MisterOctober

At my office, we heavily lean on Postgres' JSONB capabilities, especially for archived data that is occasionally accessed, and also to handle data dumps from other services. The JSONB traversal operators are intuitive and the searching is fast-enough to be useful. Yet another reason that I reach for Postgres first time, every time.

I was a young teen when it first came out -- in retrospect, I think it's cool, but at the time, everybody I knew felt like it was baldly pandering to our demographic / 'disaffected slackers' in general, and looked upon it with mild disdain

My guess based on context is that "FNP" refers to the indigenous people of Australia [maybe 'First Nations People?' -- however that term is more generally used in North America, to my knowledge], but that acronym isn't present in the article. Would you clarify for our benefit please?

we have a lesson_log channel [with standard entry format] in slack -- for all Slack's shortcomings, this works great, as the whole team can see lessons learned from every department

Yep, same here. I planned to buy a Tesla for environmental reasons when my current 15-year-old car gives up the ghost, but I had no clue about the sort of shenanigans described here.

There is absolutely no way I'd knowingly "buy" a car [or other major product, for that matter] which was subject to this sort of postsale unilateral manipulation on the part of the manufacturer / seller.

To my way of thinking, it's similar, but much worse, than the situation with HOAs [which I also decline to support]

edit: I'd already started switching to bike for commute and errands; now I'm even more inclined to continue in that direction rather than look to EVs

I've worked in both open and closed office environments -- currently have my own office, and it is _much_ easier for me to be productive without distractions in this arrangement. Huge improvement in quality of work and quality of life. It's possible that I could be persuaded to go back to an open-office environment, but it would require a _lot_ of additional compensation -- like maybe 50+%.

This is a huge factor. A lotta clients _really want_ to hear "AWS" or "Azure" when they ask "..and where is the infrastructure hosted"

yep -- Centos [which distro I favor for servers] is verrry slow with patches, upgrades, and other additions -- but it is 100% rock solid with no surprises. I use other distros for desktop and various uses, but for servers, I stick with CentOS for stability [or Debian, if CentOS not available]

what were you using before JS, and in what domain is the work? Genuinely curious

Former musician here --

A big +1 to the suggestion about ear training; I sure wish I'd pursued it more seriously and earlier -- probably no other activity can transform one's understanding and ability to the degree ear training can, not to mention it makes one _much_ more able to play + improvise in a group setting --

Finding a beginning book / course / etc that engagingly + logically shows the relationships between scales and chords, modes, etc, and addresses some aspects of rhythm, was immensely helpful for me -- if it uses your instrument, so much the better -- mine was Richard Chapman's "The Complete Guitarist"

Once you have the basics in hand, there are a lot of elucidating paths available to follow, but one book on counterpoint that absolutely _turned my head around_ is Joseph Fux' "Steps to Parnassus" also called "The Study of Counterpoint" -- total lightbulb --

I also strongly recommend Aaron Copland's "How to Listen to Music"

I like JS. I use JS daily. JS is part of the workflow for nearly everyone I know who works with code. For me, ES6 is fantastic to use. Some of the better books on JS [I'm thinking specifically of Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript"] are general computing classics in their own right.

I used to be a snob about JS, due to the fact that in the 90s / early 2000s, it had major shortcomings and produced a lot of slow, crashy web pages. But when I learned modern JS, I realized that it is now a fully mature language equal to any other, and easily used in a huge variety of contexts [thanks in no small part to Node]

Totally -- the "Bridgekeeper," that animated circle bit with Phillip Glass music in the background, "123456789101112" with Pointer Sisters, Cab Calloway, and generally more realish kids and grown-ups on the set -- as a kid, I always felt like Sesame Street was cool and hip, as opposed to some "kid's show" that was talking down to me

Yep! In fact, the orchardist Michael Phillips in "The Apple Grower" specifically recommends older, purely-mechanical tractors for small / family operations, largely for repair reasons

there's a lot of evils about AWS, but even their personal/developer support account has delivered good service for me -- they've really dug in and helped me on some tough questions, and not only limited to configuration.

At the office, we have AWS business level support, which has been really excellent for troubleshooting.

In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a great section describing how crows employ termite mounds to create information relay networks -- remarkable stuff

Strongly reminds me of "A Scanner Darkly" [the movie, at least] -- where the human scanners have to watch thousands of hours of surveillance video [which they do at increased speed until they spot something notable]

Sourcehut is one I especially enjoy using, and I really admire the grit + dedication of its developer[s]-- as I mentioned in a related thread a few weeks ago, I intend to migrate my personal projects to Sourcehut.

This is a damn good point. Whenever my friends, or kids of my friends, start talking about taking some foodservice or other really hard, low-paying job, I roundly encourage them to avoid it if remotely practical and build marketable skills and connections instead.

Another bad thing about those types of jobs is that they can start to warp your mind after a while, to the effect that you start unconsciously considering your superiors / managers as role models, and start trying to 'move up the ladder' because the pay is marginally better, when in reality most of the time the _top_ of the "ladder" at such organizations are compensated less than entry-level positions for in-demand skilled workers --

I've been continuously employed [out of what I _thought_ was necessity] since I was 16, and until I was about 26 the majority of my jobs were in the foodservice / warehouse / gofer / etc hard-work-long-hours-very-low-pay category. If I had to do over again, I would have stayed away from those situations by any means available and used that time to build valuable skills [as I later did], which would almost certainly have resulted in better outcomes, sooner.

Yep, same here -- switched to DDG a couple years ago and back to FF from Chrome [except when required for the job] a few months ago. Results excellent. I understand that a lotta folks are dissatisfied with DDG's search performance, but it's been plum dandy for me. In particular, since most of what I'm searching is development-related, my experience has been that DDG results are usually _better_ that goog, i.e., I find that sites with reasonable content and SO usually rank above ad-sodden or rubbish-quality-SEO-trap site.

"Turn the Ship Around!" has been awesome resource for our team, most definitely recommend

Total agree -- I was temporarily disabled by injury earlier this year and was recently given the all-clear to start lifting again -- was feeling hopelessly atrophied + weak at first and dubious that I'd ever get back to where I was [nothing to write home about, but OK] --

Within six weeks, I was back to most of my original routine, after almost a year not lifting -- and as you say, my overall pain level has been much reduced and my posture improved

same boat here -- migraine / cluster / photophobia sufferer and need to reduce as much as possible the volume and amplitude of light coming into my eye --

in truth, I don't think I'd be able to do my job at all without dark-mode text editors / terminals

yeah, when I read this headline, my first reaction was "uh-oh" -- for years, Bricklink has been the only reasonable way to get specific [i.e., not subject to pick-a-brick selection] bulk parts / bricks -- the stuff my kid and I build wouldn't be possible without Bricklink -- I sure hope they don't functionally torpedo it, or just kill it outright

Yep. Phoenix resident here; can confirm that expensive full-size trucks are the norm for well-heeled folk of all cultural strata in this region. I live in a fairly affluent section of the city and big, costly pickup trucks are _far_ more common than luxury sedans or especially sports cars.

What's the other Portland, is it Portland, Maine? Sincere question

nice, thanks for the tip!

You're right of course -- however, I don't really like going off-road in rental vehicles

those are literally the three things that are a major pain in the neck for me [sedan], and when I saw that tesla was developing a truck, I was like "oh sweet! Now I can hit the trails and haul garden supplies with a greater level of convenience, and without smuggering up the earth as much!"

yepyepyep! I think literally every one of my friends and me had that poster of the white Countach from Scholastic

Not sorry to hear this. GCP never worked reliably and was absolute hell to support for the several months I had to do. Rood giddace to rad bubbish, see ya never Cloud Print!