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I've been bothered

Consider that you are not a toddler.

Consider that you are not an expert in child psychology.

Nor preschool educator.

Most of what we are conditioned to think about TV is we are moral failures to let our children watch it.

My understanding, for I am not an expert in those things either, is that toddlers and children learn slowly over years. And it's not TV that makes crappy adults.

Good luck.
There are the valid grammar rules and there is the way people of the language actually speak. The unspoken rules.

If I can read the text and guess what language the original text was in, I would argue that it's not a very good translation.
And this is really more positioned as a rival to Hetzner than to AWS, for now.
That's largely because the Biden campaign instructed Twitter, NYT, and Washington Post to bury the Hunter story prior to the election. It was ultimately decided by the American powers that be that getting a Democrat in office was more important than reporting the truth, so the folks at the top classified the entire story as "misinformation."

The contents of the laptop are real, Hunter did smoke crack, and Big Tech / Big Media signed a deal with the devil to ensure the American people were lied to about it until at least the inauguration. I'm not American and thankfully never will be, but I'd have a hard time ever trusting the Dems after that butchery of justice.
Even if it's technically grammatical, I don't think it's something a native speaker would generally write or say.

"You need X?" works in a casual setting. But IMHO it looks pretty out of place in a more formal sentence like this with so many fancy nouns.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I love this community but sometimes it bums me out. If work is what truly makes people happen, then awesome, have at it. Personally, I get some but not all of self-fulfillment out of it. I use the paycheck to do the things I actually care about.
>It is not so easy. Changing jobs cannot be always the answer.

This. Everything you said is true about most of Europe, and even more so outside of major tech hubs.

Companies call the shots and employees have to follow if they want to stay employed, because there are no good alternatives to go to, when all companies just act the same and pay the same. And most companies here don't give a damn about what their employees actually want and presume they can bait you with a +10% salary increase but exact same inflexibility, toxic environment and management practices. Good luck with that.

Plus, interviewing and changing jobs in the tech world is a monumental effort, taking both time and a mental toll after several rounds of interviews with several companies, on top of your regular job, time that could have went into hobbies, dating, socializing, travelling, cooking, etc., so there's a lost opportunities cost associated with the job hunt.

I've been interviewing around for about 4 months so far, to hopefully change to a better , less stressful tech job, and I'm already completely exhausted from all the "complete our 20-questions, 6 page HR online form about yourself, before you can submit your application, because our time is more valuable than yours", "solve this week long take home test, and when you're done, we'll let you know that unfortunately this position has already been filled", "there will be several rounds of interviews after wich we'll just ghost you, because f*ck you", "you didn't sound passionate enough about our company's products in your cover letter", etc. And, apparently there's a labor shortage. Yeah ... right.

God, I'm so exhausted from all this, some days I just can't get out of bed anymore and sit there wishing I get hit by lightning, or die in my sleep and end my misery.
As I work for a company that was founded during the pandemic, it's 100% remote in the truest meaning of the word. I never even considered there might be a different perception for 'WFH' which were in-person jobs that turned remote.
I think for those jobs, both camps are right. To say WFH was just a temporary measure is just as valid to say you like working from home so much now you want that.
I won't use Amazon either. The title references this as an AWS competitor and if you read my comment carefully you would probably realize that I did not exactly glorify them, rather the opposite.
Paul Graham's submarine essay probably.
The point of MDMA therapy is not to pop it on a regular basis to have higher serotonin levels. There's a reason that MDMA is being used for PTSD and not Depression (although I think it would be useful for non-chemical based cases of depression, e.g. psychological based depression). The point of MDMA is to allow that individual to open up enough and bring down their walls enough such that healing through therapy can actually take place. At least, that is my understanding as a non-expert.
* Abstract Algebra, for when you need to create an Algebra

* Linear Algebra, a matrix can represent lots of different things and lots of great tools around LA.

* Tree searches, 60% of all traditional AI is some sort of tree manipulation ( I made that number up ).
Two possibilities: microplastics turn out to be bad, and we're stuck with a generation (at least) of health effects until we can get rid of them.

They turn out to be safe (enough) to eat and end up being turned into some kind of food filler in lower end products.
As a student of both German and English, this mistake looks weird to me, as you are supposed to start the question with the verb in German (Brauchst du ...?), and this acts as a pretty good reminder to translate the question with the do in English.
Hetzner requested a copy of my UK passport though.

An image of a passport proves nothing btw, especially since Hetzner is not a UK Govt Agency, that I am aware of, and has zero methods of authenticating such 'evidence' of ID.
To be blunt, you either haven't read cs Lewis or are being intentionally deceitful. Cs Lewis's arguments are explicitly anti-humanist.

Dostoesvsky and lewis changed my life and brought my from a mild agnosticism to traditional Catholicism and my life has never been better.
I would like to challenge the underlaying idea:

Asking "what fundamental knowledge" is like asking what telescope makes the best astronomers.

The problem with knowledge is applicability. You can know a lot of fundamental things, but if you cannot recognize the patterns were they are useful is dead knowledge.

My personal experience through my life (30+ years in the field) and observing and interviewing developers in many different industries tells me that curiosity, logical thinking, and emotional intelligence win the day. And these are not pieces of knowledge, but personal characteristics and skills to develop. And they apply to many careers, including software engineering.

I think that more important than knowledge accumulated is your ability to conceptualize and recognize the concepts in a different context. Knowledge is just a side effect of this.
I commute five minutes by foot. I'd still rather work from home. And I'm gonna, one way or another.
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I think the true 10x multiplier is not a technical skill at all. It is the ability to quickly cut through irrelevant tasks and actions to focus on the thing that will move the business goal forward fastest. It is enshrined in the concept of the MVP and the short iteration cycle. Quicky building something that does not solve a business problem is not productive. Work=force*displacement. No movement, no work.

A closely related skill is the ability to cut through all the abstractions and interfaces to get to the root cause of what is broken or needs changed. A technical and organizational debt buster if you will.
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Neat tool too, thanks!
Very German. Tech companies here don't like open signups. I have absolutely no idea why. Not a single SaaS startup I've worked for or have worked with here has had open signups.
Some of my customers in German Healthcare startups might be interested, they get harassed all the time for using AWS.
The Royal Society For Putting Things On Top of Other Things approves of STACKIT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFrdqQZ8FFc
If the theoretical [economic] rationale for quadratic voting is that it incentivises voters to apportion votes perfectly in accordance with the relative intensity of their preferences, the fact they can achieve better outcomes by colluding/cooperating to vote not in accordance with the intensity of their preferences is a pretty major weakness.
You are talking up an 'international mindset', but what you are writing here goes against that. They are not writing native english. They are writing ESL. A true international mindset is accepting that the english the people of the world write to each other is not the same english as british people speak.

Would you also have corrected it if had been text written by Nigerians or others that use a creole or dialect of english?
2 questions: Cheaper than AWS? Managed Postgres?

[Edit] Looks like yes to both.
Maybe that's an idea for a product: find discussions on HN, Twitter, Reddit, FB etc about your blog post and embed them on the blog where you would usually see the comments. Not sure how big the market is, but...
This sort of "feels wrong" non-native yet grammatically correct use of language is precisely the kind of thing that would be fine on an internal doc where comprehension is the name of the game, but falls flat on its face on external communications where a more fuzzy "trust" is trying to be engendered.

Or to put it more abruptly - if the release marketing is so low effort they haven't even bothered to get a professional translation, it suggests the same care and attention may have been lavished on the product.
As a counterpoint, I dislike any blog that links back to HN for discussion.

It’s not a playground for everyone’s blogs to use, and there is no guarantee an article will be posted at all - unless the author resorts to systematically posting his own content, which is another undesirable outcome.

On Twitter, you might get different people posting about it, and accompanying thread, but no way to find them. I think there’s still room for comment systems.
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There's also the cookie prompt (yes, headline in capitals)

> BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER: BRIEFLY ABOUT THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA

But... that said, as someone who's only done a bit of German on Duolingo, I don't mind, especially for early-stage services. It says to me more work needs to be done around l10n and copywriting, but as long as they keep improving the core product, it's okay.

In fact what annoys me more than awkward English are teams that download and use generic English-language website templates, resulting in super-generic product pages.
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Nor do they appear to have actually launched.
If there are unspoken rules that can't be defined then they're not rules, they're made up bullshit.
We’re here I think. I’ve seen a few hiring threads on other communities where the topic came up and there was a healthy sample of “will never a former Fbook/Meta” prognosticators in the room
I don't think there is anything else more illogical in modern society than waking up in building A, hopping in a car and fighting traffic for an hour to get to building B just to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours (perhaps with a few minimally productive meetings here and there), then commute back to building A 8 hours later.

Building B sits empty for 16 hours a day while Building A sits empty for 10 with both being heated/cooled for 24 hours. The employee wastes 2 of their 16 available waking hours in the non-productive commute while incurring significant financial costs (lease/insurance/fuel/energy) in order to support this patently absurd activity. Similarly the employer wastes time and energy negotiating leases, re-arranging offices, purchasing AV equipment for meeting rooms in building B, etc.,etc., in addition to paying the likely enormously expensive lease itself.

The impacts on the environment, the number of hours of human life wasted in commute, the pointless buildings and associated costs to employers as well as the public infrastructure to support it (roads, trains, busses, etc.) are all incredibly wasteful. Surely, all of this could only be justified if physical presence had a dramatic impact on productivity. Yet, we cannot tell one way or the other if it actually improves outcomes.

Let's face it, it's dumb.
Well, when I'm in a call the call widget is usually the first to show up after I have unlocked the screen. I am not sharing the screen explicitly through any app.
Nothing odd about it. You pointed out a lack of attention to detail. I’m guessing one will find other areas of their product that show a similar lack of detail and attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Witness the number of people that 'didn't get it' and realize that I am not at all surprised that some people would write something like that and mean it, superfluous punctuation or not.
Incentives structures are important to learn about, because people often find it useful to have well-defined goals to work towards, and company or government policies can provide those goals.

A software security mindset can be useful, because in the same way that software attackers theorize about how some code could be exploited, or about the way that a system may behave, people attempting to game a system are looking for flaws that they can benefit from.

Statistics, research and analytical skills can be useful to practice, because for any given {game/policy situation}, it's likely that there exist many similar examples throughout history and the world at-large. It's often easier to find out how similar systems have worked rather than attempting to design your own from scratch.

Good luck!
As skocznymroczny has noted, the AMD stock cooler is perfectly Ok - I have it in my desktop PC too and you can barely hear it unless you're playing games. But these coolers are the baseline - if Noctua and others want to stay in business, their coolers have to be better (quieter, better performance, cooler-looking) than the stock coolers. Which sometimes comes with limitations - e.g. coolers that are too big for certain cases, while the stock coolers have to work for the widest possible range of cases, boards etc.
I strongly disagree. I find that talking to other people is required at every single level.

Junior engineers need mentoring, need to talk to other people to understand what's asked of them.

Mid-level engineers/ICs need to talk to other people to understand the architecture design, collaborate with other mid-level engineers, and push back or report back issues that arise during the work.

Seniors and up need it for design reviews and achieving consensus.

Critically, to advance in your career, you need to start participating in conversations with the next stages. All of this is easier face to face.
What do you think the termination rate should be, and why?

One big confound to remember is that it’s generally hard to get US government jobs because a lot of work has been outsourced to contractors, so the federal workforce trends older and more experienced. That pool of people is less likely to be fired for cause in general.

When thinking about why you believe more people should be fired, consider the politics — both the general managerial class tendency to shift accountability to workers and the specific culture war points favored by people who oppose government regulation – and ask whether what you’re basing that on is fully in the worker’s responsibility. I’ve seen plenty of .gov inefficiency but an awful lot of that has been required by policy (not just agency, often by Congress) and underfunding. The latter often isn’t just a simple number being too low but also things like having money budgeted to contract out work but not to hire people to adequately supervise them. Very, very few situations have been as simple as “Fred chose not to do his job” without significant other factors contributing to the problem.

I’d also note that while I have seen a couple of cases like that, that’s less than I saw in .com or .edu and for exactly the same reason: they were high enough up the org chart and a buddy even higher up sheltered them. HR could have fired them if they weren’t being told not to.
Why is Shell so bad? I spoke to a Shell employee the other day and the guy couldn't stop talking about all the great things they are doing for the environment and with new green technologies. /s
HFCS is "high" in fructose in relative terms but is actually quite similar to "normal" sugar (55% fructose vs 50% fructose). I think you're right that the real culprit is probably that sugar is being shoved into everything, including staples like bread.
It could definitely be reworded to be at least easier to follow. I guess this is where Spanish is useful with the inverted question mark. ¿
> - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't

Why would it hurt you? They're at the forefront of technical challenges of scaling an immensely popular product and developing internal tooling. These aren't necessarily applicable everywhere, but they're incredibly valuable. If anything, I think the fact that they're working at a place where a very vocal minority of their peers jeers at is a positive signal. They can withstand a snarky comment from some hipster at a party to potentially work on interesting technical challenges (money is good too).

> - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral

I think you're in a bubble. Facebook is a very popular brand name outside of a very vocal minority of internet commenters and tech journalists. They have a few of the most popular consumer apps in the world with 3 billion total users across the products. When you consider their products in open source like GraphQL and React, it's even more.

I get it, you don't like Facebook. But don't gaslight yourself into thinking they're some toxic entity that everyone hates and is on the verge of irrelevance
9:48 video... no thanks. I did watch the first thirty seconds and then skipped through to most of it, and there is a lot of filler to get it near the magical 10 minute video length that YouTubers want.

If someone writes a serious blog post about mice, then maybe I'll read that.

As for now, a mouse suggestion: Logitech M350 (a nice compact , and more importantly... a silent mouse that I have in my laptop bag)
LOL, I'm gonna need to go ahead and come in and sit in the office all day ... that'd be great.

It's more difficult for managers to low-level harass or intimidate employees who WFH, and it's auditable if they do.
I'm not surprised. I saw a whistle blower at a pig farm showing them grinding up waste food from super markets, packaging and all feeding it to the pigs. They eat all the plastic and junk, we eat them.
I may just try the coloured rectangle idea, could be interesting if I am challenged - which has already happened once with the phone.
> (...) these little details would go a long way to actually showing that the German economy does have some sort of international mindset (...)

Well, I think that Germany's commercial balance shows this much better than non-native-sounding-yet-fully-correct grammar.
I do. I don't overclock my rigs, and the stock fan suits me just fine. I rarely have temperatures above 70C.
This is the best case. I took a remote job at a new company right after the lockdowns started in my area, and I've loved it but for the same reasons you love your office.

I live in a small town, on the main residential street in the old neighborhood. I have a family ( wife and two kids ) and we love our neighbors.

Before Covid, the commute was awful. The area where the office was located was insular. I watched my security cameras to keep up with my garden and family and feel connected to the world that mattered to me.

Now I'm able to walk in my garden and pull weeds between tickets/meetings instead of taking a lap around an exurban campus. I talk to my neighbors when they are out doing the same, or at the end of our days ( tag-team visiting Taco Tuesday gathering last night after the kids went to bed... )

Everyone is in different seasons, ( heck I might be looking for an office in a few years depending on the kiddos schedules, ) but community is the make-or-break factor.
But that is balanced out by having Carmack's prints on it. He has status as a God on HN.
There's plenty of EU-based companies they need to challenge before they can challenge AWS (Hetzner, OVH, Upcloud, Raptr..)

I don't see it happening, at least not with what they're showing.
I met Schmooey in December, at a Guitar Hero meetup in North Carolina. He is a very good player, there's a song named Novae Ruptis with an extremely hard strumming chart. I personally watched him 100% full combo that song sixteen times in a row. But he wanted more. He didn't just want to be a great GH player. He wanted people to think he was the absolute GOAT. Kinda sad, he was really chill and cool to hang out with.
I've not needed to verify identity to spin up VPS or order storage boxes. For what reason did you have to verify yourself?
>you can immediately tell if a person is a native German speaker because they don't capitalize the first letter in an English email

Pretty bold claim.
I bet there are many other languages where the first letter after the salutation isn't capitalized.

I also bet that some native english speakers make the same error.
It's usually missing any time it would have been useful.
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> Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation?

Yes. It is a digital pharmaceuticals drugs company and it was 'addictive' for the previous generation back then. Not so for this generation as it has no effect on them. Facebook™ and Instagram™ do not work on them anymore.

The new digital crack / cocaine is TikTok™, manufactured by ByteDance. Another generation will find another 'hit' to be addicted to once they get bored off on this one.

Rinse and repeat.
> I also see this all the time in Email correspondence, you can immediately tell if a person is a native German speaker because they don't capitalize the first letter in an English email after "Dear X, we are writing <blah>" (which would be 100% correct in German, but somehow no one teaches this in English classes in Germany that in English it is capitalized).

TIL thanks.

Sadly once you are in the professional world, nobody correct you anymore, so you can't improve/fix your English easily.
The Schumpeter bits are about how a business's ability to extract market value from innovation changes over time. Then the author says there are two kinds of startups. The first kind is job replacement. He says the problem is then that there is no nomenclature for the second kind, which is the one that creates more jobs and which is an object of policy incentives. Unfortunately, the author does not leave us with any nomenclature, either - maybe I missed it. Left hanging.
They still haven't learned a thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/12/facebook-...
I assumed because I was not an EU citizen?
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Even though it is a late but great feature, it’s still not good enough.

Let’s look at all the features that it’s currently missing.
You have probably not experienced i18n of american websites
So far, [this new search engine](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/andi ), ["Andi"](https://andisearch.com/ ), seems pretty neat.

Looks like they're going for a better, AI-assisted Google.
That appears to be Ubiquity's argument, but we've only got one side at the moment, and to my reading (uneducated as to US defamation law) it's far from proven.
BWS, cause if you're going for A you better be B?
Only “from...” prices - I can not compare their prices to AWS with the same resources.