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It is very hard to imagine how life was back then. And it was only 20 years ago!

Yeah, I sounded a bit like life coaches do these days. Wasn't my intention. Sorry about that.

There are some health conditions that require people to eat less, but more frequently.

I'm not against fasting, to be clear, it's all about what works best for you. And it's up to you to find out what it is.

There is no one-size-fits-all.

Human body is a complex system, with so many twists and turns. The more dramatic diet you are trying to introduce, the more careful you have to be.

There is no quick and easy solution, do the fasting thing and you'll lose weight in 10 days and then you can eat whatever you want. No. It's about the choices you make every day, it's about lifestyle. Eat healthy (most of the time), sleep well, rest, exercise, manage stress.. and you should be fine.

Ok, I must take a step back. I have only my personal feeling to back the claim. And that doesn't mean much, considering the fact that I barely ever used TikTok.

So you might be right. My kids (6 and 8) told me a couple of times about life hacks that they saw on YouTube. And that's the only place they visit online, even that being restricted to less than an hour a day on average.

So yeah, new generations might be using that content a bit differently from what I thought.

If true, that is great news.

It's true that you can find useful content on TikTok.

But, let's be realistic - percentage of people using TikTok to learn something is... probably negligible.

But there's an example on how the technology can be used in good purpose.

It's the flow of nature. Nothing lasts forever.

Looking from addiction perspective, TikTok is even worse. But, as the author said, it's more shallow, so it should be easier to move away from.

I hope that people (or at least majority) will find a way to move from this mindless fun and finally start using all the technology we have at our disposal in some more meaningful way.

I have a sensor LED lights in bathroom and in the kitchen. When I go to someone else's apartment now, usually it takes me a couple of seconds to realize why in the bathroom and it's dark. Haha I don't know how people live without this. It's so convenient - you don't have to worry about turning on the light when you enter, turning it off when you leave. You're just in - out. At the same time, it saves money, because it's on only while you're in there.

Robot vacuum cleaner. Brought revolution to our lives. Since we got it, we forgot where our regular vacuum cleaner is. Especially since dust bothers me - I set it up to clean while I'm not in (for example, every day at 10am, when we're at work), and voila! Or when you're not at home for a couple of days, you just trigger it an hour before getting home, and you get a clean apartment when you're home.

So, you get more time because you don't have to vacuum yourself and it does it while you're not in, so the whole process is seamless.

Oh, man, I opened Pandora's box with this question. :) I'm lucky to have boys of similar age, so they play each other whole day. On the other hand, they do need to eat, use toilet, peacekeeping from time to time, etc., so, it's a whole day duty. Luckily for me, I work for myself (a startup), so I can work anytime I want. For wife it's a bit different, she's 9-5 in normal circumstances, but with kids, it extends to the whole day.

It's not easy, but I love them.

Btw, my kids are 5 and 7 - to those of you with <4 years old kids, don't lose hope. As they grow and get more independent it gets easier. You'll have more time to get back to your side projects.

Look at this situation from the bright side - you are there for them now, when they need you the most, when their personalities are formed. Enjoy every moment, it will pass quicker than you think. Before you know it they'll be kicking you out of their room. And you'll be sad about it. ;)

What happens when you add kids to the equation?

Imagine if all the companies in the world switched to this friendly, non-competitive mode? I heard something like that before... hmm, communism? You don't have to work (hard), you'll still get your paycheck.

Problem is - it doesn't work in the long term. It can work for a while, until your money runs out or someone more competitive comes along and blows you away.

This is just one of the many approaches to building a career.

As with many other things in life, there is now one-size-fits-all. For someone else, a complete opposite will work.

Stay informed, learn about different approaches, and simply choose what you think is best.

Split keyboard, that's the key word. Solves multiple problems you mentioned in the first part of the post.

You are unconvinced until it hits you. I never heard about it before it started bothering me.

It's individual. I have a friend, overweight, never played any sport, never saw him run, sits 16h a day, sleeps 8h a day, has no problem with his back. Another one, skinny, does sports, sits on a pilates ball at work, uses standing table, stretching, and still has back problems.

You can't make conclusions based on your own case. We are all different people, different physiology. Medicine is not maths, 2 + 2 is not always 4. The fact that they can't explain RSI doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's just that we don't fully understand what's going on there (yet).

My idea wasn't to advise against touch typing, no way. It's an evolutionary step forward.

The idea was to warn people in time about the consequences so that they can take precautions. I wish someone warned me about that 15 years ago.

I have a German layout keyboard atm (don't ask), and I barely even notice it.

~20 years ago I invested a lot of nerves into learning touch typing, so now I'm flawless with it.

But, let's talk about problems with touch typing - wrists for example. If you don't know touch typing, you move your hands more often, to do stuff. E.g. copy/paste, with touch typing, it's pinky + index finger all the time. Without touch typing, it's, for example, left index + right index. Or something else. Point is, you are not making the same moves all the time.

If you do, you develop RSI. For me, ALT + TAB was the problem. After ~15 years of touch typing, I started feeling first discomfort, and then pain in the wrist. Took some time to discover what's the problem, so now I'm aware and taking action, exercise, stretching, changing layout, switching to split keyboard, etc.

Touch typing is good, but be careful. Make breaks regularly, stretch your hands, invest in the ergo equipment. Think upfront, react before the problems occur. Better safe than sorry.

Of course it can work, you can get far with one server and no spending on anything like backups, UPS, etc.

Whether it's smart and good for your business/reputation is a different question.

You are right, their SLA can be a bit different from what we're talking about here (and expect).

In general, we don't know much about this case. It's a post on Reddit, might not even be true. As is, it doesn't make much sense, but we don't know all the details, so maybe we jumped to conclusions.

This is all true, but you still can't rely on increased hardware quality if you can't afford any downtime due to moving (a one-time event) a server.

Also, that doesn't cover other problems mentioned here, like natural disasters, ISP problems, etc.

No downtime is acceptable, but they have only one server?

What if a technical failure happen? What if there's a fire in the server room? What if there is an earthquake and the building collapses? What if... many things can happen that can result in a long, long downtime with this tactics.

If uptime is so crucial, the system should be setup in such way that moving one server should be a peace of cake, not a spec-ops mission.

I'm always amazed by what people can think of, given the tools and a field to play with.

I think it's coming. More and more people are having problems caused by the position used with standard keyboards. But it will take some time to educate everyone, starting with doctors who need to keep up with 'modern health issues' caused by using the computer whole day.

Let's be philosophical: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. We'll get there.

That's one of the reasons I said in mu post that I'm happy that split keyboards are getting more attention.

Most of the people still don't know about them. If more people knew about the benefits they bring, problems they solve, they would be much more popular. That would bring the price down, increase the choices available, bring them closer to the users. So you could probably go to a local shop and test it.

But they would lose the exclusivity feeling they have now. Which one do you choose?

This doesn't feel like a big step forward, like something new and revolutionary.

It's more like an iteration of previous models, with some small tweaks and perks.

But I'm happy that split keyboard market is getting more and more attention.

I remember when we were expecting our first child, we went through a 'parenting school' - a course where all kinds of doctors, psychologists, nurses, nutritionists, etc. came to teach us, future parents, about parenthood. Since it's not maths, a lot of them had different views on different things, which confused people. Until one day, one future mother, all anxious (if you're a parent, you'll understand the psychological state of expecting a first baby in the next month or two) asked almost angrily: "You people give us conflicting advises, what should we do? How do we do good when even you don't agree what's good between each other???" The answer was simple: "We give you all views, all options. It's up to you which one you think is right and good for your kid. That's what parenting is. That's why we are all different people."

Same thing works for companies. Leadership shapes the company. There is no one-size-fit-all strategy. What works for one company, doesn't work for another. Two pizza team size can work somewhere. Somewhere else something else will. People tend to look for manuals, instructions on how to do things, expecting that someone will write it all down and they just need to do what's written. From time to time, we get to hypes about something (check under microservices for example), everyone use it because it's popular, fancy, buzz word. Without thinking - do we really need this? It's like an epidemic (or pandemic?) of paper pushers, no one wants to take responsibility. To take action. And there is no responsibility if you do things as it's written in the manual, right?

Best methodology is - work with your team. Talk to the team. Know how they breathe. And they will tell you what to do, how to organise them, which methodology to use.

"Take care of your people and they will take care of your business."

One more reason to use LED!

Wow, music, art, dev, you did quite a lot. Nice. I plan to try music (drums to be precise), but time..

Anyway, this has been a problem since forever. That's why all kinds of occupations like singer managers, sales, marketing etc. exist. It's all perfectly normal.

For you, it would be good to find someone compatible, someone to take care of presenting your work to the public while you can focus on creating.

I agree.

We don't have "official data", this was just my opinion, based on my personal experience. I think most of the people start OSS for the reasons I mentioned, but what happens later depends on many things - success of the project, luck, type of personality of the owner, crossing paths, right place at right time, etc.

"Pure engineer" for me is someone who just wants to code, to solve a problem, and doesn't care a lot about other stuff. Even processes to organise the team (SCRUM meetings for example) are boring, waste of time. Not to mention other stuff. But that same person can, of course, change over time and go searching for other things. Me being an example - a significant part of my career I was like that, with a vision of being a technical lead or architect in the future. Until one day I realised I'm not so hyped about that anymore, that now other things motivate me. This document, 10 years ago, would be mostly new information for me. Probably not so interesting. Now it's old news for me, but it's as a "pure engineer's" good starting point, something to get him in the right direction if he wants to expand his competence toward monetising his OSS.

Golden handcuffs. Slowing the world's development since.. forever.