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I am also above the 40 mark, but I think it is about how you present yourself more than anything. What you are interested in doing etc. There is quite a bit of agism in tech, but I find that the cultures that have it are usually the ones to avoid anyway, so it is kind of a filter for me.

I spent years consulting vs freelancing and the age helps when consulting. Consultants are experts and hired for advice and a specific task usually. Freelancers will be treated like an employee without all the benefits. One is not equal to the other.

If you are going the freelancing route age/experience can be more of a question that is hard for people to ask, so just address it early. Usually the first opportunity to address it is in your position statement part of your cover letter. e.g. I really enjoy staying on the technical implementation side of the equation... or something to that effect. This lets them know where you are comfortable and either they'll reach out if that fits or not. But everyone does the math when they see how many years you've been working, it is hard not to.

As for your questions, at least from my point of view:

1. Age can increase the likelihood you'll be overlooked, so you need to make sure your presentation on your resume and cover letter is solid. Experiment with it too. Although I think as a freelancer it is a little less likely to cause you grief.

2. Pay is based on experience most places so people may. The reality is unless you are crushing things at a large company you are probably stuck near the same pay you had 10 years ago anyway. This is kinda typical if you stay technical and don't move into management.

3. Consultants are definitely different than freelancers. I built consulting agencies as my startups, and that was always how I sold myself. Freelancer is a dev for hire, a consultant is an expert. That is how I always found it, so I always avoided freelancer positions as being a consultant increased my fee by multitudes and increased how I was viewed. You have to decide who you are and what services you are providing.

4. Only if you want to, many places you can still code and not have to worry about being in management. But mentoring junior roles will likely be expected.

5. I love this one. When I interviewed 4 years back at the startup I am at now, I literally walked into a place where the average age of the team were within 2-3 years of my son. I think it was a little more awkward for them. They are essentially interviewing someone their parents age and were probably more nervous then I was. My personal style & opinion is to disarm everyone and have a little fun with it, there is no hiding the facts, just don't let them get in the way of the person. Age is a number, how you approach them, how you act is far more important.
The article is an announcement of the re-release of his "studies" on the "authoritarian personality." The fact that it doesn't dwell on the actual content of the book it's touting ought to tell you something about its quality.
the biggest take away here is how little the intent of the laws matter for finance.

I think it was daniel bell who wrote about how it always have been impossible for investors to have any real say on what executives of the companies they invest into do. this illustrate that even legislators have little say.
Related question, can you share which organization it was that performed the pre-boarding investigation? You were flying to Israel, but the strip search, extensive questioning, and electronics seizure happened before boarding. What entity performed the search?
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> By the way, look up how many ground nesting birds and rabbits die during grain and soybean harvesting. Those combines are just pure murder.

Most soybeans grown are consumed by livestock [0]. A lot of wheat is also fed to livestock [1]. We'd need a lot less if we as humans ate it directly instead of eating the animals that eat it.

I don't know what your diet was like, but this is not my experience (7 years in), and it is the position of the American Dietetic Association that vegan diets, when planned well, are healthy [2].

Now, let's say that even with good planning, you are still unhealthy on a vegan diet. That does not mean you couldn't be healthy on a vegetarian diet, or a diet that has drastically reduced meat consumption. The less meat we eat, the better for the environment.

[0] https://www.drovers.com/article/usb-promotes-us-soybean-meal...

[1] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864
90% of apps use databases, but that doesn't mean they are just database frontends. If you zoom in there is always specialized domain logic that is custom to that app. If there isn't it shouldn't have been built.
The Macfarlan Smith link is interesting and not something I’ve ever heard before. Is there any other information on this on the web or elsewhere? A google for “Macfarlan Smith” and “Heroin” only returns your comment here as best I could find in a few minutes of searching.
Also much less space would be taken up by street parking. Eliminate parking space in those limited zones, and you can have wider walking spaces, more greenery, that's already a benefit.

A solution doesn't have to be 100% perfect immediately to be of benefit to people.
I wonder if this shares any code with Fuchsia. Both are open source and seem to be pointed in similar directions.
GitLab EE is still source-available: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
In context, I meant the lazy soups we make always contain meat and still taste good. I can put like 4-5 ingredients in an instant pot and be done. Are there similar low effort meatless soups, without hunting down exotic spices? I love good Thai and Indian curries and such, always open to new flavors at restaurants, but at home I'm just not willing to go through that kind of effort, as I kind of despise cooking but am too cheap to eat out often.
This is the civil version, with mild sarcasm.
When I was a kid growing up in the same town (different neighborhood), we would play hide and seek and similar games in the back yards of all the houses on our street except the one couple who didn’t have kids and asked us not to. We had no problem respecting their property, as we had plenty of other yards to play in.

I think it was mostly a “how dare this stranger tell our kids what to do” situation as the previous renter had apparently never had issues with the kids in his yard. I didn’t either until they damaged my truck, and I didn’t expect that kind of reaction from the parents. It sucked but it was a good life lesson.
> If all fruits and vegetables screamed and all animals scream, what would you eat?

This is a red herring, though. They don't.

> It takes less effort to raise pigs and live off their flesh than it is to take care of a few acres of grain, veg and fruit.

This is dubious, but my point is not that I farm, but that I find commercial farms more ethical than commercial meat production.
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The programming language doesn't seem to exist. The URL got submitted to HN the same minute the github repo got created. It only contains a couple of sentences.

Unless the author wants to reserve the 'stellang' user name on all forums. Twitter handle, reddit user, even a subreddit got created in the last hour.
You're not going to convince anybody of that if the only thing we know about him is that he turned down Google for SpaceX.
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Flu is basically the apex predator of viruses. We're having a helluva season in Australia right now. :(
> with one of the top weight lifters being vegan

That's not exactly true, he's just some buff guy that is strong. He doesn't even look big compared to bodybuilders, regular protein eaters at the gym are his same size.

His 'record' deadlift was 360kg, worlds strongest men all pulled 420kg+ this year. Arnold was in that class back in the 70's.

EDIT: After some research people are saying his european world records were all accomplished before he became vegan in 2011.
So does that mean I can't ever discuss politics at work? Or on LinkedIn?
And the head of the Manhattan Project had concerns that the nuclear tests could ignite the atmosphere.

Science is far more than theoretical speculation. Grand claims require development of supporting theory and evidence. Even the consensus regarding climate change has been rather quick to form considering the enormity of the claims and how young the field of modern science is.
ButterCMS has been nominated for a Hackernoon 'Noonie' as the best CMS Go vote
I used “deep fakes” to fix the Lion King
It doesn't matter how precise the value is, as long as it's precise enough for your use-case and as long as machines are handling it. If the value is displayed in a UI and it's rounded off to a reasonable decimal there, I don't see the point why you would get so worked up about it.

I'm sure my thermostat internal temperature representation is way more precise than the 0.5 degrees precision it's showing on the display.
You wouldn't go to any startup, you'd pick the most promising one.
> Vegan diets are being proved by lots of studies at being pretty shitty for you.

Citations needed.
Users can't edit titles; mods can. If this had hit the front page, they probably would have done it for you.
hn loves to react this way to "continental" philosophy - latch on to one thing that is intelligible to them and then extrapolate from that. eg I got into it without someone about Marx earlier this week that had never read any Marx!

I mean nevermind that adorno is socially validated - ie his peers, those that are actually qualified to assess the value of his work, respect him and his arguments right? that doesn't matter because hackers are qualified for anything right?

like let some metaphysics philosopher read a machine learning paper and dismiss its claims because they're not ontologically sound (or something like that) and you'll have all of hn rolling in tears at the sheer audacity of not knowing calculus (or something), but do the inverse and you're a hero.

the truth is it takes a lot of effort to earnestly engage with both kinds of material so lazy people in both groups use lazy heuristics. the way I see it is you have two options if you want to be honest: either take up the mantle and dig in (read adorno and around adorno) or shutup (quit pontificating just to sound smart). both are completely tenable paths to being a responsible intelligent person.
That's a very good description of what I mind about the article. Cherry-picking "toxic" things, that's exactly it.
Especially considering the API costs of using Google maps now. I'm assuming they're getting free credits, but the list price per 1k loads is $7 so hopefully they're getting a lot for free.
ah, the blind trust in apple. there are so many ways to get that info. most apps will require sms activation for some features, etc.
Have you looked into https://materializecss.com/?
If you were going to teach people one language today that is commercially useful it probably would be Javascript.

People who are leaning toward scientific or data analysis stuff might do Python.

Languages with a more static type system or that require OO design to do anything add a whole new bunch of skills to be learned. That goes double for real systems languages like C/C++/Rust.
> meaning you need to dedicate more land to agriculture

I don't understand why most people have this wrong idea. In a lot of places, the grazing pastures are naturally occurring, they aren't planted there.

It feels like people want to destroy the natural landscape of countries like Argentina, just because it's now fashionable to say they don't eat meat.

Even goats, everyone goes around claiming they have such an ineficient CO2/Kg meat index. Well, around here, goats are fed almost all the year by going into the forest and cleaning the shrubs and small vegetation there... besides feeding the goats for free, it also cleans the forest for free: something we would have to do otherwise in order to prevent fires in the summer.
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Sorry, but that’s not enough. You need more ram to actually make the ssh connection useful. You can lock sshd and then be blocked from running your shell or any commands in that shell. You really do need reserved unused memory.
To be honest we probably can't do quality experiments on bats either. That explains why the article describes transplanting portions of the viral coat proteins on to other viruses-- to enable growth, albeit in an artificial system. that's how things are done. The problem of limited model systems is only relevant to ebola, but many other viruses (bacteria, diseases, ....)
This is awesome! I started using Tailwind for a project. I was a concern with the relatively big size of the framework on a landing page[1]. Then I used purgeCss to only leave the css classes that I used and remove all others. That solved the size issue.

[1] https://uxeranalytics.com/
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"I want to help people put tech down and plug back into the world"

But they are plugged to the world, and more so than in the past when they were limited to people around them, books, newspapers etc.
Where did you hear that? We're running a handful of m5a instances with fantastic performance. I figured they were priced lower because they're cheaper to purchase and operate.
There have been countless services who've attempted this model, none of them suceeded, in fact I can't even remember their names off the top of my head because no one bothered.
It's not as hard as you might imagine. Cheese is great because it's an umami bomb. However, there are other umami bombs out there (tomatoes being one!). As many people have said, though, it's all about the knowledge. A miso garlic sauce is insane, and easy to make, but very few people outside of Japan know about it. I'm not really sure exactly where the umami gets in, but fermented hot sauces are also amazing for filling out flavour (it could be the fermentation). To cook good vegan food it's not actually much harder, but you practically have to learn to cook all over again. (Was vegan for 10 years... hopes people enjoyed my cooking as much as I did... no guarantees ;-) ).
As strange as it is I think there is something to be said to limiting social media's most addictive features. These things are designed to be as addicting and unhealthy as possible in order to absorb as much of our time and energy as possible.
Have you worked with adults these days? They are actually children with no manners, its truly horrifying that these folks are rearing the next generation.
It's not always about performance. Years ago while traveling I installed Linux to a flash drive to carry my entire OS, apps, and data with me. While I did backup often, I was well aware of the danger that excessive write wear posed in killing my stick, so swap was disabled. To this very day and for the same reason, my Pi also has swap disabled.

As a result, I've encountered this flaw the Linux kernel design multiple times. And it is a flaw, as you only have to do the same test on Windows to see how an OS should behave when you run out of RAM: a hiccup followed by your offending tab being terminated by the OOM killer. Locking up the system for 10 min. is just not acceptable.
"I am guilty of this behavior myself and it's something that I've been working on a lot lately. I recognize that this is a problem, but I don't really support the government saving us from ourselves. I think this is something that average person just needs to educate themselves on and make the decision for themselves. It's not impossible to break free from it."

this is pretty much the line that always comes from corporate lobbyists. We have armies of highly paid people that work at companies to exploit every little weakness of the human psychology and put out a ton of fake information. But let's just make this the responsibility of the individual and ignore the amount of manipulation that's done . They did this for smoking and now they are doing it for obesity and social media addiction. I bet the opioid crisis is also blamed on individuals that don't take responsibility for themselves.

As an individual you almost have no chance to escape unless you put in a lot of effort to get better information and even then it's hard considering how much misinformation is being put out.

Why do we allow the creation of a society that's hostile to people so companies can make money exploiting their weakness?
I didn't really get significant digits until I played with a slide rule.
Did I miss the point? Is this a rant about incorrectly configuring swap space, or is this a rant about some kind of bad team dynamics?

Anyway, isn't this the kind of argument that should be replaced by gathering objective data? Otherwise, the low/no swap space problems really appear to be symptoms of someone irresponsibly experimenting in production.
LinkedIn accounts aren't quite as disposable as other social media accounts. NextDoor is similar in that regard, and while it is definitely a bit more rowdy than LinkedIn it does seem more measured and self-controlled than Twitter/Facebook/etc.
>I wish more American politicians would visit Europe and see how great closing off a few streets could be.

How's that going to help anything? American politicians are just doing what they were elected for by the American people, and the American people love cars and hate public transit. Enlightening some politicians will either have them doing nothing different because they want to appease their constituents, or doing something different and losing their re-election bid. The problem isn't the politicians, it's the voters.
From a graphic design/UX perspective, it looks subjectively worse for no benefit. As a developer, I would happily do the 5 minutes of work to determine how many digits were appropriate and display only those digits to minimize the visual noise.
It would be nice to see a cloud of possibility around the map marker, similar to how your own "I am here" dot has when your phone doesn't have a good fix.
> Just to be clear, I am not defending a particular law here, just highlighting that there is nothing inherently wrong with a government wanting to draft legislation in a cost/benefit effective way.

it's important to note that this is an opinion, not a fact. clearly there are a few people here who don't share that opinion.

personally I think to harm or even inconvenience people who haven't done anything wrong yet is one of the worst things a government can do. it's just my opinion though, clearly there are many people who are happy to grant even more power to the state so it can craft crude laws to protect them.
As the article discusses, much (though not all) of the issue he has is with the display value in UIs or published data.
Yeah, Newton's heirs have a huge check coming to them, when US Congress retroactively pushes copyright back a few centuries by extending it to "life + 300 Years".
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> - I don't need another Facebook

> - I get so much connection SPAM from LinkedIn that I consider LinkedIn one of the biggest cesspools on the internet. (Mostly recruiters who I've never worked with trying to connect, but sometimes people trying to connect as a way to promote their business.)

I deleted LinkedIn for these reasons two. I was on the platform for years and not once ever got a job out it. Why bother?

If you want my resume, I'll send it to you. If you want to see my work, go to my website.
It'd be great as a CI machine for doing full end-to-end integration testing.
This is starting to happen in the EU already: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49281111
What you're saying is 100% true. I personally dislike HN moderation because it stifles discussion in a big way.

A perfect example is the other poster who basically got called to task by dang for asking for sources to a claim. Dang characterized it as "unsubstantive" and lowering the signal to noise ratio.

For myself, a reasonable discussion is one which it's expected to be asked to cite sources. A community in which not doing so gets you called out.

Discourse on HN is too touchy feely, people are generally afraid to challenge others in a straightforward manner, so they end up using a lot of words to do so. It's like being in that meeting where the manager is using flowery language to extol the virtues of the company, when in reality everyone is there for reasons that don't involve the company itself.

I just kind of tolerate it, but in no way, shape, or form, do I view the discourse on HN as generally being honest or useful.
> We need international economic planning and the seizure of carbon extracting industry.

Hate to be cynical but there is 0% chance of this happening.

Climate change will never be "solved" because nobody truly cares. For the vast majority of people the consequences are too abstract and they like their current lifestyle too much.

People would rather pretend that using a paper straw will make the world livable for the next generation than face reality.
It's fkn creepy but it's sometimes useful when you want something. There, I think that about sums it up.
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Bread yeast is different from other types of yeast, such as the kind you'd get a yeast infection from.

Same broad taxonomic Order but way different lineages in the same way that bears and corgis are in the same order. Similar enough -- fur, teeth, etc. -- but one is a useful friend, and the other will try to kill you, though serious threats are kinda rare.

If this was bread yeast, even old bread yeast, it'll probably be harmless, in the same way that the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian cat will probably just act like any other cat.
A bunch of my current company’s backend is in JS on node. I’m not sure it’s so bad.

I’ve had a different experience that most didn’t know much programming, but understood some typical webapp patterns.

If more bootcampers came out with a solid understanding of programming principles and software engineering basics, the language they knew wouldn’t matter as much.

Edit: I’ll also add that yes, they probably are looking for a job quickly, and that should be OK. Many bootcampers are trying to improve their lives by making a drastic change in their career. I think bootcamps set students’ expectations too high. They apply for as many jobs as they can without really knowing if they are a good fit. Often they’re not but there is some company out there that needs a jr web dev who would love to help them develop their skills and career. It’s just probably a bad idea to go for early and mid stage startups.
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Hi, the author here.

Some time ago I noticed that many of my TypeScript projects share similar types and I decided to extract them to common library. Since then I was joined by many awesome contributors.

ts-essentials is a nice addition to standard TypeScript library with deep*, recursive types like DeepPartial or DeepReadonly. Turns out, there are many edge cases while implementing those, just take a look: https://github.com/krzkaczor/ts-essentials/blob/master/lib/t...

I am here if you have any questions!
I would be shocked if this isn't happening all the time.