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This is somewhat cultural: it would not be considered unacceptable in many startups in the US, where I am right now.

But your username and grammar make me wonder whether you're French and in France, are you? If you are, I think it may actually be an illegal request. European attitudes towards work are extremely different to US ones, which are themselves more relaxed than e.g. East Asian.

From https://newatlas.com/right-to-disconnect-after-hours-work-em... :

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"France, in particular, has been ahead of the world in establishing legal frameworks protecting a person's right to disconnect. Back in 2001 the idea was first floated when the French Supreme Court ruled that employees are under no obligation to bring work home, and as technology progressed the Court continued to update its ruling. In 2004, for example, it was established that it was not misconduct if an employee was not reachable on a smartphone outside of work hours.

The right to disconnect was solidified at the beginning of 2017 with France introducing the El Khomri law, which suggests every employee contract must include a negotiation of obligations required of an employee regarding how connected they are outside of office hours. The law is reasonably vague and doesn't restrict after-hours work communication, but rather obliges organizations to negotiate these terms clearly with prospective employees."
"Wifi and wires are cheaper" is your argument.

>The main benefit of cellular is when you're away from WiFi.

For you maybe.

The billions you mention are a result of government auctioning, it doesn't mean anything to users besides added cost.
Current title is "Western Digital’s SMR disks won’t work for ZFS, but they’re okay for most NASes." That isn't the title of the article (it's the subtitle) and doesn't match the conclusion:

> Conclusions

> We want to be very clear: we agree with Seagate's Greg Belloni, who stated on the company's behalf that they "do not recommend SMR for NAS applications." At absolute best, SMR disks underperform significantly in comparison to CMR disks; at their worst, they can fall flat on their face so badly that they may be mistakenly detected as failed hardware.

That's definitely not saying it's "okay for most NASes." Could we get a rename? It looks like Ars Technica themselves might be going back and forth; the current URL contains the slug, "western-digitals-smr-disks-arent-great-but-theyre-not-garbage," indicating that may have been the old title.
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It’s your local time zone.
It's rather shocking the American Civil War and Confederate States of America aren't mentioned in this article
I am super excited to try out Blazor as well. I believe its the basis of the Azure web platform frontend so anyone can try it out just by signing up to the free tier. For me, I'm looking at rapid web ui prototyping. The ability to deliver a native-feeling web experience to a client in mere hours ;)
there is still so much that stands in my way

My experience is that technology has never stood in my way. It may be inconvenient, but I always find a way to work with it.

The thing that has always been in my way is other people. Always.

For me:

1. A boss who has a clue. Who has actually built software deployed to production at least once. Who understands the customer's business. Who manages things and leads people, not the other way around. Who gives me my assignments, the resources I'll need, and leaves me alone.

2. Project managers who know how to run projects.

3. Business analysts who know how to conduct analysis.

4. The decision to either go agile or not. No more sprints, stand-ups, scrum masters, product owners, retrospectives, etc, etc, etc, unless we do it completely and do it right.

5. Anyone, anywhere who writes something, anything down. No more, "Don't you remember when Sue asked Michael and he got Fred to tell us in that skype?" (My answer is always, "No.")

6. Any environment where I spend 90% of my time programming and 10% on overhead, not the other way around.

7. Authority to go along with my responsibility. I'm tired hitting every deadline and forced to wait weeks (or months!) for Peer Review, Code Review, Design Review, Standards Review, User Acceptance Testing, Integration Testing, Quality Review (against what standard?), Steering Committee approval, Leadership approval, approval from God herself...

8. A minimal acceptable competence level for my teammates, achieved by proper vetting (including tech interviews and tests). Software development is achieved as fast as the weakest link, not the strongest one.

9. No meetings!!! If it isn't written down, it isn't. If it is written down, you probably don't need to meet.

I could go one all day, but I'm late for a meeting. :-(
There is a difference between consuming models and training them yourself -- I could be wrong but with tensorflow.js I think it is much more geared toward consuming models in the browser, rather than training novel ones yourself. Seems like you can customize an existing model via transfer learning, which may or may not be good enough for your usecase, but even then I feel like basically the training side of it is second rate. But you could potentially make _predictions_ with a really sophisticated/cutting edge model in JS -- its not the prediction part that takes enormous compute, it is the training part
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This is fantastic, thank you. I bookmarked it to use when I start my next side project. At work we have a graphic design team to develop assets, but on my own I have no such resource. And I'm beyond terrible at it.
I totally agree with you, but production deployments are terrible. The confusing way to handle secrets and environment variables, the lack of a standard database migration tool that is not tied to EF, the lack of a good standard integration layer with nginx... it's just a pain if you don't have a dedicated devops team.
I'm always available for call whenever physically possible, mind you I work in finance. Depends what kind of ownership of the project you take, but you should NOT be forced into it; That should have been discussed when you took on the managerial role, as obviously you didn't have full understanding of responsibilities. Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with that request (again it should be request not forced), but bigger problem is that you might have other hidden responsibilities and that is a bit of a red flag.
That's an interesting observations. "Nearly as bad".
For the first point how would you handle software that needs a database of some sort? Or are you saying the project ought to include an install script that handles dependencies?
What's your PhD in?
I spent much of my 20's struggling with finding purpose in life, similar to the OP, and this is the only comment here that matched with what I landed on. I'm now about to begin my 30's with many of these things either done or in progress.

The biggest one has been taking up climbing as a sport. Climbing has a clear path to improvement, has a wonderful social element, takes you to amazing places around the world, and can be as safe or risky as you're willing to push.

The other big component in life that I've taken up is art. Writing, painting, music, poetry, you name it. There is something innate about producing art that I think every human can benefit from. On that note, I think it's also easy for us to dismiss ourselves as untalented in any of these arts, but they're like any other skill and they'll become more fulfilling with time.
At the last 3 companies (all small startups) I have worked for, this would have been considered unreasonable. When a person is away, we would not attempt to contact them unless it is a true emergency, and there would be no expectation that they should check their messages. You should be able to delegate your responsibilities to one of your colleagues.
You say that you manage 2 devs in a 6 people business: You and your team are half the whole company so I'm thinking that you are critical.

Based on that I think it is not crazy to ask you to touch base a couples of times a week while on holiday.

Very small businesses often have big problems operating when even one person is missing because there is no slack in the system: Everyone has an important role and has to be on deck.

Hopefully, there is a big upside for you that compensates for this.

In a large company it's possible that no-one will even notice that you went on holdays...
Why is this on HN, and why are people upvoting it? Isn't WP.SE a thing any more?
I think I remember reading or hearing Malcolm Gladwell reccomend to visit less fortunate/developed parts of the globe, and understand what really matters for humans, as well as realising how small things even can help.

For an extreme case to seek inspiration from someone who has everything, and genuenly seems content with his life is Bill Gates.

Best of luck, and congrats on achieving what you have!
Didn't you tell me recently that you started to get really into backwoods camping? It's unfortunate that signal is so bad in the woods, eh?
The idea that aliens would use these to propel ships is rather ludicrous, and highly unlikely. The nearest galaxy is 25k light years away so even at the maximum speed it would take 25 thousand years to travel here.

That being said, it must be something exceptionally energetic.. wish I could see it.
Tell him no and start looking for a new job. If you go along, your manager is just taking advantage of you. If you don't, I expect that you'll have a really hard time especially in a business this small and with a manager this bad.
Welp. So that also rules out going to places with no connectivity.
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>Both the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Great Recession greatly influenced the attitudes of this generation in the United states, and resulted in a feeling of unsettlement and insecurity among Gen Z.

I'd be surprised if zoomers cared at all about 9/11, since they would've been too young to remember or process it.
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Great point. it is how Facebook gathers almost global info from the web to feed their db and use with impunity. did Facebook record my id when I visited the page and tie the event to my Facebook user id? The answer is likely yes weather I have an active fb account or not. FB is a network, not a platform, that has turned into a massive surveillance and population mind control tool used by those who own and have influence over the network. For the sake of all users this must change. For the sake of the free internet.
Quite an impressive project! I'm curious how the authors went about their strategy for hot reloading in particular.

In Grid, I extend the package library, and utilize the implementation details of `module` which allow one to override or set new keys on subsequent loads of the same file.

It's one of the reasons I don't think I can use the newer module patterns beyond Lua 5.1.5, because as far as I understand, they require one to completely replace what's stored in `package.loaded` versus merging to any existing table.

I had also not given much thought to static typing with Lua until the last year or so working with Lua only because it makes generating documentation harder. Otherwise, I tend to share Roberto Ierusalimschy's opinions of dynamic typing.

I would read his most recent interview from Moscow in 2019. I think he's a very interesting person.
Intriguing; Is this actually serious? Like, is it possible that the unaccounted for matter (what, ~98%) is simply locked within dyson galaxies?
You have to be able prototype fast and that’s nodejs + react . For better performance and still fast dev cycle it could be golang. Golang also for anything related to kubernetes

rust, c++ For some high performance
Python might be good to know just because so many DS things are written in those languages.
Scala/java/c# for something robust but verbose e.g. fintech
It’s really depends on industry.
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Haha you almost got me, french yes, france no: Québec Canada :)

I will look up the law to be sure !
Just be clear between you and your boss what the expectation is.

If the expectation is that you'll check your email at least once a day at a set time and do maybe 15 minutes of work tops, then yeah, that absolutely goes with the territory of small company management. Pick a time and put it on your calendar for each day you're away, "Respond to emails", 15 minutes long.

If it's more than that, and the expectation is that you'll be available on short notice to resolve anything that comes up, then you're effectively on call and should use that language explicitly.

What would be unreasonable would be for you to effectively be on call for 8 hours a day during your vacation and to still be deducted the normal PTO rate.
I think what we did during the lockdown doesn't count as a proper test of home schooling / remote working.

What we did here in Belgium is to force kids to stay at home and force parents to work from home WHILE the kids are there. I have 3 and none of the teachers throughout 3 months of confinement had a single Skype session with any. We're talking about <10 years old so a single teacher is normally dedicated to the kids. In effect on top of working from home we have to do the job of 3 teachers. Actually make it 6 teachers because the normal school lessons are half-day between 9 and 12 noon and in the afternoon another teacher is taking over or they just throw the pupils into a playground. So yes, it doesn't work under these circumstances.
Germany now has 20 million retirees that just got a raise of 3.5%-4.5% in their pensions . Already 1/4 of the population expects to be paid by a dwindling and ageing workforce. Before long 1 adult will have to pay for 4 retirees (in Denmark). This isn't a problem that will lead to military conflict necessarily, but (almost) for sure to a collapse of social safety nets by mid century.
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It looks even better in person and sounds almost the same, just without the beat/percussion backing track.

Dammit, I really wish when people would do this stuff they would not add backing tracks.
A potential reply to avoid coming across poorly could be something like: "what time code or project number should I report my time under when I stop my vacation and go on-call?"
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I have a family member who works at a bank and has been having to field some of these situations. This is all anecdotal, but at least should help fill out some of the possible situations.

+ A fair amount of people have savings accounts and nothing else. They don't have a debit card and don't use that account with any regularity.

+ There are also some folks who have checking accounts but don't have or don't want to use debit cards. I don't fully understand the why, it sounds like this mostly older folks who don't trust them.

+ There are some access issues with banks. Most banks still want you to be in person for opening an account, and you need to be in person if you want to get cash. For some folks who aren't very mobile, most local banks don't have enough branches.

+ There are some people who really struggle with the paperwork. It's not a difficult form especially for the bank in particular I'm using a reference and the bank tellers will help you fill the form out (it's a page with your name and address, and your social security number basically) but that's enough of a hurdle it precludes some people. Some of the information that's collected here is required by the feds to limit moneylaundering, it's not just the bank.

I suspect it happens but have not heard of any cases of fees being directly the cause. I know I've had a few conversations where someone was surprised to find out you can do banking without fees, didn't understand it was possible to ask for a rate schedule, didn't understand ATM networks, etc. I suspect there's a financial literacy gap that's a cause here (and many subpar banks being fee happy).
>There really are unrepentantly awful people in the world, and sometimes we need to save innocents from them.

As we have seen, more than a few of them work in law enforcement.
Yes but not too young to be affected by the subsequent laws and wars.

Some of these kids have only known our country in a state of endless war.
If I could give one piece of advice for technical developers it’s that design isn’t all about the way it looks, it’s about the way it works.

To expand on that, it’s how the pieces fit together within your set of constraints. There’s a LOT in common with what makes code beautiful or not. You get to the essential; nothing more, nothing less. This doesn’t mean “minimalist” , per se — just be wary of ornamentation that doesn’t add value.

A design can be award-winning without much “flash”. A readable font. A thoughtful, consistent, grid, that gives the content some air. Color choices based on accessibility, constrained to a palette that has some meaning for the project, etc.

Don’t be afraid to learn about design! Look to resources like IDEO, who take a principled approach to design that’s not superficial. Think about the field of Architecture, where engineering and aesthetics have been combined for centuries — and where the same concerns of “essential” vs “ornamental” remain an active area of debate to this day.
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You know, just about every major university needs good IT people to run the place. Many offer free tuition as a perk of working there. For example, MIT is currently looking for a software developer:

https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/externa...

And they offer tuition reimburstment:

https://hr.mit.edu/benefits/tuition-plan

ALso here's some california universities for West Coast people.

https://jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu/site/advancedsearch?...
> If the project requires me to locally install a database, configure ports, or anything of the like, that's a shining red flag that things are very wrong

I disagree here slightly. I think it's reasonable that a database setup may be necessary, especially if abstraction layers (ie. ORMs) aren't being used for SQL, and SQLite is not your database of choice. Sure, you could set up docker, but not every project adopts or even likes docker.
Good grief, even the Mormons in my town (I'm a few hours from Salt Lake City, my area is heavily LDS) don't try to use the Book of Mormon as a history text. Nothing has been validated, none of the cities listed have been found. Keep in mind, we have the Mayan writings and can read them...it is nothing like what is written in the Book of Mormon. Then there is DNA evidence, and nothing matches up there as well.
Note that ARM, Nvidia and AMD consider newer architecture as trade secrets and make it really hard to access to certain information.

Some of the current open drivers are really watered down.
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Thank you for the kind words, voppe. :)
"Rethinking from first principles" and "reinventing the wheel" are pretty easy to conflate. Proceed with caution.

My recommendation is to choose boring technologies that are widely deployed so that people will have to support them for decades to come. If there isn't a mature, well-supported option in a space, it's better to roll your own than to spend a bunch of time learning a technology and writing code, and then have to relearn and rewrite in 2 years when that technology is no longer supported. The bigger and more complex something is, the more you should let it get boring before you commit to it.

Here's what I'm using:

* Django

* Django REST Framework

* Celery

* React/React DOM

* ImmerJS

* Postgres

* Redis

* Nginx

For the most part, if it's not on this list, I try not to use it. There are other libraries I'm using, but nothing I would recommend.

There are a lot of things I hate about Django. But it's a boring technology and that outweighs the other concerns. It works and I have no doubts that it will continue to work well.

The one thing on this list that's not a "boring" technology is ImmerJS. This is not a complex technology, so I'm a bit less worried about adding it to my stack. And it allows me to avoid the global state that Redux or similar tools force you into[1]. If a better solution emerges, I don't think switching from Immer will be very difficult, and if Immer loses support, I don't think there will be much difficulty in continuing to use it.

[1] Yes, I understand how reducers work. If you don't understand that reducers are a way of pulling out one part of global state, you do not understand how reducers work. Sure, reducers make using global state less painful, but introducing complex tools to deal with problems created by your other complex tools is not a good strategy.
By "computers" I really meant "the complexity in the software that computers run".
Computers do very complex things and most of those things can't be directly seen.
So if you want to tell someone about what some software is doing, it's not always easy.
There's ReasonML, which compiles to JS and seems intended for production
I don't know if this is sarcastic, but yeah I'd like that too.
Ah, but my example was far more decentralized than a VPS provider: I like being able to run something safely from my own house.

(Probably the only issue I currently hit doing this is that my ISP forbids me to use well-known ports, and Cloudflare will neither provide free CDN on a non-standard port, nor allow me to do any sort of redirecting to another port using their free service.)
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This is completely unacceptable. I work for a small company of 9, with 3 programmers (me being one). On vacation we all unplug to the fullest extent. It's all about setting expectations, having redundancy and backups. In fact, the boss hired me so that he could do exactly this, unplug and leave the country to have a solid vacation. I tend to either unplug all the way, or make it impossible to contact me by either being somewhere remote. I haven't come back to a burning fire yet.
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> campaign to expose injustice and corruption ... These are the bad guys???

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