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Jira is much better than a lot of similar products and people in this post seem to think that their dislike of their job is caused by their tools and not crappy PM process.

They're referring to Android File Transfer, which I agree is a shoddy piece of third party software.

I live in Australia so it might be a bit different in your country. The work started for me as shorter term contracts e.g. a recruiter would say "I'm looking for someone on a 6 month react JS project". I would provide them with a day rate and go work for the client as a standard employee. Overtime this has led to me meeting a lot of people, getting a lot of experience and building a client roster of my own.

I started doing a lot of contracting through recruiters which could be anywhere from a few days work to 6-12 month longer contracts. This allowed me to meet a lot of different people in my industry/city and build a reputation as someone reliable. After that's done then it's a matter of growing those relationships and once the recruiter lock-in period ends you can start to approach them directly and offer your services. This can be either independent if you want or it could be with a team.

The most important thing in contracting is being reliable and showing up. So many contractors just don't show for work or leave before the signed end date so if you avoid that you're already ahead of the pack.

You wouldn't have paid for Lichess but you can donate to keep the site alive (and get some neat wings). You can also view their costs over at https://lichess.org/costs

My favourite part is that I don't need to care or think about it once I'm done. I can have a nice little puzzle to start the day and then move on.

My understanding is that it's because the entire blockchain would need to be stored on the device which from even a data perspective is too much for a phone. The processing of data on the chain will also be too computationally difficult/expensive for the phone. You would either run out of battery immediately or the phone would crash.

Decent analysis and I agree with all the points. I think if chess.com didn't have the streamer network behind it and Gotham/Hikaru etc moved to lichess that people would entirely forget about chess.com.

I'm sure we have different definitions but I think software is taking the place of traditional teachers. You no longer need to have a teacher learn content then run a short course at an adult education centre, some big name teacher can record their content once and distribute it across the internet forever.

It's not the same as AI producing content but people like people so I'm not surprised by that.

Ah, I meant more sites like ABC, 9NOW, SBS, AFL, Foxtel etc rather than accessing US sites from AU.

This is the link you want I think https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

Such a huge number of sites. It seems like it's mostly US based sites and Australians are okay. Sending good vibes to whatever poor person is on support right now.

I enjoyed this article and I think it's helpful for technical leaders in early stage startups. I feel like a lot of these companies will continue having problems mostly because the people that are attracted to smaller/early-early companies are the same kinds of people that don't want to work in structured (more corporate/deliberate) environments.

My experience is a bit more on the agency side where technical debt is caused by developers/project managers not really caring about the longevity of an application. The idea of going back and fixing anything that isn't specifically called out and invoiced for is so far away from the priorities of these businesses.

It might be that I live on the other side of the world to the author but this hasn't really been a problem for me. I've been a developer for 10 years or so and find that in Brazilian jiu jitsu there's a pretty even split between university/not-university educated people resulting in a social circle that is pretty diverse, at least from a formal education point of view. In my case the city is somewhat expensive to live in so most of the people that can afford hobbies in this area will earn a similar income and have similar schedules. The article also felt like there was a weird bit of class focus and as other commenters have said the author needs to expand their thoughts on what sports are available and the lives other "non-tech" people live.

I stream myself writing code on roughly the same schedule once a week and I certainly disagree with what you're saying here. One of the reasons people like to watch streams is for the problem solving aspect and seeing how someone else researches then solves a problem, that might involve a person going to a documentation site, reading Stack Overflow or just playing around with something. As long as the audience is still engaged and the streamer is thinking out loud then the audience will enjoy it. The streamer might research things before hand or broadly think of a solution to something but I don't think that makes it any more staged than someone on a live TV segment thinking what they're going to say.

I think you'd find most front-end developers don't love reimplementing widgets from scratch but instead are required to because designers, product owners and customers expect this sort of experience. I just don't think Twitter would remain competitive if it had the interface of Hacker News.

The CSIRO has the domain CSIRO.au and they're the only one site that comes to mind. All domains in Australia are required to be registered under the kind of organisation they are. There is .com.au for companies, you need a valid Australian Business Number (ABN) to register one, .org.au where you need to be a registered "organisation"[0]. Soon we'll be able to register .au domains and you can read more about the history of the domain on Wikipedia[1].

In short, the reason you never see `.au` domains is because no one can register them.

[0] https://www.domainregistration.com.au/policies/schedule-f.ph...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.au

Huge amount of stuff in here and the low entry price makes it a very good decision. I wish there was a way to filter by platform in the big bundle list though.

The best thing I've seen on the topic is: "Some people have 10 years experience, some people have 1 years experience 10 times".

I used to work in retail and one of the managers ended up stealing about $350,000 cash from the store. Her partner worked at the same store and claimed that he didn't know anything about the situation but I just don't know how a spouse could have that much extra money, multiple years of their salaries and not realise that either this person is amazing with finances or something fishy is going on.

When I'm in that sort of space I just write down really trivial things in my "Today List". I've been sick for a few weeks so my tasks have been: "have a shower", "make a coffee", "take a nap". I don't know if it would help with more severe cases but it at least lets me feel like I'm moving along. You probably completed a few distinct tasks you could write down.

I really like this module and love the idea. The images are far too big though especially compared to cowsay/cowthink.

I'm in Melbourne, Australia. When I'm at larger enterprise sites there'll be more Windows devices but like the other reply to you said most of the agencies I've ever been to are MacBooks all the way along.

From my experience everyone in an agency will be given a new MacBook/MacBook Pro when they start unless they are explicitly a Windows shop.

There are design tools like Sketch that are only available on OS X as well. I think there's probably a coolness-factor coming in as well. No one wants to be the agency with a bunch of crummy old Windows laptops, how uncool! They'll get laughed out of Cannes.

I recently watched a couple of episodes of Street Sharks because I liked it growing up and wanted to have a bit of a nostalgia binge. The whole thing is an ad for the toys.

The federation side of it is pretty new and Dan wants to have the core product sorted, including security testing before federation is really pushed. There's a new post UI coming soon that looks really good.

Looks great and thank you for sharing. Uyghur looks like a fun language to learn although I'm sure it's difficult to practice in person and given the situation in China it's unlikely to get better. I do wonder if the memes in /r/languagelearning about Uzbek will carry through to some people actually learning and researching these Turkic languages more.

Seems like it's in the same price range as a lot of other similar books and courses. Authority and Marketing for Developers are two that spring to mind. I'm sure if you subscribe to his mailing list there'll be some sort of sale on at some point.

You're right. I think it's easy to blame Jerry Media for their role in marketing the product but nobody blamed Samsung's marketing agency for the phones exploding. Nobody blamed VW's marketing agency when the cars were caught cheating emissions testing.

In Australia that's not unheard of. Plenty of women (and men) will go to a 3 or 4 day work week for a longer stretch rather than taking a full 12 months off.