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> Jira import tool

This is the problem. Jira is so highly configurable that without recreating a good chuck of the Jira feature set, an "import" tool will be pretty hard to make.

Any competitor in this marketspace will have to invest a considerable amount of their time creating and maintaining such a tool, which I imagine if they ever became a serious contender, Atlassian would put up some anti-competitive road blocks. (For example, forcing everyone into their cloud offering so they can more easily control endpoint access....)
> keep it in a climate controlled area

Try scaling that to 1km^2 and come back to me.

And that's not even accounting for making modifications or algae husbandry to try to improve yields, which will cripple your algae ability to fend off things that want to eat it, etc.
The webpage doesn't make even a token effort to explain what their product is.
It's a 10x difference. It's not small.

In a sealed environment, you're right, you'd eventually end up with all particles filtered.

But homes are not sealed environments.
Exactly. It's like saying Gilette or Nespresso lose money per unit sold. Sure, but they make it up with replacement razors and espresso capsules.
Yes. He certainly shines in the spotlight but maybe that's not how we should judge him.
Artificial Consciousness Is Boring
It's not that you can't have social interactions in a (VR) game, but someone with VR goggles on is extremely unapproachable for other people in the same room.
Nop, you choose how many months you wanna pay ahead for
It doesn’t help that google has largely de-prioritized smaller sites.

For better or for worse, my reviews about banks and their products have now been replaced by 10 links in a row to different sub-pages of the bank’s domain.

At least it used to make sure a blog article and a forum would appear on most search term’s top10.

I get it for my “XYZ Bank’s Phone Number - talk to a human now” pages. They probably shouldn’t have out-ranked the bank’s own official site, but the bank’s own website was much less user friendly than my own despite the abuse potential.
> Implementing a Lisp for real is years of hard work, and many hair-pulling moments.

I think this can be said about any language that came after people stopped programming directly in assembly language.

Even the low-level languages like C are programmed in themselves (mostly) after the first run of bootstrapping compilers written before most of us were even born.

One could knock out a simple C compiler, without a standard library, in not too long I suspect (and have seen examples of) but why bother if all you want to do is learn the fundamentals and there’s a simpler language you could tackle — one with many, many guides on how to make a simple one I might add.

Now I’m wondering if someone made a lisp in native wasm…
It’s silly since it’s a brand new account, what do they have to compare it to to confirm it’s you?
It's a myth that Phillips screws designed or intended to cam out at a certain torque. Not least of all because, the correct amount of torque varies wildly by application, even for the same fastener.

I'll agree that Project Farm's videos can be a little formulaic and my least favorite thing about the presentation is that he shouts instead of talks.

However, he's WAY ahead most YouTube tool reviewers because he does NOT accept free tools for review, and he puts the tools to real work, often ending in the destruction of the tool in order to find its limits. I find his tests to be very well designed. He only has limited time to test so many things, but he generally hits the important points. He goes MUCH farther than any other reviewer I've ever seen and his home brew-rigs and testing methodology are an order of magnitude better than anything I've ever seen out of a "professional" outfit like Consumer Reports.

The only thing I _wish_ he would add regularly to his videos is tool teardowns so we can see and compare how cheaply various tools are made. (Although we all know these days, they are all made like crap due to the race to the bottom.)
>Imagine Oculus becoming Meta without the Facebook baggage – a hardware-focused company with a major services play, but no adtech business.

I think this was called Magic Leap. I don't know, I think I still prefer Rony Abovitz awkwardly dancing around in a space suit rather than Zuck.
I've played with it a little bit, there are some cool use-cases here and there but the wild speculation and get-rich quick schemes kill it's usefulness

IMO It's likely there will be an iteration of protocols and storage mechanisms that will be more useful in the future

I also think "Web3" is probably the dumbest imaginable branding
The crunch at the bottom causes people to try to get their children into the elite. This causes high competition among the elites (you can see that with college tuition going up and people with degrees working as baristas) which causes a crunch at the top which is starting to cause political instability. I think a lot of this is cyclical although I'd argue that (in the US anyway) the crunch at the bottom came before it really needed to due to some poor policy decisions.
But why do companies want things so bland? It's because of the very vocal religious communities.
Jira was supposed to help us do the work, not become the work.

We have at least three people employed who's sole responsibility is to pester people about ticket status, apply bulk changes in Jira, define conventions, and ultimately make life harder for individual teams who wanna follow their own processes. As an EM, my higher-ups would rather have me ensuring ticket status is perfect to the T instead of pairing with and assisting my engineers.

I kid you not, we have directors of engineering who spend half their working day making bump/nudge comments on tickets.
> US is >50% urban

Source? My understanding is that most Americans live in suburban areas. I live in Chicago, where the suburbs have 3x as many people as the city. The city population is largely split between the poorest in the region and richest, most white collar workers live in the suburbs. Seems to be true to a lesser extent in NYC, and it's hard to say there's any urban area in LA, the whole place is suburban.
The expression "astroturfed to within an inch of its life" means that most of the reviews are fake recommendations for marketing reasons. Specifically, it's a mixed metaphor, which makes it harder to understand. "Astroturfed" describes a marketing campaign that is disguised as genuine opinions, in the way that AstroTurf is an artificial lawn that is supposed to look real. "Within an inch of his life" is an old expression typically used to describe a thrashing or beating and means "almost to the point of death", but is used metaphorically here to mean "extremely".
Post on https://www.reddit.com/r/devopsjobs/ and you'll get free feedback on the specifics. Usually a combination of:

- low salary.
- not remote.
- long/cumbersome interview process (for ex, 4hr take-home is too much and you are selecting for people who have the time to do them and not better offers).
- other yellow/red flags (bullshit language in the ad, what company does etc).

I'm a devops guy with experience hiring and interviewing, feel free to email me for a quick comment on your posting.
"Take-home technical assignment (~4h)"

Last time I was interviewing, I had ~5 take-home assessments sent to me. I didn't finish any of them. Much easier to prioritize a live interview. Less risk of having my time wasted.
This is just the wrong way to think about things if you actually want to hire senior devs. But it's not surprising, most companies are only used to dealing with being in a position of power.
Fair point, but society should ask itself if it avoids laughing at jokes because they're not funny, or fear of others thinking they agree with the joke as if it were a factual statement. And did someone make the joke because it was ironic, or because they believe it? Some of us seem to have lost the definition of a joke, and if I make a joke that is deemed offensive towards a minority group, would you never give me money again because I now so obviously hate that group of people I made a joke of? Societal anecdotes would say yes, but this doesn't make sense logically.
There’s a dentist near where I live in a wealthy neighborhood that I went to once and was great. Problem is, she’s expensive and doesn’t take insurance. She doesn’t need to push anything extra because everything is already priced where she needs it to be. Obviously that won’t work generally, but something to think about.
I suspect the very horrible interviews at top-comp places exist in no small part to make it painful to switch between them, to reduce upward pressure on wages. I think it's version 2.0 of the earlier wage-fixing scheme they got busted for. That's why even a rigorous standardized examination isn't acceptable as a replacement for their painful interviews, even though spending all that time on whiteboard quiz interviews is expensive—the pain is much of the point.
Reality shaping, not snooping, will be the primary concern.
I would argue there is money to be made out of people with zero money. Student loans are an example. Instead of zero money, they now have negative money. This is terrible ofc.
I hate BitBucket more!
In which part of the world do you work? Where I work, family is a lot more important than work. We help each other and taking time off for our family is normal and expected.
I'm in a similar situation with 1/3 (the fourth never showed up and will no doubt be fired for tardiness if it does), and I'm 20 years in.

Should have taken the money I would have spent on it 20 years ago and invested it in APPL, tho, because an APPL a day would keep the dentist away.
There is ARM support as well in addition to i686/x86-64. Operating system versions are typically dropped as they go EOL upstream from the menu, we try and keep the menus up to date as changes and new versions are released.
>have a network and can say "hey I'm looking" and instantly have multiple options that won't have them do more than talk to the team and manager for an hour or two.

Wow. I have 10 years of work experience, the last few being "senior". I have a few friends and many recruiters I could reach out to, but absolutely expecting a full fledged 30-round interview like anyone else. I envy you!
Consciousness isn't really the output, it's the category of all possible not-too-pathological running states of the program. The output is whatever the organism does to or in its environment (production of speech, movement, decisions, etc).
>Many seniors (actual seniors, not 3-years-of-experience seniors) have a network and can say "hey I'm looking" and instantly have multiple options that won't have them do more than talk to the team and manager for an hour or two. If that.

I couldn't point to this more. The recruiting circus is so bad and has been for decades, I don't even bother talking to recruiters anymore. If by some chance I actually did, I'd pass on the 4h test unless I was absolutely desperate. I haven't been absolutely desperate since the dot bomb, and a recruiter hosed me over by inviting me for an interview for a job he didn't really have.

He might not be fucked, but he's probably fucked. It's not so much his doing (albeit the 4h test is a deal breaker for most seniors), it's just the landscape has been so bad for so long, and seniors already have a network, unless he knows somebody who knows somebody, he's probably SOL.

The only thing I can think of is offer and post a salary that is 20%-50% above market and hope for the best. You'll be attracting and filtering out a bunch of bad candidates though. An alternative to that is find the best junior/mid you got, make him team lead and give him some motivational speeches. If you're lucky, they'll rise up to the task.

For what it's worth, back in the day when I started, it was typically a 10m phone call, 1 hour in person interview, then yay or nay. If the candidate wasn't working out, they'd let him go.
Zero money now - but one must be ready to skim the cream off their raw human potential.
It is my understanding that checks are pretty much only used regularly in the US at this point. Elsewhere, they are reserved only for special cases outside the norm.
Is there a way (setting?) to completely disable keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) on Jira sites?
How do you know the individuals offering their ostensible personal experience of a particular product aren’t being paid to disingenuously market said product on social media?
I agree, but wish/think this can change if the product is good enough.

Meaning, if someone could write a super fast, easy to use, minimal planning/task tracker, with a good set of reporting, I feel it could coerce companies to adjust their models to use it.

It's a risky venture, but products like Slack, Docker/K8S, git, and VS Code gained wide adoption without trying to cater to existing organizational processes.
If I won a contest and the prize was the choice between 100 BTC and 1 small vial of "Thieves" essential oil, I'd take the Thieves. Why? Because it has value (excellent in my homemade mouthwash). Also I can't support something that vampires countries' worth of electricity.
Rash – YAML configuration as bash written by rust
Stupid shit like this causes urban legends that don't die. People to this day still think that setting STALKER to "master difficulty" makes the player guns do more damage. They don't.
After waiting 20 seconds for that page to load for some reason, I scrolled all the way to the bottom without being told what it does. It appears to be some sort of foundation that provides grants to open source projects, except given it's "web3," I'm guessing that means it isn't actually a non-profit so gives none of the tax advantages a real foundation would give, doesn't have a board with a non-financial interest in the mission the way a real foundation would, and pays creators in cryptocurrency, which is a much less predictable and usable funding source since it varies so wildly in real currency denominated value and needs to be off-ramped to real currency to actually pay your developers and energy bills and what not.
Good to read about scientists working on biodegradable alternatives. The environment can only take so much plastic waste, and many would argue it would be better to not have unborn babies with plastic particles circulating in their systems (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/micropla...).
Biggest problem I have with digital calipers, torque wrenches, micrometers etc is calibration. you only have to whack or drop them once before you no longer trust them and getting them checked isn't cheap
Isn't this more of an argument for getting a toothache handled quickly than waiting until the pain's almost unbearable before going in?

In either case if you're using an oral surgeon they're gonna numb the area first anyway, and you're gonna have to deal with the hole afterwards.
Yeah but you know what’s better than relying on Facebook to write PR articles against Apple? Making sensible regulations.
Soft mount no?
Mapbox has had an incredible influence on geo software development for the web.

Hats off to everybody who made it happen.
I know it is, it's just as subjective as OP's generic "drop in living standards "statement. And while subjective, I can't imagine it's uncommon. A lot people really have a difficult time conceptualizing life before the internet. It's become almost an extension of reality that we take for granted as an absolute, when in actuality it's a luxury afforded to us.
Any TV is stupid if you don’t connect it to the Internet.
I've wondered for some time why none of the major OEMs have built this. Surely if I could embed an iPXE module into my board's BIOS with HTTPS support and a custom boot server that chainloads all of it logic from the internet, including a plethora of hardware support tools.

They could even tie the availability of premium internet-booted tools to the service tag and get that sweet SaaS subscription money.
A cautionary tale - for a certain kind of person.
They got bought sometime last year. I was a very happy customer until that announcement.
It amazes me how much hate Jira gets compared to ServiceNow. My last two roles have been heavy on the ServiceNow, and I'd take a fresh breath of Jira any time.

My guess is it's because Jira actively targets SMB, while ServiceNow is almost strictly enterprise, and folks in enterprise have already resigned to their fate.
As someone who has sever motion sickness in general, I'm curious to understand how you got rid of it. Is there some specific training routine?
That makes sense, thanks. Only way an examination could come about would be with their collaboration.
To compare the crypto implosion to the broader economic recession, as though they're at all equivalent, is to say the least an error in scale. I suspect people who watched the Hindenburg said similar things: Well, you know, planes crash from time to time, but trust us, blimps will be back.
> If there are literally no competitors, drop the idea immediately.

Just wanted to note that I make >50k/month, and this is the opposite of the approach that I've taken for about half my projects. I look for niches that I think will grow a lot, but which have no competition at the moment because the niche is so small. I build the site, SEO-optimise it, and then just leave it. I do this for lots of little niches that I think will grow, and about 1 in 5 take off. Some of my biggest sites didn't take off for years.

> No moat.

For my strategy building a moat is critical because I have way too many projects to keep on top of them and fight off competition that have a 1% better feature-set. The product should ideally get more useful "automatically" as it grows (e.g. user-contributed content, or something like that).

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My general advice: Learn basics of SEO, look around at what people want, build niche tools/things to help them get what they want. Keep repeating that and you'll eventually hit upon an idea that gets really big. Keep it simple (and cheap!) - a bunch of my projects that serve thousands of users per day run on Glitch and Replit (yes, really). Try to stick to project ideas that don't require much ongoing maintenance. There are likely many other good strategies - this is just my approach.
As someone who uses both, let me recommend to you Microsoft Teams, the only enterprise software that manages to be slower.
Its a cool project but nothing about how it works requires web3 technologies or blockchain technologies. Web3 still isn't "solving" any problem in that system.
Ah, right, forgot that Facebook invented React Native... in which case my point still stands, since one of the very selling points of React Native is to use the same code for both "native" and web.
He's not stupid. He's taking the right wing hate path with has been so successful for the Republican Party. He doesn't care one thing about people or diversity or LGBTQ+. He cares how his company is positioned to maximize their profit and how he's seen in the minds of those people. And he unfortunately senses that this next election the right wing may clear the table in the national elections.
The rate itself is nothing new; 5.78 is still lower than the average 30-yr fixed rate between 1972 and today (at least per https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/historical-mortgage-rates... )-- and possibly since the beginning of mortgages.

But, the change in rates over the last 12 months -- a 97% increase from 2.93-- that is something new that the US market has never experienced before
Social interaction in video games is second tier because it's vastly lower bandwidth than real life social interaction. 3 senses - taste, touch, smell - are completely missing. Audio is present, but often sounds distorted, disconnected, or ethereal - i.e. "off". Meanwhile, visually you only gets to experience the virtual space you're interacting in which is rife with limitations. In particular, body language from those around you is either missing entirely or is very rudimentary.

Though I'd say interaction in games can easily beat "talking on the phone".
While I agree with the thrust of your post, I also think it's misleading to view HN as a proxy for all of society. HN is not a random sample of the world's population, and that skews discussion in all sorts of ways.

For example, HN quite clearly has more male commenters than female commenters. If we had an equal number of men and women, I suspect comments like the ones GP is referencing would be less frequent.

I wish GP hadn't made their point the way they made it (if at all), but I do believe they're reacting to something real.

> I don't think the solution can be to exclude subgroups.

I agree, but I do think a solution is to include more subgroups. I have no advice on how to do that. But, this is in fact why I'd like to see more women in technology.
Inevitable like robots driving cars, colonizing mars, flying cars, clones, AGI...

Assuming the sun doesn't engulf us first.

Reality is VR will always be distinguishable from reality.
Anti-materialism?
Care to shed some light on that?
India’s developer community has a talent retention problem brewing
Unionizing isn't "drastic": it is the norm for most trades in the United States. Any individual union is basically just you & your coworkers crowd sourcing employment lawyers you wouldn't afford individually.

Until Boeing got taken over by finance people, the Boeing engineering guild had spent decades being a book club. It is only when things go wrong that unionization significantly changes how we work.
Heh. The biggest problem I have with Amazon isn't even the fake reviews, it's the people who leave reviews and don't even know what a review is, which is almost all of them.

"My gadget just arrived today and I haven't even used it yet but it looks well-made and I'm sure it will last forever. Five stars!"
under $600 you don't need a 1099
I don't know what the law is. Years ago, but I've been paid for doing a focus group in cash. So there's presumably some threshold where you can just have essentially a petty cash business expense.

Obviously meals and so forth as well. (And, assuming the law hasn't changed, US government employees have to pay for even a modest meal at a company's executive briefing center.)

OTOH, I've had 1099s for even very modest side-consulting revenue.
It is a weak argument imo. If you’re important to them they will follow. If not, there’s no point to keep in touch. I understand that there’s edge cases when it’s really difficult to switch or use an alternative platform (i.e. because of age), but overall it’s not that hard. At least it wasn’t in my case.
And yeah, it is possible to eat in multiple restaurants at the same time, when it comes to social platforms.
Honestly, take home tests for a Sr. position is an no go for many engineers who have settled down.
When I was casually looking, I had a strict no asymmetric interview process since I've been burned by many companies who never respond after an online/take home test. I was surprised how many companies just let me skip that part and got me into the onsite interviews.
Please tell me where you work so I can tell everyone I know who has or wants to have kids to avoid it