Great point, I feel often the same. The brain so often goes into a mode of "ah yeah, now is the time to google that one thing I was wondering earlier today", or "I just want to confirm this one small detail about thing X", and then my phone is pointed straight into the eyeballs again.
This is the best advice in the thread. If we don't have our health, what else do we have? Most people seem to agree there will never be a shortage of programming jobs, so I wouldn't worry about "staying ahead of the curve" too much if you have a solid foundation.
No kidding. I think part of the reason is also the huge amount of people flooding into dev roles, so having 2-4 years of experience puts you ahead of 70% (random number) of the other applicants, who all have 1-2 years, and you're relatively 'senior' (compared to other industries, where it would require several times longer, at least). That plus the depressingly reductionist Medium-article-writing culture with people elaborating on how to become ~Senior~ in three simple steps. Context is everything here.
It would be an interesting experiment if commenting on all crypto related articles required you to disclose how many dollars(/euros/whatever) you have invested in crypto.
Related, does anybody have any suggestions for a cheap/large/easy to look at monitor that could be used for a digital picture frame? I was thinking of getting a Raspberry Pi to rotate through my photos in my home, but the hardest part of the project would be choosing a good discrete/mountable display.
Funny that this popped up on HN. I lived in Istanbul for a little bit and was perplexed by the number of cats, but for one reason or another it's not something I ever thought of actually Googling. Thanks for sharing!
The basic idea is that now rather than needing to culture live viruses in chicken eggs, we can literally just encode the RNA for a specific antigen into a synthetic substrate and produce vaccines through a chemical process like any other drug. The RNA is then absorbed into your cells, and your own body creates the proteins which stimulate an immune response.
I am incredibly far away from the world of SV/FAANG, so tell me, is FB really becoming a less desirable place to work? It seems to me like it's a pretty small minority of people that would refuse a $1XX,000 paycheck on grounds of being a ethically dubious snowflake in the avalanche that is Facebook.
The way I see it, in the right city somebody with our skillset can step outside and trip over an offer with a very comfortable salary. In that context, I don't think there's much excuse for going out and choosing to make the world a worse place, even if you'd get paid 2x that very comfortable salary.
You can still find incredibly good compensation in our realm without working for a FAANG. Yeah - they have resources to pay out the nose but there's a lot of places to land that don't have huge public-facing ethics issues hanging over your head.
Maybe I'm being an idealist punk for feeling this way but I'll take less pay to be able to live with myself... Especially in regards to the places that I've given a hard-no: Walmart and Facebook as these companies are actively hurting my country every day.
I think the effect is small, but real. If nothing else it gives the comparable FAANGs an edge. That said I'm not in The Valley and don't know anybody who works at a FAANG.
Super interesting theory. I think the implication here is a little bit unnerving though: if an individual has three "weird" views, and the most effective way to convert another individual is to only expose them to one of those three, then are we doomed as a society to evolve at a slow pace, since humans are just not psychologically prepared to comprehend so many new ideas at the same time?
Yes that slows the rate of change, but the rate of change adjusts based on the times (and hopefully it’s reasonably optimal but that would be hard to measure objectively because it’s a complicated risk-vs-reward, explore-vs-exploit trade-off). Eg Historical revolutions usually saw rapid changes in many areas like politics, art, culture, technology. Societies (like organisms and ecosystems) are extremely complicated so there are serious risks to evolving too fast so slow isn’t automatically bad.
