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Just looked it up and saw he did an album cover for Steely Dan. It reminded me that Chevy Chase was an early drummer for Steely Dan (well, before they became "Steely Dan")

I can't thank you enough for providing that link and bringing it to my attention.

Really enjoying this. Thank you for the great work. I'm currently on Lesson 11 and noticed a couple typos (missing words). I haven't found anywhere on the site itself where I could send feedback to report such a thing (maybe I missed it). Hopefully you aren't offended if I post them here.

I think the easiest way to point them out is to just have you search for the partial line of text while on Lesson 11 and you'll see the spots.

"No one is going to motivated by a robotic..." (missing the word "be")

"People who are given a possible solution to a problem tend to less creative at..." (again missing the word "be")

I don't' think the article is focused on the temperature itself but rather the rate of change. During the time period referenced the speed of temperature change was fastest.

Seems a lot of comments here are basically saying "calm down, it's just an ad."

If these are "just" ads (meaning they aren't a big deal) then why are millions spent on them? Why are Super Bowls ads an event all their own?

Maybe read up on some early figures in effective propaganda and advertising such as Edward Bernays. Watch The Century of the Self. Put your ego aside and accept that advertising might have a significant influence on a person's perception, reasoning, and judgment...and accomplish it in subtle ways you may not be fully cognizant of. That can also lead to more vast cultural conditioning. The boiling frog...

It's not "just" an ad and thankfully some people are applying critical thought and criticism against it. Why that bothers so many here might also be telling. Why are you being triggered?

Others here have already made good suggestions for books that focus more specifically on communication...which is what you were asking about. I wanted to share a book suggestion I found helpful regarding emotional intelligence (or emotional maturity) in general. The School of Life

I prefer using Next. I've been using Remix at the day-job for about a year now. It's fine, but I still choose to use Next with all personal work. I'd also prefer to work with it professionally. My personal dev-blog started in v12, I upgraded it to v13 a while back (not much involved in that upgrade), and at this moment am refactoring it to v14. A lot has changed, and for the better.

It provides a great solution for most needs and problems. But I think the biggest selling point is that their docs are excellent. I never connected with the Remix docs...they often left me still confused. I've used Remix v1 and updated our two work repos to v2. I still don't feel fluent with it for some reason and often find myself thinking "I prefer the way Next does this".

Someone else here mentioned the T3 stack. That's a good resource to at least see other libraries/services that work well with Next. You don't need to follow any of it blindly, but use it as an information resource.

Have you actually researched or thought about any specific "remote corners of the world" that you could share?

https://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/what-is-melodyne

This might help. Not exactly what you're looking for.

Have you ever checked out the old school amusement park Knoebels[1] that's about 20 minutes away? I highly recommend it. We lovingly refer to it as "Chernobyls" (not b/c of the park itself, but b/c it rhymes with the park's name and b/c it's near Centralia).

[1] https://www.knoebels.com

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Experience: 6+ years as frontend engineer (w/ some full-stack experience). Have been an IC, tech lead, and engineering manager. Looking for IC role, not currently interested in management.

thanks for the recommendation. will check it out

Maybe i'm reading into their naming incorrectly. Free "trial" to me sounds like it's time based...as in after a week you can no longer use it and must buy. I'll give it a try.

This looks great!! Hopefully you can answer a couple questions for me.

You mention you're using TablePlus. Doesn't look like it has a free option. Can you recommend another similar database GUI tool so I can "code along"? And is there a database I can connect to and work with? Maybe you answer these at some point in the course, but I didn't see anything in the intro.

Also you mention this is for devs and not DBA's. Do you go over strategies for creating and "maintaining" a new db for a basic app? Or is this for a dev to work against a db that fully created and maintained by a DBA? I'm interested in using PlanetScale for hobby projects, so i'm currently trying to learn about not just using a db, but also being my own DBA (on a very small and basic scale).

Thank you for the course and any feedback on my questions.

Curious why you went with RadixUI over HeadlessUI? Not that you shouldn't, just wondering what your decision process was.

I also noticed in `_app.tsx` that you wrapped <Component /> in a <main> element. Wouldn't that wrap the entire app within main tags? I think that kind of throws off the normal flow of accessible landmarks.

I really like the template so far. Might add a few aspects of it to my own. Thanks for sharing

There are many others here (on HN) and elsewhere that are in a similar situation of struggle, confusion and doubt. You asking this question has triggered almost 600 comments so far that have provided feedback, support, and personal or anecdotal evidence that it is possible (to turn one's life around). That is now hopefully benefiting those who also needed to be a part of this conversation (whether they knew it or not).

I wanted to thank you for that. I can say I'm personally benefiting from reading much of this. I hope it's helping you as well.

This might be off-topic...but you're saying these are devs with only 1-3 YOE, have a "don't care" attitude, and are employed at a MAANG company? I must really be naive b/c I thought it was only cream-of-the-crop that got employed at MAANG companies. I keep telling myself those companies are for other/better people, not me. So what exactly is the barrier to entry if these devs are working there? I always hear "study leet code" but thought it was a joke. Is that really it? Nail the formulaic interview and you're in? I ask sincerely b/c your coworkers sound like a joke. I consider myself a "senior" dev in experience and abilities and would love to work under/with a more senior dev with 15 YOE that wants to engage and educate.

"I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities."

reference didn't go unnoticed. nice one.

Homo habilis ("Handy man") largely gets its name b/c some of its fossils are associated with early stone tools. Homo habilis dates back to roughly 2 MYA (million years ago). Home sapiens only dates back to about 300,000 years ago.

I'm pretty sure that with the newer `create-react-app` version 2, it will use Yarn in your project if you have Yarn installed globally on your system. If you do, and you want to keep it there, but use npm in your created app, then add `--use-npm` when creating your project (`npx create-react-app myAppName --use-npm`

Otherwise, if you don't have Yarn installed globally then it uses npm by default in your project.

I have a mid-2014 and am terrified of something happening to it. Normally the idea of upgrading is exciting. Not as of yet...

Over the last 6 months? Study and teach myself programming (attempting a career change). Outside of that...hiking, kayaking, some socializing at bars etc, short road-trips. Still have many of the same "life-chores" as parents (cooking, cleaning, errands), but they probably aren't as stressful or come with the same time crunch. I think children can be great, but i'm not sure i'm cut out for it 24/7.

Point Break was a documentary?? I'll be damned...

Exact same thing happened to my ex in Denver just over a year ago. She was able to fix it after 9 months of calls, paperwork, and lawyers. She then sold. Almost put her in the hospital. I've since heard of it happening to several other people. Their mortgage gets sold, they aren't given the ability to keep paying on it, their home goes into foreclosure. More common than a lot of people realize.

Interesting. I see a lot of interest in woodworking/carpentry. Also read a surprising number of people talking about film. I started in film. Evolved into carpentry/metal fab. I'm now starting my career in programming. I'm excited about all the ways that programming is NOT carpentry or film.

Office Space reference?