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Or rural Wisconsin

There's an old saying that whatever is worth doing is worth doing badly. So true. When I was in Germany, they have a saying that you start with "something to hate". Already knowing that what you're about to do is going to be crap makes it easy to get going. Then you set about fixing your crappy beginning. It gets you unstuck.

I think if you are compensated for it, and allowed to recuperate from middle-of-the-night working, it's ok. If the employee knew this was part of the job though, and not something that was thrust upon them after they were hired.

I was a contractor at a company that announced that developers would have to work through the nights and on weekends at times, and they couldn't take any extra work days off. So, if you had to do an upgrade to production and it took all night, you were still expected to work all day too. Oh, and you didn't get paid any extra for the overtime either. One person asked about work-life balance, and the response from that manager was that when you chose a career as a developer, you signed up for this. This is what happens when this kind of abuse becomes rampant. The managers then declare it comes with the job. Such BS! BTW, that guy quit along with anyone else reasonably competent.

There was one period in my life at a 401k administration place where I was responsible for making sure the transaction data for all of the clients made it to AIG every night. For months, I had to do the transmission manually at 7pm each night, which meant not much fun for me ever. I never even got a thank you, and when I finally managed to get it automated, my position was eliminated. At least they gave me a pretty good severance.

Yea, that is not very good for such a wealthy company. Other companies match up to the max allowable with no vesting period.

For example, there are a number of songs that include a rendition of Tom's Diner within a larger melody. Also popular to add to a song is the Arabian riff melody (which is so old it's not copyrightable, but you get my point) I don't know of any law suits around Tom's Diner song, but this is an example of the types of ridiculous lawsuits out there over copyright.

It's no mistake that they select the most unsympathetic people to try to weaken the protections for us all.

I've been developing software for over 20 years, and I still can't estimate how long something will take me when I've never done it before. This uncertainty needs to become more than just a stick to beat developers about the head and shoulders with. Most of the time the PMs understand this, but there have been many projects where they just don't get it. I have suffered great anxiety from being forced to give estimates when the truth is I have no clue. It depends on how easy it is and how many unforeseen issues I encounter. It was so bad that once my husband asked me how long it would be before I was done cooking something, and I practically had a meltdown. That's when I knew it was time to leave that team. Can we stop pretending we can forecast the unknown? (edit typo)

I like the list of things you can do to combat procrastination. It's all good to understand what drives it, but even better to know tactics that work to help you overcome it.

My grandmother died from this, and it is a horrible death. I really fear becoming a victim to this disease. Anything that can help, even a little, is so encouraging.

Every chance I get, I tell people not to use PayPal. They have done this repeatedly, and the people who are affected have absolutely no recourse unless they happen to own a popular newspaper. PayPal has been shamed into doing the right thing, and that seems to be the only recourse. From reports I've heard, their internal system doesn't exist, and they aren't a bank, so there is no legal recourse either.

I would like to know how they eliminated confounding. Was there an increase in other risky behaviors at the same time, like texting while driving? How many of the deaths caused by accidents involved Uber or Lyft drivers? Maybe it's click-baity.

Did people here read the whole thing? This is some good reading! "The whole state would be evacuated" if even one live spider, as opposed to an "ex-spider" were found. That is good stuff! This made my day.

Everything in the 70s was strange. I received a lot of my mother's things when she moved, and it's all avocado and orange.

I would have bought an electric car when I needed a new car, but there are not enough charging stations. I need to occasionally drive 400 mi, and it's just not feasible.

Is this what you are talking about? https://www.dukascopy.com/fxcomm/fx-article-contest/?Automat...

This is truly an amazing read. I also enjoyed this book immensely. It is required reading for my teenage children.

These are among my favorite books, and I've read thousands of books. It was written in the 90s or early 2000s, so the tech that was so futuristic now exists everywhere (IoT). You question believability? The tech is so not "just way over acceptable", much of it already exists. If we can suspend our belief to read about aliens, hobbits, magical schools, talking animals, etc., this hardly stretches the imagination at all.

Don't let this guy stop you from reading these awesome books! I recently re-read it, and the first few chapters are pretty tough because it lays out all the tech premises. Stick with it. The plot will keep you engaged, and the storytelling is supurb

Personality tests are bogus. You can have completely different results on different days based on your mood, what you've read recently, etc. They should just go ahead and use psychics. It's probably just as good at predicting who is going to work out for them.

Right? A fall from a ladder is "potentially" as fatal as a fall from an airplane, amirite?

The researcher was equating 20 puffs to one cigarette, but the article doesn't say how that figure got selected. For a pack-a-day smoker, that would be 400 puffs a day. In a 10 hour period, 40 puffs each hour. I don't smoke or use e-cigs. For someone who does, how many puffs are you taking in a typical day? Do you think this is a good correlation? Do you typically, when puffing your e-cig, take 20 puffs in a few minutes as you would a cigarette? When you did smoke cigarettes (assuming you once did), does the number of puffs you take on the e-cig correspond to how many cigarettes you would smoke? Maybe people take fewer puffs to replace the same amount of cigarettes, which would undercut some of the conclusions reached.

I remember being able to see the bottom clearly in 30+ feet of water. Truly beautiful!

It's too bad that more of them don't have better military training where you are trained to not start shooting wildly in stressful and dangerous situations. Being a cop is not that dangerous of a job in America. Being a farmer or a roofer is far more deadly. Being a dog catcher is a more dangerous job than being a cop, and you don't hear story after story of them shooting indiscriminately at dogs. Cops should not be killing and injuring so many people, and the only way that is going to stop is if they are held accountable.

I think it's fair, if you're going to use deadly force, to first find out with a much, much greater degree of certainty, that there actually is a weapon, and if so that they actually are in danger. Too many cowardly and scared police shooting at shadows and noises.

"It's not to excuse the behavior of the police.."

And yes, your comment is excusing the behavior of the police. Just saying that you didn't just excuse their behavior doesn't mean that you didn't just do exactly that.

Remote work is changing. With better video chats, slack chats and such, I don't feel that remote is that much different than being there. If the whole class does get together from time to time, and the whole class is remote, I think it can work. Especially if they are in the same geographical region so they can get together and do things outside of class.

The "pursue at their own pace" is probably the part I disagree with as well. Most young people just don't have enough internal motivation to actually finish on time. You still need the structure a class and school provides. I just think it doesn't have to 100% on site.

This book helped me a lot when I was severely depressed. I too had irrational thoughts of dying and running away, and the practical exercises in the book helped me to get my thoughts moving in a better direction so I could feel better. I remember going for a walk (exercise is supposed to help, right?) and trying to think of something I like. I drew a blank for like 10 minutes - that's how bad off I was. I finally decided I liked my car - hey don't judge, it was something. I know well that feeling of trying to make yourself feel better and being unable to. For normal ups and downs in life that approach works. Not for depression.

When I was most severely depressed, it felt like I had fallen into a pit of soft, soft dirt. The more I tried to claw my way out of it, the more I would only dig a deeper hole. By learning to change my thought patterns, it was like having the hole I was in shrink until I could just step out. It is hard for someone who hasn't been there to understand. Those who suffer try so hard, but it just doesn't work.

Today, I am fully recovered and have been for years. There is hope that people can be completely healed.

He claims he didn't know it was wrong. Yea right.

The question on the survey was an either/or question. Do people pick mastery over money when faced with this question because they don't want to admit that money matters more? I picked mastery because I've already been in what I considered a high-paying dead-end job. I was miserable, but making money still matters a lot to me. I would (already have) picked a lower-paying job that was more rewarding in other ways. Never regretted it.

For me, reading code, and then trying to implement my own version while resisting the urge to look at it again is the best way. I actually learn by doing, but reading other people's code, either in a blog or at work is a good place to figure out what I want to learn.