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I like coding but I hate coding
I forgot my username so I had to make a new account to post this. Hope it's not too long.

I've been coding on and off since I was a kid. I'm twenty-nine now. To be frank, I'm not that good at it. I'm not bad at it, but I've never invested the effort to get really good, because I never cared to be. I like making things and solving problems, but I don't get exactly get a thrill out of learning a new framework or spending hours debugging a single function.

Writing code, as you all know, is incredibly frustrating and often stultifying work. For me, it's rewarding to make something, and I've enjoyed building many small projects in the past. That said, the process sometimes seems like more trouble than it's worth.

I'm not sure what I'd be doing if market forces hadn't steered me to deploying my (limited) tech abilities, but as it stands, I've been working as a data scientist for a little while. I'm not that great at that either. I've invested some time and money in skill-building—I just graduated with an MA in a quantitative subject from an Ivy League university—but I'm nowhere near the level of competence of many of the data scientists on the job market now.

And I don't think I want to be. I don't want to spend my whole day writing ETL pipelines or optimizing ad prices. Ideally, I don't want to spend my whole day in front of a computer. But I do want to make enough money to go on vacation occasionally, and I want the flexibility and mobility that it seems like only the tech industry is offering these days. Millennials, right?

So I feel sort of trapped. I'm not sure what I want to be doing, but when I scan job listings, I find nothing interesting to me. I feel like I have lots to offer, like I'm a real generalist with a lot of interests and a lot of aptitude, but the only thing a hiring manager will see is that I can code--and that I'm not very good at it. I can't be the only person who has had this experience.
Compatibility is a requirement for using the Java TCK and getting permission to use the Java trademarks. I don't believe Oracle has ever made it clear what the conditions are for getting a copyright license for the API alone.
You do not need Xcode or a Mac to sign applications.
Try working at say LG, HTC, BlackBerry, anyone that wasn't top dog in their ecosystem.

You pay Qualcomm a lot of money just to get access to the modems, but they'll ignore you for bug fixes, firmware, etc...

The word Qualcomm drop (update in the Qualcomm code) sent a shiver down my spine. They'd fix one bug and introduce two others, that is if the bug big enough that they couldn't simply ignore you in the first place.
Big, rich victims.
When I was living alone as a bachelor, I crunched the numbers and decided it was kind of stupid to do my own laundry rather than drop it off at the laundromat for their wash-and-fold service.

Doing a load of laundry coin-op would cost me about $2/$3 a load. Plus the cost of detergent, fabric softener, and dryer sheets. And the aggravation of going to a grungy, depressing laundromat, waiting around for the washer to run, running the dryer several times because things wouldn't get dry, and then folding it all and lugging my baskets home.

When I was in an apartment that did have hookups, but no laundry machines, buying a basic washer and dryer ran about $1000, unless I found some ticking time bomb of a used set on Craigslist. And then there is the water and electricity costs. Not to mention the hassle of either abandoning them or having to drag them off somewhere else when I moved.

In contrast, I could drop off a huge barracks bag full of laundry at the laundromat once every two weeks, and they would weigh it up, charge me a dollar a pound, then I'd go off to work and pick it up at the end of the day, perfectly washed and expertly folded. Just in the amount of time saved at drudgery, it was worth it, besides the fact that they did a far, far better job than I would do myself.
Look at any old Italian kitchen and you'll be amazed how much can be accomplished with next to no space.

One of my favourite food bloggers has a fairly small kitchen. Not tiny by any standards, but smaller than typical suburban Instagram food blogger types.

She seems to do a lot of her cooking and prep on a hot place and ikea cart. Fairly impressive and what I strive for in my own kitchen

https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/11/how-to-max-out-your-tiny-...
Just ask a math question?
But what about backend code that reimplements full_name, for instance, what Amazon Maps does with the Google Maps API? https://developer.amazon.com/docs/maps/differences.html
All cities in the US are wealthy. Same applies to Canada, Germany, Spain... Sure there are poorer people, but on the global scale the poor in Spain are still rich. (this isn't to imply the poor have it easy)
The CLI version is pretty cool, if you'd like a more point-and-click experience try: https://www.stackbit.com/medium/ (Disclaimer: we created this a few weeks ago)

It uses the same Medium export process and lets you pick what Site Generator to use (e.g. Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll) and more importantly it lets you pick between a variety of CMS like Contentful, NetlifyCMS, Forestry and DatoCMS.

Oh there are also several Blogging themes to pick with and your new imported blog can be up and running in 1-2 minutes.
That's not been my experience at all in Maryland the DC Metro area.

Every time I deal with the public sector, I am pleasantly surprised by the passion and dedication of people working there. I've very recently dealt with the judicial, MVA, MTA, and some WMATA and most everyone has been extremely helpful and efficient.

I cannot say the same for the private sector, whose business model seems to be "provide the minimum amount of service for the highest price you can squeeze out of the customer"
It wasn't my intent to claim the this is the mission of planned parenthood currently, just that a thought leader at the time purposed a policy that is abhorrent today and yet possibly effective.

I'll have to do more research. The repercussions here are staggering if you take the time to consider them.
> If you agree with me that its literally the worst keyboard in the history of PCs

I'm not picky about keyboards; as long as it isn't mushy I'm happy. Of course, if it literally breaks that's a separate problem.

> the way a mouse works in Windows is so much better than MacOS that it renders mice almost unusable on Macs.

Definitely agree here, though I prefer touchpads either way so it's moot for me.

> Even the easiest Linux distro still takes more work than it should. Every once in a while I have to spend half a day troubleshooting something that broke when I either installed or updated it.

Yeah, this the main reason I'm hesitant to use it for real work. I don't want to pull mental resources away from what I'm actually working on just to keep things running. I do wonder how the preinstalled, officially-supported Linux laptops compare though.

> I had my 2017 MBP for 2 months before the logic board had to be replaced due to a faulty sensor

Did they fix this for free, like the keyboards? If they fix all the problematic hardware at no cost to me then I think I can live with it. What I can't justify is spending $2,4000 on a laptop which soon after requires expensive repairs.
It seems like the natural next-step of the blithering "you have a right to pleasure".

"You have the right to healthcare" == single payer healthcare

"you have the right to pleasure" == single payer prostitution
This is absolutely false.

This isn't true of Facebook.
This isn't true of Apple.
This isn't true of Amazon.
This isn't true of Netflix.
Google... likely they would be wounded, but it definitely wouldn't make them go out of businesses.
At this point, given the relentless barrage of evidence of 'dark pasterns' and worse in 'consent' luring, the practice should just be outlawed full stop.
And fighting against that same right for those subject to the boycott.

Let's flip this around - if I started a movement to Boycott, divest, and sanction palestinians would my speech create real world harm?
I bought title insurance last week because I had to. But I'm curious what it's about.

Is it in case someone shows up and is like, "no I'm the actual owner of the house. The seller defrauded everyone, look at all this evidence."?
Believe me I know. They'll never be able to fill those 11$/hour roles without paying more. That's why local inflation is so high. Anything service related becomes increasingly expensive (child care, plumbing, etc). Child care costs 1800$/mo around here vs 600$/mo in other big cities more affordable. the cost of housing raises the eventual total COL
The study of the interaction between microbes and the human body is not 3-d printing or SDCs. Scientific fields of research feature their share of hype, but they don't run through product cycles like tech companies deal with. This is due to a number of factors including different standards for objectivity, transparency, financial interests, and at the heart of it: we are much more likely to devoutly wish for medical breakthroughs in cancer or Alzheimer's, whereas there are relatively very few people praying for Google Glass or VR, save those trying to induce demand for such products.

So, the hype cycle for tech products is not really as useful in the study of microbes in the human body.
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> So I am not opposed to them feeling some heat (no pun intended) for their actions.

I hear you, but you have to remember that these are averages. Even in the deepest red parts of the country, there are large minorities of progressives.
> I put a lot of effort into making this API, it's nice and clean, why should someone else be allowed to copy it?

The problem is that copyright protection has requirements beyond the above sentiment, which can just as easily apply to something that needs to be patented rather than copyrighted. You can't get copyright protection just because you feel you deserve it.
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> Of course lightning was better still but alas Apple wasn't going to share that with the world so we have USB C.

Apple was a major contributor to the Type C design, and learning from the limitations of lighting were reflected in its design.

Like you I really like the small profile of lightning, but the design of the Type C connector does have two important advantages thanks to its shell/shroud design:

1 - The "springy" piece that deforms is the cable not the receptacle. That means when the connection becomes flimsy this is more likely to be the replaceable cables (though some of the cables can be pricy, it's likely still cheaper than replacing the device)

2 - the shroud is ground and is longer than the pins, thus you have a ground connection before you get to any signal or power (like the longer ground pin in UK and Schuko connectors. This doesn't matter much for a USB2 cable but is a safety issue when you have 100W on the cable.

And back to Apple: much as lightning is good for them, it isn't really an instrument of MFI enforcement; they can enforce that just as well with type C. They already have type C iPads so I expect they'll gradually abandon lightning. The iPod 30-pin connector lasted about 9 years and lightning is 7 years old so this isn't unreasonable. And I believe it would make the EU happy.
The test doesn't include any such list of purposes. That said, yeah, it's probably not fair use.
>I don't think you can survive without a cell phone, no.

Landlines are an option, as are cheap, no-data plans. I saw a plan for unlimited talk and text for $15/month. Spend double that on a monthly plan for a phone, and you've still cut the technology monthly cost in half. There might be a library nearby you can use for free Internet.

>How do you work a job without childcare?

7% of dads stay home, 28% of moms stay home. I don't now for sure but I'm guessing that those numbers climb if the stay-at-home-ish parent has a part-time job. This is not an insignificant figure.

>Someone has to cover that cost.

Others can and do cover that cost and thus survive with less income. I don't share the base assumption that every family should be independent on their own and thus would not be expected to survive if they aren't. Some people don't have family (or friends, I guess?) to help with childcare. This is unfortunate, and can be helped via various means of social welfare, but I don't think it needs to be the standard for everyone.

>You can survive living in terrible conditions, sure. But is it actually surviving?

Based on the definition of the word? Yes.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/24/stay-at-hom...
Thank you for this! Seems like a reasonable thing to include.
Note to self: don't steal stuff that will still be scorching hot 80 years later. Except kisses.
Cube sats don't count :)

The requirements and budgets for them mean that they're much more expendable than something flying on a full size bus. As such, the level of risk tolerance is much higher.
>but no one wants to have to pay a subscription fee to every single site on the internet

I want to pay for the ones I use!
It is increasingly becoming clear that free stuff is horrible.
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with, but all the Java code you write definitely does go away

> When you write a Java statement you are clearly intending for certain instructions to get executed as a result of processing that statement. When you write a method signature, that doesn't represent any kind of intention for something to take place.

If we accept this argument then that means APIs are more copyrightable than code. Instructions, as in the context of recipes or process definitions, are not copyrightable. If we say code is an intent for something to be executed then that's an argument that it should not be copyrightable. Saying that an API is different and not simply instructions means that it should be subject to copyright.
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As you can see on charts like [1], it's really quite dynamic. You can tell when major life events occur from a plot of gut bacteria over time.

[1]: https://www.sciencenews.org/sites/default/files/2016/09/1001...
Exactly. A motivated individual could find dozens of supposed causes of reduced crime in the 90s.

Exhibit A - Murders by sharp object correlates with visitors to SeaWorld - http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=41291
Yeah, that solution does actually automatically put it out on github. I wish it wasn't locked to another vendor, but it's a good options.
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In my area, there is a lot of competition among ISPs, but I have to talk to sales people on the phone in order to get the best price. The prices advertised online are much higher than what individual sales people are authorized to offer. It often feels weird to haggle, but that's a natural effect of a free market.
I always heard that folks linked it to lead exposure, paint, gas, etc.
I've used this technique with a label that said "Leave Blank", also hidden with CSS. Seemed to work great, but now I wonder.
It's needed, I can tell you from anecdotally someone is feeding these habits to the advertising surveillance bots
One of the four fundamental factors in any fair use determination is the "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole". If Oracle wants to claim that Google effectively didn't copy enough of Java, it sounds like they need new law.
There are legitimate ways in which medical care is male-oriented. As another commenter says, heart attack symptoms vary by gender but this is not always understood by healthcare practitioners [0].

[0]: https://www.allinahealth.org/healthysetgo/heal/heart-attack-...
If I had to commute for an hour both ways, I would go completely insane. I don't know about you, but I need to live near where I work, meet friends, and have hobbies.

People are not livestock, to be ferried from place to place as market forces see fit.

That said, we can't have both. Either we have density, or we have everything spread out with long commutes.

Personally, I support Japanese style zoning, and letting people buy the kind of property they wish to live in.
Yes, that’s exactly what it’s for.

A more realistic scenario is a family member sold a house but didn’t own the rights. Next thing you know, another family member shows up and tries to dispute the sale.

That’s how I understand it.
> taxpayers are responsible

Taxpayers have no choice: pay taxes or face fines / jail.
A second kitchen is becoming common. The trend started 30 years ago with a bar, and has moved to a full kitchen.
The second kitchen is for entertaining and thus near the entertainment room (often in the basement). While I rarely use our second kitchen, there was the one time when I couldn't fit everything in the oven and having two more in the basement made it easier.
> “It’s a shame Heather never did anything with her life.”

> I was about 30 at the time

It's a bit strange and sad that much of society holds this idea that if you haven't achieved greatness before you turn 30, you never will.
> My problem is that GMO seeds are proprietary, that is you need to buy them from whoever produces them.

This is getting a bit off topic, but GMO has absolutely zero to do with this, and is a completely unrelated facet of agribusiness.

Plant patents go back long before GMOs were ever a possibility. Hybrids, which don't reproduce true, have also been a huge mainstay of farming since longe before GMOs.

It's fine to be concerned with the monetization of plant life, but GMOs are not an aspect related to that.

There are plenty of non-profits that are trying to make better products that can be freely distributed and grown by farmers, but such misleading information stymies their efforts.
I am curious what “pressured” means. A threat? A shakedown? Or a polite email? The headline doesn’t really make it clear and the “article” is deleted.
I’ve seen this variations of this article posted on twitter. While I think there’s lessons to learn, I think there’s more to be unpacked here. For example, what clothes was she selling? For how much? I’ve read she did very little advertising (only one or two posts) but to be honest, her IG is pretty bare. I’m surprised she has 2m followers at all.
Why would they run amok? Does the spider toxin give them a survival advantage relative to its energetic cost? If the toxin merely allows them to kill the insects they infect, I believe it'd just tamp down the population without downright eliminating it.
It might be expected, but I have to admit, there is a certain joy to using a website that loads instantaneously (like Hacker News). Whether or not that joy translates into additional revenue to justify the costs is another question entirely...
Without knowing more it's not obvious to me which is the higher standard. I can do a few pullups but probably couldn't hang for more than a minute.
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_sigh_ this feeling again when you read about some great "paradigm-shift" advancement and then go to HN comments and find out the study has bunch of holes. :(
Me too! Now we just need to get some ISP competition. Spectrum has a complete monopoly in my area. Their service is spotty at best, and they also accidentally blocked my account from paying digitally. Now I have to drive to their office with a couple hundred dollars cash once a quarter to prepay my bill...
These types of examples aren’t useful though because you can make up any number of them, and make them as extreme as you want.

Risk management, on the other hand, is about determining risks that are reasonably likely, and figuring out contingencies and mitigation strategies.

In your opinion, is it reasonably likely that a fungi that is engineered to kill a specific species of insect (and only those carrying a specific disease) can somehow go out of control and end up killing all insects on the planet? In my opinion, it is not.
>Did they fix this for free, like the keyboards?

They did fix it and return in in just a few days. They offered to give me a loaner, but my company had already taken care of that. Customer service was very good. It sucks that they are so busy you have to make an appointment, but other than that the personnel were friendly, professional, and good at their jobs.
Many IPs are shared by more than one endpoint, and hundreds or thousands of endpoints sometimes share a single IP. Say a home router is compromised on an ISP using CGNAT and you block by IP, you could potentially be blocking an entire neighborhood of innocent users.

Having parts of the Internet blocked for huge numbers of their customers puts pressure on ISPs to monitor and censor users traffic, which is not the direction I want to see the Internet go.

IPs do not have a one-to-one relationship with users, and I feel strongly that they shouldn't be treated as if they do.
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None of your examples are comparable.

Snowden ran after charges were filed against him. He admits to his actions. If he had stayed, he could have beaten the charges in court, because it is a defense to prosecution for a lesser crime to be committed (improper process of whistleblowing) to prevent a worse crime (various). But while Snowden is not innocent of the crime, he's simply got a valid defense to negate a guilty finding.

Rushdie fled a fatwa issued by a religious cleric, not the government, following the publication of The Satanic Verses. He was not charged with a crime by the government, but numerous individuals attempted to assassinate him for what they viewed as blasphemy of their religion.

The Dalai Lama, the then-legitimate ruler of Nepal, fled the Chinese occupiers of his country and set up a government-in-exile. He has never been charged with a crime by China.

Timothy Leary actually did commit a number of drug-related crimes including distribution, and ran because he was quite guilty. He also got caught a number of times and saw the inside of a number of jails and prisons...
I didn’t claim any lender did, just that it’s a bad idea to lend tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars to young people with no collateral and only a loose requirement to use it on “education”.

No lender is actually stupid enough to do this, other than the US taxpayer.
It was evacuated immediately (some 100k people), no one is allowed to live in the exclusion zone (19 square miles) and yes the final reactor wasn't closed down until 2000 but the other two were closed down before then, unit 1 in 1996 and unit 2 in 1991. The only reason and despite world outcry that those reactors stayed in operation was because they had no choice. So either your ignorant of the facts or your trying to put a positive spin on a terrible and tragic event... which makes you a huge pos.
Another straightforward possible mechanism is that upset stomach exacerbates behavioural systems.

Consider anything you do that takes conscious effort, in life or work. Now try doing it with a headache, or on lack of sleep, or with a stomach pain. You'll do worse!
my best guess (albeit, guess -- don't know much about medium or freeCodeCamp) would be fear of further frivolous threats and potential legal actions on behalf of medium. Frivolous lawsuits, no matter how ridiculous (libel, whatever) can feel a lot less frivolous to small/non-profit organizations who don't have the capital to point this out in court or respond when companies beat them over the head with their greater resource pools and influence. Also, it seems likely if they were bringing that much traffic to medium, they probably do have good relationships with some individuals at medium and probably don't want to alienate those connections based on a couple poor decisions, which is totally understandable.
“Deadwood”'s case against rationality
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> for those who want to know about who's impacted : ...

tldr: Intel. Intel is impacted. Again.