the graph showing gdp is very skewed. China was not an open market in 1985.
in the recent legislative elections,pro democracy voters won.it will be a tough fight for china.people here are prepared to sacrifice multiple generations for freedom.
i live around the region and follow hong kong closely.
would like to share more,but limited by my mobile device.
Here's my question - could you please share your experience with a mechanical keyboard to conclude on your statement "For coding, you're gonna be fine with literally any keyboard, including some $20 logitech piece". I am genuinely interested to know.
In my opinion, what you wrote in reply to jiggy2011 is b.s. Mechanical keyboards are good for gaming and equally good for coding (or for that matter even data entry/processing jobs). The reason is they are way more responsive and quicker than a membrane one that usually is on a laptop. It (imho) also helps in your wrist pain and is easy on fingers (as in you don't have to go pressing a key all the way down). If you have hands on a blue-cherry mechanical keyboard, try for a month and then try typing on a laptop keyboard.
@jiggy2011 - i have many keyboards of varied styles. my personal favorite is the CM QuickFire Rapid(tenkeyless and cheaper compared to others). If you are looking for the best in the class (go Filco - made in japan and flawless).
Don't fall for the hyped keyboards - daskeyboard,razer,steelcase etc. They are good, but not up there in quality. Specially daskeyboard used to be good when they started out - i would not pick on any daskeyboard built after 2008. They used to make keyboards sourced from Taiwan(better quality), but now source it from an OEM from China.
good luck!
My experience is that while a mechanical keyboard is more enjoyable and slightly easier, I've never once in my life gotten frustrated at some cheapo keyboard while coding. I've never needed to know the exact millisecond a key was pressed, the rebound is just fine.
Lets be honest here. Programming is not some intensive exercise. Nor should you be getting carpal tunnel as a programmer- if you are, you need to dial back the boilerplate.
I don't enjoy laptop keyboards if only because they force my palms to be raised- I have large hands, so for me it's natural to rest the bottom of my palms on the desk or even on the side of the desk, whereas on a laptop it's at an equal height to the keys- which is annoying as hell. I also dislike the shape of too many laptop keyboards, if only because they seem to prioritize style over feel and key differentiation(lookin' at you, Apple).
But this isn't intense stuff. If you're gaming, or doing high-speed data entry, or even if you're a prolific writer, you may have a real claim. But as a programmer, claiming that you need a mechanical keyboard is nonsense. They're nice, and if you want nice tools, that's okay, and I encourage you to invest. But they're not required, and they're never going to make you a better programmer.
Christian, I am going to be blunt with you. All of us giving advise is not going to help you. You are going to feel good about for a day or two - you asked for advice and that's the first step to solve problems. But you won't be taking any action. You are there thinking I am trying to solve my problems, but you aren't. (been there, done that)
The only way you can change is to change yourself - discipline yourself. Change your routine. Change your diet.
1) Why don't you have more friends?
2) Why don't you have an idea about 'working'? Have you never worked before? Why?
3) Why think about a girl who judges you based on your current situation rather than the person you are?
I am not sure if I should apologize, but if I were beside you, I would ask you something similar to 'shake' your current thought process.
Fellow HNers: I am genuinely curious to know - what's the relation between living between parents and failure? Why are people living with their parents associated with failure? What if I work a decent job and earn well, but live with my parents?
In the 'east' - mostly asia, it's not looked down upon if you live with your parents. From what I hear from friends, it's similar in Russia and parts of eastern Europe too.
Maybe I won't take action. But talking to my friends about what I can do and what he thinks of me taking a job as a courier is more than I did before. Even going out of the house several days in a row is something I usually don't do. Even if it doesn't work, it's the longest streak of clarity I've ever had.
> What if I work a decent job and earn well, but live with my parents?
Independence is a great trait. That's the only reason I could think of.
1. Fear of rejection. Hard to meet someone if you're home all day.
2. Yes, never did. Alway required social interaction. Some days I was too anxious to even leave the house.
3. Love me for who I am sounds great, but relationships require a certain base
I don't understand the connection either. For some people it's a choice. I don't know if any here are Football(Soccer) fans but, one of the top midfielders in the world Xavi who place for Barcelona lives with his parents. Xavi has won everything there is to win in his line of work, Club Trophies, World Cup, Champions League... is he considered a failure?
Malaysian here. I would say 80% of my peers (25-30 year olds) still live with their parents. Although that's more a result of our grossly inflated property prices than anything else. It's not really looked down upon.
"So now I have to hire a lawyer to try to figure all this out."
forgive my ignorance, but isn't Arrington a lawyer?. Question - Why does a lawyer need to hire another lawyer to represent him? Although, there are several branches of law specialization, Arrington could take it on himself to file the case against DHS? no?
"I live a fairly simple life and that didn’t change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010" - yeah we all know.
I imagine that in this case there is also a benefit of distancing himself from the process of finding a legal resolution. If I hire a lawyer, I'm using the system as it's supposed to be used. If I represent myself (because I'm a lawyer), it's easy for the opposing side to misconstrue that as "contempt" of the process.
Working alone sucks. The learning barrier varies every day. Some days, you feel you are a superman coder doing simple stuff. Other days, you feel like a drained out rat stuck on a syntax error. So, I understand how you may have felt when you found out the root cause.
Perhaps, this is a cliche. What works for me is the 'rubber duck' (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking). It helps me not only while coding but also solving life problems. No really. I am not ashamed to say, I talk to an inanimate object to work through few problems.
I learnt that the very few simple things you think you know turn out to be difficult to explain. Who better than the soft toy to listen and not judge you?
does anyone know why Cisco sold Linksys? As far as I recall, Cisco wanted to enter the consumer market (as opposed to their enterprise presence).
Did they fail?
I like the fact that Cisco is not afraid of letting go stuff they acquired. Last time I heard was when they acquired tribe.net and later put it up for sale? correct me if I am wrong. And then there was the acquisition of Flip camera, that flopped (no pun intended).
I wouldn't call Meraki a consumer product though. Their cheapest AP is $400 and you have to buy per/AP license at $150/year. Not something I'd put in my parent's house.
I recall reading somewhere that the Linksys devision was more or less going downhill fast, due largely to cable/dsl modem vendors including wireless in their models, and operators simply using them for customers. Can't remember where I read that, or if it was even true, so consider it a rumor I guess.
They made really bad bets on consumer products. For Linksys they bought it to get into the entry level / small business market as well. Another bad bet. The competition has been stepping it up to the point where these products overlap with Cisco's existing platforms. Spending the money to develop a separate hardware/software platform doesn't make a lot of sense. They can just downsize/license option their existing platforms into that space and save themselves a ton of money.
I had an interesting thought experiment after replacing "quiet" with "privacy".
While not everyone may not agree on the word replacement, I go through similar emotions (as the author describes) when someone posts a photo (that has me and others) on facebook without permission.
I like to think that there are others out there like me. I am one of those "quiet" snobs.
Might I join your frustration team? (I am also not an American) Which country in the world has something called as "Federal Inspection"; it's not "immigration", it's "federal inspection". By the mere wording, it sounds like I am walking into a prison.
I have traveled good handful places and most places are frightening friendly - I carry the paranoia of TSA/Immigration to all these international places and get surprised always.
The only one friendly experience I've had in the last 8 years was in ABQ, where this friendly TSA agent 'inquired' in a very friendly way. I somehow felt respected, which got me thinking if there was something to it - are they going to get me telling something irrelevant and make a case. That's the paranoia that the TSA/Immigration has trained my brain from the past years.
might I add that if you are a techie/programmer (anything to do with the 'backend'), you are not valued.
If you are an ad guy, artist, creative blah, designer blah, you are still given a smile. A programmer in the opinion of the suit coats(entrepreneurs!!) is a slave guy who executes their ideas. Trust me.
Try going to webwednesday; a meet up on some wednesday of the month.
in the recent legislative elections,pro democracy voters won.it will be a tough fight for china.people here are prepared to sacrifice multiple generations for freedom.
i live around the region and follow hong kong closely. would like to share more,but limited by my mobile device.
source: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/09/05/legislative-legco-hong...