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Please indulge my curiosity.

This might be wildly unrelated but... how attractive are you, physically? Are you thin? Are you taller than most people in your peer group?

Do you more or less resemble the "dominant" demographic where you live? That is, the same gender presentation, ethnicity, etc. as most of your government and business leaders.

Are you a citizen of the country where you live?
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Seems like there are multiple issues here. The first would be rather ineffective management that fails to notice or address a lack of productivity. The second would be a lack of interest in one's current role - most folks would probably do more work if only to alleviate day-to-day boredom, especially given the aptitude that the OP clearly possesses.

I worked at a company where someone like this was eventually unearthed, and the result was all manner of big-brother-esque counts of commits, etc.

Is the argument about morality or managerial structure?
It’s utopian, but the tools exist today and can and are utilized. The problem is complexity, of computers can teach it won’t be as in depth as a tutor, but can be better than teachers.

You can also do this online. In chess you don’t have complexity so the best bots can beat the best experts. You can learn languages with tapes and digital materials.

In an increased complex environment, this is not realistic until/if they catch up which is possible.
Druid has quite some intelligence baked in to handle the scaling by default. I am curious how clickhouse is doing in all those aspects.

When we did a PoC, the operational aspect of clickhouse and performance was severely lacking as compared to druid. Clickhouse had bigger resources at its disposal than druid during this PoC.

If they could improve the operational aspect and introduce sensible defaults so that the users don't have to go through 10000 configuration to work with data in clickhouse, I am sure I will give it a go for some other usecase. It is simple on surface but devil is in the details. Druid is much simpler and sane at the scale I need to operate.
Something that I think is particularly interesting (and that is not immediately obvious from the post) is that the author used to do porn, and is considering doing it again. She's written about how that really fucks with your self-image, the experience of online stalkers/harassers, and also how porn basically saved her from homelessness at one point – and that she really enjoys making it.

She's intimately familiar with the power – and costs – of The Thing.
Wow. A mere 3 weeks to get something done.

I worked somewhere once where it took 8 months to implement a two page sign-up process, and I counted about 60 people involved. A colleague said I didn't know the half of it and that there were actually more than 100 people involved.

I didn't last very long.
It's actually a one party system with two divisions, as their voting record shows. [1].

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
> Python already exists as a dynamically-typed server language.

Ruby isn't new; it's only slightly younger than Python, and brought things to the table. Rails and Django are roughly the same age (and Django started off more as a CMS). That Python exists isn't an argument against Ruby. Lots of other languages exist, each with their own cost/benefit tradeoffs.

> [...] writing server-side web stuff in JS does make sense given it's what you're using in the client.

I don't understand the argument. Matching client/server language is a different goal than matching task/language, and the task isn't the only driving factor.

There's some crossover in that the language is the same, which means you could standardize on JS developers, but the ecosystems are not the same, and the required overall skillset is different. In wee shops the tradeoff may be worth it, but at scale, the benefit is oversold.
The Pelosi's net worth has been consistently outperforming the market for decades.

I think it it pretty naive to assume that's due to her husband being a great trader/very lucky - she's passing information to him for their financial benefit.
Rails just keeps getting better and better. It’s an exciting time to be a Rails dev.
What you're saying is part of a long and broad conversation. Read Machiavelli.

> The general theme of "The Prince" is of accepting that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince

Most people think Machiavelli was a jerk.

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Really the question to ask yourself isn't "Why shouldn’t I seek power to enrich myself and my friends?", the question is "What is the best method to achieve happiness for myself and my friends?"
>You seem to think overpopulation is a myth.

Not OP but I'm certainly leaning this way now after previously being concerned about it. Seemingly all/most of our advanced societies have negative population growth.

I'm not sure why this is considered ok.
If you're in places where you're getting away with this, the likelihood is everyone knows but doesn't say anything because they're doing something similar. Including your managers.

Most businesses just don't need all their employees running at full capacity. I've been professionally programming for nearly 30 years and I've seen this be true in small businesses with < 10 employees and in Fortune 500 megacompanies. So there's often an unspoken agreement to be comfortable and cruise. This can extend even to upper management and owners.

The weird thing is you can often get yourself into trouble if you get too ambitious in such situations. People don't want their comfy little boats rocked too much.

From my experience the places that require running on all cylinders all the time are either incompetently managed (which includes understaffing) or very ambitious. Or both I suppose. The thing is, real ambition is much rarer than you'd think given how much society claims to value it.

I've had times when I was happy at both ends of the scale. Cruising is comfortable. Ambition is exciting. Both work for me at different times, but I do eventually tire of too much of either.

I will say ambition and full-speed-ahead only works for me when the goal is something that has value to me. Either a big financial reward or I believe in what we're building. I'm not going to do it as a cog writing your accounting software package.
Python isn't really a mess (certainly less messy than MATLAB IMO) but the issue is that many practitioners are basically thrown at the language without any real caution or care.

A modern python (e.g. anaconda?) distribution is a pretty formidable tool (for some things I'd definitely take Mathematica any day, but I don't really code in mathematica vs. sketch) - the people using that distribution however may also not know anything about good practice. Python unfortunately is far too allowing of this, too, so some scripts are a genuinely hell. I'm a physics student currently working as a programmer, 2/5 lines of code I see in my department would be enough to request changes from a patch. I daydream about teaching them but that's never going to happen.

At work we actually developed a functional language (nee DSL) specifically to funnel people down exactly the places we want.
Her husband also made a quick $5 million off of Alphabet stock conveniently before the house considered anti-trust bills aimed at big tech.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/07/08/inside-n...
Can you name some of these cultures/sources. I have found references in pop culture references, and would like to read up on it.
That's nice to hear. So the SIM swappers have to double their bribes.

I think the best solution is to cut the mobile providers out of the equation altogether. I've long advised removing your phone number from anything you can, or at least substituting a voip service that can't be social engineered over the phone. Some services don't let you use voip services for multi-factor or signup, so your mileage may vary.

Also, it's important where possible to use types of multi-factor that don't rely on your phone number. The tricky part is, so many sites will let you reset your password if you can receive a link via SMS at the phone number on file for the account. Which means anyone who SIM-swaps you then can reset the passwords on those accounts that allow SMS resets (which is a lot, still).
Based off of your tone I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but I'm going to give your comment the benefit of the doubt.

They don't make it easy to link to specific queries, but you can pull up her financial filings here: https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/PublicDisclosure/Financi...

For evidence that she has inside information, I'd encourage you to read the wiki article for Speaker of The House, especially the sections that go over their legislative and committee-steering powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_H...

There's no smoking gun audio recording where Nancy Pelosi specifically says "Hey Paul, I'm gonna launch an investigation against Facebook and accuse them of being a monopoly tomorrow, so sell your shares now!"

I could lose my job for insider trading even without that direct proof of causality, just trading stock with material insider info leads to a presumption of wrongdoing. Since Pelosi nominally works for us, maybe she (and the rest of Congress) should be held to the same standard?

I don't think the claim is particularly incredible like you claim: around 50 members of Congress have been punished for violating the STOCK Act with fines often as high as $200.
Also, various industries would never be subsidised; automotive production in the US would have disappeared decades ago in a truly free market.
Ah the famous MTTP (mean time to penis) metric!
In most places, it's verboten to consider the experiences of sexual relationships as as starkly gendered as they are, and even rarer for anyone to say that the social structure of sexuality is anything more complicated than men oppressing women. Treating romance as the highly contextual reality that it is is a good and useful thing.
This reads like a reaction to the unibomber manifesto. It addresses the same issues but in a progressive way rather than a criticism that it should all be destroyed.
> the fact that you can't turn off grouping of applications in the taskbar is a deal breaker

Ach, that's a deal breaker for me too - it's one of the first things I disable on a new Win10 install.

I didn't know about this, so thanks for giving me another reason to stick with 10!
It is real power though. Did you just read the WSJ article about the McDonalds CEO who was denied a $100 million severance package because he was caught having sex with employees?
This is not uncommon. I know developers who pace themselves, either by doing less than they are actually capable, or alternatively, simply get more work done than they talk about in their standup and save it up, so there is something to talk about the next day, etc.

It doesn't help that many of the folks involved (scrum masters, PMs) are utterly clueless. If you have a particularly weak team, you may not even need to pace yourself... just do whatever.
> If the populace suspected the house was acting immorally the remedy is to change the representatives - these investigations are supposed to root out extreme violations of generally agreed norms in the short term, but a sea change requires the election of house members that will advocate for the new norms.

This is my whole point. The Congress knows this is an issue. The House Committee on Ethics knows this is an issue. The people know this is an issue. The members of Congress who have not moved on this issue were just reelected by the people, and have now telegraphed that they will not solve this issue in the future. It will not be solved, yet these representatives will be reelected by the people again and again. The House Committee on Ethics will not investigate. If you engage in this behavior you get richer and nothing bad happens to you. If you don't engage in this behavior, you are leaving money on the table and the only person you hurt is yourself and a nebulous, distributed entity we call "society". Our former President even pardoned a Congressman for the very crime of using his privileged position to facilitate insider trading for his family! The power of the pardon is one of the most solemn expressions of the values a society holds. Taken as a whole, this tells me that actually, American society does not consider this to be a problem. So if shame is an emotion derived from the violation of societal norms, I am only asking why this should be shameful? Insider trading is in accordance with societal norms.
I have no data to back this up beyond the anecdotal (ex. "Christmas cake" women stigma in Japan), but a possible explanation is ageism differences between the cultures. E.g. American men may be less age-selective than their Chinese or Japanese counterparts, which would naturally lead to gender composition changes in dating events that target people in demographics older than early 20s.
That's the first thing that popped out to me reading this too, bit then ended up on 'there's a perfectly good SPI bus on the link cable". With it hooked up there, you can power the esp with its own battery, and switch out carts (or more likely roms on a flash cart) for the application you want to run. IRC and Gopher ROMs can just share a wifi module.
Most of the other answers focus on how programming is not typing (which I agree with, of course), but I think they miss the point. Yours answers directly and I agree with it.

Working 5 to 10 hours a week seems very low to me, though as a lead or as a coworker I would judge OP by the impact, not by the time spent behind the computer. But I doubt anyone can have serious impact in such time.

I had the chance to work with a brilliant coworker who preferred to slack off - and have passed on recommending him for this very reason.

World is a big place and there are many ways to go through life, so I'm not judging - but if you're asking if this is common, then the answer is "no, not at the places where I worked, and not how I work".

Of course you would have to pay/promise me fortune to get more than 40hr weeks from me, but I'm not hiding that. :-)
I don't know about "most of us", but certainely not all of us. I work a solid 7h a weekday (not all of which is at 100% productivity, but all of which is work), and I know for a fact my colleagues work at least as much as I do (I personally think most of them work too much).

And I seriously doubt you'd be able to reach anywhere near an acceptable output working <= 10h a week in the sort of company I work at, no matter how good you are. I don't mean that my company is special, it's a pretty standard start-up environment, but I mean that it probably depends a lot on what company you work for rather than being a "developer thing". I recon that a lot of big corporates have no idea the sort of people they're hiring and do not have a feedback loop to assess performance.

Personally, it makes me uncomfortable to think that there might be so many other people with this mindset around, lying to coworkers and doing the absolute minimum to get by. In my current role, I feel passionate about what we're building and being a startup, we need to maximise efficiency: I'd have zero remorse flagging that somebody is doing close to nothing when everybody else is so involved and relying on each other to do their job. In a corporate environment, I suppose I'd either join you or quit out of lack of respect for coworkers and company.
Check out https://www.hatchbox.io/, it lets you easily host stuff on various hosting platforms (using your own account) with similar ease to Heroku. Which also means it's WAY cheaper. Heroku's pricing has always seemed insane to me.
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It's going to be impossible to calculate COVID deaths, but even in my own family death has occurred during COVID infection that wasn't officially counted as COVID death.

The conversation isn't about government mandates -- it's about whether people should wear a mask and practice basic virus safety even after they are vaccinated. In any case, you already follow government enforced mandates that help protect us all: wearing seatbelts, not wearing earphones in the car, getting vaccinations to go to school[1] or enter countries, and much more.

Wearing masks doesn't lead to more indirect deaths. Not wearing masks prolongs the pandemic and leads to more direct and indirect deaths as well as prolonging the economic devastation that many are dealing with.

In times of severe catastrophe, we all have to work together to keep everyone safe. People who don't wear masks increase the risk of death for vulnerable people and prolong the pandemic.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/08/states-have...
The front page of that sub currently has a meme about women feeling a need to pay for the first date so that men don't feel they are owed sex. As a hetero dude who was recently doing a decent amount of casual dating, I can tell you that this is a very common fear. I would say that you are possibly missing the message.

edit: honestly, five minutes of casually browsing that sub, and I don't see a thing about "men should pay for more than half of a relationship" or anything about "extracting value."

Seems like a sub that's really into respecting oneself outside of the context of a boyfriend, and women unpacking and de-normalizing the toxic behaviors of previous partners.

I feel like you're trying to make that sub into something it is not. Why is that?
It must have been a couple of months because...

> I keep this link sitting around and enjoy dusting it off every couple of months or so

> https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
I do have a very low rating. When I create my account I started way up there, though.
Not far off :)
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My understanding is that this is largely the reality already in the dating marketplaces we can measure (dating apps). At least every study with dating app data I have seen shows a small minority of men get the vast majority of female attention.
58 minutes after posting, your post has 134 points and sits at the top of Ask HN. I think that answers your question a lot more clearly than the comments themselves. What you've said is clearly resonating with a lot of readers, even if they may not say so in the comments.
Devs generally are, SREs are doing way more than 40 hours. Small sample size, but my observations.
I don't actually think women mind those costs as much. Once you have your first, assuming no complications, many women aren't so spooked by it.

I think what really happens is women with careers, hobbies, etc. have more opportunities for self-actualization that the demands of motherhood, especially of small children, get in the way of. So if women have the education and resources to pursue vocations outside the home, the opportunity costs of spending more months of your life getting sleep in 2 hour chunks are much higher. If, on the other hand, motherhood and the rearing of children is the only sort of legacy they can pursue because the glass ceiling is so low, they'll be willing to put more into it.
I kinda thought it already worked?
This is the case for other parts of the workforce. I admire those in service that really work their ass off (drivers, cleaners, cooks, etc.)

From my work experience, about 90-95% of people do barely any work (have tasks that take months). I would get in a team of 15 people and I'd be the only one doing something, everyone else is just making some slides for weekly presentations and not even that. The amount of part-time people that do nothing is even greater. The amount of consultant experts that work for consultant agencies and get loaned to other companies that do nothing is massive.

I think it's the standard way of life in most cities. I do not quite understand why that percentage of the workforce won the work lottery.
Unless the employee got the severance package the CEO was denied, that's not an example of what you're referring to.
HN, obviously. The only way this site stays so busy is lots and lots of people doing this instead of working. It'd be much quieter if there weren't plenty of people like OP.
I partly agree with what you're saying but still - you're exaggerating. Doing Rails without a decent knowledge in Ruby is exactly what you said - it's being a junior. You'll rely on the existing codebase without any ability to provide your own ideas, only shifting code from here to there without fully understanding what you're doing and will always need a senior whenever things go awry. That's what being a junior is like in any language.

I don't think we can compare languages based solely on the experience of juniors. I'm not saying it's irrelevant, it is, but it's only a part of what writing software is. In the end of the day you need the seniors and people who really get it to maintain the code and steer the ship in the right direction.

But I do agree that Rails is a kind of dialect of Ruby and that you can get pretty far with Rails without being great in Ruby (you still need to be decent though, no way of getting around that).

> Most Rails programmers I've worked with live in the controller and the view

Where is the business logic at? They also write services or something similar or stick it in the Model. Whatever isn't ActiveRecord will be pure Ruby - Rails has no opinions there.
I work really hard, but I might be an anomaly. I can't get much done in the time many people might.

My brain is bad at focusing on things, so it takes a lot of effort to engage, become productive, and then stop. There's a lot of time build up inertia, but then it's difficult to reduce that inertia as well. As a result I'm fairly inefficient by default.

I have a practice of never billing for inefficient time. I don't feel right doing it. As such, I tend to work an average of 10 hours per day but end up billing for more like 7 or 7.5. It's just a reality that I live with now.

So no, I can't get by on 5-10 hours per week. I would be fired quickly.

Although I have the knowledge to do my job well, I lack the executive function. Improving that is one of my main objectives but it's much easier said than done. I think it's the one thing that would improve my career and personal life the most.

All that is to say, there are plenty of reasons why some people work more or less. I work more than you because I'm not a productive person. I'm not a 10xer, I'm not more committed, I'm not more effective. I simply have to in order to get an acceptable amount of work done.
https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ shows a decent ability to generalize to previously unseen concepts.

You're correct to consider the complexity of the phrase and just how good humans are at this sort of thing without needing much "training". For now, concepts that aren't explicitly in the training set are effectively composed from those which are. This can lead to some bizarre and outright incorrect results, particularly when it comes to counting objects in a scene or with relative positioning between objects (e.g. a blue box on top of a red rectangle to the left of a green triangle) but it's early days and there's lots of progress happening all the time.
Raising children might not be what people are best at, and it's more efficient to work a job that can pay for this stranger, and to have money left over.