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The idea that the "media" is far left leaning is factually incorrect. The most popular news network in America is highly supportive of Trump: https://www.foxnews.com/media/highest-viewership-network-his...
Maybe OP's use of the word "Coach" instead of "help" is not great here, but I read this as a coworker trying to help an under-appreciated colleague.
I do not think promotions or raises are a "one shot" situation, and I don't think having an advocate on your team is going to result in bad consequences, not unless they force the issue or management is truly awful.
As to coaching/checklists - I don't think someone has to be in the exact same situation to help. Every good coach starts from zero coaching experience, and it's easy to advocate on behalf of a teammate. I've had a lot of help from lots of people with different backgrounds, skills, etc. in my career - I would hate for them to think they couldn't help me because they haven't been in the exact same position.
"but at the same time a bit condescending to think that you can assist him by some techniques picked up at an internet forum"
I don't think it's condescending to show empathy for, and attempt to learn how to help a colleague.
At worst, it's naive, because OP may not understand what a complex circumstance it can be - but I've worked with a number of Americans who do not understand work visas at all and have no intention of learning more. It's good to see OP asking; this industry could use more people looking out for each other.
Good, they're on track to complete their Los Angeles infrastructure by 2049: https://bit.ly/2OwBYNi
Even if you don't live somewhere that has library access, there's a number of options available. Here's a few options: https://weightywords.net/best-non-resident-library-cards-for...
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EBook_Lending_Libraries#Wid...
If you're in the US some cities will give access to their library system as long as you live in the state. Overdrive has a good UI, and with waitlists, I always have something to read.
If you could, how would you rate the value of self-promotion compared with learning and education in your own industry?
Obviously learning is more important, but would you recommend spending, say, 1 hour of promotion or networking per 10 hours of learning, or 5 hours? What worked for you?
For what it's worth, I'm about 2-3 years into my career and see a lot of advice to spend a significant amount of time promoting yourself.
Yeah... geolocation or IP addresses can be spoofed. But if it was the CEO's credentials, why in the world would you be getting the blame?
1. Make it part of your routine. For instance, make it a weekly habit to have coffee on Sunday morning and update your journal. If you pair writing with another routine activity, (especially an activity that you enjoy doing) then you'll be more likely to complete it.
2. Hang a wall calendar in a high-visibility location and put a sticker/tally mark for every week that you successfully log. It's an easy visual reminder of your progress, and it can bug you if you don't log for a week.
3. This may not be the advice you want, but not logging for a week isn't the worst thing - it's okay to have a week now and then where nothing of note really happens.
The example for maps is not a "hyper specific use case": "The process you WANT: pick your start and end. now start searching for places in between. Your start and end are saved. When you find someplace interesting, add it to your list. Keep doing that, keep searching and adding."
That's a common use case. The problem with Google maps (and the problem with a lot of modern software) is, as you say, it makes a lot of guesses.
The definition of a good user interface is "to meet the exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother"*
Google Maps is great for finding directions to a very specific place. But after mapping those directions, doing almost anything else destroys that route. If I have to (and I do) open multiple map tabs, or repeatedly enter the same route info after making a search (if I'm on a phone) it is not a good UI.
*https://www.nngroup.com/articles/definition-user-experience/
How do you know if you can trust someone that way without dating them in the first place? Only date people you've been friends with for several years?
1. You cannot wave your hand and say all countries are guilty of the same atrocities or the same behavior. To this day, China continues to deny that particular atrocity ever happened, and scrubs the internet it controls of any such mention. Compare that to how Germany treats the history of the Nazi Regime. It's night and day. HK wants a democratic voice - that shouldn't be hard to understand.
2. It's an incredibly bad argument that HK should be trying to peacefully win over China to their cause given that China has made it absolutely clear that they do not recognize HK.
3. "If you're going to wave the Chinese equivalent of alt right symbolism and violently target mainlanders, they will be treated accordingly." Is there a 'Worst of HN' I can submit this to? I haven't seen someone so bravely defend fascist police brutality in quite awhile.
"Ever considered why no one ever had the idea of waving the Chinese flag and petitioning the Chinese for change?"
You mean the same China that just cancelled the NBA playoff broadcasts because a single NBA GM tweeted support for HK? https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nba-china-revenue-busines... The same China that does not even allow the emoji for Taiwan? https://qz.com/1723334/apple-removes-taiwan-flag-emoji-in-ho...
Why indeed would they ask China to help Taiwan - China has made it incredibly obvious they do not recognize Taiwan.
Considering China's past (hello Tiananmen Square) there is a history of violent suppression of dissident thought or political opinion. The first demand of the protesters is literally "Full withdrawal of the extradition bill" - where do you think they would be extradited to?
So that long paragraph was essentially saying... protesters should ask more nicely? You should have saved your words.
Quiet, non-offensive protests do not work. Large-scale, massive protests that disrupt society have a chance of working.
I also don't think it's reasonable to expect that police tear gas protesters and shoot them in the face with rubber pullets and expect zero acts in return - especially since one of the HK demands is an investigation into ongoing Police Brutality.
Sorry if this sounds rude, but why does it matter if HK was more or less democratic before 1991? The protesters are not asking for a return to British rule.
In the same vein, the United States is vastly more democratic than it was a 100 years ago. That does not mean the democratic process does not need additional improvement; there are critical things worth protesting today.
Part of the reason libraries are quiet is you have fewer people and a lot of sound absorbing materials (that also happen to hold really important information for the right people). Removing books and replacing them with more seats will just make it an open office.
A library is supposed to house knowledge and make it accessible, not primarily to give everyone a study spot. You can always check out a library book and take it somewhere with more seats.
"...there is a strong case to be made that the Chinese have every right to eliminate dissidents and protesters..."
Wow, that's almost like it's something worth protesting for months and months on end. /s
And you assume that people are not outraged when protesters die in the US? Did you even read the very article you quoted?
"There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War."
Yes, America has serious, serious problems with police violence. But pointing out injustice does not necessitate bringing up every other similar instance of injustice. It is not helpful, and distracts from the issue at hand.
1. Everyone that's read the news in the last few years knows this young people can be shot by police in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice
2. This link is about what's happening in Hong Kong, not the US, and this sort of what-about-ism isn't informative or helpful.
1 hour ago, you picked an apt username
From the article:
When the vehicle was pulled from the water, skeletal remains were found inside. One week later the remains were positively identified as belonging to Mr Moldt.
That part stood out to me too, because I have the opposite social groups, and I have never felt excluded for liking those things. It's highly, highly worth making the effort to connect to people with somewhat similar interests, even if you're introverted by nature.
There's a community for nearly everything, and having people you can talk to about your passions goes a long way in making people feel less lonely, and has a significant impact on your lifespan itself: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/relationships-boo...
When AWS has gone down in the past, it's severely impacted massive tech companies like Netflix and Spotify.
Why would there be an expectation that a 2-man shop have "another cloud offering" as a contingency plan when some of the biggest and best tech companies do not?
People use services like AWS or DO because they are the contingency plan - they have the size and scale that smaller companies cannot afford or implement.
I asked them that directly (it was a tiny company and I was like 20) and the answer was no, but that they wanted to hold onto them in the event they needed to look up old contract info.
Looking back, I should have suggested backing it up to network storage. I imagine it must have been stressful traveling or going through TSA and worrying about losing 20 years of email data.
Someone definitely didn't read the article.
Still have nightmares from my first job in help desk, sweating bullets while handling decades of Outlook .pst files for a C-level in my company. Only place they existed were on the laptop itself, and a cheap 250GB external drive.
Email sucks.
I laughed when I saw all the redirects to a google search - it fits the tone of the website.
I guess I'm just used to people linking to their Medium articles where they poorly summarize the results of those same google searches. Bonus points for linking to their 10:01 minute long YouTube videos ;)
It's a list of possible remote jobs.
But scroll down to see actual listings: https://getafuckingremotejob.xyz/#job-boards
That does sound reasonable, but there's already past history of The Academy not caring about customer's access to film, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
That's slightly different, because a customer could assume that eventually they could purchase a physical copy of a film. Neither Disney and Netflix were/are being customer-friendly here. If I want a physical copy of a TV show or film they created, I should be allowed to buy it.
Sorry for the wall of text.
1. Bourne (The language and world of this novel are extraordinary - everything is falling apart yet brimming with life. Strangely moving)
2. The Design of Everyday things (Essential for anyone in UI/UX)
3. All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries (Highly engaging, entertaining sci-fi novella series, from an author that can write a very decent robot protagonist)
4. The Power (Interesting story with sci-fi elements on the dynamics of power, sex, and gender roles. I didn't care for the book, but the first 3/4 of the book are amazing)
5. Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days
6. 7 brief Lessons on Physics
7. The Last Lecture (The energy and positivity coming from a man knowing he's about to die is infectious. Great read)
8. A wizard of Earthsea (Move over Harry Potter, this is the essential children's story about wizards)
9. Exploring diabetes with owls (Funny, irreverent)
10. Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children (Made an effort to read more YA this year - this was the best in this series, but I still hated it. There's a host of better YA series out there.)
11. A Wizard of Earthsea: The Tombs of Atuan (See 8.)
12. The Girl in the Dark (Interesting book about a skin condition I had never heard of, and the trials of living with a very rare condition)
13. The Phantom Tollbooth (Clever children's book)
14. Black hole blues and songs from outer space (Informative book about the study of space, the political and economic forces standing in the way of science, and the incredible individuals working in this field)
15. Welcome to Night Vale (Hugely entertaining, clever and weird)
16. You need a budget (Basic economics book explaining how to budget in a way that lets you do more with your money)
17. To fight Against This Age (Incredibly pretentious, Ivory Tower philosophizing)
18. Infinity Gauntlet (Half the Universe dying because Thanos wanted to sleep with Lady Death will never not be ridiculous)
19. The Right and Wrong Stuff (Great read explaining how to anticipate and avoid career pitfalls)
20. Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children: Hollow City (pretty shitty)
21. The Farthest Shore (Ursula K. Le Guin was the biggest loss this year)
22. Miss peregrine's home for Peculiar Children: Library of Souls (I hate this book and all its characters)
23. Every Good Endevour (Religious book about a Christian worldview and the value of labor - not a bad read)
24. When to Rob a Bank and 131 warped suggestions… (interesting, funny, from the writers of Freakonomics)
25. Weapons of Math Destruction (Probably the most useful book on this list, if you're reading this on "hackernews")
26. Holes (Perfect summer paperback read)
27. Silver Screen Sirens (Essential for film geeks)
28. A full life: reflections at 90 (I gained a lot of respect for Jimmy Carter: he lived an incredible life and does great things)
29. Call Me by your name (Very good romance novel to send to your bigoted relatives at Christmas)
30. Hyperbole and a half (Incredibly entertaining, very distinctive art style)
31. The Murderbot diaries: Artificial Condition (See 3.)
32. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Best children's book, fight me)
33. Less (Exceptionally well-written)
34. Resilience (Great book, especially for those that have gone through extremely difficult circumstances)
35. The Strange Bird (Dark, bleak, full of life, see 1.)
36. The Murderbot diaries: Rogue Protocol (See 3.)
37. His Dark Materials: The subtle knife (See 32.)
38. Tap Dancing to Work (Very dry, some stories/articles are fantastic, others very, very boring for people that do not care about finance)
39. So Good They Can't Ignore You (Pretty good)
40. His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Amazing YA, see 32.)
41. Uncontainable (Inspirational book about conscious capitalism)
42. The Emperor of All Maladies (Pretty much everything you'll ever want to know about Cancer, written in a very engaging way)
43. Blind Spot
44. Shoe dog (Great story, see madmax108's comment, totally agree)
45. The Faithful Spy (Beautiful artwork describing a Christian pastor's fight against fascism during WW2)
46. Zero to One
47. You'll grow out of it
48. The Happiness advantage (Really fantastic book about the value of positive psychology)
49. Dreams from my father (Enlightening look into Obama's early days)
50. Ayoade on Ayoade (Entertaining, extremely scatter-brained, not as funny as his interviews or tv programs)
51. The Diabolic (badly written YA Sci-Fi)
52. The Physics of Everyday Things (surprisingly informative, recommended for non science-people interested in the way things work)
I recall a WaPo article about this last year*
Anecdotally, I know some developers who express disinterest in working for a company like Uber or Facebook. But it would be really difficult to gauge how many or the overall effect - except that over years, maybe, you would see their product suffer as they fail to attract and retain decent talent.
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-big-prob...