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Ask HN: Mid-life career crisis, need your help
The backstory:

I've been a "front-end developer" for the last 10 years or so. I'm quickly approaching my mid 40's. I've worked everywhere from small start ups to huge corporate gigs. All the roles I had were 100% HTML, CSS and JS (99% jQuery).

My problem:

About five years ago, I took a role at a large health care company. The first work they had me doing was AngularJs (brand new at the time - version 1.3), mixed with AEM (enterprise CMS) and Bootstrap. I was stoked, new JS framework just when everything was transitioning to full stack JS - this is exactly where I need to be! The project lasted 18 months. Then we lost the large government contract we were working on. The teams were all disbanded and pieced out to other teams. I was sent to another team which worked on portals. It was a 10-15 year old CMS. I was now back working with inline CSS, inline JS all over the place. I just kind of settled in to being a glorified content guy that fixes UI bugs. I just thought, "Well, this isn't the hardest job, so why rock the boat?"

This is where I am. Stuck in the middle of the road, during a pandemic that has everything shut down and nobody is hiring. Yes, I still have a job and a "career" but I'm not happy and I realize I need to do SOMETHING to find a more modern role where I can develop whatever skills I need to get out of this gutter I've slid into it. I realize this means taking a step down in pay, taking a step back from a senior level position to a mid or even entry level position. Aside from that, what other advice can you give me that will help get me to where I need to go? The last few weeks I've been focusing a lot on design tools - Sketch, InVision and Adobe XD. I LOVE working with JS, but I think the move to UX might be easier for me. I'm not adverse to putting in the time to hone my JS skills, but what other advice can you give me??

If you made this far, thanks for reading and any advice is always appreciated!
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I keep a USB-c Ethernet plugged into my monitor which acts as a USB hub + uses a single cord to both power and connect the usb devices.

It’s nice only having to plug one thing in when I start working with a monitor.

I don’t need Ethernet when I’m on the go or browsing in bed. Like most people...
Can you link to the data you're talking about? I did some searching and I see about 20 people making more than $300k a year and almost all of them are director level positions.
Ask HN: What is the value of a degree now?
I am a college student. I take courses in math and computer science with the latter being my real area of interest. I go to a large public university.

When the crisis began, the quality of my education took a massive hit. This was expected because it was sudden and it was the week before finals. Professors were scrambling and using any quick solutions they could find. Now, I am a month into a new quarter and nothing has improved. With the exception of a single class, all of my professors have switched to a completely useless powerpoint/zoom combination. I have already paid for this quarter, so I am stuck. Luckily, I am okay at learning from textbooks/wikis.

My parents and I have been discussing whether it even makes sense for me to enroll next year. It seems unlikely that they will cram us into 400+ person lecture halls come fall. Paying 60k for zoom powerpoints seems absurd. I am at the point where most of my classes are electives and project based (both in math and cs). I feel that I could accomplish a decent amount of that learning independently. In fact, the most concentrated period of learning I had this year was working on a personal project. I've got of other projects I want to pursue, but that I've sidelined because of coursework.

What would you do if you were in my position? Is the value of a college degree now the same as what it was? Should I enroll next year? If not, the year after? Will I be unable to find work unless I finish?
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I agree. But it seems to have worked in Korea. The math doesn't seem to reconcile somehow. Actually probably the prevalence of masks explains the difference.
I’ve been asked to “call the number printed on the back of [my] card” which would be much harder to spoof.
You could fix it but get ready for a battle with the people who profit from these inefficiencies. One person’s inefficiency is another person’s livelihood and profit.
left vs right USB-C ports...

I got a MBP 2019 at the end of May 2019 - it was just released a few days before. My USB-C ports on the left of the computer do not power an external monitor, only ports on the right. This doesn't seem to be called out in any specs, but and another MBP 2019, purchased in October... doesn't exhibit that. I feel like I got some weird 'in between' model. I can't find it now, but I'd thought I'd seen something in the 'system report' showing that some powers had more power than others...
Single-row inserts are super common in both application code and in interactive usage of SQL, so I think that it is worth it to have a syntax for them that reduces this common error. Especially when a table has many columns of the same type (like booleans). E.g.

insert into Permissions(UserId, Create, Read, Update, Delete, Share, ForceUnlock, LaunchNukes) values (12345, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1);

When I wrote my (now unmaintained) statically typed SQL dialect for F#, which compiles to underlying SQLite/Postgres/MSSQL, I added a single-row insert with Field=Value because it's nice to have and took no more than 30 minutes to do. It's only a tweak to the parser after all -- you just parse it to the same AST used to represent the `INSERT ... VALUES` clause and all later stages of the compilation do not need to know about it.

https://rspeele.gitbooks.io/rezoom-sql/doc/Language/InsertSt...
The 'I got nothing to hide' is when discussing law enforcement surveilence? It is funny how fear of the "police state" is more or less irrelevant now vs early 2000s and private companies are the main problem. It is hard to predict the future.
Right but all of those things were true when they got permission. It's not like cell phones have just been invented. Or are you saying that the original altitudes were just a standard set of altitudes everyone uses, and now spaceX wants to go lower?
Thing is... most people don't use ethernet anymore, at least for notebooks. So it makes sense that your options are limited.
I should have clarified that Geekbench can be more accurately described as a set of microbenchmarks. It does test a lot of different kinds of performance, but it does not test sustained performance.
Doesn't look like it: https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Installation
No, but it’s a trap. If someone answers an obviously rhetorical question, they’re inadvertently demonstrating a predilection for engaging the construction, not the substance, of a statement, and almost certainly missing the ironic subtext.

I’d be happy to repeat my assertion though. People don’t inwardly digest the mistakes of others, which is why educators on safety-critical topics such as those mentioned must go to extraordinary lengths to extract and convey the salient teachings, translated into better practices, drills, equipment etc.

Reading the archives of the Dropzone fatalities database, for example, won’t make me a better skydiver.

Conversely, the best structured educational processes I’ve experienced are essentially offering the student the opportunity to make their own mistakes, but under circumstances that don’t have consequences (other than pedagogical or scholastic)
What's weird is that the Stanford study was suggested to have exaggerated the results, since those who suspected themselves as having the virus at one time were more likely to volunteer (allegedly). However, those results were nowhere near as big as this (I think like 2%-3% versus the 20%!)
This is a form of critical thinking error. "They" wanted to build a safe destination in case of a multitude of possible conditions come to occur. You are looking with a historical lens on what has happened and then labeling them "dumb" based on the knowledge we have now. If you look at it that way, almost any disaster planning is "dumb".
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> "Yes, buying insurance is bad if it disincentivizes you to work your hardest to prevent the outcome that you're insured against."

Most people here have home fire insurance coverage but don't have extinguishers (or haven't checked them in years), sprinklers, or a fire safe. So is fire insurance coverage bad?
Because they want to reap the benefits of a large society to enrich themselves, then cut and run once society faces hard times.

Once this is all over, they'll want to stroll back in like nothing happened. Ideally, we won't let them back in.
Nah, it's not Ubuntu problem, it just happens because software is complex. It depends on so many factors and things like Debian break just as often.

I've personally had the same install across six Ubuntu installs in total and I know other people like that as well. Anecdotal experience but so is claiming Ubuntu's breakage ratio is higher.
This can happen if you create an account with a username that has "disallowed" words. It's happened to me with usernames that end with "dotcom" or "_com".
Should be solvable by making sure there's an easy, reliable, uniform way to get this info within the call.

> "Hello. Please find the callback number on boa.com/contact. Please enter code XYZ to be connected directly to the agent regarding this matter. Thank you & goodbye."

It's not perfect & you'll still have some percentage of fraud that goes through, but I'd be interested to see the impact this has on fraud rates.

* EDIT: Callback number via the card as the other commentor noted probably works too.
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That’s all fine until they use this as an excuse to remove a drive, or a headphone port, or prevent you from changing the battery, and then refuse to admit they aren’t meeting the needs of their customers.
Wine is indeed very good these days. It's amazing how much Windows software it will run.

And if Wine doesn't cut it, KVM with Gnome Boxes works amazingly well and is super easy to use. I had to do that for my tax software last year.
> This whole thread reminds me of how passionate the power pc enthousiasts were defending it as superior, right before apple switched to intel and doubled mac performance overnight.

To be fair, the PowerPCs _were_ measurably better and faster when each one was released. Apple just couldn't get a G5 CPU that would fit into a laptop, and IBM was an unreliable partner with a slow release cycle, so by the time the transition happened they had fallen behind.
Note: there are some unofficial IG clients, without paywalls, using the API (however they probably try to kill them when they get too big).

Example: https://igdig.com/
Our technology also continued to evolve throughout the war, updated fighters, better engines, even whole new designs. The Germans as far as mass produced designs went were effectively frozen in 1939.

Well, not completely. "Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles" has a nice video on, "Why was the BF109K faster than the P51D? MW 50!" So to try and compensate for only having lower octane fuel, German engineers in WWII went to water/methanol injection for emergency power. Things did go back and forth quite a bit. Granted, the BF109 was one of the most advanced late 1930's designs going up against 1940's allied wartime designs. But there were times when updates on older designs would outclass the other sides slightly older versions, and this happened repeatedly on both sides.

Technological choices were often driven by ideology, and perception, much more than in the other dictatorship at the time

"Yes, but can it dive bomb?" probably did about as much to compromise designs of Nazi fighter/interceptors and slow the release of new airplanes as espionage and sabotage by the allies!
Some low-temp solders melt as low as 140C, but typical SAC lead-free solders you'll find in laptop motherboards melt at 220C. Many laptops are fine if a processor core hits 100C.

I've got an old Thinkpad with an i7-3920mx that regularly runs at 95C when running a few VMs and is certified by Intel up to 105C. And yes, I've tried replacing the thermal paste and increasing fan speeds to try to keep temperatures down, because not all processors are successful there, but it has been running like that with no issues for years.
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Sure, Ubuntu and Debian change the source code/setup of upstream packages, and generally add very little value compared to just using Gentoo/Arch/Red Hat based distros which actually use upstream components with much less touches and provide a more sane way to install your own packages, run docker container etc. In addition, Ubuntu does not do any real work pushing desktop linux forward.

Ubuntu focuses its efforts on ill-advised efforts like writing its own compositor (Mir) and Desktop environment (Unity).

Currently, most work to advance the Linux desktop is focused on a new project called Wayland (Used by Fedora for last few releases), yet Ubuntu has decided to double down on X11, a legacy project that clearly has no future and has issues like screen tearing that are basically impossible to fix.

Another tangible example related to developers: On Fedora/Arch you can run docker containers without requiring root due to Red Hat's work pushing podman forward, however you cannot do this on Ubuntu/debian because they lag behind upstream
> they [...] outsourced the design and production of components that were not their core competency, then slowly replaced those outsourced designs until they had something entirely their own.

This is interesting. Any references to read more on this ?
But numbers can change (lapses of mergers), is website would be best as card info can become stale over time —and enterprising outfits could scoop up that number.
This doesn't pass the smell test for me at all.

First, Amazon has no idea whether you run your whole business on AWS or only 5% of it. Second, different businesses have such vastly different computing requirements, which make up drastically different percentages of budgets, that there is virtually no signal here to figure out profits.

You're going to be far better off just looking at publicly available data -- funding, employees, pricing on the website -- and having a business analyst put them together.
"Quarantine" historically refers to segregation of people or populations who've been exposed to a disease from the general public. The idea of a general quarantine, where everyone is segregated from everyone else, was as far as I can tell invented out of whole cloth a few months ago.
I recently bought at 49” ultrawide monitor. Both my MacBooks can drive the native resolution in Windows but not MacOS. Apple refuses to fix their broken driver or even acknowledge it is a problem.

Workaround is to provide two inputs to the monitor and run it in picture by picture mode. This is ok but when waking from sleep MacOS gets confused about what monitors windows were on and the arrangement of the panels. This has always been a problem and why I got away from dual/multi panels in the first place. MacOS support for that has always been abysmal.

It’s one of the first examples of Apple gear not “Just working (tm)”. I suppose it’s my fault for not buying a monitor with an Apple logo on it.

I find myself wondering why I deal with the headaches in MacOS. I switched because it was easy. Now Apple is making it hard. At this point fighting with Linux actually appears to be easier than using MacOS.
I switched this month from Google services to alternatives and therefore to PMs paid plan. I'm very happy so far with the Android and web app.
Instagram is also very liked for people who use it to only follow or be followed by friends, so in that sense it feels like a very private network and does not affect at all. Why would you care if they only allow public profiles to be viewed by people within the platform?
The fog of war seems to be relenting, but as a casual observer it's been maddening to see so much conflicting information and the corresponding cherry-picking of information to assert that this is overblown.
Dongles are annoying for moving about and they are One More Thing to worry about.
At what point have we scientifically reached "herd immunity"? Is it 50%, 90%, 99%?
Yeah, it's constantly running slowly and I have to restart it often and it's crashed in critical moments which is unacceptable given I use it for work

Great advice on the refurb, thank you!
“ Moreover, we don't know what fraction of the currently-infected who will die have already died. A reasonable guess might be 50%” I lost you at reasonable guess. Why not ~1%?
Medicare for All seems to be the way to go. If people want fancier health care they can add something on top but we need a base level of affordable and accessible health care.
I have not found any developer toolchain that is harder to install on "Window" (heh) then Mac OS in fact Im pretty sure installing Homebrew voids your apple warranty. The difference is most Window devs use Visual Studio which isn't modern or compatible with broader industry standards in 2020.
Tested with different browsers, computers, connections, even cities.

Another user here thought the post was about that scrolling limit that's in place for a few months now. That's different. I wasn't able, previous to publication, to confirm if this is happening in other countries, but here in hacker news there are more users reporting the same issue.
I wish the regulators for financial institutions would mandate this. One of the reasons I left, years ago, the much-beloved-for-reasons-I-do-not-understand Pacific Northwest darling credit union BECU is because I got griped at by their customer service rep who called me to ostensibly tell me about fraud on my credit card. When the rep asked me "identity verification" questions, they got most upset when I replied that they should have this information and how do I know I'm actually talking to BECU.

"Sir, I'm just trying to help prevent fraud on your account and I need to know that it's actually you who answered the phone."

(Yes, there legitimately was fraud but I had no way to know it at the time. I closed the account about a month later after another issue.)
No proof does not mean its not very likely.
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The pricing is very different. Fastmail allows unlimited domains where proton is almost double the cost for two.
sounds like it might be a defect. i have a 2018 mbp with a monitor plugged into both left and right right now
> Can anyone prove it?

Sure, just follow their bank statements and other financial ledgers.

> Do they need it?

I dunno, 'need' is tricky to define. Could you list all of the needs that you think you have? Why do you think you are entitled to those needs?

> Is a CEO with multiple mansions and private jets and billions in the bank more worthy of life than the guy working in the mines processing the raw materials of modern civilization but living from paycheck to paycheck and barely able to support a family?

Certainly not. Are we talking about life or money?

> What about the mogul who raises essentials prices during a crisis? Or the traffickers running prostitution rings? There are many ways to make money without "earning" it. Can you make sure that only the people who earned their money can have it?

You make a fair point, there are many ways to collect money with questionably ethical methods. Does that matter? What about rich technology workers? Folks that own businesses that aren't spectacular, like car insurance companies, speed boat manufacturers, construction companies, etc?
Mortality rate, case fatality rate and infection fatality rates are all different things and have different values.

Infection fatality rate of the virus could be within 0.5% (because its the one that tries to take into account everyone who has been infected), mortality rate is very likely still the one WHO has published and the third, case fatality rate is ~38% in the US.
Lora Meshnet Solutions?
I was looking around and I noticed that there was a push for meshnets based on LoRa a few years back, but I can't find anything from the past year or so. Does anyone know of such a project?
Depends on the MOSFET, of course. Some MOSFETS will run up to 300°C, according to the manufacturers.

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/HTNFET-T/342-1091-...

Used in e.g. turbine engines, instrumentation in oil wells or mining operations, and industrial process control. You can get microcontrollers that work in similar temperature ranges, “in any architecture as long as it’s an 8051”.
Agreed, but also: it's important to know that some of the "hardcore/tunable" distros don't provide a good understanding of how components fit together either.

I don't know how it is now, but many years ago it was a running joke that most Gentoo users hadn't the faintest idea of how anything worked, but felt "hardcore" because they could pass many command line flags to the build and felt they were "optimizing" their system -- actual gains were not demonstrably noticeable, but they "felt fast" -- and they had no understanding whatsoever of gcc flags for example. Experienced users had to patiently explain that no, you shouldn't pass that experimental flag to gcc or everything would break.

"Hardcore" Gentoo users believed that by "installing from source" they somehow magically ended up with a faster system. No empirical evidence, of course, just a heartfelt belief compiling source code was magical.

This kind of "hardcore" Gentoo users was very, very, very annoying. Users of Ubuntu were better off: they understood what they worked with regularly and didn't pretend to understand what they didn't need to understand.
I don’t think if you increased the pay you’d start seeing creative people at the entry level suddenly want to work for the government.

The bigger problem is with elected offices. We as a society aren’t wired to desire change. We generally prefer incumbents and people who maintain the status quo over anyone “radical” which is a dirty word in politics.
And now they are conspiring to make people believe the virus is not as bad as it is, so workers can get back to slaving away, while the government pushes people into their hands by providing no assistance whatsoever.
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This was the game-changer for me. When I first saw 2012 MBP Retina I was sold. Build quality is overall so much better than its class, although Thinkpads are solid stuff as well (good enough for the ISS, anyway). The rest of your comment I align with also.
If you're like a company I was at before, you'd pay $10k+ for DB consultants to tune some queries and your prod database, and when migrating your DB to new hardware forget to re-tune it and waste the extra 64GB and even SSDs installed. There should still be a bare minimum floor of competence for actually developing against and maintaining databases organizationally whether it's a DBA, better engineers, etc. Throwing hardware at a problem is fine when you're sure that you are actually throwing it in the first place which I have seen surprisingly few places do well.