For whoever considers using Amazon for convenience I say open your eyes. The lower prices and free shipping will disappear as soon as competition is driven out of business.
Also working for Amazon seems to be a dystopian adventure [0] and [ ..]..
The secret to cooking is to test the food and know some basic things which may seem awkward at first but are simply learnable. Everybody who started cooking had a moment when they didn't know what they were doing and a lot of practice made them good. As a beginner I would concentrate on a few dishes and get good at those then slowly progress to more
At whose expense? Investors and drivers? Not a very good deal if you ask me. I am grateful to use Uber occasionally and the price is not too bad but I always tip the drivers because I know they're getting the short end of the stick. Occasionally for me is about twice a month which amounts to maybe 24-30 times a year.
It's one of those things that is acquired with experience and from more and more peers one has had. I think I've learned a bit from all my peers, almost everyone had something interesting or an interesting way to tackle a problem. Once a lot of time is spent in the industry one starts seeing patterns as a new cycle starts.
As far as teaching debugging, it is one thing to show some examples and another one is to run into a bug yourself and get from having no idea how to debug to actually fixing it. That whole experience is hard to replicate in unnatural ways.. When I was in school they told me not to worry too much about debugging and that I'd run into issues in the real world and figure out ways to debug depending on the system and that turned out to be quite correct.
All what it takes is to digitize the whole infrastructure and make transparent all the public spending with details of details of the details all the way down to where the money currently is, all that is including large loans. Public spending? No privacy whatsoever, no hidden transactions nor business trading behind curtains. Oligarchs buy popular support as well, they own televisions themselves to manipulate local politics, but with detailed accounting all that could potentially be stopped. Of course the efforts to implement these would be gargantuan because they would fight back.
> There is such a thing as government-mandated conditions in most places even in the US (
Government-mandated conditions are on paper only, are often abused and the boundaries are always stretched out to the breaking point.
> at a certain point people are better off doing nothing than being so badly abused, and there is always a better option below a certain level of mistreatment.
You're underestimating the amount of rampant poverty and unemployment without benefits in the US.
You're un
There was a funny series called Junk English by Ken Smith, not sure if there are newer editions to that book but it had a collection of jargon and subtly making fun of it.
But a sad thing overall, imagine he's stuck with this identity now but it no longer bears fruits for him. I assume this person didn't have much of an identity in the first place..
> he whole point of engineering is to figure out exactly what the bridge needs to do and make it do only that. So the "over-engineered" bridge is actually under-engineered -- they haven't thought enough about the actual problem. So too is most code that is called "over-engineered" -- it's far more common that people haven't though enough about the problem than that they've over-thought it.
It is different in the physical world where materials are a big factor and engineering will definitely not make free use of them. There are inefficiencies here and there but they're largely reduced. In the digital world of programming accidental and intentional complexity often slips through without anybody noticing and that is for many reasons. It's a relatively new field and is still quite inefficient. I worked in many places whose codebases are a giant maze designed with no clear architecture and sometimes I suspect this complicated mess of intentional moat building engineering.
Learning something new requires a lot of concentration and deliberate thinking and practice. When I learned chess I remember the friend I was playing with becoming a bit bored waiting for my moves but with time it became more automatic and only certain moves would make me think more and when not being able to evaluate or choose between alternative I'd go to gut feeling, possibly distilled from thousands and thousands of chess games played. At some point the tipping point leaned too much towards gut feeling and after some bluffing I decided to take a break from chess and moved on to something else. I think I got bored and my brain would jump to shortcuts. Then I discovered musical instruments
At the first encounter I find this game very aesthetically pleasing and groundbreaking in an original dimension. I see it's been around for a while but I missed it before. I personally am a bit saturated with the mainstream 3d game mechanics, somehow 2d games captivate me more.
The image of a utopia where all disease are stopped in their tracks, where there is enough food and shelter for nearly 50 billion humans and where every nook an cranny is infested with homo sapiens and they live and breed incessantly and whose ideas never die, where most other species become extinct and where nature is confined to artificial habitats makes me smile. Yes we can do it! And yes we will do it if nothing stops us. I'm glad I won't live enough to be part of it.
Why? Every single one of your ancestors got old and died. It is simply natural. Nature has a way of recycling and death is part of that as much as birth is. It would be a disaster of civilization if we start messing with immortality.
I have to admit that I'm not fond of aging and gently pushing the boundaries of what we can do about it doesn't bother me in the least. Even curbing the process of aging but still have a hard limited lifespan would work. But immortality is the most narcissistic idea one can have.
They could add lots of disclaimers and dozens of I agree and I know what I am doing checkboxes but not allowing to buy certain stocks but only to sell them is like a partially blocked intersection with the only open road leading to a ravine. Not cool RH, not cool. It's really an insult to the legend of Robin Hood, he was robbing the rich and giving to the poor not the other way around.