Readit NewsI'm surprised how much we take for granted an understanding of object-oriented coding in the industry. Any graduate with a four-year degree in CS can be expected to write passable object-oriented code, but many have absolutely no exposure to functional idioms. Of course, those same people may have very little exposure to more complex OOP design patterns. I've seen people's eyes gloss over the same why when saying, "It's just a monad" as when saying "It's just an interpreter pattern".
I've been a multi-decade Vim user, until I switched to VSCode last year. It made me realize how much better the user experience can be for an editor. I had all kinds of complex vim configurations and plugins with special cases for linux vs. mac, server vs. desktop, GUI vs. terminal, all of which are a huge pain in the butt to maintain.
If there was one thing I could ask of Vim (or even emacs), it'd be a consistent high-quality default user experience.
(Ofcourse, the default experience in VSCode isn't perfect either, but it took me four lines in settings.json and four plugins (vim, go, eslint, clang) for a near-perfect experience.)
Maybe there's a solution with SSH file systems or similar, but now I'm getting into the realm of configuration we were hoping to avoid, right?
For a while I was even using a Chromebook and doing most of my coding by SSHing to my much more powerful desktop.
Unfortunately, until we see a company be successful while breaking the rules (not eight hour days, no open workspaces, etc), the world will continue the same. Maybe when we HNers start a company or startup we should actually do what we post about constantly.
I believe that eight hours is too much. Working eight hours a day (plus commute, however short it may be) leaves you little time for leisure when you add the chores of daily life. I rarely care about how the company is affected, so I am glad studies like these exist.
You'll find a lot of part-time workers that work 30-35 hours/week, including in IT, because that is the most they can work without being entitled to benefits. The difference in the nature of that work and the benefits may hide any significant differences due to total hours.
There are also plenty of companies where the employees only work a few hours per day but are in the office for 8-10 hours. Take Google, for example. It's fairly easy between gym, meals, massage, sports league, etc to only actually have 30 hours/week allocated for work, even though a person is in the office for 8-9 hours. However, it may be a huge psychological difference to be trying to fill your work day vs. having full control over time.
Then again, it's exactly why I feel safer getting a breed dog that fits the basic requisites. In my parents home - that is quite big and with a lot of open space - we've got a mutt and we were very happy with him, but we didn't really have any constrains about how he would turn out to be as an adult.
Rescue organizations (in the US at least) are a great place to find dogs. The dogs have often been in a domestic setting with a foster owner. The history of the dog is usually known. You'll be adopting dogs in the 2-8yr range and you'll have a great idea of what you're getting.
It can take a while to find the right dog, but it should. It's a decade-long commitment.
Our dog didn't even make it to 10. She died of heart failure at 7. According to the vet this is another common problem with the breed.
I well never get a pure breed again.
If you want a rough story, look at the Bernese Mountain Dog. Twenty years ago the life expectancy of the breed was only 7 years due to congenital heart problems. Breeders have been working to breed it out of them and introduce more variety in the genome of the breed for some time and their life expectancy has been going up.
The key is to at least get a diverse line, though I don't think there's any reason to get a pure bred dog unless you want to show or breed it yourself.
My father recently purchased a Sharpei. It's father was also it's grandfather because it was basically the product of two kennels interbreeding. In humans go as far as to outlaw that in many countries. In dog breeding it's a matter of course.
What makes dogs breeds so different is that the dog genome is extremely plastic: it has a lot of room for variation as evidenced by how far pugs have come from wolves, even though theoretically they can still mate and produce fertile offspring.
Coastal cities in America will continue to be a melting pot of culture but the wealth won't be siphoned off unabated.
The rationale behind the policy is ending the indentured servitude experienced by foreign workers and the hollowing out of the middle class.
In our current economy, if you want to have a high-paying job you have to have a highly productive job. The best way to do that is to be in a city that has high network effects. Centralization and computerization is allowing people in cities to be more and more productive. This is why even Walmart has fewer regional managers and employs more people in cities managing logistics or even doing research in programs like @WalmartLabs.
Being in a city helps you be more productive due to network effects in contacts, opportunities, leads and education. If we want to help people out, we need to help them get those benefits elsewhere or help them move to the coastal cities that already have these networks.
Looking at the stock price and talking a little with the employees, it was hard to get excited. It had gone from an initial surge of $47/share to $14/share. It looked like an overeager IPO to raise funds for a company that really hadn't quite figured out its market yet. We've seen them many times, but I'm not yet sure what the commonality is. Not having a lasting market? Not having the growth potential?
Most people at the company had an optimistic outlook, but it would be hard to work there and do recruiting otherwise.