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This seems counter intuitive to me. All through your 20s, you're working your way up through the bottom of some crappy bigco, paying your dues and getting experience under your belt so that you can jump to better jobs later.

By your mid 30s, at least in our industry, you can get to a position where you can choose a nice gig at a good company, and pretty much steer your destiny as you choose.

So it's surprising that you'd hate your job more then than when you were younger.
Sounds like this could be survivorship bias, in a very literal sense.
Cascade billing was literally named by the Backpage prosecution as money laundering.
I'm actually considering an update to my developer workstation. The 2950X with 16 cores would be in a nice price point, with 64 GB of RAM and NixOS with a modern kernel to drive that beast.

The only thing that bothers me is the energy usage. For 180W it costs quite a lot to run this, especially in Germany where electricity is not cheap.
I run openSUSE on three desktop machines at home (2x Tumbleweed, 1x Leap), and I am mostly very happy with it. Hardware support is relatively good, and the system is fairly stable. Tumbleweed breaks things sometimes, but I would say that is to be expected on a rolling release distro. Thanks to snapshots, I can always roll back to a working state if something does break.

To get a fully usable multimedia-capable desktop, one has to add a few package repositories, but that happens on other distros, too.
do you remember the SNL skit "Debbie Downer"?
Has anyone had success for trapezius muscle pain and found a good fix? Part of my problem with sitting at a desk is my shoulders/neck always hurt. I think the issue is that I need my wrists fully rested on my desk to avoid wrist pain, which then forces my shoulders to always be outstretched and flexed. I do have my monitor eye level and a solid adjustable chair. Have bought all other ergonomic equipment too and now looking into getting a contoured desk top to help as hopefully the final piece. Would love to hear your experience.
Article from 2016 talking about the people that designed and built the bridge: http://www.ingegneri.info/news/infrastrutture-e-trasporti/po... (in Italian, Google Translate may help with it).
I don't want to be right, I want the people that are abusing others to realise that they are doing a bad thing.

My message was too inflammatory and I have to rethink my approach to not run afoul of the rules. This has to be said though: a large reason people think it's ok to work for companies like Facebook is because there's almost no social pressure against it, including here.
This sounds like great advice, but it's very funny from a distance. "I think I'm a great candidate for the work you need done, but your interview process has nothing to do with that. As such, I'll need to reschedule so I can spend a few months gaming that process."

I'm excited to be interviewing programmers in the near future as our company grows. I have to think through a lot of things, but I'd like to focus on: Have you successfully deployed an application before? How have you overcome the technical challenges of programming on a team. How have you improved your abilities over time. Explain something you're proud of creating in the format you're most comfortable with. How do you power through losing passion about a project? How comfortable will you be learning new frameworks and paradigms? Prove to me that you're an able programmer in whatever format you'd prefer. Etc.

All questions available ahead of time. Try to keep things comfortable for the candidate. Enough depth and variance to figure out if they have the technical skills you need. You get to see how they like to work.
If there was a prepaid card that make these payments easy and even anonymous, I'd spend a lot more on the internet. I refuse to get into subscriptions. I pass on a lot of articles that I'd like to read. A prepaid card that not connected to my finances and widely usable? If drop a hundred on it today. How many people like me will it take to have this make sense?
This is a bad article. I'm a fan and I don't like my favorite defense contractor maligned? Get a grip.

This is Amazon trying to engineer a permanent piece of the public largess for themselves. That's all. They aren't better at this than anyone else. For that matter, the same could be said for all the other top tech companies. I'm just tired of AWS fans saying that it's strictly merit based. That's not how anything works in big business. It's naïve and childish.
I also think there is something different at work here.

There are known stages in life at which you will think about who you are and where you want to go to.

"Early Adulthood" is one of those stages starting around your 20th and ends around your 35th year.

After this the "Midlife" stage starts. This is the stage most people start thinking about the deeper meaning of life.
Are you still freelancing?
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It's not the profession, it's how you feel about it and the hand you've been dealt regarding your colleagues (superiors or not). There's definitely no perfect profession.
thats stupid. most people hate their job before that.
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Just to be fair... according to the article, only 1 in 6 British workers over 35 say they are "unhappy" with their job.

That seems remarkably low, but I think an important life lesson that many learn is that one should not let "the job" determine well-being, satisfaction with life and happiness. I learned THAT in my 40's.
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About work and happiness : the more I think about the reality of being a full time employee, the more I start to believe part-time is actually the right way to work and be happy.

I see little reason to spend something like 70% of waking hours commuting and working for someone else's profits if you can afford to do less. I've become pragmatic and realized the company I'm I work in is just a tool I use to make money while trying to extract valuable experience for my future. The rest doesn't matter
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Sounds like you have never had a job outside the office. Go dig ditches for a construction company for six months and you'll run back to your 9-5 "slavery".
These sound more like a list of things you figure out in your 20s so that you can successfully work them to your advantage in your 30s.

Also, if you embrace the "no job security" part above and don't sweat your "career" at any given shop, the rest of them stop being things you need to worry about.

Let the other guys stress office politics and fear for their job if they take vacation. You're the guy who knows what this job market is like, and that you have options.
Hope Pence doesn't get any ideas.. (joking)
Its 404ing, did they take it down?
Interesting. Does the UK have another word other than “government” that has the US English meaning—any institution of or controlled by the state?
I don't think you should think about the risk in isolation like that.

Yes, you can't reasonably control the risk of iOS not working as intended, and Apple will never guarantee it does work, and I'm not sure there is anything anyone can do about that on a consumer device. So there's a risk there.

But what's the risk of not having the app because you were afraid of the other risk? Doctors getting fluids wrong - and we found in practice they did get them wrong regularly and significantly.

Reduce one big practical risk, but yes introduce one smaller more theoretical risk. And mitigate where reasonably possible.

These aren't official statements on UK app regulation or the NHS's policy on Mersey Burns, though.
Yes, I found out that I don't work as well with "bosses" as I work with "customers" :D
I do think the stress piles on once your obligations overwhelm you outside because so much is dependent on keeping employment. you over commit and feel trapped.

Still one issue I did not account for was too much idle time while at home. I found that once I had something to do or more things I wanted to do that stress of the job lessened.
You're weirdly stuck on this "breach of contract superseding federal crimes" thing but uh, I don't know what to tell you. This scheme is clearly wire fraud. Defrauding a payment processor out of money, over wires, is wire fraud. It's also bank fraud when you lie to your bank about what your merchant account is for, which is another prerequisite for these schemes usually.
Theoretically. In practical reality there are quite a lot of obstacles, none of which can't be overcome mind you, but then there's considerations for the other people in your life you'd have to leave behind, the flaws of the country you'd be moving to, etc.

It's risk/reward, like almost everything else. Don't be surprised when people rationally choose a lower risk path.
I was 23 when I lost all taste for ordinary work. After being borderline homeless to making 300k in 3 months in affiliating marketing, the though of office work made it unbearable. Little did I know the new found good life would crash around me and I'd have to do the unthinkable - work in an office. The next 4 years were the most miserable years of my life. I was saved by a remote job, followed by another remote gig which ultimately ended in a layoff. The whole experience has made it impossible for me to ever return to an office. Instead, I now struggle as a freelancer / wannabe consultant.
I'm having the same problem but started standing more on the standing desk, with a ratio of about 30 min standing to 30 min sitting as I read somewhere. I figured out that when I'm standing I become more aware of my shoulder position and fix it a bit.
Started also doing so workout for my upper body and I guess that's helping a bit
Well said. It can be very sobering, that’s why I personally have no intentions of quitting the startup / freelance life.
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This is a common argument in the UK regarding Brexit. Enough people have turned 18 already since the 2016 referendum to outnumber Leave's tiny winning margin.
>> The nicest guy you'd ever meet.

...Or most scheming. Obviously his strategy worked out for him. Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with.
I'm 39, I've been at this job for almost 5 years and still don't hate it
"along with private pilots"

Which brings up the next problem that what will be enforced is perceived risk, not actual risk. Per billion-vehicle-miles-traveled, private pilots are as safe as car drivers around 11 or so deaths, but much more common activities such as bicycle commuting is vastly more dangerous around 31, and simple walking commute is even higher around 36. Speaking of bicycle commuting, that brings up the third dimension which is political, in that aggressive public support of bicycle commuting is a hipster sacrament not to be interfered with. Speaking of politics, AOPA is not really a group to be messed with, so even if private pilot flying were more dangerous, it might not be a fight worth picking for bureaucrats. And finally the forth dimension is time; its possible, in fact nearly certain, that private pilot flying was at one time, perhaps 1925 or 1955, more dangerous than driving in 2018, however influential or profitable that might be in 2018 it would be bad justification for legal enforcement in 2018, in a sort of affirmative action sense that my grandfather was a "very dangerous private pilot" in the WWII era therefore I should be punished for his actions by making it illegal for me to fly...
If it wasn't c) the company wouldn't exist, even if b) is true.

At my company I think it's true that a small % are the driving force, in terms of our central product, but the rest are important in that the company would be dysfunctional to the point of collapse if that small % also had to take care of the ancillary tasks they do.
Good for you! What kind of freelancing and how long? I know of many who burned out, and I'm borderline there myself since I hadn't developed a passive lead stream.
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Forget the 32-core processor; these guys installed arch? Hardcore.
Not only that, why is there such a huge difference between ClearLinux and Ubuntu/OpenSUSE?

Most video encoding, I assume, happens on linux machines these days. If switching a distro can result in such drastic improvements, it can result in massive savings for the big players, like Youtube and Twitch.
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I don't know any people from those companies. I am just curious.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180814113709/www.ingegneri.inf... An old mirror on the waybackmachine
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My sleeping Forth system is about to wake up and have a different JIT added to it.
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What kind of consulting? How did you find success in it?
(posted in another thread, but applies here too)

From https://marcrogers.org/2018/08/13/open-letter-to-the-hacker-.... (linked in the article):
"Yes hotel staff NEED to check rooms but if we, who can change the very building blocks of life, can’t come up with a safer way to do this then we really aren’t trying hard enough."

No, they don't. They have thousands of security cameras set up, and I'd be shocked if they didn't have technologies like facial recognition built in. They have the ability to do a background check on every guest who checks in. They also have people working the front desk who likely get training to see if you're a "bad guy" or not.

So with all that, please explain why this additional search, which is a massive violation of privacy (and apparently the Constitution) is necessary?
I have two tips.

One is yoga, and in particular the "cobra pose", to flex your back in the opposite direction. You can do it several times a day, also at work.

The other is to increase awareness of your posture. Download a time-lapse video app for your phone, and make a time-lapse movie of yourself sitting at your desk during a day. You can show this movie to a therapist, so they can comment on it.
Comparisons, however made, turned out to be false because of lack of information. Soviet Union may have had tremendous output of steel, on paper, but nobody had a microwave till the 1990s. The word economy was something else there than what it meant in the West. In the West it relates, though quite imperfectly, to financial wellbeing of the citizenry. In the USSR it meant how many tanks could be built. No one, even in the 1980s owned a car in practical terms. Some had a car but only used it sparingly, like going to countryside on weekends if they could find and afford the gas.

Plus all the numbers coming from inside USSR were inflated or imagined. Steel output was verified by CIA probably through satellite imagery, which turned out to be wildly false because industrial plant efficiency was nowhere near the West's.
Bridges are engineering.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Biomechanics are only one part of the complex picture regarding back pain.

This article is full of outdated value-laden and fear-inducing language such as "spine is in an improper position", "should sit better", "stressing their backs", "think of a disk as a jelly... jelly can squirt out", "bend over properly". This sort of language has been demonstrated repeatedly to encourage avoidance behaviours and exacerbate problems.

Of course, a dog has four legs, and some things with four legs are indeed dogs. Biomechanics are a part of the picture, but only part.

Here's a great summary of the problem: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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There is no mention of 9-5 in the parent comment. What made you get so aggressive at the statement above?
You didn’t invest any of that 300k? I feel like if you even put 100k of that into something like a reit you probably could have just retired and done whatever you wanted.
Boy, I wish I could find part time work that paid even a quarter of what I make supposedly working full time. The reality of course is that I'm at most actually working 15-25% of that time and the rest I'm just piloting a desk and being available for people to pick my brain.

Then there's the health care issue to consider, at least for US residents.
I feel these two are somewhat contradictory or inconsistent:

> They have figured out that the majority of their work, to their surprise is not actually that important or necessary.

> They have figured out that they are never going to get payed the true value of their work

If their work is not that important or necessary, isn't its true value also not too high?
"forced treatment as a political control tool"

Its called affirmative action, quotas, diversity hires, all heavy handed ways to "fix" things, or maybe more importantly a way to perpetuate "divide and conqueror" strategy. We already have it in all areas of society other than medical, only seems fair.
This is much more likely to happen if you didn't manage your career well because you were caught up in 'more important' things that you thought would add greater meaning to life. If that greater meaning has evaporated (or never showed up), it can be a world of hurt.

I realized recently I was trapped in a dead end tech support role and would never grow beyond it, because the job was taking up too much time & energy for me to have enough left over to develop my software development (or any other) skills. I was making decent money, but my household had become addicted to spending it all. If I had managed my finances better and been able to say 'no' more, that might have helped some, but since I didn't, my burnout was accelerated.

Now I struggle against losing all hope that I will ever have either a well paid or a fulfilling career again. But at least quitting the job that was clearly only a faster way to dig my own grave helped my mental health a bit.
> I can't stress this enough - if you're not happy with life, and you feel like you aren't moving closer to your goals and dreams, make a change!!!

I generally agree with this feeling, but with some caveats.

Change for the sake of change is at best a temporary solution. You get some excitement because of the new situation (new job, new country, new partner), but if you don't first identify what isn't working before changing it, you may not actually find a long-term solution.

As the saying goes, "wherever you go, there you are". Sometimes what you need to change is inside yourself. Otherwise you just take your old problems with you to your new country.
It would be really much more helpful with a proper illustration, instead of explaining how to sit with words. Or to put it differently: instructions unclear, leg stuck behind neck.
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It’s B. Usually just can’t get rid of A because of politics. Enjoy the free lunches though.
It's up to you to figure out how to make yourself happy.

Personally, I would rather spend time drawing and designing things - as opposed to driving throughout Africa.

Everyone's circumstances are different. Some people get dealt a more difficult hand, but most people, through just making better choices, can improve their lives.
They updated the page with today's news:
http://www.ingegneri.info/news/infrastrutture-e-trasporti/po...

on archive.is:
http://archive.is/nZ9rF
I think there's an assumed split between infrastructure providers (ISP, PSTN, telco) and service providers (webmail, hosting, etc.) and fax only needs the former.
All prepaid cards are anonymous. You pay for the card with cash.
The difference between open e and close e(for lack of a better word) is not as important, however.
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"and pretty much steer your destiny as you choose"

Generally no - every rung up the ladder gets about 500% more competitive, and even worse, it's political competition.

Middle management is the worst kind of work beyond raw labour.

When you're young, usually you're learning, doing 'actual work' and you can make no mistakes really.

If you have a protected executive job, and can handle politics, there can be stability there.

Bug upper manager and Director ... my god - you still have to show hard results, and you're not always in position to do it. It's thankless. You don't even get to make the big decisions.
I used to (half) joke about another option: (d) it could be cost effective for a company to spend money hiring and wasting excellent talent if it prevents their competitors from doing something genuinely valuable with that talent.
I work on money laundering cases. What the poster admitted to doing, particularly in the comments section, reads like money laundering. I have used emails more vague than this write-up against defendants in money laundering cases. The underlying crime would be bank fraud, wire fraud, or mail fraud, or all three, depending on how a particular merchant account was opened, how transactions were processed, and who the parties to a contract are (if a financial institution, then bank fraud, and so on).
>> only trust a not for profit organization

Not a very good heuristic, people always find ways to profit from so-called 'non-profits'.
Little? How about ever more realistic deepfakes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake
In Switzerland it's the norm that you can decide how much you want to work on an 80-100% scale (sometimes even 60%). Your vacation days etc. Adjust accordingly.
I love the Apple Pay / fingerprint reader button.

Beyond that, I do my level best to avoid touching it. The volume and brightness features are nice but it would be better to not have had it as I mis-key it all the time and it exits me from where I'm working.
Why the hell do people act like that at the conference? That sounds like children running amok, not a security conference.
I never configured anything.
Buy US policing standards I'd call that a resounding success story
I only work about 6-8 months a year.

Mostly greenfield projects that take multiple months for startups. ("We need an MVP, but have no idea about technology, so do what you see fit")
and to top it all, They have figured out that they themselves are not much worth anyway, have to settled for whatever is at hands, to survive with the family of four.
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How do you deal with biters?

That's been the real blocker for me. I don't want to disable them entirely, but worlds need to keep running while there are no players in them. So...?
They have figured out that …

cant you make them into bullet points for readability?
Too long, don't read, sit up straight.
Hows it any different from every other single provider contract ever? Everything's in an IBM DC (or three), they fuck something up? It's down.
And again a 16:9 screen aspect ratio on a clam-shell device. Seriously, I can't stand this aspect ratio.

Microsoft and Google got the message and put 3:2 aspect screens into their notebooks. However the servicability ratings for the Surface Book and the Chromebook Pixel are terrible. Also the lack a trackpoint pointing device (and the keyboards are sub par); I usually disable the touchpad on my laptops, so having a trackpoint is a must.

Lenovo does have mobile computers with a 3:2 aspect screen. But those are tablets, with the keyboard being an accessory. If Lenovo took that 3:2 screen and put it into a clam-shell design notebook computer it's an instant buy. The notebook computer I currently use as my day-to-day device is closing in on being 10 years of age: The display bezel is broken, the hinges worn out, yet only recently I bought a new battery, because quite frankly, in the past 5 years, there was not a single hardware offer that ticked all the "must" boxes I want to be checked for the next notebook computer I buy.