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I'm not refuting what you said, I'm asking you to elaborate why you said it.

What is the point of this comment? Do you mean to say we should cease the pursuit of DEI because we've "come so far"? Of course that's engaging with you with the assumption that you're not intentionally ignoring the weaponization of the movement in the US to further the goals of the current administration.

I think the reason discord got so popular is because of the ease of use. Being able to join a server with a link (and not even having to download a client if you don't want), being able to see who's in voice without "connecting" to the server like mumble or teamspeak, persistent chat. This is what is unique about discord; all those other things came later. This is the user experience the alternatives need to replicate. Custom emojis are not a deal breaker, the hangout experience is.

We have masked men grabbing people off the streets with no accountability. Perhaps you should be asking for evidence of lack of human rights abuse.

I thought I recognized that name: Nylund also wrote some books for the Halo series which I enjoyed, although I was already a fan of the games.

I enjoyed Braid and this revelation doesn't change that, but there's a lot of entertainment and it's easy to not support someone who has views (or at least doesn't express them publicly) that conflict with my own personal values.

If you don't care about competitive balance or the "identity" of magic it probably didn't.

Long answer: the introduction of non-magic sets like SpongeBob SquarePants, Deadpool, or Assassin's Creed are seen as tasteless money grabs that dilute the quality and theme of magic even further, but fans of those things will scoop them up.

The competitive scene has been pretty rough, but I haven't played constructed formats in a while so I'm not as keyed into this. I just know that there have been lots of cards released recently that have had to be banned for how powerful they were.

Personally, I love the game, but I hate the business model. It's ripe for abuse and people treat cards like stocks to invest in.

Firefox (and probably others) allows you to set up custom search engines (like Wikipedia). So when I know I am trying to get to Wikipedia or npm or whatever I just do an @wikipedia and type my search.

I disagree with this thought. I think it's really easy for people to react to things being done for other people (who may have it better or worse off than you) with a sense of abandonment. The reality of the situation is that some people do need more help than others, and a lack of empathy prevents us from seeing that. The idea that receiving help means that person has "given up" their responsibility to society is harmful to society itself in my opinion.

Awesome thank you! I'm up near the twin cities; the saint paul board game meetup goes to a lot of breweries and I prefer that vibe too. I like the game aspect but I think the social part is important too. I'm hoping to move this year, but a lot of that depends on how long the pandemic lasts unfortunately. I'm happy to hear there's some good groups. I don't mind traveling a little bit to meet up, but I'll check out the north side a bit more if it's nerdier.

I've been looking at moving to Austin and love board games. Unfortunately with everything canceled I can't currently use Meetup to check out the scene. Would you mind talking a little bit about what the board game scene is normally like in the area?

Thanks! I'm really excited; everyone I've talked to that has been there hypes it up a lot. I will definitely not be thinking about work haha.

I find that I reach that half-life at a company too. After I sweep up the things that are in my control I start noticing all the other problems that are hard for me to affect and then I get complacent. I think I probably need a change of scenery. I have a 2 week vacation to Japan coming up so I think that will be a good time to clear my head and really get a chance to digest what is going on. Thanks for sharing your perspective with me, it helps a lot.

Part of me wonders if I need to rewire how I think about this. Like I realize that there are things outside of my control but deep down I don't accept it, or something like that. Maybe it would help to get out and have conversations like these more often with peers. I'll look around on meetup to see if I can connect with people; I don't really have any friends in tech that I can talk to other than my co-workers.

I have definitely internalized the idea that it's all just tradeoffs. I think I value delivering quality software and it's hard to feel like I'm doing that when I see so many production outages and most of my interaction with co-workers is people telling me something is broken. I get that stuff happens sometimes, but we can't seem to keep a test environment stable. Managers are definitely aware of the issue, but I feel like it keeps getting worse. I can't hold back a tidal wave alone.

Thank you for sharing your perspective.

I have definitely been thinking about this a lot, however, it's difficult to know what to do when this is the only long term job I've ever had, and the first time I've really had a career.

I don't think the company is looking to sell; it feels like the top is just not concerned with reliability and most of our funding goes into new feature development, which in turn makes things less stable.

Identifying what's wrong is probably the most difficult part for me. It feels like a systematic failure that I can't affect.

Thank you. I wasn't trying to make it sound like I am applying my experiences to the entire industry, I'm just trying to reason about what issues are about me, what issues are about my company, and what issues are about my career path.

How are they supposed to know you use one?

Yeah, but the risk from contact lenses comes over time as it's a risk every time you put your lenses in where with laser correction the risk pretty much only exists while you are healing. You really only have to avoid getting stuff in your eye while the bandage lens is in.

Everything I've read about comparing the risk notes this factor.

I'm sure that if you wear contacts perfectly all the time the risk is very low, but as we all know people do stupid things.

That said, the decision to get surgery was more about not having to deal with glasses or contacts every day and less about the risk.

I had dry eyes (although I never noticed it) going into the procedure, and while I'm healing I put artificial tears in at night and a couple times during the day. It's well worth it to be able to not have to mess with glasses to put my motorcycle helmet on. If one had really bad dry eyes after correction one could get tear wells put in. If one had too dry of eyes before the doctor would recommend against the procedure.

Getting LASEK was one of the better decisions I've made in life. The risk of infection is extremely low for the procedure but you need to be extra careful while you're healing. It may not be worth the price if your vision is currently not that awful, however.

See the beauty of using program + cloud-provider is that all the cloud provider sees is an encrypted file. If one were to gain access to my Google Drive they would still have to crack an encrypted file which will take a while.

I feel like with lastpass the attack vector is bigger with all the fancy features.

Personally, they both make sense to me. I've always seen a slider option but I'm sure it's more work to implement. State could be an easy way to search on a bigger scope.

I feel like you would have to ask yourself how most people use these features: perhaps someone is searching for the city they live in and are willing to commute "30 miles." They certainly wouldn't want to search the entire state of Texas. Is that the major use-case for users of your site? Forgive me if I'm using an incorrect logic here as I have never done user interface testing but this seems like the sort of thing to think about when designing features.

Honestly though I love the simplicity in design of your site, but the way your job-tile elements are created they're just begging to be clicked on to expand them for more detail.

Thank you for this! I coming up on graduation and am looking for my first job. Perhaps I am a narrow use case, but I would like to see a distance slider for the filter; I am looking to relocate to the SF area but I really don't care what city it is.

Also, it would be nice to see a little bit of information underneath the posting before you view the full ad: maybe show the "skills" section from AngelList?

Again, thanks! I already applied to FormSwift through your site.