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Yes to everything, especially about having kids!

Many responsibilities in family life are uninteresting. Often I have to be patient for weeks in order to work on something I find interesting. Months ago I found a great programming project to work on. However, I'm caught in a period in which my wife is working a lot of extra hours, leaving me to deal with cooking, house repair, running my daughter to activities, finances, etc. I also work full-time as a developer. On top of it, I'm the president for my daughter's basketball league, which requires a lot of attention to administrative tasks. I'm perpetually at odds with my desire to work on the interesting project and getting done what needs to be done.

I'm coming out of a mini-depression now. As an example of what it's like, several weeks ago I was sent a link to post to our league's FB page. The link pertains to an event next weekend. Posting would have taken under 5 minutes, but I shied away from it until yesterday. The thought of one more trivial task in my day completely paralyzed me for weeks, but I felt increasing anxiety and the depression worsened.

In my younger days, I would have ignored needs to focus on what made me feel happy at the time. Nowadays I feel too anxious when I do so.
I had a similar experience when I first started out and I got fired from my first two development jobs so maybe my experience can help you.

Getting good at grocking through existing codebases is an experience thing I feel. You need to understand the frameworks and libraries used, as well as understand the underlying business use cases. You can look through open source projects or build small example projects with the libraries in question to help you with understanding their code bases.

Understanding a code base is like understanding most other things. If you don't have an understanding of most of the background things, then you don't even know where you're struggling. It's like jumping into a book about quantum mechanics when you don't even know Algebra. You need to learn about the backend they use, the frontend stuff they use, and the business cases. I know that's a re-iteration of what I said above but sometimes having something explained from two ways helps.

As for the meetings and such, I think it is partially the above as well. I know when I first started out, not understanding the business, and the goals of the business, as well as what is in the code base already, nor what can be done in the code base, made the meetings hard. You don't know what they are talking about, why they are talking about it, and can't contribute due to lack of understanding. This makes it boring, like attending a lecture so high above your understanding that it's almost pointless to be there.

If this sounds like a likely scenario, then you just have to study and study and study. Also be honest with your co-workers and manager. Most of the time in my experience if you can identify the problem, figure out a path to fix it, and explain to your manager, they will be on board. Especially if you show that you are working to fix it. Always be introspective about the problems, and never be afraid to look dumb by asking questions. Also maybe confide in another coworker first about your problem if that feels more comfortable than your manager.

Lastly, I know that I had lots of these problems when I had an alcohol problem and drank WAY too much everyday. It made me sleepy in meetings, hard to think about problems, hard to understand new things, and just lots of other things. If you find yourself drinking a lot, perhaps consider doing a month of no drinking to see how that affects things. (I know you didn't mention drinking anywhere but I thought I'd say something just in case)

If you have questions or things just reply! Also maybe look at dev.to as well as they are a more junior community with a softer touch than here and may have lots of advice from people closer to your level or different perspectives that will help!

Good luck!
No I don't. Some people objectively deserve to die. See e.g. ISIS, radical islamists, etc.
Or how about instead, all these oppressed workers just leave Amazon and form a competitor to Amazon that is a Co-op?

Presumably they'll do pretty well since there won't be any big bad corporate overlords to steal the value of their labor.
Daye, a startup developing a ‘cramp-fighting’ tampon, raises $5.5M from Khosla
There is a typo in the above formatting that I can't edit:

5010,0008 = 4,000,000

Should say:

50 * 10,000 * 8 = 4,000,000

That was important to my central point that an I9 has roughly 400 times fewer cores than it would have had it kept up with Moore's law, so I didn't want to leave it unclear.
Holy crap, that sounds almost exactly like my college experience except I dropped out after my major/department was cut from the university.

As far as "getting by" and laziness as a learned behavior, I always worked hardest on my hobbies throughout K-12, so as an adult I've gotten to the point where my hobbies have become my careers. I started building PCs and running Linux on my own in High School, along with playing music, so now I'm a software engineer/musician. Software is one of the few careers where you can go on an insane research binge on a whim and actually be praised for it, and performing music is one of the only things that I've ever done that fully quiets my mind. Something about the adrenaline of being on a stage really helps with my ADHD-Inattentive type; guess it's just like a stimulant.

"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life", etc
I think that you would find that people reorganize their value structures pretty quickly when not forced to work. Think of anyone you know who is retired. In the current scheme we think of people as 'earning' their retirement, but whether or not it is earned or given, every retired person has to figure out how to fill their day. Most I know do this by being more active in their community and spending lots of time with friends and family.
2/3 of those are true for every purchase you make on your phone.

3/3 of those are true for some digital products like amazon kindle books even where you buy from amazon, not apple.

Or put another way, those are therefor clearly not the correct questions to be asking.
Yes but it's very very slow (as in on the order of minutes for a page to load). I think this has to do with how Stack Overflow's front-end code is written. There's some non-essential Javascript that is blocked by the Great Firewall which blocks the rest of the page from loading for a long time before the page gives up and displays a banner that some Javascript failed to load.

All programmers I know have software to circumvent the Great Firewall and view it as a necessary condition of their profession.
Since this is public information, it's been covered by non-paywall sources as well: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-against-...
A family member, in her 30s who isn't a tech-head by any means, sent me an email saying she'd moved to ProtonMail. It's not unreasonable to think that at some point, she'd be interested in a refurbished phone w/ Google stripped out, instead of paying $1000+ for a phone whose biggest features are their always-listening voice assistants.
>WikiLeak's big coup was cablegate

Don't gaslight. Wikileaks' big coup was Collateral Murder, which showed to the entire world how US soldiers enjoy committing war crimes at the behest of senior US military leadership whenever they think they can get away with it.
I would like to see a post like this but for Python.
This one is for gdb.
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I'm doing some checks like this using Azure powershell. Microsoft has well documented powershell commands for Azure. My powershell scripts have less features and they can't run in unattended mode like this Cloudmarker tool. But I work on windows so powershell is always there. Has anyone run powershell as daemon on Linux? If that is present I will setup a Linux system with my powershell scripts for devops.
Ironically this makes the default skins the most rare. I've never played Fortnite, but this was true in Overwatch which was kind of interesting. I've never seen anyone get picked on for not having a non-default skin though. It's hard to believe this happens in Fortnite, but I don't interact with people in their teens or younger.
That was my understanding. I think it tries to capture some of Minecraft's mechanics like freeform building but it's so distilled it's not really fair to compare them.
"technology that eliminated half of all programming jobs"

Technology changes so much that half of all programming jobs that exist today will be gone in 10 years. Some new ones will be created though.

The scary thing to me though, is if industry truely embraces open source/block chain. We could get into a state where most software is open... and fixing it is a bounty system, then 20% of programmers would make 80% of the money as they build AI to indentify opportunities, and solutions.
Nobody has ruled on whether the practices are actually monopolistic or not - this ruling just allows a suit against Apple to proceed, which will then make that determination about their business practices.

The debate in this case was all about whether the end user was Apple's customer (thus able to sue Apple directly) or the developer's customer.
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As a developer no.
Kavanaugh seems to be interested in diving into the implications and results of law / decisions.

Gorsuch seems more interested in just the letter of the law, regardless if that results in absurdities.
Should the Media Quit Facebook?
If you have no experience in digital electronics at all, I would actually start with a book like Code by Charles Petzold. It's a pop-science book about electronics and goes from light bulbs and switches to simple logic blocks like adders. It covers the basic building blocks of virtually every cpu in existence - how to turn transistors into calculators.

It's well written and provides some context to otherwise pretty dry textbooks.

There is quite a bit of difference between how an FPGA works and is programmed versus a totally custom chip. You could also take a look at reverse engineering walkthroughs eg Ken Shirrif has a few on his blog.

Nand2tetris is another good thing to look at.

Finally, reverse engineering the MOS6502: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqBmmPQP40
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Apple's argument was that 3rd parties set the prices on their platform not them (app developers), so they shouldn't be held liable for the monopolistic effects this creates.
This needs more emphasis. Apple dropped its hail mary pass, it still gets a shot on the merits.
Already done in 1974, more or less:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pre-persons
> No, because 1$ to a poor person is actually 1.12$ returned to the economy.

Okay, so >60% then, assuming the average worker at an Amazon warehouse meets your definition of "poor". Still a totally achievable figure.

> Even if you give money to wealthy people

We're not talking about _giving_ money to anyone here, we're talking about automation. Automation means efficiency gains for _Amazon_ (the corporation) not Bezos personally, so you can't just make the lazy assumption that 100% of any savings made by Amazon goes directly into Bezos' pockets (as egypturnash did earlier in this thread).

But even if you do make that ridiculous assumption, _and_ we assume your figures are correct, it still only takes a >60% efficiency gain for the economy to break even on the transaction, correct?
16000 people going through these fairly mundane bit of EU legal procedures. Some of them will have done worse things, but many of them will have done much less worse things (like the aforementioned chicken theft.

What international manhunt? Man runs into embassy escaping bail - police wait outside. What other outcome could there have been?
He had already been questioned by police in Sweden prior to that. He even stuck around for a month and then asked the Swedish police if he was free to leave, he was told he was.

The prosecutor dropped the charges because the alleged victims were quite obviously lying about having been raped using any conventional definition of the term, there was also no way to resolve any dispute about whether someone was asleep when sex happened, and they would never reach the level of "beyond reasonable doubt" by any jury as a consequence.

The charges were later mysteriously resurrected by a different prosecutor so he could be questioned again. Or maybe it's not such a mystery after all. Either Sweden is doing as the USA asked for some convoluted reasons, or the Swedish justice system is a complete joke when the R word gets involved.
At some point in my life I realized that some games were worth spending money on, especially given the amount of time spent in them. I can understand your point of view, and I totally agree in the context of children/teens but I try not to play games that heavily incentivize spending, so when I put 100+ hours into a game, I don't consider buying some microtransactions "losing".
Prior to the confirmation insanity, Kavanaugh was viewed as one of the best supreme court justice nominations for all sides. All the confirmation hearings did was potentially radicalize him to the right. One of the best things about being a supreme court judge is that he no longer has to care about being reappointed or elected. He's not doing damage control, he's just being a supreme court judge.
I prefer this one:

> Hero poly'd into rope golem form could choke headless or non-breathing monsters

Amazing level of detail!
I wish they included models with removable batteries, but I think the last Samsung phone to have it was the Galaxy Note 4 in 2014.
There is no "in-game" gambling in Fortnite. You always know what you are spending your money on:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/26/fortnite-pve-eliminates-...
Looking over Nim, it says it is a statically typed language, compiles to C/C++/JavaScript.

Is this interesting for Android developers, i.e. would I have a good reason to consider this over Kotlin or Java?

When I see things like Phoenix/Elixir the language makes me consider evaluating it for usage instead of React/JavaScript. But, I don't immediately see the reason I would invest in this language. What am I not seeing?
> Fortnite doesn't have lootboxes.

> I think this is less about Fortnite ... make themselves feel better about their own insecurities.

Sure, I got that, I'm just saying that I felt okay letting kids play Fortnite because it didn't have the hallmarks of the well-publicized dangers from other free to play games. But regardless of whether the problem comes from people and culture surrounding the game or the designer of the game, I think I'll restrict my kids' access to it if it starts to look like a hazard.
I'm with you guys. I'm one of the types who likes to flow against the meta while still kicking ass (sometimes). I am not a fortnite player but nothing is more satisfying then getting into some good PvP action and schooling one of these noobies who thinks they are good because they bought stuff.

I'm sure there is all kinds of cyber bullying, fortnite bullying and stuff. I must have been lucky but as a youth I had a couple real friends. We played halo all the day, i wasnt the best. I usually sucked compared to some buddies. But we still teamed up and had fun playing together.

It might not be easy for a current 8/10 year old boy to do this, but there are a zillion fortnite players. Maybe he can just find some other people to play with. Or if you are 8 years old, maybe you shouldnt be playing online shooting games.

I wasnt able to do the online shootie stuff (halo era) until I could afford my own shit and bought an xbox with my own money. Yeah all of my friends parents bought shit for them and they had xbox live, all of it. Paid runescape account. We were 10/11/12. Sure i was a little bit out of it, no body wanted to come to my house cause I didnt have the online games yet.

I just had a daughter recently and want to get her playing games. Like other parents in this thread, i am not feeding them money to buy in game shit. I'm not going to give her an iphone/ipad at age 4 and be surprised when she spends $1,000+ on in game shit. I've heard this exact story from multiple co-workers. I usually just laugh it off but part of me is like, the fuck is yoru problem giving your kid an ipad and giving them free reign? This co-worker is a c suite guy making a shit ton of money. Likely doesnt have enough time to actually _be_ with his kids so you just get an ipad.
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Interest rates will go up.
Dropshopping might just turn out to he the biggest missed opportunity for the fulfillment arm of Amazon. Just imagine a company that successfully bridges the gap between any supplier who wants to connect and the consumer using the internet. Imagine Amazon bought or developed Shopify themselves and integrated the POS tech for any shop with their fulfillment and retail tech. Damn, that would be a killer.

In my opinion, the first one to successfully do this on scale will be the next Amazon, just even bigger.

That being said, packaging for customer shipments is inherently different from B2B. The later usually uses some sort of bulk-level packaging for pallets and such. Cheaper for big volumes but unsuitable for B2C. Still, Amazon is pishing Ship-in-own-container (SIOC) wherever possible.

DISCLAIMER: I used to work there.
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I feel like I fit in all these descriptions. Unfortunately coffe does nothing for me, so I have no drug of choice.
I have no research. But we're not exactly swimming in your research that there's a negative to a .marketing TLD either.
Which do you think is most likely.

Each aspect of the law is carefully considered and debated every N years before being reaffirmed or rejected?

Or,

Every N years the legislature passes a pro-forma "the laws are still the laws" bill, which no one bothers to read or debate or modify in more than a cursory sense?
HN submission of the actual rulling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899373
Totally agree, that it would be a temporary measure to add some speed bumps.

I first heard this proposal from Bill Gates. Suffice to say he's got a unique view and has probably studied this extensively.
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>> Perhaps it is, but I wonder if it's more similar to bipolar light. ... I may be way off - and may be putting my foot in my mouth and offending sufferers of bipolar (which if so, I apologise), but that's how it sometimes feels to me.

As someone with bipolar, this isn't offensive at all. It is a condition that can present very differently, as personally my manic symptoms are more severe than depressive, but much of what people describe is very similar to the milder bipolar symptoms. Ive actually been reading this thread closely looking for additional coping strategies, and will likely check out some of the to do-list apps recommended.

There are some things that are wildly different, and severe mania is very different, almost presenting more like anxiety than adhd, but the milder manic symptoms are definitely similar.
Well at this risk of being a mouthpiece for a propaganda machine, the other option is that he took refuge in an embassy for years so that he would appear to be a political martyr as he escaped justice for rape.
Could not find any reviews on this book, can you go into any detail around how it helped you?
IIRC, if you are offered immunity you are no longer protected by the right against self-incrimination. So sidestepping questions in this way - when you could plausibly know the answer - carries some legal risks.

There is also a long history of resistance to grand juries among anarchist activists, as a policy of refusing to give evidence to the government and law enforcement organizations:
http://grandjuryresistance.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_grand_jury_resisters
https://earthfirstjournal.org/prisoners/grand-jury-resistanc...
Americans Need Generic Drugs. But Can They Trust Them?
Not surprising. The supreme court typically takes a long time to get involved with anything.

They are the final word, so they must get it right. Thus they want lots of other lawyers and judges to spend time coming up with all arguments and working out all angles. The worst possible thing would be for them to issue a final ruling, only to realize they are wrong because of some line of reasoning nobody had thought of.

In short, by taking 8 years, many smart people have spent 8 years thinking about the issue. There is a good chance that nobody will think of a different argument that is compelling.

Unfortunately law is not math. There are no fundamental truths to start from. It is a matter of conflicting opinions. We will never be sure that they are right or wrong, but at least they carefully considered their decision trying to get it right.
It's not anecdotal when all I'm claiming is that there are people who say this! There are, I've read their posts myself!
Thank you for writing this! It meant a lot to me to read it.
Walmart store managers average $175K. Many employees earn below the poverty line
I one hundred percent agree with you on what the results would be-- without there being repercussions for not persevering with anything, and with all bad choices safely having the corners rounded off by UBI, most people won't do anything much. And as much as they feel like they don't want to do work now, this lack of any motivation from outside themselves will have a deleterious effect on people. I mean, picture what the average person does with their free time! Watch TV, scroll Twitter, stuff like that. And they're constantly complaining about how much they regret not using their time wisely and blaming Netflix for eating their time, etc. Now imagine if no one had to do anything, if you totally failed at something or just didn't bother to do anything, the government would prop you up. Imagine the social issues that would bring. Imagine the difficulty.

Where I disagree with you, however, is the assumption that finding life meaning and purpose and a sense of usefulness and competency and enjoyment out of work is a thing limited to specifically today's culture, a thing that we can just change. For one, most people don't have the introspection and willpower to self-actualize and create their own meaning in life. This is a huge reason we have depression and nihilism and existential dispair. Two, we have stories from history and interactions from other cultures that show that finding meaning in work holds true for them as well.
Do you think that people who complete high school should be expected to understand compound interest and that people who can be legally tried as adults should be trusted to enter into a contract and abide by the terms thereof? When you grow up, one of the things you can choose to be is an adult.
Interestingly, I find that medication does not affect my hyperfocus in a negative way. If anything, it's even easier for me to achieve hyperfocus on a task when my Adderall is "on". I find that what medication helps me most with is the initial hurdle of starting a task. Once I actually get going, I'll usually hyperfocus on it (if it's the type of task I hyperfocus on, which includes programming, but sadly does not include housework). I procrastinate at work far far less when I'm medicated. Without medication, I struggle hard with starting new tasks.
Yes, you are wrong that it will likely cause hyperinflation. Even if the Fed simply monetized that debt (which it won’t do) you might get some inflation, but nothing close to HYPERinflation. What’s more likely, as the article states, is that more investor money will go to the government rather than mortgages or commercial loans, which will slow the economy, drive up interest rates, and potentially cause deflation.
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8 years and they're still yet to get to court.

Macbook owners with bad keyboards are probably looking at 1 - 2 decades before their settlement checks arrive!