>I'm not shivering in a cave drinking water, sitting in the dark, and wondering if I'll get lucky and catch a squirrel to eat tomorrow. That is, if I can walk on my broken ankle.
Sadly, there are millions of people who live in conditions not to dissimilar from this. Technology might not always help.
I actually know that intersection (3rd/Pike) quite well and think the issue is more the 7/11, cigar shop, and major bus transfer point than the McDonalds in attracting loiterers/criminals.
I was wondering how it was possible for Macy's retail employees to work in the mall prior to Amazon's purchase, but how it was unsuitable for software engineers. Surely at one point the Macy's employees were selling fancy clothes, perfumes, and housewares from that location...
> I promise, it wont be overnight, but it will be FAST. you will feel better, youll make friends without even trying. Its impossible to go through an hour of physical suffering every day with the same people and not end up gradually talking more and getting to know each other.
I really encourage people to try a martial art like boxing, muay thai, or brazilian jiu jitsu once COVID lockdowns are over.
These sports are extremely effective at fighting depression and loneliness for a couple of reasons:
1. You get plenty of one-on-one interaction
2. Shared suffering really does create bonds
3. There is a lot of positive validation ("great jab!", "nice hook")
4. You will see the same people 2,3,4 times a week
5. Exercise releases endorphins
6. You will be proud of how your body changes for the better
7. You will get many compliments on your new figure
8. You will get more romantic interest (looks do matter, and doing a fun/exciting sport can be bonus points in dating)
Perhaps I'm missing something here, or may be an arrogant internet neckbeard, but I'm always confused as to why people are often so eager/excited by dark mode (e.g. Slack around a year ago, or GitHub today)
Isn't the implementation of 'Dark Mode' little more than a CSS Color palette and a toggle switch nested somewhere in user settings?
Are people celebrating the usability over the technical feat?
I would prefer a university structure where B.S. + M.S. is earned in four years by focusing on core major requirements to then have humanities courses offered at no cost via the alumni association as part of continuing education throughout one's twenties.
I was pretty unimpressed by Zoom as I used to think along the lines of "bro just open up a WebRTC connection. You can use socket.io it's super simple"
Then... I attended a "Zoom Nightclub" and saw over 200 attendees streaming video to one another. All encryption, routed through China, etc. issues aside; I was very very impressed.
UberEats is a real head-scratcher as almost all of the key players, from my perspective, have expressed dissatisfaction to some extent:
1. Restaurants as UberEats charges a fee often greater than the restaurant's own profitability
2. Restaurants as there is a real fear that Uber is gathering data for customer tastes/habits to then give priority to CloudKitchens™ or some other variant on commissary kitchen/virtual restaurants
3. Customers who are shocked by the fully-loaded cost (menu, fee, delivery, tip)
4. Drivers as they barely earn a living wage and put considerable wear and tear on their vehicles
5. Potential investors due to heavy losses generated by subsidizing this entire operation
6. White collar Employees as they are baited/strung along with generous RSU grants to then be overworked at a pace which would make a full vesting impossible
This is really strange because the Indian Dabbawala[0] industry has been operating continuously for 100+ years and one would think that across-the-board PPP/COL adjustments would allow for similar sustainability.
Is there any other industry where almost 100% of everyone involved is currently miserable or are at risk of being disappointed by long-run results?
>Assets tend to be very large (double digits gigabytes), so having fast connectivity is expected in many situations, and slower home connections are rather painful for that.
If that were the case... I would probably look into using X-windows forwarding or remote desktop. Wouldn't it make more sense to keep all assets on the on-prem network instead of sending it back/forth to the employee's remote workstation?
>Maybe this was just that night or just this one restaurant, but it kinda shocked me.
This may be a "German thing"; I remember being a bit surprised when I ate lunch with a vendor from Germany and he ate a hamburger and french fries with a knife and fork.
>Yet it's been shown multiple times that the games running on Stadia are running at less than promised quality, with techniques like upscaling being used for 4K instead of native 4K
I remember having tons of fun playing Portal and Left 4 Dead with buddies in my dorm room when 720p was pretty high end. Is 4K really that necessary to have a good time with a video game?
"Bro, I'll just get some other nerd to do it. Instagram was built by 12 guys and WhatsApp was acquired for $19B with only 50 engineers. Can't ship if you whine; so shape up and stop wasting time!"
This is an extremely provocative title which I hope the mods will swiftly change and/or censure.
I often find myself thinking "Stallman was right!" when it comes to FOSS/privacy but there is a zero-percent chance I will ever defend Epstein's organized, systematic, and continuous abuse of children.
And shame on everyone who refers to him as a "disgraced financier" and his victims as "underage women."
This isn't a pearl-clutching instance of "think of the children" so much as a totally human response based on the litany of evidence that child abuse _ruins lives_ (Google 'Borderline Personality Disorder')
Hey, thanks for your response! Great article and you guys are definitely in a good place now (yay Dark mode!) Your iterative approach to course-correction was absolutely the way to go so hats off for a job well done.
>When you're focused on maintaining and building toward better reliability, it's harder to slow down and centralize principles, components, etc.
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. Routing in Angular, API design and versioning, CMS integration, and more. I get it.
>In the end, it's difficult to get people to agree to one thing, much more so when you're adding more and more people to the mix.
There are probably a dozen relevant Dilberts on design-by-committee which are probably amplified by the egos and inexperience of dozens of 2x-year olds working at $hottest_unicorn. I strongly suspect that you are a very kind, patient, and understanding man.
>We're in a much better place now. More than just having an interface library, we've created a framework for debating the various parts of the system and reinforcing that understanding that was missing early on.
Congratulations, again. My sincerest apologies for focusing on the 'start line' when your article was about the race. Hindsight is absolutely 20/20 so hats off for a job well done and thanks for the follow-up.