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Anecdotally, my brother in the Air Force had a pretty regular and frequent D&D group in the past 3 years. But I don’t know how widespread that is.

From my experience, any time a project isn’t on time, something like this happens from someone up high. And guess what? They are rarely “on time”. The solution is adjusting the definition of “on time”, whether it is cutting the scope of the project, better estimation, or conveying the scope and velocity during the project. Usually this falls on senior/leads/management, but it is a good skill to learn as a junior.

Don’t sweat it. The real world sometimes recognizes your effort, and sometimes beats you down and gaslights. You know the effort you put in, and that’s what matters. Get experience, and if it continues, hop somewhere else after a year or two. Get a nice pay bump. Win-win.

Agreed, 100%. I would be beyond livid if a coworker did this to me if I were the original committer. OP does not realize the insane level of mistrust he just created with this action.

Blindly checking out code late at night, without PR review, without discussion about context, overwriting approved and (I assume) tested changes, for code you did not write and were not included on review for, BLINDLY merging to master (!?) - this could be tantamount to a fire able offense depending on where you work. I would have a hard, long talk with any of my mid or junior engineers if this was attempted (although master should ideally be protected, preventing this scenario unless OP had administrative senior permissions on the code base).

All around a mess. I agree with the sentiment (write clean code unless you shouldn’t) but there is some serious process issues here that should be caught and corrected and would have made this entire issue something during the PR review phase, where OP presumably asks for an improvement and is answered with the context for the decision. Not to mention the red flag of “I know better than my peers” attitude of many programmers I have known in the past, leading to distrust and backstabbing. It can get ugly.

Personally, the added foolproof security and ease of sharing with non-tech savvy family makes that cost more than worth it for me personally.

I am the exact same way. It always gives me intense anxiety.

I work at an ecommerce company and we have to do something similar for displaying Taiwanese flag icons and refer to countries as “regions” as to not piss off China. Its the deal with the devil you make when you work on an international scale, and unfortunately making some small time political message will hurt your bottom line if the Chinese market share is taken away from your customer base. Unfortunate but it’s just economics. Not sure if it’s 1-to-1 with the Apple situation but it’s my anecdote.

Some People are starting to grow sick of the all digital access off the post-iTunes MP3 era, now the streaming era. The physical connection to the album is lost - and if you’re a music nerd, and want to have a physical connection to the music, Vinyl is a superior format. Often the artwork is much larger, intricate, and gatefolds are beautiful, not to mention limited color releases and picture discs. It’s something you can frame or display on a shelf, and feels more vintage than a CD. Rarely would I say people listen to them as much as collect and display them.

As a non-vegan, it really irks me when other non-vegans try to “checkmate” vegans with situations like this. It’s a personal choice to not partake in the factory meat/animal products industry and the measurable harm that comes to life forms from it. True, you can show that vegetables and other byproducts can be derived from human labor cost, but when the rubber meets the road, and you make an individual choice on what products to consume, it’s valid to judge these ethical concerns and decide what best fits into your personal values set. I think it helps that I come from the Hardcore Punk scene where many of my friends are vegan.

Yes, I agree. Rebase has the ability to obfuscate and rewrite commits if you so choose. Rebasing to just re-order commits is totally viable and perhaps encouraged. We did this at a previous company and it made the commit history very clean to read. However, with great power comes great responsibility in a rebase, and a junior dev can easily mess things up if you don’t educate them properly.

Were they trading companies in chi? Worked with them in the past and that industry is ruthless in abiding their noncompetes because there’s enough people who want in the industry.

I had no idea this existed. Yeah, this is what I think most people thought they would do next. Maybe expand the scope of it to include Marvel properties?

What's your wakeup time/bedtime/expected arrival time at work, if you mind me asking? Debating how much time I should budget in the mornings for this.

Wow, had no idea about the history of the scottish dilemma but it makes sense. Thanks!

Not to mention that fresh venison can be excellent when prepared correctly. The argument for more people "harvesting" their meat for the season can be expanded upon.

This is a key argument here. In a hypothetical, perfectly moral ecosystem, could we find some way of "birth control" to limit the population AND the pain? Perhaps, the population of deer is staggeringly immense, and the financial compensation and minimal fiscal benefit behind such a plan seems like a potential path of waste and failure behind whomever enacts the program.

So we enter a cost/benefit analysis of the situation, and the cost of "humane" solutions are immense. On the other hand, ethical hunting is a "lesser of two evils" that you've mentioned, but more importantly, it brings money back into the organizations protecting the environment. Many people don't realize the cost of a single hunting tag is very well calculated, regulated, and almost 100% of the profits go into ecosystem preservation and conservation. Closest thing to a win-win scenario we can get at the present, not to mention the act of hunting can be an industry in and of itself generating revenue and business.

https://tosdr.org/

Was featured on HN before. Far from totally complete, but it's a cool idea.

Not only was this article interesting, but the website was great. The informative bits that dynamically appear while scrolling + the interactive rating system was very intuitive and smooth. Very impressive.

I remember an old post on /r/askhistorians about medieval fighting, and this article was referenced. There was even a video of two re-enactors emulating the style. It was vastly different than everything I'd come to expect from films, but it makes more sense when you think about it. Armor could be extremely effective for taking a direct sword hit, so the strategy was to almost wrestle your opponent up close and wedge the blade in between the plates, using both hands as leverage to slice.

How much profit does this generate, if I may ask? And how much do you have invested as capital for it to trade on?

I had a brief stint with a HFT company and it certainly seemed like 90%+ of all the traders were cherry picked from MIT/Harvard. I believe a few came from Notre Dame? There were definitely outliers, but the vast majority came from those two schools (from what I recall). The Computer Science part of the company was a little more diverse (Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Caltech, Northwestern, UIUC). All top schools.

Jealous! I know his stuff isn't that intellectually engaging, but I've enjoyed his previous stints with James Franco while enjoying a beer and hanging out with friends. There will have to be some direct to video form to get the film out there to compensate the cost.

Motocross madness... that's a game I haven't heard of in a while. I'll have to go back and learn to hack on it, thanks for jogging my memory.

I think it's more in the vein of "manage the docker containers you are deploying with rancher, which is itself another docker container to keep consistent with the entire environment being in docker"

There is no moral imperative for me to view ads since I've paid to access the Interwebs

That's an extremely juvenile way to view your browsing rights and behavior.

I agree; this will do nothing but drive your favorite sites out of business.

I've had some long trips a couple times where I would have loved to pull out my nexus and do some web programming. The natural solution would be to get a Surface 3, but I've had a Nexus 10 for a while and really enjoyed it. Battery life lasts forever as well.

Fascinating, never thought about these implications before for network carriers.

Good point. At the same time, when you have a person add/remove even one or two cards to a popular deck it can RADICALLY change the playstyle due to the 30 card limit. Every top player has their own twist on the meta decks.

Not necessarily - more so that the police force is being explicitly displayed as a military-esque force, and offers the player to role play that gratification. It's not necessarily violence, just the unrealistic depiction of the "role" of police.