crazy_geek

Selfish? Really? That's your socialist dogwhistle right there.

Wasteful? That's in the eye of the beholder. It all depends on what you value. Some people value things differently than you.

Worse for society? Is it better to have to have millions of people burn substantially more time of their lives to live in cities due to the added expense? Is that really better for the poor?

Density is not a virtue. Misery of crowded, smelly, noisy and expensive, cities is not a virtue to inflict. Some people prefer cities. Good for them. Many do not.

Too inefficient? For whom? Funny, it works really well for many millions.

If you're pro-misery, claim it and own it. I just find it ironic that people from smoggy smelly cities are judging people from the comparatively, beautiful, clean, and low crime suburbs.

Try exiting your bubble.

Am I the only one who prefers a car to shared trains/rideshare/walking? Knowing I have a portable climate controlled space when the weather isn't to my liking? Knowing I can conveniently leave things fairly securely near where I happen to be (if not at home)? Knowing that no-one has recently barfed in my car, or have to wonder: ugh, what's that stain on the seat? Not having to run my life around a transit schedule (or deal with a full or very crowded bus/train) is great. The freedom cars give is absolutely wonderful relief from these things that you encounter in the city.

Personally, I don't get pro-urbanization: it's crowded, loud, smelly, and for all that wondrous enjoyment (and more), crazy expensive. I like not being able to see/hear my neighbors and for them not to see/hear me. I like that my views are very pretty. I like that the noises I hear are nature, and not man/machines. I like that I get to spend more of my money on things other than rent (other things are cheaper in the 'burbs too). And to someone else's point -- I live in a city, but looking around, you'd never know it.

But maybe I'm just weird.

With a CC, the money is taken away from your CC company, not your bank account first. So you won't have to deal with the potential cascade of overdrafts, bounced checks, etc.

Secondly, CC Cos because they're first in line to being on the hook, seem to be better at picking up fraud (I have no idea why). When my CCs have been comped, they notified us and shipped us new cards before we could have reasonably found out that anything was askew.

Also, do you really endorse that verse? That is: Do you think we should institute the death penalty for the crime of kidnapping?

Let me turn it around: If someone stole you and sold you, or stole your child and sold them for a slave, what do you think the penalty should be? Justify your answer.

I've run into what appear to be conflicting views, but after some study, I'm able to resolve them. Usually it's understanding things in their proper context. That is: it's by reading more and paying more attention.

And the Bible never speaks out against slavery.

Most people, when speaking about slavery, are only aware of American slavery. Slavery in ancient times was generally a very different thing.

But yes, it does speak about what was American style slavery, which involved effectively kidnapping and forced slavery:

Leviticus 21:16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper's possession."

Reading just bits and pieces of the bible doesn't give you the proper context to interpret properly.

As for what you think an actual divine would look like, what a divine book looks like depends heavily on what God's purpose was in writing it, which is evidently different than what you would have it be. But in many people's estimation, it does put every human work to shame.

As for explaining things that a 1st-century scribe couldn't possibly know, ummm, the Hebrew scriptures originated somewhere around 1400 B.C. or earlier depending on how you wish to count.

The sidecar part of this looks like what is essentially SmartStack[1] but requiring the user be aware of it's existence (due to Micro's proto3 api) whereby users of SS can more or less be ignorant of it's existence. Actually, to fully to what the sidecar does, you'd want something like Kafka[2] or some other pubsub system too.

[1] http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/ [2] http://kafka.apache.org/

"Simple", the thing to change is: we stop giving them (the pundits and the person saying it) attention; since that's what they're after.

Either that, or just get over the fact that people will say things you don't like, think is blasphemous (to whatever your God is), annoys you, etc.

Somewhere along the line people stopped teaching: sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

I find it interesting that when the government distorts a market via pricing controls, taxes, or other means, the law of unintended consequences almost inevitably kicks in and it's result is either "bad luck" or calls to "fill in the loopholes!" Distort the market and people are rational-enough agents and will change their behavior, just not necessarily entirely in the way you hope/want. There is no free lunch.

Either the economic distortion makes it cost-effective to pay people to find ways to dodge the distortion and come up with strange, but legal, means to avoid it, or there are shortages, or the price of things go up.

It's like trying to squish one part of a water balloon -- the other part of the balloon will deform in some way.

Some examples: "The Double Irish arrangement" for tax avoidance, ObamaCare effectively limiting part timers to 30 (or 35, I forget which) hours/week, or strict zoning laws causing property values to skyrocket due to lack of supply of housing in SF.

200% yes. I've got better things to do than go through the whole recruiting cycle only to find they're not going to pay what I'm willing to take -- especially when it's wayyyyy out of range. Happens more and more as I get older, as the term "senior engineer" has really gotten watered down since I started (I'd be like senior^3 I suppose). I've gotten to the point where I have to be really interested to go very far at all without having pinned down a range.

Hear, hear! Is Java the right tool for everything? No, but for large code bases, it is miles easier to dive into a codebase, and the tooling is so much better than anything else I've seen that's not Visual Studio (as much as I'm not a MS fan, VS is really nice).

Is Java perfect? No, but it gets a whole lot of things not-wrong. More reasons: https://drew.thecsillags.com/Why-Java/

Links are not clickable because it's 2015 and I (wrongly) assume you are capable of plunking 'open office plans productivity' into your search engine of choice.

But to be helpful, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Open+office+plans+productivity

When I get these, I use postmaster@domain.of.page. It seems if we can generally agree on which one we all pick (or some small number of choices), we might have a chance of making a dent when the postmaster starts getting effectively self-spammed.

Study after study show that open distraction office plans are bad for productivity, and increase stress and sick days -- even among those who like open office plans.

FTFY: Creating websites with very light fonts and low contrast is a bad idea.

tl;dr: Using the wrong tool for the job makes life difficult. Go figure.

Having inherited much code like this in the past, I can tell you I feel bad for the poor people who inherit this crap. Over extraction is okayyyyy-ish. Over abstraction is rage inducing. If you're over abstracting, you're making and polishing a wonderful monument to yourself made of turd for someone else to deal with.

Edit: I remembered that I wrote a blog post about this: https://drew.thecsillags.com/cult-of-abstraction/

It's the old Unix curses library approach applied to the DOM. Everything old is new again :)

For me, it wasn't so much the explicit ageism (though it was there to be sure), but more of not fitting in because since some time in my 30's, my social interests don't revolve around the consumption of alcohol anymore, and I've got better/more important things to do after work than hang around with coworkers.

Leaving the silicon-valley-flavored "startup scene" (though I'm at a startup, just not a "startup" startup, per se) where I get to work with grown-ups, while not as profitable, has been a nice lifestyle change, and I highly recommend it.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA I presume. If you're not in the know, it's another tech center in the US

I haven't had the opportunity to tinker with this, but what if the client sends a X-UIDH: header of it's own? Will VZW overwrite the header, or will it pass it through? If it doesn't clobber it, there's a browser plugin waiting to be written.

Having worked at Google, I can say that there are definitely large chunks of the company that do not do agile. Currently working at Spotify, I can say that while the company definitely does agile, most of the teams AFAIK don't do Scrum. There's a publicly available Spotify Culture video that explains this and other things.

For portrait lined 3x5s, if you can't find them, you can just use a guillotine on a 5x8 card and get two 3x5s and a nice business card size-ish scrap. And business card stock for an index card todo is way overkill. Also 2.5 cents vs. 10 cents per tododeck card.

My security senses are tingling. A server evaluating potentially hostile client provided expressions? Proceed with extreme caution.