kochthesecond (u/kochthesecond)

kochthesecond commented on How to reduce stress and overcome anxiety as a software developer andreizgirvaci.com/blog/h... · Posted by u/MD3XTER

boredemployee · 3 years ago

As a junior, I started out loving my job.

Then the bad decisions from management started and I started to love my job less, I still woke up with some excitement.

2 and a half years later: today what I do has more to do with pressure and deadlines than with learning and/or doing the right thing.

Today, I find it unsustainable to work 8 hours a day, I've come to hate what I do, I can't imagine looking for another job doing the same thing.

Sunday nights are getting harder and harder to bear. Anxiety and despair blind me to the point of believing that I won't be able to do anything else in my life. I think I need some urgent help.

Edit: I'm in my mid 30s - already had a carreer switch

kochthesecond · 3 years ago

FWIW, I myself have to stop myself from caring as much, otherwise I get depressed and paralyzed by decision fatigue and deadlines. When someone sets an unrealistic deadline, that must their cross to bear. I like many parts of my job, the people there are good to work with, but we are a bit one dimensional and never reserve time for anything just social or fun. It was fun for a couple of years, but now I actually miss some team building fun a couple of times every year! I dont really feel anxiety Sundays, but I do worry if there is a crisis when I'm on holiday...

kochthesecond commented on How to reduce stress and overcome anxiety as a software developer andreizgirvaci.com/blog/h... · Posted by u/MD3XTER

thenerdhead · 3 years ago

Nobody loves a job where people constantly make bad decisions(or decisions you're not involved in) and you don't feel like you're doing the right thing(when you could be).

You're morally hijacked. That's no way to live a working life.

kochthesecond · 3 years ago

The thing is, I just don't get it. Management treat the decisions like they don't have consequences, always getting stuck on local minima. If the plans had a vision with logical steps A --> B --> C where they would build and enhance on each other, we could make a great product. Why they seem incapable of stringing together a chain of priorities that actually make sense (synergy) I have concluded, is that they don't really use or care about the product we make. Otherwise their priorities would make more sense. They only manage to care about the balance sheet, which is good too I guess, but it does not make the greatest product...

kochthesecond commented on Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship hardware.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/zherbert

john_minsk · 5 years ago

I just paid for 12 months worth of Skype subscription which I have used for just 2 calls back in January.

I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.

Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.

I don't trust many other companies. Especially if all my interactions with them are virtual and they are not specialized in information technology. At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.

Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.

Big hope that fin tech will blow it up, but unfortunately start ups didn't deliver. There are some successful ones, but I think finance is too regulated for them to have a shot at a serious scale. Apple and Google have a shot at that and they will create a road for smaller companies.

The situation in Belarus is bad. And believe me I know. I was concerned as well about my device security. But to be honest at the end of the day it can't be Apple's problem. Belarussian government must be replaced by Belarussian people and Apple has nothing to do with that. And on top of that - what choice do I have. Android devices in Russia are preinstalled with Russian software while Apple's aren't. That's more important sign for me.

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

> At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.

Sadly, this is reality. It is very hard to prioritize in most places living on thin margins.

kochthesecond commented on E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services e.foundation/... · Posted by u/lelf

thinkloop · 5 years ago

Why do we have to give access to our entire hard-drive to share one file once? How is it legal for someone else to give away your phone number, your addresses for the last 30 years, your email addresses, and the rest of your personal contact information, along with all the contact information of everyone else they ever met to any app they like? Why can apps run your mic and camera 24 hours a day in the background because you wanted to record a gif once? Why should an app be able to read every sms for all eternity because they wanted to verify your phone number once?

Ungoogling is a fine step but the whole thing needs to be rebuilt:

- Sharing Contacts: Should be illegal and removed as an option. Apps shouldn't be able to trick/coerce/incentivise people to harvest and sell other people's private information. When people give out their phone numbers and addresses they do it with some expectation of care, not with the intention of having it immedietly uploaded to Flappy Bird. The most that should be allowed is perhaps some sort of hash of contacts to be able to bootstrap some friend graph, but that's it.

- Sharing Files: There should be a single general default "file manager" app that acts as the intermediary between your files, and other apps, giving them only the files they need for the specific task at hand. Permission for the filemanagers themselves can be given with multiple ALL CAPS permission warnings not to do it.

- Camera/Mic/Location: Trusted intermediate app should capture and provide the data needed for the task at hand. At the absolute minimum, permissions should default to only recording while the app is open (like android location now). Persistent background recording should only be allowed after multiple ALL CAPS stern warnings and suggestion to reject unless absolutely necessary.

- SMS/etc: Have intermediate trusted apps select and share the specific messages you need to share for the task at hand.

In short, data access should be handled by few, trusted, vetted, intermediary apps, with heavily gated permissions for those apps themsevles; and sharing other people's private contact information should be illegal.

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

This is sort of how iOS works(worked?). To share a photo, you had to go find the photo you want to share, then pass that photo explicitly to the app/context you wanted to share it. So a model where you push the content you want into the share app, the app itself was unable to request (pull) data.

kochthesecond commented on I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions · Posted by u/MarkusWandel

TaylorAlexander · 5 years ago

I hear that many people are plagued with SD card issues. But I’m running probably ten raspberry pi’s right now and while I’ve had a couple SD card issues over the years, that has seemed to be the exception rather than the rule.

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

Yeah, well when running remotely it must come back by itself every single time, and I was unable to get reliable results over 6 months of testing. It might 3 months until I can travel and replace a nonbooting instance, and I will not even know what is wrong!

kochthesecond commented on I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions · Posted by u/MarkusWandel

PragmaticPulp · 5 years ago

I understand why the Raspberry Pi uses SD cards (cost, simplicity, ease of use) but the entire line would be so much more useful with onboard eMMC storage.

SD cards are great for keeping cost down and getting started quickly by flashing OS images from a PC. However, enthusiasts spend so much time fiddling with external storage options and cobbling together messes of powered USB hubs, cables, external enclosures, and fiddling with kernel issues (USB attached SCSI) that a Raspberry Pi with built-in eMMC would be a breath of fresh air.

They could even keep costs down by adding a connector for an eMMC submodule, similar to what ODROID has done with their boards.

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

Yes, I gave up on my rasp pi because of the instability of sd cards. It could barely run a few weeks without manual intervention. Honestly I have no clue how anyone does anything useful with them. Tried using usb attached ssd for a while, but never got it so stable that a remote reboot (or power loss) had acceptable risk.

kochthesecond commented on Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon electronjs.org/blog/elect... · Posted by u/binarynate

alwayssmh · 5 years ago

i don't recall such support when msft was launching arm based laptops. does anyone have insight to why this is so? is it a case of apple developer relations doing an outstanding job engaging with the community?

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

Its also been 5-6 years since. Arm support in the toolchains and libs are much better, and the chips are powerful enough to do testing on them.

kochthesecond commented on Early access to Proton Drive is here protonmail.com/blog/proto... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

I think Proton Mail is ok, but I wish they would focus more on email. I will probably just go back to gmail before the next billing. 3 years and I still dont feel the email part is good enough.

kochthesecond commented on Why not use GraphQL? wundergraph.com/blog/why_... · Posted by u/jensneuse

weego · 5 years ago

For me GraphQL is the epitome (in the Web tier) of 'we need to solve the same problems as FAANG does'.

You'll likely never be in a situation where over-querying via a non-granular REST call will ever be an issue worth optimising around.

If you're shipping multi-megs of JS to a client don't then pretend that micro-optimisating the API call waterfall is your KPI, it's just disingenuous at best.

At best it's a band-aid around dysfunctional inter-team working.

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

I dont disagree with this, but I also see in our case that good tooling is immensely valuable in keeping things consistent and moving forward (in the same direction) without having to discuss every change.

kochthesecond commented on Arch Conf 2020 media.ccc.de/c/arch-conf-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

kochthesecond · 5 years ago

Neat. Arch user since 2008!