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Ask HN: How to feel work not like work?
Front End Dev:- React Native
1.5 yr exp
Working in startup,worked in service based.

Feeling stuck, i do like programming and want to be in developer zone and building things,but working and developing as per requirements and as per orders for others just doesn't feel right for me, feels like endless loops where i am just doing things which needs to be done within particular time and deliver and not taking time,enjoying,learning and doesn't feel like it is something that i have to do, but just complete tasks
There is no feeling of connection to the idea, no control, thats what is missing for me

Do you guys facing any of this?How do you go about it and any advice,suggestion for me?

Thanks
> When you're getting close to 5-6x the national rate and nearly a third of the university, it's gotta be worth noting, right?

It's worth noting and emulating. Punishing success is the path to mediocrity. Instead other groups should take note and ask themselves "what should our community be doing so that we can also emulate the success that that group has had?"

Any solution that doesn't involve trying to trying to get every group to emulate the success of the groups doing it right will eventually lower standards.

There is a soft bigotry in low expectations.

https://1776unites.com/featured-essays/the-1619-project-perp...

I'm not Jewish, but I have nothing but profound respect for that community because they have such great values that they are consistently crushing it and helping one another succeed. Just take the absolute atrocity many of them suffered in WWII and yet 75 years later, many of those that had everything stripped from them have succeeded better than probably any other community would have given the same adversity.
My boss did this to a client once. He was not amused and soon thereafter became a former client.
At the same time, what have we gained gained from this meta discussion about which comments belong on Reddit and which ones don’t?

Also, is reddit the only other site on the internet with a comment section? Why is Reddit specifically relevant here?
Applying self-improvement takes time, work and effort.

You are applying it when you change as a result of reading and specially using what you learn. Change is essential, if you do not change anything you are not using it.

It is easier to just (passively) read something than applying it. The problem with reading(or watching videos) is that it can be used as an excuse for procrastination as it is way easier doing something passive that active.

The most interesting thing is that the problem is not in reading. I worked with a kid whose parents were worried as he used videogames to procastinate. They put the console out of the kid's reach and now the kid will just stare at the wall for hours just daydreamming.

So my advice is for you to start applying what one book about procastination says. Select just one good book and start applying it on your life.

It is very important that you just decide and pick one. I don't know "The Now habit" for example.

Write down in a journal the difficulties you face, your emotions while doing so and work over it consistently.
You can donate to Bootstrap via https://opencollective.com/bootstrap
My whole point is that what people pay for changes over time. So, if you invest in a piece of software, then it's very likely going to continue evolving to stay profitable and chase whatever new fads happen to be.

This has been the case with literally every piece of commercial software I've ever used. And a lot of the time the changes either have absolutely no value for me, or they're actually detrimental to my workflow.

And clearly I'm not alone, because every time a major version change happens with popular commercial products a lot of users will complain about it. However, they have no power to do anything since they just have to follow whatever the current trend is, or find a new piece of software to use.

It's also a false dichotomy to claim that software is either commercial or open source. There are plenty of companies making money from open source products. This is a good combination since it provides commercial funding for the project, but also ensures that the users can always fork it if it and move it in a different direction from the original developers.

I also disagree that open source applications are in any ways horrible. GIMP and Libre Office are both excellent piece of software that work perfectly fine. I use GIMP all the time, and I have much easier time getting around it than Photoshop.

Also, would like to hear more about what specifically needs to be fixed on Linux. For example, what deficiencies does Elementary OS have compared to Windows?
According to the drawings I did as a kid; about 6.

So get in quick, before they're all gone.
The beauty of Bootstrap is that it's easily tweakable with SCSS variables. If you do, make sure you use Bootstrap's color-yiq() function so you'll always have the same color/text contrast, in dark and in light mode.

Read more about Bootstrap's color-yiq() here: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/getting-started/theming/#c...
Humble Bundle Fight for Racial Justice Bundle
Thing is, FreeBSD is quite good at outliving various fads. Or adapting them, if they turn out to live long enough.
Basecamp's fresh start on Mail
> Exploit tools are require local systems to be super open in order to be frictionless.

Yes, but your "local system" that receives traffic or whatever doesn't need to be the one having access to all your data…
Really all I want is instructions on wrapping the component under test in the redux provider that don’t presume I’m using Kent’s library. It should show how to wrap, not how to call RTLs proprietary helper function.

I’m not arguing that you’re violating anyone’s “rights” here, I’m arguing some of these trends feel like nepotism. The fact Redux and React are seemingly abandoning official support of Enzyme, after years of recommending it, after some of its users have written 100s of thousands of tests, is my issue, and I feel like is directly related the article about "trends" OP posted about.
Not sure about silicon valley but this sort of a thing is common in international businees. Depending on who you are meeting with, ethnicity can help or hurt impressions and negotiations.
> This sort of thing has never, ever happened to me

Hm - I have had people look past me to talk to my Indian co-workers when asking technical questions: they just assume the Indian guy is the technical one and the white guy is the business manager.
Thank you for clarifying the exact rule Hey broke. The easiest way to get around it is to provide an in-app purchase option for Apple users, and charge a higher price.

Hey could easily offer a $15/mo plan through Apple, and still clear more money than the $99/yr external offering.

Instead of quietly using this tactic, they are utilizing Apple to stoke outrage and garner attention. May be brash but it is not a terrible strategy. I have no sympathy for Apple- this is the exact position they have put themselves in.
Understanding Mobility Patterns Using Geospatial Data
A fractional corner anomaly reveals higher-order topology
Anybody tried Bromite..
It has inbuilt ad bocker and privacy invasive features.
https://www.bromite.org/
Somehow, China has managed to create a huge expansion of their middle class with outsourced manufacturing.

>According to a study by consulting firm McKinsey & Company, 76 percent of China’s urban population will be considered middle class by 2022. In 2000, just 4 percent of the urban population was considered middle class.

https://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-middle-class-is-explo...

Meanwhile, in America:

>Fewer millennials in 2019 are middle class compared to baby boomers when they were in their 20s

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-middle-class-is-sh...
Here are the test results for Dark Reader: https://www.debugbear.com/chrome-extension-performance-looku...

I also briefly mention it in the section on FCP, explaining why it makes sense for the extension to use render-blocking content scripts. https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-perform...
I don't think any of these arguments works in this case.

(a) HN has had many good submissions from bloomberg.com (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). We go by article quality, not site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). There's nothing hard to believe about this article. If there were, the solution would be to provide correct information or specific counterarguments. Obviously we're not going to ban bloomberg.com.

(b) I addressed this point thoroughly in the comment you're replying to.

(c) You probably shouldn't complain about the comment section's interestingness while contributing to lowering it. It remains to be seen how interesting this thread will end up being. One reason we try to focus on the most substantive articles is that they usually lead to better comments.

(d) Plenty of users, to judge by upvotes, find this article interesting. Those who flagged it presumably didn't. The tug of war between upvotes and flags is one of the axes around which HN turns. It works surprisingly well, but it's not perfect. It has failure modes, and human intervention is the only way to address them.

(e) HN is a moderated/curated/however you want to call it kind of site. It always has been. HN's system is built out of three subsystems: the community, the software, and moderation. They interact in complex feedback loops. All three are necessary and all three have their limits.
Well, as someone who strongly dislikes Python and strongly likes SQLite, this might give me a reason to willingly use Jupyter (granted, I guess I could do it through Julia, too, which I also strongly like, but... eh).

A lot of the time when I need to work with a bunch of data I'll fire up the SQLite CLI, snarf the data with the built-in CSV import commands, and do whatever queries I wanna do. This looks like it can provide a nicer UI around that workflow, and I'm all for it.

Datasette looks interesting for this, too; I'll have to give that a look.
Be careful about inferring that any gaming taught by the tutor made the difference. If the tutor was simply teaching the math needed, that would be fine.

The math needed to ace the SAT is taught in high school. If you slide by on that, you'll probably need a math tutor to make up for it. Or you can choose to learn the math presented in high school.
> they don't find it as interesting as you do

I thought the remedy for this was not upvoting rather than flagging.
You got me there. I'm sure this thing will totally corner the market on $75,000 dog walking robots.
First off, congrats and thanks to the Bootstrap team for a wonderful and well-made CSS and design / UI framework. I love it and I have to say it makes it so easy for a developer without design experience to build a website or web application that actually looks good :)

One question about release dates though: I remember watching the Bootstrap v4 progression from alpha -> beta -> release and I remember it took much longer than I thought it would. Just curious when we can expect the stable release version of v5 to drop?
I run WeeWx locally, which can upload to any, or all, of them. You don't have to pick just one.
I don't get the anti-Apple here. The email from Apple posted on Twitter says quite clearly that people can acquire content and subscriptions elsewhere as long as the app continues to offer an in-app purchase option. I don't see the problem here, give people the choice.
> At this point I'm pretty convinced that non open source software simply isn't viable for end-user applications and tools.

I would agree it's not ideal, or maybe even not desirable, but not viable is a very strong claim when the reality is that 99+% of end-users are using almost exclusively close source proprietary applications and tools.
I'm with you on the tails. Tails would be cool.

But, I think the double use of orifices (air, food, urine, semen) is a good idea. Minimizing orifices seems to be an advantage... fewer avenues for outside stuff getting in. (And I don't think human sexual organs are necessarily dirtier due their location; urine is more or less sterile, and feces shouldn't really come into play under ordinary circumstances... )
it wasn't clear to me trying to skim the video, but is this the strategy where you add an app from safari to the home screen? That was always clunky and I don't think you can get notifications that way
s/hackernews/dangnews/
Has a browser team ever considered the possibility of creating allowlists for extensions only on certain websites? A native implementation of something like uMatrix that also worked on extensions could help end users at least remove slowdowns on sites they need to be performant.
This would be a more compelling case if there was a market to set a competitive price for distribution instead of a monopoly. This looks more like rent seeking than a fair cost of distribution. After all, why does it cost any more on Apple's end to distribute Spotify to a paying customer than a non-paying one?
It's not the same. Guix also has "guix build --check" which builds a package a second time to compare potentially different results.

"guix challenge" challenges different substitute servers and also compares what they offer with what you may have installed (whether you built it locally or downloaded it from elsewhere). It's really quite different from "guix build --check".
I flagged it because it is an article written to promote further bias, while under the guise of 'exposing racism'. If you think promoting race politics is the goal of HN, I will find a different forum. My time in SV could not have been more different than what this boased article proports. Fuck identity politics and fuck bloomberg, and fuck you for promoting this drivel.
San Francisco sues DoorDash over driver classification
Ask HN: Do you recognize these symptoms?
I recently became ill. I have worked with my doctors and they can’t find anything wrong with me. This includes a brain scan.

I’m a long time HN reader, so I know that many people here have suffered with mysterious symptoms like me. I thought I would take a shot in the dark by posting here.

About 5 weeks ago I began getting headaches and shaky hands as well as confusion. This escalated rather suddenly to very intense bouts of neurological symptoms lasting for about an hour or two. The symptoms now include confusion (brain fog), weakness of limbs or a sensation of weakness, extreme nausea and a bitter depression. These bouts are extremely unpleasant. They seem to happen every couple of days. I can’t identify any triggers.

As I’ve said, my doctors refuse to continue testing me, saying nothing is wrong and insisting on anti-depressants. In an effort to get some relief, I’ve traveled away from where I live and even bought new clothes, just on the off chance that it was some kind of chemical exposure in my house.

So far, on the road, symptoms have lightened up noticeably but they are still there.

The only thing I can think of is that my house was a bit moldy.

I’m not looking for medical advice or direction — I would just like to see if anyone has any anecdotes or ideas because neither google nor my doctors are helping much. Thanks.
This is indeed a performance critical problem, but it is already pretty much solved at this point. If you look at the performance of the most popular content blockers, their decision time is already below fractions of milliseconds. So it does not seem like performance is really an issue anymore.
Discounting the competition is sure path to defeat. I am not in the semiconductor industry, while everyone is chasing a node sizes down to zero, I think the real breakthroughs will be in reducing the production costs to zero.
Does Apple Music have to pay that same 30% fee though? I don't think so, which makes it kind of an Apple problem.
As a single brand they have the largest share at about 40%. But in terms of platform they are on par, or slightly behind, Android. On mobile devices overall they are ahead but not that much.

This is in contrast to Alphabet and Amazon which have much stronger dominant positions and don't have comparable competitors.
After reading it, I'm still not entirely sure what's being done.

Is it live streaming or is it the transport?

Are they doing video encoding (the audio encoding seems to be done by that webrtc-audio thing)?

Have they chosen a progressive encoding format that compresses frames and pumps them out to the wire as soon as they're done?

Is TCP or UDP involved or a new Layer 3 protocol entirely?

Have I just missed all of those parts or were they really missing amid all the Rust celebration?
Yeah a blog post titled “never do X” is going to get more clicks than “consider the trade offs before doing X” unfortunately. This leads to people following “thought leaders” and trends, instead of thinking for themselves imo
Feels like DHH manufacturing controversy.

Deliberately break rules so Apple rejects their code.

So it’s a marketing stunt designed to get a product into the front page of Hacker News.

But that would never happen of course... HEY!!

Do you really think DHH is surprised by the commission rules at Apple? Do you really think said bugs aren’t deliberate?

DHH is playing everyone folks. But he certainly has an army of fanboys here who downvote all the threads suggesting this is a marketing stunt.

Fake news in the truest sense.
The cost you pay for appeasing the type system is the cost you're not paying writing more tests around corner cases ("this function never returns null"), debugging segfaults, null pointer exceptions, "attribute not found" errors, memory leaks (lifetimes help here), etc.

The type system may not always help you get your code out the door faster, but when you finally ship it, you have much easier time running it.
Oh, do people call Vim and Emacs command-line editors? I thought command-line programs were ones that either were used exclusively from the shell's command-line (like sed) or that when run presented you with their own command-line (like ed or gnuplot). I thought programs like Vim and Emacs were called "full-screen editors" or said to be TUIs (textual user interfaces).
Do they show up in a unified list of cards?
I simply have the documentation open, which is really excellent and doesn't require any other sources.

I begin with copying one basic example and building from there.

Then I'll tweak the HTML+CSS live in the browser's DevTools until I feel I understand what's happening in the CSS, I switch back to IntelliJ and bake my tweaks into my own custom SCSS extending bootstrap's classes and building on them.

Never bought templates as I have the feeling that template authors don't really have the time to really grasp the concepts of bootstrap, nor do they care, and simply tend to pile tons of rules until they have some effect they desire.
I felt it's always easier to simply read the docs, and occasionally jump into IRC in ##bootstrap or #css or their Slack when I'm stuck.
Netflix no longer offers in-app purchases. You are wrong.
> b) it's the seven billionth "minorities in tech" story in the past month

I would urge people to stop and question that if they are tired of the "billion"s of stories about BIPOC, what must BIPOC be feeling about their systemic erasure from many facets of our society, including journalism and entrepreneurship. This article allows us to think about and discuss those issues.

The article is not hard to believe, is one of substance that I find interesting, and the content of the comment section is not the only arbiter of what should go on Hacker News.

I would suggest that Occam's Razor is a better tool here; a small number of people who want to silence the idea the article presents are trying to silence it.
I'm not a great software engineer, but I find engineering a great tool to learn new subjects. For example I built a sheet music analyzer in the browser to learn music theory and it forced me to really understand the subject matter. I would suggest you use your talent in engineering to tackle a project related to sales/marketing and trust me you will on a path to becoming an expert. Maybe a product will come out of it?
I don't want you to take it personally, but, from my point of view, Dolt falls in the same bucket as DVC, Pachyderm and some others. The shortcomings are not from the tools themselves, it's a fundamental issue with the design.

First, branching and merging. In git, branching allows you to make uncoordinated parallel progress for the price of a reconciliation step. In a datastore, you want the exact opposite: A single, consistent, available source of truth. Having different branches of the same dataset bring more confusion while solving zero problem.

Then, commits. In git, a commit represent a snapshot of the entire state of your repository. This is particularly attractive because it guarantees that your code will build no matter what kind of update will follow (without incidence: editing a readme ; severely destructive: removing an src folder). In a datastore, this is nice but unnecessary. As I mentioned it in this thread, datasets move at different speeds, and attaching an new hash to something that didn't change doesn't add value. However, I have to recognize, I failed to mention earlier that datasets are often unrelated and not relational. This would be to reconsider if it were the case, of course. Most of the time, a dataset is represented as a single dataframe (or a single collection of dataframes).

There some points where git semantics make sense: immutability of commits, linearizability within branches. Both are extremely important if you want to enable reproducibility of your pipeline. These are traits coming from Event Sourcing.

Reproducibility is also claimed by DVC and Pachyderm, but their issue here is more a problem of trying to do too much things at once but not managing to do it right. Running code within Pachyderm pipelines was a recipe for disaster and the first thing we got rid of.

As for performances, the write side is where it matters, because it needs to be coordinated. Reads almost never are an issue with good caching. In any case, it should be robust enough to fill the gap between csv files sent to s3 and a full kafka cluster, eg: not complaining for a few TB. To my knowledge, the only multi-leader datastore suitable for storing sharded datasets as a continuous log is Kafka.
> One of the things I don't get is why did the universe have to be so big and unfathomable and spectacular? If it isn't teeming with life, feels like it's essentially one spectacular wasteland

That's probably a decent argument against the existence of a god
They're actually trying to use their monopoly to control U.S. elections. This is far worse than any monopolist has ever been accused of in the past: this is not going to help their case if they're actually facing a forced AT&T-style break-up.
You must be the fun guy at parties
I had a similar idea (if not the same), while learning about ffmpeg a year or two ago, and quickly put together a small prototype of it. At least, for the GUI command builder part of it.

Here's the demo: https://jonbo.github.io/project/simply/

There's also a small ffmpeg example. (If you click the fetch button, on the demo.)
The schema "recipes" for it are just a basic JSON format and can be seen here https://gist.github.com/jonbo/c4067cd18e5fa687e896b2358aaf9e... and https://github.com/jonbo/simply.recipes/blob/master/docs/REA...

I never did publish the (non-bundled) source code for the demo, since it was done in a hurry (spaghetti), but I might if there's interest.

Maybe this will inspire somebody else to build something better!
Anecdotally supported advice: keep that core strengthened!

I was tweaking my back every 4-6 months (like Nearly bed ridden for a week each time for 2 years, then Last summer I started doing an hour yoga class once a week and haven’t had any problems since!