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Under COBRA you're eligible to remain on your employer-provided health care coverage for 18 to 36 months, employers aren't required to pay for any of it (and most don't)
Many good points that I'm able to relate to. However, the post is too exaggerated, e.g.:

> The amount of debugging required for Rust projects is an order of magnitude less than I’ve seen anywhere else.

Sorry, that's just nonsense. I've done a large amount of .NET and Java and a good amount of Go and Rust. Stating that debugging effort in other languages is at least 10 time (which is an order of magnitude) higher is a huge exaggeration.

Also, one absolute critical point is missing: The reliability of the ecosystem. That's the biggest weakness of Rust. Rust's NPM like ecosystem is just brittle and dangerous. There're enough examples of widely used crates that caused issues due to maintenance or that had malicious code. For all the undeniable benefits Rust brings, this single big disadvantage makes it actually not the best choice for startups.

I sometime wish Rust and Go had a baby ...
Congrats on the new gig. It sounds like things worked out well.
What matters for a startup is time to market.

So, go with a boring technology that the existing team is already familiar with, and that fits your use case.

There's nothing wrong with PHP, Python, Go, JavaScript or Java. Even modern "no code" tools such as Bubble can get a first version done in a minimum amount of time.
I have spent the last 3 years in absolute solitude, I have not even spoken to my nuclear family due to problems of coexistence...

I can tell you that depression is nothing more than your body crying out to you to socialize, but not to socialize with anyone, but with a person with whom you can live peacefully...

Living alone your life loses meaning, soon questions arise such as: Why do I suffer so much in my work? Does it make any sense to suffer just to survive for no apparent reason? The reasons to live are given to you by your "friends".

But where to find those friends? I don't even know, at school you get mixed up with random people and if you're lucky you find someone, at university it's the same, but if you were unlucky enough not to find friends in either of them, you're finished, then you have to work and there you will not have time to make friends, unless you have time to do a sport or a hobby.

If you ask me what the solution is, it is a very long article that I am working on.
I pay around $30 extra per month for my internet connection in order *not* to have cable, which funds the garbage TV: https://unfoxmycablebox.com/
Freedom of expression helps you think though. Lisp is helping the thoughts, other languages obstruct them (that certainly includes Python).

For a scientific language like R this quality is important.

Perhaps the ideal data science language would be a Lisp/R with excellent embedding qualities like Lua for the scientific parts. People could then choose their favorite language for shoveling data around.
It's easy enough to have a discussion about you which you don't take seriously

An anti-vaxxer might respond the same way to "the problem with anti-vaxxers," hoping to make sure that nobody discusses the very real problems with them

It's generally okay if people being criticized don't want the people speaking about them to think poorly of them.

It's generally okay if a person being criticized believes that what's said to them can be rebuffed with canned content.

You go ahead and tell everyone that the reason you're polluting with a dysfunctional casino is "you weren't born with functional institutions" if you like

Every notice how anti-vaxxers have canned responses that they think landed, but nobody else does?
Reading Poorly Structured Excel Files with Pandas
That's true. But that still makes me wonder, what could Coinbase do in this case, that other companies are already doing? Do other companies not perform layoffs when there is a bear market?
The first Black astronaut wasn't until 1983. Same for women. The show portrays a very different scenario as part of its plot points.
Maybe you should retitle your article "Why Rust is one of many great choices for startups"
The FTX quote applies in so many circumstances. Tons of companies, organizations, and even teams have boom/bust hiring. No headcount for ages and then BOOM suddenly piles of headcount. This makes culture and knowledge sharing almost impossible.
It used to be, but these days laptops are the new desktops.

Almost no one buys desktops anymore, even though they are obviously a better choice in many regards, including ergonomics, if the thing is to be strapped to a desk 100% of the time.
NT 4 was rubbish for laptops. But it was a state-of-the-art OS for desktops in 1996.

Laptops were not so crucial then. Few people used a laptop as their primary computer; they were an adjunct to a _real_ computer, suitable for emergency working on the move, but with poor CPU, slow disks, poor graphics, etc.

The default computer for business until ½ decade or so into the 21st century was a desktop PC, and for them, from 1993 onwards, NT was unrivalled.

And I speak as someone who spent their own money on OS/2 2.0. I've been working in the industry since the 1980s, which means I never spent my own cash on software. (I'm not a gamer.) I've been using FOSS for 25+ years now, but OS/2 2.0 was worth the money.
No. Nothing like a camera does.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human...
I have two fireplaces in my home, including a fairly expensive insert that can heat the whole main floor. And I kind of enjoy the whole wood burning thing. I live rural, so harvest my own trees, split, stack, etc.

But honestly I've come around to a place where I think wood burning needs to be seen as a bygone era thing and probably quite regulated. I only do a fire a couple times a winter now. It's romantic and all, but it's polluting and of dubious safety.
The article wasn't clear, but the survey was done of 2,000 customers (1,000 each OS) done by a US company (I believe a startup) designed to connect it's customers with discounts at US stores. While it's possible (it's an app/website) that non-US users exist, it seems unlikely anyone would sign up if they were outside the US.
The point is you don't know until the vote how it would turn out. If you did know, there would be no need for the vote.

You don't know why the overwhelming majority of them voted as they did. Maybe most of them can't be said to know. It suffices that they voted.
Someone just needs to find a great way to scale them.
My company has noticed that good developers in Germany are cheaper than in India. Good is key here, you can get bad developers in India for very cheap (this might be good enough). The highest paid software positions in Germany are non-union jobs and the majority are not willing to leave the union for more money, which means they are refusing to do the work of a senior engineer, and this in turn means we can't use the cheap labor for lack of leaders.
And instances of employee sabotage are elevated in Europe. Imagine that.
Does the article mention worldcoin?
Crypto has become a gacha game. So many currencies that you lose contact with how much money you put in in the first place.
Very simply the Supreme Court would have to rule that the policy was legal and detail how it was in line with UN conventions on refugees.

The English courts haven’t done this yet, they just said they won’t issue injunctions to prevent certain deportations.
You're conflating "the right", "far right", fascism, and totalitarianism. Which, I think, is why the term "far right" was invented - so leftists could basically call other people fascists without having to substantiate the claim.

Being "on the right" is about policy. Someone on the right believes in democracy, freedom, capitalism, human rights, etc. They hold policy positions such as lower taxes, controlled immigration, and greater punishment for criminals. These policy positions put them in opposition to those on the left.

Someone "on the right" is not a fascist, and is not nearer being a fascist than someone "on the left". Fascism means the abolition of human rights, democracy, free capitalism, and everything "the right" believes in.

It's common to cherry pick little policy points from previous facsict states and use that as evidence that the right is facsict. "Hitler limited immigration, the Tories want to limit immigration, the Tories are fascist!!!!". That makes no sense. "Mao raised taxes, Biden wants to raise taxes, Biden is literally a communist!!!".

Facsism is not about policy. It is a fundamentally different, totalitarian, way to structure a society.
Common practice. In places where I have worked if you told the company you had a competitive offer the standard practice was to take 15 minutes to try to get you a matched offer. If you declined or they couldn’t match it was automatic walk off the premise
Thanks! I hadn't heard of them, but they seem great. I generally recommend folks use pretty much anything but Google's or their ISP's DNS servers, but this looks to be a really good option.
Don't worry!

I worked with a couple people right out of top 10 CS programs in the USA. One of them was way faster at writing good code than the rest, even people who went through the same program he did. I asked him how he got so good, and he told me he had to take a year off after school to care for a relative, and in his spare time he built web apps for fun. It gave him a great knowledge of operating systems, databases, networking, etc. And he said even more importantly it taught him how to just get into the code and build things.

I don't think you have to take time off to hack more. Grab a job, get paid to build things, and soon you'll see your skills getting better and better. You're already thinking hard about how to improve, and that's a critical first step that a lot of people never take.
> See, I know that I can keep up this by simply linking to previous comments.

As long as you don't mind that nobody but you is convinced at the end, perhaps
Perhaps Coinbase is speedrunning the evolution of modern HR practices, just as the market it serves is speedrunning through the history of financial regulation.
No mention of Russia interesting
I had no idea that Binance is so far ahead. Why do most people use it? Some trust factor?
Credit to Coinbase, the severance benefits are generous, including the 4 months of COBRA health insurance.
They could a very safe enclosed CNC milling machine and lathe for a few hundred grand. No one wants to have grubby machinery around anymore though. That's for offshoring.
> "As of 2009, non-military cryptography exports from the U.S. are controlled by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security.[9] Some restrictions still exist, even for mass market products; particularly with regards to export to "rogue states" and terrorist organizations." Wikipedia

The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has means to enforce that kind of ban, like it has done in the past, and still does.
I definitely think "we do not do leetcode interviews" and maybe "we only have three interviews total" would be selling points on a job posting. People who are experienced in the field don't want to go through the same hoops that newbies do just to prove they know how to write basic algorithms.
> especially Finder, copying a filepath...

So, this might be down to discoverability being such a challenge, but it's actually very easy to copy a filepath in Finder - with great precision too.

There is an element called 'Path Bar' that can appear at the bottom of Finder file panes. You may or may not have this thing hidden, there's an option in the 'View' menu. Make sure the Path Bar is visible and right-click on any part of the path to copy up to that point.

Frankly, I rarely use it since the terminal is so much more powerful for file handling tasks, but there you go. The solution existed just past your threshold to discover it, which is a whole 'nother kind of UI problem. But I find this implementation to be superior to Explorer or any of the Linux stuff.
A responsible company would consider "sensitive customer information" to be pretty much every bit of customer information - names, addresses, phone numbers, bank accounts. Maybe low-level developers won't have access to that but every member of the infrastructure and customer facing teams will in some fashion because it's 100% part of their job and odds are good that's the majority of the people in the company.
Not just scammers! Even "non scam" stable cryptocurrency companies can drain your life savings:

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/06/09/when-a-cryptocurrency...

And

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/22/ukrainian...

Matt Levine put in succinctly: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-13/merger...

> If you don’t like the financial system making leveraged speculative bets with your deposits, you might find yourself putting your money in some entirely unregulated crypto bank whose entire purpose is to make leveraged speculative bets with your money

I hope there's a lot of court cases that ensures the morons that started these companies and peddled BS to the public don't have anything more to do with other peoples money.
I've never laid people off, but I've fired them.

It's hard to know what emotional tenor to put on it. On the one hand, of course you're right that upbeat positive optimistic is fake and maybe feels like it's more for you than them. On the other hand, being like, "this sucks and it's bad for you and I hated doing it" feels like kicking people when they're down, making them feel like it's even worse than it already is.

I have generally give with a pretty emotionless affect, but tried to convey respect for them as a person, even if they didn't work as an employee, but that's hard to convey. It's a generally fraught situation.
A friend of mine's manager had to lay him off but the manager was the nicest guy and was basically in tears through the exit process. My friend essentially had to do the break up. We felt for the manager but also, keep your isht together. If you can't then you are putting that on the individual that you are letting go.
2008 speaking: It is totally normal. We fly high ($$$) and it's part of the game. It's not personal, the company is in trouble and they're making moves to save themselves. Many places will be happy to hire ex Coinbase people.
part of this may have been the "queen's duck" effect
I've been toying with Rust on and off for a few years. It has an extremely steep learning curve. As a novice it's incredibly difficult to do things that are trivial in other languages.

> On the other hand, you might attract talent that wants to use a specific language like Rust, but hasn't had the chance in their current professional environment

Maybe if you're doing something embedded? Otherwise, the learning curve is so steep that you're better off just buying a faster computer to run C#/Java/NodeJS/Python/Whatever.
> There will always be confidence scams, as long as there are humans.

Maybe, but the question is more about which rate of a population will be exposed to such a risk. With proper politics, you can definitely limit these risks for the general public.
It's also what Coinbase seems to be doing here (they are paying people for fourteen weeks or more).
Incredibly narrow minded take.
That's a mitigation strategy but there are many open tickets at any one time. The employee can just go through open tickets and wreak havoc.
My bachelors was in music and I was midway through a masters in music when I decided to switch to CS. Needless to say it was a huge paradigm shift, and having had very little experience prior to that, and also as a result of a program that was highly theoretical, I came out with a MS in CS but with some massive gaps. I wasn't that comfortable with basic tools, like the unix command line, vi, or even DOS (it was a while ago), for example.

So, feeling somewhat unconfident, I took a job in software testing -- SDET, doing test automation mostly in Perl. I figured it'd be a gentler learning curve during which I'd beef up my skills, and after which I'd move over to software development. It worked out fairly well for me, though due to a variety of factors, I stayed in the testing/QA side longer than planned.

I think that's not a bad path, and better than starting in tech support imho because you'll be directly involved in the development process. Just make sure that it's a technically focused role with opportunities for writing code, and not just button pushing. And don't stay there too long, or you'll find yourself in the unfortunate niche of the rare and highly sought after testing/QA person who can also code.
There's nothing submarine about it, Justin is shilling his community quite openly at the end, if you asked him "hey what's that last paragraph about" I expect he'd reply "I'm shilling indiethinkers what does it look like".

Submarine is when you launder your ad through some putatively neutral platform, Justin runs otherlife, there's no mystery here.
One place I worked at briefly would call the cops and have them escourt you out if they thought there was any risk of "disruption or back talk" (their words). I decided not to work for assholes who lay off little old ladies and then to add insult to injury, call the cops on them.
I never knew it did get recalled, interesting. I guess it might be because I'm from a small country in Europe, recall programs rarely seem to reach too far outside the US and Canada unfortunately.
The fact that Westminster can if it chooses to "stick the boot in", together with the possibility that it might, is evidence enough IMO to support independence.

The trust has gone. I want us ruling our own affairs.
AI finds hidden evidence of ancient human fires 1M years ago
The one thing I think GitHub is missing is a solid, well thought out bug/project/ticket management system. Issues is too basic, and Projects are only really collections of Issues.

I think GitLab's issue tracker has a lot of usability issues, but it fits the template of an issue tracker (mostly defined by Jira) much better. For those selecting a new platform for a large project or organisation, I can completely understand GitLab's issue tracker being a safer bet than GitHub.
That is, for me, a feature, not a bug. Consent is a great thing.

Many people of smaller nations like Czechs, that regained sovereignty after a long period of subjugation to various powers, do not really want to give it up again so that the French-German axis may have their job easier.
Yeah not trillions and not any asset. But many millions and 99% of traded funds, yeah.
When you come across this illusion, you can "break" it by getting a piece of string and holding one end over the moon and one over the sun, and you'll more easily see how the moon does after all point at the sun. Lying on the ground can also help.
Unfortunately, least privilege access is not common practice in the industry yet. It's coming along, but it's a huge lift to get everything and everyone onboarded, especially if you have a bunch of legacy systems you need to retrofit. At companies where least privilege is a thing you can just revoke most of a person's permissions while leaving them access to, say, internal email and Slack. Without pervasive RBAC or ABAC that's basically impossible.
You're aware that cryptos market cap is up 900 billion in the past 5 years, right? That means people in crypto are up 900 billion in 5 years overall.
Wouldn't their Blackberries be remotely deactivated first?
obvious and logical choice

github is busy creating Instagram for "Coders"
When covid started sporting events were cancelled and the general population received cash stimulus and with the ease of use of iPhone apps a lot of people that were used to gambling on sporting events switched to crypto. This led to an increase price which then attracted the second set of people and so forth.
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Found this while curating news for my free archaeology newsletter. If interested: https://ancientbeat.substack.com/
Spain I understand. But I dunno about France. It's not the Auld Alliance is still a thing, but surely they'd relish an opportunity to give England a black eye.
Your comment already has a lot of responses but one thing I didn't see mentioned is about the tough physical labor. It is often neglected that working at the computer is really bad for your body. Sitting for hours is unhealthy and creates all kinds of problems: obesity, disc prolapse, bad circulation, so much more. Also your eyes suffer a lot and become worse much faster than in most other jobs.

I agree that being a SWE is certainly not the worst thing in the world but it has also a lot of bad properties that often are overlooked and the most positions do not have moon salaries, that we see on HN regularly.

Also to do whatever lower income job you don't need to study for 5+ years (master). You need to compare with jobs that have similar requirements to your education.
Looking at the Irish situation right now, I am skeptical about any such treaty with regard to Scotland.
The article is terribly written and accusingly ambiguous with scope. This quote from the fine article is not better in the context of the article that it is here on its own:

> While intentional acts traditionally aren’t included in air-crash
> statistics, they would be the second-largest category of deaths
> worldwide if they were, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Pleqse stop calling crypto-currencies just "crypto" which has been used since many years as synonym for cryptography!
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
> Fatal crashes of private, business, and corporate-executive airplanes have increased after publicized murder-suicides. The more publicity given to a murder-suicide, the more crashes occurred. The increase in plane crashes occurred primarily in states where the murder-suicides were publicized. These findings suggest that murder-suicide stories trigger subsequent murder-suicides, some of which are disguised as airplane accidents.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17750236/

The media has known about their role in inducing murder-suicides by reporting on them for decades, but they keep doing it.
> the secular trend is clearly downwards

Some might see this as an argument for ditching the folks who've overseen this downward trend.
Doesn't seem correct "Upon termination of employment, the employer may release the employee from working during all or part of the notice period and pay him an indemnity in lieu of notice"

https://knowledge.leglobal.org/restrictive-covenants-in-fran...
>not providing your employees with the means to work

Logic would dictate that providing the exact same pay/benefits as one would get for the work ought to be sufficient. But, <insert joke about logic and French labour laws here>...
Coming from an American perspective, that is super interesting. I don't think I understand why it is seen as harm to the employee? They are getting full pay, but aren't required to do anything for it.
Indeed, I think we have too many laws on the books. However in this climate I am afraid of unscrupulous legislators who are looking pare down on hard fought freedoms for ideological reasons.
You can keep saying it, but it doesn't make it more true or acceptable. Anyway, the current HN crowd has been disappointing lately, so time to take a break.
Sriracha hasn’t tasted the same since they stopped using the jalapeños from Underwood ranch. I no longer use it as frequently as I use to. The complexity is missing. Tastes like I’m now eating the Kroger version.
FTX's CEO SBF also doesn't believe in crypto, as far as I can say, but just sees it as a means to make some money for philanthropy (effective altruism). That might make him less prone to succumb to the hype and over-invest.
Have you seen the way somebody who has been in the trades for 20 years walks? They have a very particular kind of gait. You can easily tell them apart from the weekend-warriors walking into Home Depot just by their stride. It's the walk of a body that's been absolutely wrecked by physical labor.