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As someone who regularly adds custom CSS to sites to fix various UI issues/annoyances, I can say that I'm definitely not a fan of minified CSS classes.
The shocking fact is that the international community allows such an event to be held in a country where one cannot safely take a phone or computer. But since that could be said for many other “good” countries, then I suppose it becomes normal to engage with these “bad” countries despite their human rights violations. And that is a big source of cynicism for many people: if the “good and righteous” international community does business with countries like China and they themselves engage in the same human rights violations, then the ethical base for these countries’ legal system is demolished. And when the legal system is completely debased, then anything goes. Crimes can no longer be defined and therefore punished. A citizen’s revenge towards its government is no longer a crime. Just another act that can no longer be judged by any ethical standards (other than one’s subjective moral one). When those institutions entrusted with upholding society’s ethical values through the law (ie the right to privacy, the right to a fair legal process, etc.) no longer abide to the law themselves, anarchy ensues. Just watch the consequences of the international community failing to hold responsible those who created the conditions for your pandemic, for the sake of their commercial interests.
Everything is relative. I know many people who would trade $100k over 10yrs (less if we assume it's overrated) to watch their kids grow up and spend time with them.
I dunno if it's that ridiculous. Having to spend a couple of months studying to get a 100k raise, seems not a completely unfair trade.
30% cheaper prices? Better user experience?
but companies would rather do agile/scrum/sprints and have product manager, scrum master, and more. Oh also 3000 micro-services because gooflix. Ok.. goodluck.
It also opened the door to get more offshoring, why pay SV salaries when they can pay Infosys rates (pick your favourite offshoring company name).
At least in the US you have your timeline backwards. Violent street crime declined strongly starting in the early 1990s. Lots of reasons have been suggested for this, mainly around lead in the environment. But maybe it went the other way. The lack of street crime lead to people walking around, creating the demand to create the mobile internet.
But again Lingo is a variation on something like the peg game Mastermind.

He could have slightly tweaked the game to not be like Lingo.

But it's in a bit of an impossible spot now. A Lingo buy out could be a solution.

Anyway there's about a million Englishman ready to kneecap him unless he does i18n. ;)
Experts are finally grasping the real reason for inflation. Now it's time to act
Right now Josh owns Wordle. He can do what he wants with it. No one has any claim over his time or his game. If he started monetizing it he would lose that. He'd also probably have to start supporting it, or defending it. I can see why he might not want to do that.
"no one has ever done it" - it definitely sounded to me like they implied to transform something that used to be a "pay per consumption" into a "service". Which is definitely untrue, Creative Cloud preceded them by half a decade, Amazon Prime was before that, and arguably Netflix inspired everyone.
Plugging for a good cause - for parents who want to teach their younger kids the very basics of our solar system, we made this: https://littleastronauts.com/product/a-trip-through-the-sola...
Personal anecdote: quite a while ago I got thrown in jail in Thailand (80 people in a cell, a hole in the ground to shit in, one bowl of rice per day, sleep on the concrete floor kind of place).

My embassy was quite helpful in negotiating with the guards to get me in a "VIP" cell, which was a room within the cell run by some Iranians. They said if I paid them a certain sum, I'd be under their wing and they'd protect me.

Couple days later one of them woke me up and asked me to check if I had any cigarettes missing, which I did (not that I cared much). Someone had seen a Russian guy take some of my smokes while I was asleep and told the "boss". They went and beat the crap out of him.

The Iranians also had a line to the cleaning crew who would pass in front of the cell once a day. Every morning you could place an order for (almost) anything you wanted from the outside world. They'd take the payments, write it all down and pass it to the cleaning crew through the bars of the cell who would deliver it all the next day. So while most of our cell mates fought over bowls of rice, in the VIP room we had feasts of curries, fruit, soft drinks. It was like a banquet every day.

The main Iranian guy even had Russian girls come over but they couldn't enter the cells.

The day I got out one of them approached me and ever so gently and politely asked me "You are going home yes? Could I please have your towel?". He could have just taken it along with anything else I had but he stuck to the rules.

So yeah, these guys definitely had a legal system!
Hell, in many places you can retire under those conditions if you "only" make $500k a year. The trick is to move to a much lower cost-of-living area after you retire, often abroad. If that kind of thing floats your boat, anyway.
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> I imagine I'd be singing a slightly different song if I had kids

I don't know... as soon as you do the stability of an existing job seems more compelling.
Gerrit avoids this problem neatly by not having any PR message at all, the only place you can provide context is the commit message, which obviously gets tracked together with the repo.

Review comments are stored out of band though. Curiously in another hidden git branch of the repo.
Forecasting your spending rate far enough into the future, however, is a very tricky problem if you're trying to retire at 30, especially if you're living through turbulent times.

I'd rather work 3 days a week until I'm dead then let my skills start deteriorating now and live the next 60 years in fear that my fixed income won't be able to sustain me.
Do we? I think our creation myth maintains that the English were irretrievably stuffy, and that’s pretty much good enough for all of us. I never saw them as irretrievably evil, just comical really.
Totally agree. Moreover, most of the projects which still do have "soul", wouldn't exist in the first place, if the sole goal had been monetizing.
Not to mention the fact that urbanization has been progressing at large worldwide for the past decades. And urban areas are obviously warmer.
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I can read Chinese and saw it on a Chinese map at the start of the pandemic, when I was looking at the huanan wet market.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Center_For_Disease_Con...

No. 288, Machang Road, Jianghan District, Wuhan

If you duckduckgo the address you can see a bunch of academic papers listing that as the address.

Its not controversial. Just no one has ever brought it up.

Only media that reported on it was this

https://nypost.com/2021/08/13/who-scientist-eyes-on-wuhan-la...

Again, this doesn't prove a lab leak. But its a weird fact to leave out of public discourse.
I am reading through these, many powerful expressions about someone well loved and missed.

We had the gift of him and it would be a shame to let it fade too early.
Seriously, who will own a car 20 years from now?
Your friend made a conscious choice to get transferred internally; poaching sounds like the desire came from another team, but it sounds like your friend initiated the process.

I’ve transferred to another position by applying for a position (as a stunt); a talk with my boss’s boss and a week of vacation, and I was on another team.

The director of engineering even encouraged internal transfers, since it probably solved a problem in his mind.

It helped me that I’d voluntarily reviewed code for all other teams, so less onboarding.
You’re being too hard on yourself.

You suck at interviewing, you suck at applying to high-paying jobs, or you don’t live near high-paying jobs.
Chromium Embedded Framework is Chromium's XULRunner. It was much easier to use and maintain than XULRunner, which is why it's still maintained to this day, and XULRunner is in the trash.
So should we not evaluate the new system by comparison to existing system? Is the crypto version just better because its new? brb gonna rewrite my entire company’s stack, they are using old code and old stuff is dumb lol

Re: pesudonyms, yeah pseudonyms are ok for posts on the internet with 0 stakes. They aren’t enough for situations where there is a potential need for accountability. I dont see a contradiction..
Ah! Apologies on my bad read then! :)
I wonder if this tendency is the reason for the stereotype of the sadistic prep school trust fund kid that is so dominant in popular culture. In some cases it's obvious that they are easy opposition to the main character, but even in other stories they tend to be characterized that way.
So many assumptions on what this rare animal engineer is like.
Why does it matter so much to you that I do?

I have zero interest in rehashing an argument that’s been made here hundreds if not thousands of times already, and by others far more eloquent and convincing than myself no less. Feel free to read my post history. Or simply search for virtually any golang-related post on this site. Whatever arguments you find, I probably agree with at least 80% of them.
This might be accurate but it’s…bleak? I genuinely hope you do get what you’re looking for.
Solar panels have an albedo of ~0.3. Asphalt around ~0.05. That makes it 6x better in terms of heat reflected back right out the gate. There are many other, more complicated factors that make this even better in practice.
Over many different jobs I discover this:

If you earn a lot you somewhat have to deliver but more importantly you [should] want to deliver. Sure, there exist jobs where one is paid a great salary without having to do much beyond sitting around not doing much of anything. I consider those prisons. If you have such opportunity and take it you will become good at not doing anything.

The contrast is with jobs for which you are overqualified, can use and expand your skills and earn very little. There is no obligation to deliver here, its fun if you can but not at all required. There is no pressure, you can walk away whenever you like and find or forge 10 such jobs the same day. In this setting you can give the employer a sense that you are there because you actually want to be there. Its quite surreal. Almost anything you ask for in exchange for a pay cut you will get.

Now the real joke is that I work really hard for the small pay check but I work 3 days, perhaps 4 per week. I go home if there is not enough to do but work 7 days if the situation requires it. The 4 day weekend is a blast! It feels like the whole year is one giant vacation but that is not the big joke of it. In order to grow either physically or mentally you have to push yourself to your limit. If you push yourself like that for more than 3 days per week you won't grow, you will destroy your body, your mind or both.

I run circles around coworkers who work 5 days. Their performance usually declines while mine gradually improves. Their head is full of work stuff while mine is mostly empty ready to take in whatever comes next (which could be the next job)

If the situation requires me to work 15 hours for 30 days I'm up for it. Ill work a 2 day week after that for each 8 hours. Call me if you need me, ill probably show up. Even if they hate me or are the psycho dictator type they are quick to remember how much money I make for the company, how I got their things done before the deadline, the credit they took for my accomplishments.

I also learn that it doesn't matter how much you make, you can always find ways to run out of money before the end of the month.

Sure, if you have a bigger salary and work full time you can buy the fancy new car but why? To drive to work? Its just sitting there outside on the parking lot. You are not doing anything with it. It's for work. You've worked to earn it and use it for work. You can buy the big house but you are never there. You can eat in fancy restaurants but the satisfaction is mostly because you don't have time to cook elaborate meals. If you engineer your meal to the best of your ability restaurants are pretty disappointing. I'm slacking off but if you grow some of your own food the satisfaction is 10 fold.
Maybe so. But if you're not getting wildly underpaid those opportunities are few and far between.
Not sure I agree. Trinity study suggests that if you retire 30 years before death, you can safely withdraw 4% every year during retirement, regardless of economic fluctuations. If you retire super early and need 50 or 60 years, your safe withdrawal rate is probably closer to 3% or even 2%, though.

Your point may be that we should expect significant economic turmoil in the near- and medium-term, much more than "fluctuations", which may be true, or may not be. Impossible to predict the future.

Consider that the 2021 inflation rate is likely a symptom of COVID. Monthly inflation rates for the last few months of 2021 were trending downward. Hopefully we can expect inflation to get back to something approaching normal by the end of 2022. Even if it takes a couple more years, there's no reason to expect that 7% inflation is the norm going forward.

(Also consider that people who are doing FIRE certainly don't have much in treasuries. It's going to be mostly in stocks. That certainly carries other risks, of course.)
If your income is $100k and you save $90k, spending $10k, after 3 years, you will have saved $270k. With growth, you might have $300k. To support your ongoing $10k annual expenses, you'd only be spending 3% of your portfolio. The math checks out. Of course with taxes, a savings rate of 90% is more than likely to be possible.
Thanks. fwiw Seems to me that what you describe is different.

> … filing that into other developers images as they went…

Seems to me that after "building a new system image" all their developers worked with that same fresh system image (built from known archived sources).

(Perhaps I'm wrong about that.)
Thank you all for your help!
As someone who has spent a lot of time in the Netherlands, this is simply not true. “Everything” is not a bike ride away. You’re equating a severely limited life to one with a lot more access and freedom to chose from more than what is just immediately nearby. It’s simply not the same thing. I’m glad for the people who are content with such a set up, but it’s not for everyone. For me, I found Amsterdam tremendously boring after a short time because of the relatively limited choice of activities compared to a car-centric US cities where intraday travel over longer distances is trivial. I would also say that the claim that you can travel in the “same small amount of time” is factually incorrect for other reasons. A one mile bike ride is simply not going to be faster than a 1 mile drive unless you’re in a city where they have overbuilt or have tremendously lagging driving infrastructure. I can only see the two being approximately the same for very short trips.
> It's just the in-app premium monthly membership fee we're discussing?

Sure, but even then Stripe charges half a percent extra to handle subscriptions. Given Uber One is 10$, my original assessment still stands that Apple wants ~4x what equivalent processors wants on their marketplace.

> But if it's open to competition no one will use Apple payments even if they are the cheapest

You're assuming that all subscription businesses would prefer to engage unethically with their customers. Many businesses are much more interested in the customer acquisition funnel and building up trust, and if Apple payments eliminates dropoff in subscribers because their payment credentials are already there or it just has strong user trust then many companies will prefer it even if they aren't the cheapest (but competitive).

And if Apple wants to enforce standard such that even the unethical companies have to play in their garden, then they need to be pegged at a fair and reasonable cost of services delivered which we can ascertain from everybody else who is doing this.
Just let the CIA implant words into the collective conscience via Wordle for mind control, and offer him a hammock in the Bahamas in return.
Curious where youre at? Hope it works out for you, and it sounds like you already know this, but it all comes down to leetcode. So dont kill yourself learning "programming", companies only want leetcode medium perfection. Slack at the job, do not slack on the algos
Following the answers to this thread, it seems you have to justify yourself for not having a blog.

If you plainly answer "I don't want to", it's not acceptable. It is mandatory, like having a public GitHub, and so on.

I'm happy for people that like writing — in fact I love reading. I'm happy for those that participate in Open Source.
I still do prefer to participate in family activities, playing video games, working in my metal workshop...
It's a relatively minor feature used by relatively few people.
If they don't provide enough information, no one would reply I suppose and they will not get paid at all.
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'Lingo' has teams drawing balls of different colours and competing head to head. It is not 'clone'. There are dozens of similar word games in various cultures with similar concepts of giving information about the presence of a letter and position of a letter in the word. Your response is a classical cynical mindset of a jealous person.

The question was about monetization, not about your engineer syndrome.
So would you say DevOps is ... more a "brand" than useful proscription for anything? Or what are its useful / redeeming features, in your view?

Don't mean to be dismissive, I'm still trying to figure out what it is, actually. In reality, as opposed to the stuff people like to hear themselves say about it.
My high school best friend said he was joining the Army. I went to a recruiter the next day and was shipped out to boot camp a month later.

An old colleague randomly set me up on a blind date (to talk about something I was known for and relevant in industry) with the CTO of his firm. We had a few drinks. I was running a team for him a month later.
On the face of it, making all people who wage offensive war criminal seems like a good idea. Do you have an objection to the idea?

There is only shaky moral ground for the US to stand on here, they've been the major force of war and destruction in the world for the last 50 years. No question in my mind that the individuals involved are monsters, but there is a good argument that maybe all the alternative systems are worse.
I'm building a Commodore 64 at the moment, and the interactive BOM here is a very very helpful tool, it's the same idea as this one, but includes traces and part descriptions: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent...
Is there a big research university near you?

If so, I'd bet it's a large and relatively untapped pool of candidates, especially outside of the CS/EE departments. A lot of fields now make pretty heavy use of programming, ML and other tech. It's true that some folks are definitely in the "I tweak the script that gives the numbers" camp, but there are proper coders as well. Plus, you're pulling from a pool that's smart, good at teaching themselves, and probably making $25-$60k.
I understand this management philosophy well, but it’s also very dangerous because you risk hiring people like me, who share salary information with everyone that wants to.

A few decades ago I started working at a place where a couple of really talented people had never asked for a raise. I negotiated indirectly by talking about better opportunities and head hunters with my boss as well as asking for more pay. I got it every year. After a couple of years someone asked me what I was making and it turned out I was making a significantly amount more money than a lot of the senior staff members.

This was very nice for the budgets, but it eventually lead to everyone important to the department finding new jobs over a period of five years. When I stated it was a great place to work with really talented people, when I left it wasn’t because the talent had left and management had a really hard time convincing their managers that they needed to up the starting wages, because the budget had been just fine for so long.

This is very anecdotal of course, but underpaying technicians for years can be a very dangerous strategy under the right circumstances.
I guess my question would be how the original creator monetizing his version would prevent copycats from making a windfall. If anything monetizing would remove a differentiating feature from Wordle, driving more traffic to copycats. The only way he can prevent copycats cashing in is to both monetize and use the revenue for marketing (and/or feature development). But then you have a business rather than a hobby, and it sounds like not a business he wants to be in.
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Here in Belgium there's a platform on which you can sell invoices that have say a 90 day payment term to someone who'll give you say 95% of it, if you need that money immediately. They then get the full invoice after 90 days.
Position your company as one that does interesting work, offers a good work-life balance, pays market rates, has a worthwhile stock comp plan, and doesn't require an engineer to spend the next six months practicing brainteasers to pass your interview/hazing process, and I bet you wouldn't have any trouble attracting a ton of engineers. I'd certainly find that compelling.
Probably about as many people as today (in the US, at least). Short a massive revolution in on-demand vehicles, public transit, or a major move back towards urban centers the suburban sprawl and consequent "need" for cars is unlikely to change.
No surprise for government workers. We were raised to get into a government job, doing nothing, but eventually I ended up in a different, more interesting career path. Less fat.
do test and see which one users find better, allow users to pick colors of their choice, and see what themes are more popular.
It's not the definition but it's interrelated. When survival directly contradicts morality. Survival takes priority and morality is overridden.

Hence people act immorally in the name of survival.
Not alot of fun in unlimited goes. Multiplayer challenging has more allure.
> you aren't required to use Coinbase or even anything like it, to use cryptocurrency

That's a purely academic argument; It's like saying that "you aren't required to have a Visa or Mastercard card in order to make purchases online". Technically speaking that statement may be true, and you may even find hermits that don't have a card... but, in any practical sense, everybody does, and that's how they do their online purchases.
> that which is too much should not have been added in the first place.

The problem is, with CSS you don't know if you've added too much. As the project evolves, and code and styles change there's literally no way of knowing if a certain CSS rule is still in use Well, except regexp'ing the whole project looking for matches.
First off great concept. The salary transparency seems like a huge selling point.I also love the aspect of being able to search by tech stack within your jobs, very frictionless.

Indeed I think many recruiters have it backwards. I've had good and bad experiences. There are recruiters who understand the long term game as a salesman, who build win-win relations and check in on you every few years. Those are the people that will absolutely sell your CV to your future boss and those are the people I have no problem in acting on my behalf as an intermediary.