kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

Agreed. I was writing a port of the redis protocol to erlang for a personal project that's a server using said protocol as an interface for distributed MPSC "locking", and it was incredibly simple to implement because of erlang's binary strings and pattern matching. Same with base64/hex/etc. manipulations of strings into binary data. I've read a fair bit about how erlang is great for protocols, but hadn't experienced it myself (professionally or personally) until I decided to implement this project.

kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

I'll second what ZephyrBlue said:

- you aren't defined by who your employer is - your intelligence isn't defined by who your employer is - you can't control what other people say or think about you - you're worth a hell of a lot more than what you do or what you make per year (emotionally, intellectually, spiritually) - life is random, do the best you can and don't hurt yourself doing so

At the risk of sounding morbid, we're all just apes on a flying rock trying to figure out what existence means to us. Reach out if you need help, there's nothing wrong with that.

Stay safe my friend.

kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

I guess you could consider border states of Mexico as the same geographical region as the southwestern US, but those too. Anecdotal, but I've seen routine thermal throttling on macs in a border state with outdoor temperatures of 45, ambient indoor temperatures of 30-33, so you basically need either AC or some other external cooling system to manage more performance than a web browser and office apps.

kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

Would a nationalized bug bounty program help here? Along with some compliance enforcement that the bounty is actually addressed, fulfilled, and payed by the vulnerable entity or the government (funded through some form of corporate tax). I haven't really thought out the details, but likely some kind of practical and effective threshold exists where a business entity in the US enters into mandatory participation.

Genuinely curious, would love to see others' thoughts.

kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

That's a pretty unfair characterization of people who prefer to work remotely.

However, your last point about letting remote employees stay remote and letting people who prefer office-work to come into the office, I optimistically agree with. It works when everyone knows how to work with remote employees, and that the option is exactly that: an option. This last year and a half I hope has been helpful in getting everyone up to speed on that. It requires a cultural dedication, and assuming people have learned something from this remote experience, they'll carry that knowledge and flexibility with them going forward.

kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

Adding on to what others have said, it's also that some non-US countries have much better internet infrastructure than telecom (which might've affected pricing, can't say for sure), so people flocked to internet-only messaging apps to avoid their telecom's faulty SMS/call handling.

kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

Suspected this but didn't want to claim anything I couldn't back up. Thanks for the link!

kiadimoondi

5 lat temudiscuss

Honestly, depends on the company and the state you're working in. It's all anecdotal, so take the following with a grain of salt.

I've worked for startups in Washington and California. In Washington, there was an invention clause in my contracts, but in practice it was a) practically unenforceable and b) as long as you divorced your work identity from your personal identity, nobody cared. This meant not having a way of tracing an anonymous handle or email to you working for the company. In California, I've never seen an invention clause in my contracts, but they were also much better at divorcing your work and personal identity systematically (forcing you to use a github account specific to the company, not mentioning this handle on your personal account, etc.).

In any case, keeping your work and personal work completely separate (no competition between work and individual ideas, no shared hardware) is a good idea and won't raise as many eyebrows. Some companies will be more aggressive about owning what you do, so if it matters to you then ask about the clause before signing the contract.

kiadimoondi

6 lat temudiscuss

Can't speak for the commenter, but I used to work for a team couple years ago that used rust and tokio extensively, and some projects were just not a good fit. At the time, futures were well fleshed out but the community hadn't caught up, so we were lacking a futures-compatible postgres and redis client. We wrote the redis client ourselves, and for the main project using rust that was sufficient. But for postgres, that was a show stopper for any other projects we were working on. So we ended up deciding between typescript and go for those.

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