> In response to a Colorado state law that requires employers post salary ranges in job postings, companies are simply refusing to consider applicants from the state.
> Houdini was immediately suspicious. The message was written in English and his mother only spoke German. At the top of each page was a cross. His mother was the wife of a rabbi and devoutly Jewish. There is no way she would have drawn a cross. Finally, the day of the séance was her birthday. Why didn’t she mention this?
The mindset is basically: Programming is hard so we're going to block as many non-paying customers as possible to limit the blast radius when we inevitably fuck up. And inconvenience those paying users too, because we can't figure out how to mitigate DoS attacks at the edge. And then we'll give a talk at a Next.js conference or something.
If you're good enough you can pretty much dictate your working conditions. But it's bad advice for most people. I've seen plenty of mediocre devs take this kind of advice, and it's sad/embarrassing to see. Anyone who's decent figures out that they can cut corners at their first job. 90% of the devs I've worked with (conservatively) should never cut corners and should've been putting in more hours to become adequate. Most feel-good self-help advice like this is worse than useless, it's harmful to anybody who finds it novel.
When I start answering these hard questions about my ethnicity, one result is strong sense of white pride. It's hard to tell if that's the desired outcome or not; I'm skeptical of the sincerity of these people looking for "allies" through insults.
You had to apply and be accepted to the university, and their confidence that you won't turn your apartment into a crack den is factored into the monthly rent.
This seems like a flame. Anyway, strategically speaking, US COVID-19 deaths had little impact on the country's fighting strength. So they're not really comparable to North Vietnam's war losses.
The hand wringing about batteries blows my mind, it's like everybody forgot about Shell Nigeria. Anyone should be able to see that this has nothing to do with technology or rare earth metals, it's simply a pattern of exploitation.