friends are working from thome, so considering trying to spend a day working from their home and perhaps vice versa. Keeps the convenience of avoiding the commute into London but gets a little social time and some other people to bounce ideas off.
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I like your scare quotes around "innate" biology :-) What an outdated concept, innateness, right?

Please don't confuse your personal ignorance with a lack of publicly available research.

The (population, statistical) biological differences between men and women are well established, documented and non-controversial at this point, except in looney circles. (Hint: biological differences in child-bearing and physical abilities get reflected in different social aptitude and risk-management strategies, which are in turn reflected in occupational choices)

Unless you deny there are gender differences in physical strength and child-bearing, of course. In which case there isn't much left to say.
On HN I saw this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156478 (you can see my comment on it too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157074)

Through that I contacted the author, we became friends, hung out at the IOI, and eventually he referred me to Shopify, where I've worked for the last 4.5 years. Because of that I also lived in Canada for 3.5 years. Quite a ride.
Are you a procrastinator, unable to start anything which is more than a tiny bit of work ?

These two posts made a lot of sense for me:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/how-to-beat-procrastination.h...
Do you know about libcaca? http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
Hey, great concept. May I know how many signups did you get in last 2 days?
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Hubstaff takes screenshots while you work and you can jot down notes when you feel like it.

I also find myself reviewing my Chrome history sometimes if I have no idea all the things I had been working on all day.
A thing to keep in mind is that work (at least as it is commonly practised) is not "normal". It's a thing we have accepted as normal, and if you want to be successful (by the common definitions) then, sure, you need to find some strategies achieve some focus and the ability to bring things to completion. There are plenty of good strategies throughout this thread; exercise and meditation are probably the most important.

But you shouldn't feel like a failure or consider yourself aberrant in some way. You're not built for the way we live now. If you're concerned about ADHD, find a doctor. I know plenty of people who have become much more satisfied with their existence after working through that, figuring out ways to adjust their behaviours.

In the end, you need to balance the utility of coping with the expectations of the modern world (and your own requirements for a comfortable life) against an understanding that the way we live now is messed up.
What helped me here are two things:

1. The book getting things done by david allen. He just very explains to you how organizing works or how it often fails and what to do about it. Basically a smart person guide to keeping organized

2. Realizing that it wasn't motivation i was lacking cause that is fleeting and temporary but discipline. Not motivated? Fuck it, do it anyway. Motivated? Good, keep doing it.
This is a very encouraging testimony, thank you for your honesty. I am wondering: were you up-front with your cofounders about these issues when first coming together to start the business, or is it something that you just kind of brushed under the carpet and hoped that it would somehow work out (and it sounds like it did)? Or otherwise, were you aware of it enough at the time that you knew what to look for in your cofounders to bring out the best in you?

Great product by the way - via your profile I've just visited JustWatch for the first time and I'm glad to say it solves a RealProblem™ in my life. Consider yourself bookmarked!
Bingo: "My current theory about this is – as long as I work on a team with a lot of other remotes, everything will be fine. "

reality is, if your team is 80-90% not remote, forget about career advancement. People who show up have two things, a) they want to advance their careers so will use proximity to their advantage and b) don't understand why they can't be working remotely.

Plus of course processes and culture aren't going to be tailored to remote folks.

The only time I've ever been able to make this work was when the manager was also remote.
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I'm not talking about gTLDs. TLD is a term with multiple meanings.
The thing to focus on in the mental load. What are you more likely to get right?

a = sort(x,y,z); return a[1]

or something like this?

if(x >= y && x =< z) return x;
if(y >= x && y =< z) return y;
if(z >= x && z =< y) return z;
if(x >= z && x =< y) return x;
if(y >= z && y =< x) return y;
if(z >= y && z =< x) return z;
…
You are in the wrong profession. Find something you really love doing and a way to get paid for it and you won’t work a single day in your life after that. You just didn’t find it yet.
This is amazing. More people should get to know clojure as it's a wonderful language that has almost all concurrency models on this planet. Also now with core.typed it retains most of the benefits of the statically typed ones while being as productive as other dynamic ones or more.
There are some really amazing stories in this thread about how HN helped launch some really great products. And such a variety of innovation. Really the only thing I can find in common is that their websites allow you to enter a discount code. I can only assume these benevolent entrepreneurs pass out these codes to give a little back to loyal customers, or maybe even a small community who helped spotlight their company. Anyway, I'm just thinking out loud ;)
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This sounds a lot like the reason is lack of purpose, being passionate about what you do.

When you're freelancing, most projects don't mean anything to you other than cash, so it's understandable that you don't find much motivation for them.

Have you thought about what you're really passionate about and find a company that you find really awesome and work for them? Maybe tesla, spacex, watsi, or a new small hot social media app are all very exciting.

Or if you always had that one problem and it really bugged you that there didn't exist a solution for it, ever thought of making a product out of it?
> I am not sure of your sources for your statements (1 to 3).

The dictionary, as provided by Google in this case. Although you are likely to find similar definitions in any dictionary. The usage, even if falling out of fashion, is still common enough to be recorded.

> Well technically speaking that is true. But aren't there always human beings part of every conversation? And imho our wetware isn't a purely logic parser for information.

Which is fine. The original comment provided enough information to indicate that this person was referring to the original article, which reveals that the author is female. Even if you accidentally parsed "he" as referring to the male gender at first, the context surrounding the comment would quickly clarify that misunderstanding and highlight that the comment was written in a gender-neutral form. That "wetware" you refer to makes humans particularly great at forming these connections between disjointed sets of information.
I've been using Ghost for a few years now, mostly because it interested me and looked nice to use. I've gone through a bunch of static blog generators and while they were cool (and cheap) I just really like the ability to login to my site, start drafting, have it auto-save and come back to it later. I'm not super fussed about having it version controlled, though I can export all my data (minus images) into a JSON format and version control that if I want.

I self host on the lowest Digital Ocean droplet which is now $5/mo and is plenty for my small time blog and I'm happy to pay $5/mo for the delight of using Ghost. Also with a cron job I can auto-update every few days and get the latest features without touching the box.

Ghost will auto-roll back if an update fails which is nice and I don't have that many viewers so if it goes down I don't mind so much right now.

A final bonus is that it uses handlebars for it's theme creation and rendering. I'm a node dev who uses handlebars for my own projects so editing my theme is a breeze.
I'm not saying your situation is at all fair but ... the word "hate" makes you a slave. You're obviously thinking about this situation as you're reading this thread and I hope you're not obsessing on it at other times. The down-side to a situation like this is that your psychopath manager isn't spending any time thinking about you (outside using you to create value for himself). If you're obsessing over him, he's won. As someone else said, get yourself out of there. And once you have, forgive and forget (for your own piece of mind).

Note that I don't mean that you should forget enough to end up in this situation again ... or go back to work for him for some reason. Just enough to let you go on with your life without obsessing over the past.
I guess you are a man as your ability to read the article is not great!
Many, many good responses here. And I muchly second meditation and exercise. I also needed to get out the house every day when I worked from home (the gym was good, but you don't talk to enough people). WeWork has been excellent because it gives me a place to be every day, and people to talk to.

As for distractions like video games, try making them irritating enough that it's more effort to do it than keep focused on your task. Unplug the console, put it in the box and put it at the top of the cupboard. Unplug all the cables from your TV. Let yourself play console, but go through the effort of setting it up and packing it away each time. Before long you'll only play it when you really want to - those ten minute "one game" sessions that become 2 hours don't happen anymore.

Last year I moved into a new place and my housemate and I didn't bother getting a TV. I missed TV for about 2 weeks. Been over a year now and not having something to just 'sit' in front of has been a game changer for _doing_ other things. Same deal. I cut out all the casual watching.

All of us struggle - particularly when working for yourself. Don't beat yourself up, it really doesn't help.
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I took a quick look, and they start at very very basic stuff.
Do you mean animal biomass? Even so, I thought that the winners there are insects.
It is normal in the sense that it isn't unnatural. It is normal in the sense that this is something many people experience, maybe in software in particular. It isn't normal in the sense that it is something that you should expect. If you continue to struggle with work you will be unhappy and many people are.
Very much the same. While I can do work myself, I get much more done with others. I'd get distracted or tired if I worked alone, but on a call with someone else I can go for hours, or often until they say they need a break. It helps.
The empty interface is not an unchecked exception, but panic() is. https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#panic
Think the GP isn't talking about "open office" environments but rather having a team to work with vs being one person development team (and apologies if you are too!)
I find the latter much harder, and without people to bounce ideas off or discuss priorities with, i find myself quickly demotivated.
> less people willing to go for it

Or capable. I imagine the IQ bar is set quite a bit higher for STEM-like courses and careers... Also, there's much less room for bullshit (at least in programming - your code either works, or it doesn't work, and that's really easy to verify at university and when applying to jobs - as opposed to e.g. marketing, where it's much harder to quantify someone's skill).
What if I use the watch at my right wrist and set is as left wrist?
Edit for clarity:
this is to make screen facing my inside and watchOS knows about this.
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