There's a really interesting movie called "We Live in Public" that documents one of the early tech pioneers Josh Harris as he sells his internet radio company and then creates an underground CCTV community. It's fascinating and equally frightening how people behaved towards one another while sharing space and constantly watching each other. It reminds me a lot the relationship many twitch streamers have with their viewers. You can find the movie for free on Tubi (in the states at least).
Readit Newstaterbase commented on Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013) docpop.org/2013/10/way-ah... · Posted by u/Ivoah
What you're describing sound like the challenges that come from working at a big company. In my opinion you have a few options; each better suited towards different levels of burnout, which I believe you might be experiencing.
1. If you're severely burned out take some time off, as much as you can. A few weeks would be nice but a month or more would be even better. I've found that after spending the first few days (or even the first entire week) being a sloth on the couch I'll begin desiring to program again. Working on personal projects or just learning something new without worrying about work often helps me out of these valleys you're describing.
2. If you're moderately burnt out you may want to consider joining a smaller company or startup. The need for code is much greater and the agency you get at a smaller company is incredible. No need to ask for permission, they want you to code.
3. Finally if you're not quite burned out or if switching to a new company is not an option I'd honestly recommend reading some books like Peopleware, Mythical Man Month, Coders at Work and others. This will give you some respite as what you're experiencing is not uncommon. Learning how others have experienced what you're experiencing and how they push back or fight against cruft like this will embolden you to hopefully make change within and push back intelligently.
I hope you feel better and that the joy of coding comes back. And if it doesn't I hope you ultimately find happiness, wherever that may be.
taterbase commented on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder. · Posted by u/Buttons840
When you wake up in the morning do you feel rested? Or are you still tired?
Others have already mentioned this but I think it's important to reiterate sleep quality. I learned I was not getting enough oxygen at night due to congestion when I went to the doctor for problems with tiredness and brain fog. Taking nasacort each night before bed completely changed my life.
taterbase commented on Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ilamont
An excerpt from the book Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams.
Status Meetings Are About Status
A real working meeting is called when there is a real reason for all the people invited to think through some matter together. The purpose of the meeting is to reach consensus. Such a meeting is, almost by definition, an ad hoc affair. Ad hoc implies that the meeting is unlikely to be regularly scheduled. Any regular get-together is therefore somewhat suspect as likely to have a ceremonial purpose rather than a focused goal of consensus. The weekly status meeting is an obvious example. Though its goal may seem to be status reporting, its real intent is status confirming. And it’s not the status of the work, but the status of the boss.
When bosses are particularly needy, the burden of ceremonial status meetings can grow almost without bound. We know of one organization, for example, that runs daily two-hour status meetings. When participants are off-site during a meeting, they are expected to call in and participate by speakerphone for the whole duration. Nonattendance is regarded as a threat and is subject to serious penalties.
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taterbase commented on Show HN: I made a web game using emojis and no JS framework fastflood.dylancastillo.c... · Posted by u/dcastm
This is incredibly addicting
One thing that I found very interesting when I looked into what TikTok does: it's scary good at aggregating data about you. I live in a foreign country, my phone's network is behind a VPN to a different foreign country and I gave the app no extra permissions, yet somehow I still got recommended content from the country where I was born. Since it's a small country there's no way that's a coincidence. I'm both intrigued and spooked as to how they figured that connection out.
I would guess it zeroed in on common interests. Videos you like, comment on, or even just watch for more than one time can all give clues into what interests you.
What kind of data? TikTok knows what content I interact to... on tiktok. That's it. Unless they have an android 0-day or something. It has no access to my mic, camera, browsing history, contacts list, or anything useful. Guess who has access to all that, if they want it, though? Google and Facebook (through whatsapp). What is the privacy concern here, exactly?
If you've logged in it can potentially match your login information or email address to other activity on the web. TikTok's servers could also place you geographically somewhat roughly based on ip address.
Outside of that I agree. It's unclear what data TikTok is supposedly gathering that other apps aren't already and why that's a cause for alarm.
taterbase commented on ASCII art for semantic code commenting asciiflow.com/#/... · Posted by u/anonymous_they
I've seen this a few times. The key limit is that once drawn the characters are set, you can't move the drawn objects around.
What I'd like is something like drawio for ASCII/Unicode. I've been thinking of writing my own for years, but that'll probably never happen so I'll just keep mentioning the idea when similar apps come up in the hope I inspire someone else!
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you but this tool expressly has a select and move tool.