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Are these meeting being held in your native language?

Ecosystem. It’s easy to find people who already know it to hire. It’s easy to find modules and libraries for any sort of widget you might want to use. It’s easy to find people who know it well to help you learn or troubleshoot it.

Interesting ideas, but ones that require the person acting to have the authority and security to do so without fear of repercussion. Some of these tactics would not be advisable for someone trying to manage up.

One thing we do is keep a slack channel for announcements only. We require everyone to acknowledge they’ve read and understood said announcements by adding an emoji response. Then you can follow up with anyone who fails to respond. (And discuss in 1-1s with anyone who makes a habit of failing to respond.)

When I flew economy 25-35 years ago, seat pitch was at least 50% greater than it is now, and the actual seats of the seats were both deeper and better cushioned. You could recline to 45 degrees or deeper. Seats were 50% wider.

It was physically far more comfortable to fly, in a way that’s now a available only in business class. All those characteristics would now be considered business class amenities, and aside from a little more legroom (not even approaching what used to be standard in economy unless you’re on an exit row) are unavailable in premium economy on any flight I’ve taken recently.

You got warmer blankets and larger pillows. They would hand out amenities like headphones and playing cards for free. And you could put about twice as much into the overhead.

Ok, on demand entertainment is new in business class, but that’s about technology rather than cost savings, and it’s available in economy everywhere these days too. And for me at least, not much of an upgrade. I’d far rather watch the specific things I’ve brought on my own electronics, read a book, or do work.

Prices for “economy” and “business class” have been trending downwards, yes. But what you now get in “business class” is what you used to get in “economy” 20-30 years ago and “business class” now is not less expensive than “economy” was 20-30 years ago.

Not having the top of the seat angled forward to push your head into a weird position would go a long way towards fixing that without reclining.

Sure, but if you have to pay a premium for regular seats just because you have a disability, that seems like a problem. And the injury scenario could also be extremely problematic. What if there are no sitting seats left, or you could afford the cattle class seat but not the business class seat?

If my grandmother needs to fly, do we have to upgrade both her seat and someone else’s in the family to something twice as expensive so someone can help her with the various things she can’t do for herself any more? Or upgrade the whole family if we want to sit together?

Current cattle class seats aren’t comfortable. But they’re accommodating to the elderly and people with disabilities or injuries. If some seat shuffling is required to accommodate a special case it’s usually just shifting people between aisle and non-aisle seats, not downgrading them to standing seats so someone else can sit.

That’ll be fun when you spend 3 hours on the tarmac before your “short haul” flight due to airport congestion or weather conditions.

Edited to add: what about people with disabilities? Can elderly people no longer fly? Or even if they have a few sitting seats to comply with disability regulations, what happens if you sprain your ankle at some point between booking your flight and boarding?

Allowing participants to choose between financial and time off compensation (at roughly equivalent hourly rates) is kind of a cool idea.

Of course, PTO is less of a clear incentive at places with “unlimited” PTO.

What is it that you’re looking for your tool to do about this?

Seems like an actual use case for a spreadsheet. Is there anything you need from this tool that a trivial spreadsheet won’t support?

But what happens when the stock’s market price drops below the discounted price?

Programming involves more thinking than typing. If you’re hunting and pecking, your speed will be limited by your typing speed. But there are shades of grey between that and full-on touch typing, where you’ll still be largely limited by your thoughts.

If you know the general location of every key on the keyboard with near muscle memory and just have to look down to make sure you’re actually hitting the right one, there are still some gains from touch typing properly, but returns are diminishing.

As for ergonomics: with small hands, I personally find actual touch typing requires a lot of reaching and stretching and causes me more RSI than moving my hands more freely around the keyboard does. YMMV.

That said, using 6 fingers instead of 10 is probably slowing you down somewhat. You may find it useful to take a touch typing course, which will train you to use all fingers even if you don’t end up actually touch typing.

A script that populates an HTML file from JSON and then converts that to PDF.

Really. I have friends and family who have moved from NY to London and they all say London is slightly more expensive.

Most online comparisons are weird for two reasons: 1) they include the cost of car ownership, which is common in neither place, and 2) most rental apartments in London are furnished and in NY are not. I’ve seen comparisons for the cost of a furnished rental, but in NY you’d pay a huge premium for that. It’s also, of course, just plain hard to choose equivalent neighborhoods.

Reportedly, the rental market in London is even tighter than in NY. My friends say you can get a 1-BR or 2-BR for about 10% more than in NY (after accounting for exchange rates, and with housing stock / in a location that they consider equivalent to what they’d left behind), but it will be smaller simply because historically London buildings have been constructed with smaller rooms than NY ones.

Food in London seems to be more expensive than in NY. Medical care, of course, is less expensive. Transit is close enough to be a wash. Etc.

CoL in London is comparable to or greater than that in NYC, and probably not quite at SV levels but close enough for comparisons to be meaningful.

I’ve had good results with a script that sanitizes a subset of production data for use in a staging environment.

This. Except for me it’s the hangover rather than the embarrassment.

It can help to find something that isn’t water to drink that will make your companions feel less like they’re leaving you out - be that soda, juice, club soda, etc.

Assuming social security still exists for millennials.

It probably depends on what you’re interested in working on.

My guess is that there will be a 5-year period of explosion in a) compilers for existing languages; b) frameworks for working with the DOM and other web APIs in said languages; and c) a few new languages built on top of it. Then there will be a few more years of transition where the winners and losers among all these new tools gradually sort out.

And then we’ll all go back to developing in higher level languages and compiling down - you’ll just have more options besides JavaScript, typescript, and coffeescript, basically. A few jobs will remain that involve tuning compilation.

And to keep social security solvent for GenX would require squeezing Millennials even harder by increasing the taxes or reducing payouts or both.

Fwiw, law in California requires allowing users to cancel subscriptions via the same medium they used to sign up.

But social security is solvent and is projected to be so for a while. It’s Medicare that isn’t.

Paywalled. :(

I’ve mostly been happy with TotalSpaces, but it has some weird issues with keyboard window switching when using multiple monitors. (Tho that might be a problem with OS X rather than TotalSpaces. Hard to say.)

Do you need to find an administrator for the solo 401k? How does one set that up?

Oh, wow, I’ve been using your spreadsheet for over a decade now! It was my intro to personal budgeting and has served me well all this time.

Have you ever considered creating a native mobile app? That’d probably tip me over the edge to become a paying customer.

Just curious: are you using a third party API for printing and mailing?

Carbonated water is very mildly acidic.

Sodas (the sweetened ones), which I’m guessing are what GP is mostly referring to (what with the mention of sugar earlier in the paragraph) have sugar, which may encourage the growth of bacteria that are detrimental to teeth; and some of the flavorings are more acidic or react chemically with enamel to dissolve it.