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Does anyone else find django-rest really confusing?
JIRA is going to be fine. You think their customers are the engineers who use the tool daily, but they are not. Their customers are the managers and bean-counters that track metrics and numbers at a macro. Their tool helps those roles mostly.

I hate JIRA but there is very little else serving these customers.
Hi,

I have done the same as you are planning to do. I was also the CTO (and founder), while my cofounder was for the sales side. However my company was already more advanced I assume and I had already done a partial exit. I left after about 10 years of having founded the company, and don't regret it. Sure, I might not ring the bell later when we IPO, but I don't need this. That's just an ego thing, but that you have to accept :).

My cofounder didn't like so much that I was leaving, reasoning that the company would be worth less later, wouldn't grow so fast, or engineers or others employees would leave. I stayed another 1 year working 50% until I left completely (They still though tried to retain me later on, but I declined). At the end no one of the employees left, as they all understood why I was leaving.

Just talk to your cofounder and explain him why you are leaving. I assume if you haven't yet exited, and that he would request some parts of your shares to be given to a replacement CTO. I think this is fair. In my case, the replacement CTO was a internal engineer I hired 8 years ago, and I was free to leave already years before. At the end, a new person can also bring in new ideas, sometimes better, sometimes worse. And it's also great if employees see that they can progress in the company.

I still very much care though about my former company and still have lots of friends there (not just IT), and I'm still a large shareholder.
> History (ancient and recent) is full of geniuses who came up with a revolutionary idea largely on their own - that’s why the archetype even exists in the first place (Aristotle, Newton, Darwin, Einstein to name the most obvious examples).

Wait, what now?

One of Newton's most famous quotes is, "if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" directly acknowledging his debt to those who came before him.

Furthermore, Newton invented calculus at roughly the same time as Leibniz (independently) discovered the same mathematical principles. To me, that strongly suggests that the groundwork had been laid and somebody (or multiple somebodies!) was ripe to make the breakthrough.

That doesn't mean Newton wasn't a genius, but I think it does suggest that the "Great Man theory of history" is false. Even geniuses are products of their environment and no genius is singular and irreplaceable.

Picking another example from the list above, Wallace independently proposed many of elements of the theory of natural selection: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zwvpsg8/revision/1
I would add to the list:

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Maybe Github Issues is not supposed to work as a support ticketing system? You are allowed to move issues between repos, so in theory you could create a dummy repo where users can add issues, and then those issues can be moved to their appropriate repo.
> I feel the need to correct you: I do not want Facebook to build an iOS app. They can keep that crap to themselves.

So are you OK with Facebook moving their app to a 3rd-party app store?

The downside of having sideloading on an iPhone is purely that companies would not be forced to target Apple's app store and that they might not release their apps on the official store. There's some very minor other concerns, but that's the big one. If you're OK with abandoning apps like Facebook and Fortnite, then you should be fine with sideloading being allowed.

> can be met through more traditional means such as the world-wide web.

iOS is lagging on the web right now, but I agree that putting more attention on Safari and making the web more capable would go a long way towards eliminating my concerns.

Note that there is some irony in me championing the web, because the web works the same way. It's a platform that guarantees certain user freedoms and sandboxing, but that is so big that companies can't ignore it. And I'm very happy with that "monopoly". The only real difference is that the web's restrictions are more reasonable to me, that the web doesn't moderate content itself, that it's less controlled by a single company, it has more stakeholders and more input, and that it approaches security through different mechanisms that I think are superior to iOS's.

But it's still a platform that I want companies to be forced to target, so I get where iOS users are coming from on this. I just disagree with the platform they want to win.
I had a tow truck driver who had a Ph.D in mechanical engineering. He worked for an engineering company for a few years before he decided to move back to the mountains. I learned so much about control theory riding with him in the cab of his truck.
I'm not sure we have the ability to identify the rockstars except in hindsight.
My theory is that it's a lot easier to get WORK done when you're not part of a group.

When teams form... group dynamics take place and this includes politics and conformity and social cohesion requirements. Teams demand a 'team player' that they can 'drink a beer with' which means group dynamics becomes as important, if not more important then the work being done which adds a lot of overhead to working, I.e. playing politics, selling your ideas over others, office chitchat, forging alliances to get your ideas done, etc.

Anyone whose worked in an office knows what I'm talking about.

You can't just show up and passionately go to work, there's a whole element of social interaction involved.

And often in teams people are promoted who are better at maintaining social cohesion than performing the actual work and these likable people begin to dictate the goal as much if not more than the people with the deep knowledge who put less effort into building relationships than they do into doing the work.

So the nature of a group/team tends to select for people who put a priority on maintaining social cohesion versus people who are extremely focused and knowledgeable and passionate about the work.

So a genius, if they have a choice, is pretty much always going operate alone or in groups of one or two

Just a theory.

Also:

There's a big difference between collaboration....and being a part of a team that dictates the direction of a goal.
Large corporations sometimes come up with user personas, which I've always thought are fun to work with. Like alternating pronouns, they're a very reasonable, noncontroversial way to remind people their users might not look like them (busy parents, someone performing the same repetitive tasks all day with your application who would appreciation automation, etc)
Because they tested on Chrome/Chromium but not on Firefox.

Maybe the selection disappears on Firefox because their custom context-menu is rendered on top of the selection, thereby "obstructing" the selection by a few pixels?
> Because the regulation is crappy. Current regulation and laws is what made them dangerous.

Regulation will never work to create better working condition. There will always be more laborers willing to replace you than amazing job opportunities. Also, labor regulation is constantly being worked around by companies. Eg. in Europe, due to tough regulation of working conditions, many workers are now being employed as freelancers and therefore receiving exactly zero worker protections.

Competition for workers is what has empirically worked to improve working conditions. UBI or just reducing monopolistic living costs, such as real estate rent, could give people the option not to work - the biggest contribution to competition for workers.
While this is probably true, I work for a rather large cloud computing and online retail company who do everything. You can't name a field they aren't in.
I still have my original iPods. The original and the mini chromatic ones. When I'm on the go and or in a gym and I need to play music, nothing beats a simple mp3 player. Don't want the bulk of the phone. Don't want to have to touch a phone screen and engage with it.

I'd rather just reach into my pocket and press buttons.
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Psychiatrists don't just throw stimulants after you

Mine sort of did! It really, really, really is a thing that happens.

To be fair, he prescribed adderall last, after we tried some more mild ones. He didn't just throw the hard stuff at me immediately.

But, he absolutely did not discuss all the other means of managing ADHD: proper sleep, diet, exercise, supportive environment, etc. In my experience I find these even more important than medication.

A lot of psychiatrists are pretty old school (predating the explosion in ADHD diagnosis/awareness) and/or are generalists within the field of psychiatry and therefore aren't really experts at any particular malady like ADHD.

To be fair to psychiatrists, a lot of "generally accepted" ADHD management techniques are not officially recognized. For example, dietary modification is specifically not recommended due to lack of supporting evidence even though many (including me) find it very important. So, I can understand why my psych didn't discuss it with me, even though that was a real missed opportunity.

I am not anti-psychiatry, but IMHO I don't expect much from them except drug-related solutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...
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I looked through your link and apart from a handful of sources linking to random Guardian articles and Wikipedia it didn't actually cite the source it used as it's central claim and then proceeded with rather disjointed points each poorly supported and ended with some sort of vague platitude about how we need to look at data despute never actually making a conclusion.
> "no one person is truly responsible for progress or breakthroughs, and everyone's contribution matters", which is ridiculous, and the motte is "no man is an island, and all breakthroughs rely on the actions of others", which is obviously true.

I think you are missing here the real core of the "Myth of the Lone Genius" argument which is not to claim that lone geniuses don't exist (e.g. Ramanujan, far more than some of these other examples) but rather to reject the argument that progress is mostly made by them, or can be best understood by focusing on them.

The argument boils down to: everyone's contributions are clearly not equivalent, but the vast majority of real progress is a collective effort; and that by focusing on individuals we are less efficient at learning what is effective.
and conversely "..at a capability we have". Sloganeering like you did is very popular on fora like HN, but the reality is quite different. There is 110% employment in tech even if you a C-grade programmer you have a job, the rest are insufferable, incompetents who are unemployable at any wage.
For those interested, the Free Law Project maintains podcasts & RSS feeds of oral arguments in front of the both the Supreme Court and all the district appellate courts. They are a great listen. I especially enjoy going into them without any prior knowledge of the cases.

https://www.courtlistener.com/podcasts/
I'm not saying hold your breath either

> One factor in the fate of on organizing is that much of the agenda was codified into law.

Right so now that workers don't have much real power, it is nice we have the legal remnants of power in the past. But given what I am saying, this should be seen as a Faustian bargain: it's not worth sacrificing power now (via legalization-ossification), to have some remnant influence later. Moreoever, having complex erodable things enshrined in a law doesn't work well as a "rachet".

The most important thing is to sustain power and sustain politicization --- don't let the red scare take all your best organizers in the 1940s-1950s interested in the real goal of workplace democracy! And if you do go for laws, make them really simple things (40 hour workweek is better than NLRB recognition, but still too complex. Maybe UBI would be the best).
I think Microsoft does this with their .NET ecosystem of repositories, issues, and projects.
> handle faults in ways that were impossible in the past

Like what? Earlier systems worked if your computer worked. Adding a server is a DRM move and doesn't help the user with reliability - usually the opposite.
They fly close to Scotland, not England afaik. Scotland is of course park of the UK, so British jets get scrambled.
A funded startup will generally provide health insurance of some kind, although at the very earliest stages it's probably not great. As startups get larger and less cash-poor overall comp (including health insurance) increases significantly.

In my specific case though I was bootstrapping my own startup, which had no funding, revenue, or employees. (I survived by living off my wife's PhD stipend at the time.)
Sounds like a lot of projection and presumption, combined with a complete dismissal of male sex work. I would argue that as long as people like you assume a woman con't control her own body without it being "exploited" or "oppressed", we will never reach equity.
The "Help Center" link from the email: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970
The power Americans attribute to bad words has always astounded me. This is such a non issue here (France), I can't even think of a case where anyone has been punished, scolded or otherwise criticized for swearing. (There's standards for broadcasting, but they don't apply to single words, and in fact you could run afoul of them without saying a single bad word, while George Carlin's seven words routine would be absolutely uncontroversial.)

At worst, swearing too much will paint you as uneducated or abrasive, but in fact if someone complained about it they would be more likely to be criticized.
There is no such thing as "American innovation", it is all Apple, and to a lesser extent Google.
That's part of the problem isn't it, so many software companies are short projects, not long term businesses. You can't afford the investment, because you'll never benefit from it by the time the project is done. You also can't start with a junior and teach them the platform, because the platform isn't even built yet.
We ended up using Linear and are very happy with it. Their approach is also low-level enough to be useful. Best Github integration I've seen, too.
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Thanks! Again, very good question. There's an answer I wrote in response to benrbray which explains this!
I don't think we need to go quite that far. I think one of the issues is that browsers tend to entirely neglect the context of Javascript. They treat a complex webapp the same as they treat a simple website that has jQuery for drop down menus, despite the fact that the expectations should be substantially different.

The former should absolutely have some kind of security notification similar to installing an app: "this page wants permissions X, Y and Z". You can either accept those permissions and use the app, or decline them and the app can decide whether to just not work or to disable some features that rely on those permissions.

The latter should have an extremely minimal set of features. Probably just the ability to manipulate the DOM. The second it crosses into something as basic as AJAX requests, it now needs a different security context and the user should approve that. It now has the ability to exfiltrate data from your PC.

The blurring of lines between a web page and a web app has been great in many ways, but security on that front just doesn't seem to have moved much.
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Their spreadsheet implementation looks really nice (from the screenshots). Can't wait to try it.

Our primary interface at Streak is a spreadsheet. It looks simple to build but we've invested (and continue to invest) a ton of engineering time to making it great. Users love the interaction model like you said.
This is so much more pleasant than flat interfaces.
But can I play Doom on it?
I can see kicking them out of school and removing the compulsory requirement that they attend, but the "you must go here, and while here this speech is illegal" doesn't line up with my reading of the first amendment.

If I was king I'd declare the whole country a school where criticism of me is banned.
But it’s supported content blockers for a while now, which is very similar yet more performant and privacy preserving.
GitLab provides issues, boards, epics, time tracking, road maps, and more as part of the Plan stage: https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/plan/
You can choose not to offer people your faith. In this case it was validated by an admission that an argument was tactically made.

> Because I am making the point that even mentioning something as extreme as that still gets me lambasted with abuse. So if we can't even discuss that civilly, how on Earth are we meant to discuss more nuanced issues?

>> So did you want to discuss trans elite sports or were you trying to demonstrate that people cannot handle a conversation with greater nuance? Or both at the same time?

> The latter, but if you want to talk about the former we can do that too.

But you're still focused on whether we afford good faith to tactical arguments.

You're accusing me of bad character while espousing whatever it means to offer faith, but whether anyone is here to do ideological battle is easily confirmed by simply clicking on their account history.

And what does Joe Rogan have to do with discourse on elite trans sports? He's a benchmark for conversation quality and focus and a major player in discussing trans issues. There are other branching threads here. See if anything ever rises above Joe Rogan's playground of debate.

> What on earth does clinical suffering have to do with the original topic? You keep bringing that up, and it's irrelevant to Moodles' point.

And surely one does not ask, "What does transgenderism have to do with transgendered people in elite sports?"

> What do you have to say about the primary phenomena of clinical suffering? Its etiologies and its course in medical debate across the west? That is a discussion which hits squarely on "What is trans?"

This is what I wanted to discuss. An open invitation to discuss the course of medical debate across the west, one which squarely hits at "What is trans?"
I don’t think the “Myth of the Lone Genius” argues that the “lone genius” doesn’t exist, it argues that most progress comes from ordinary smarts and not lone genius, and that even the lonest of geniuses stand on the shoulders of more ordinary people.
> So are you OK with Facebook moving their app to a 3rd-party app store?

I am not ok with using legal force to induce Apple to allow a third party App Store, no.

In the court of law, it might be able to be argued that there is no actual harm being caused by Apple having sole proprietorship over their custom development guidelines.
Costa Rica is a small country with hardly any industry and abundant amounts of hydro power.

The country’s whole electricity demand is about 1.82 GW according to electricitymap.org with around 1.5 GW from hydropower and the rest mostly from geothermal power.

1.82 GW is a little more than a single EPR reactor. Just for comparison.
I personally liked the series Connections that showed off that many of these guys did not live in a vacuum. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078588

Basically mostly everything is fairly incremental but every once and awhile you get someone who connects 3 or 4 different fields together and something really cool happens. If you work by yourself you will become odd and stale. Bouncing ideas off others helps weed out junk and maybe even help you get a better understanding of what is going on. Or they may ask a question you did not think of and woosh you found something even more cool.

I had an idea a few days ago that most ML seems to be mostly curve fitting (except when it isnt). But what if you could turn that network back into a formula instead of a set of nodes with weights and particular follow rules. Those sets of formulas could yield some interesting ideas, I think, if you could compare them. Like there may be a set of formulas that are just hiding there but are smeared across 1000 nodes. Not even sure where to begin on that. But an interesting idea none the less. One of the smart ones could see the idea and also figure out where to start and tease out the idea until it is done.
Important to note.

This is not "censorship" this is "the system works" in respect to retraction.
Yes, this is one of the main scenarios we are enabling in the Fall. Project tables and custom fields are already cross-repo enabled in the beta.
I wrote my company’s giant backend in Django, and while I don’t regret it, five years in the ORM still makes no sense to me for more complex cases and really, really miss languages with better type checking. The current options are not good enough or have no library adoption.
Hey, author of the blog post here! Thank you for your suggestion, I really like the idea, I will consider adding it to the post.

If you want you can also check out the Airtable database I have created, which lets you conveniently browse and sort all the services mentioned within the post.
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Tell that to Cristiano Ronaldo who dissed Coca Cola at the Euros.

The cynic in me think he might have his own brand of flavored water to launch.
It just rhymes better!
Your example is like saying playing NBA basketball makes you taller.

His point was that there are plenty of people that don’t become wealthy even though they work hard and have hustle. And there are plenty of wealthy people that didn’t need to work hard to get it.

Looking at the self-made wealthy will select for people that “do”, but that does not imply that “do” makes you wealthy.
I've gone back and forth on fat models vs service issues myself - I've landed on a bit of both in the end, but it's made harder by DRF not really recommending the fat model approach (with respect to validation).
There's already a dozen great competitors for Jira.

Jira has a gigantic moat. Too many people - non devs mostly - are invested on it. While this new product is not negligible since it comes from a service people are likely already using, I'm sure Atlassian isn't scared in any special way.
Systems of exploitation tend to be durable and adaptable over time, producing similar outcomes even if the overall shape appears to change drastically.

For example, the U.S. Constitution’s 13th Amendment freed the slaves, but included an exception on forced labor for those convicted of a crime. Surprise surprise, former Confederate states make up crimes (like loitering) that are only enforced on Black people, and the cheap, no-choice labor force is back at work, even if under a structure that only barely resembles prewar chattel slavery.
This sounds good. It all depends on your engineering culture at the end of the day.
Sample size of 1, but as a native American English speaker, I'd use the latter phrasing of "not everything needs."

The former example seems characteristic of non-native speech, but is completely understandable also.
In Sweden there are plenty of "yoni dearmouring" and similar sevices. I get that more women have a harder time orgasming than men usually have. Also more trauma amongst women than men.

But if you are a man with these kinds of problems you have nowhere to go.