NPMaxwell

This article appears in my HN feed with an article about throwing away React. The React article explains that having code that prevents engineers from doing whatever they want to is essential. If we can't trust engineers coding, why do we trust police arresting? Restraints are needed.

Cool. HN timestamps show that took you no more than 5 minutes, maximum!

I think maybe the issue here is that the press did not cover the unidentified federal agents arresting the BLM protesters. The result is that it looks like the treatment of the Portland protesters is different.

It implies that your friend lives in Hong Kong or Taiwan, and that China employs people to read Facebook posts from those places. Unless you mean that she sent you a messenger chat (which now has end-to-end encryption). In that case, she lives in Hong Kong or Taiwan and the Facebook encryption should not be relied on to protect yourself from Chinese monitoring.

Is that a typo? It makes more sense as "good results can be wrong, and being right for bad reasons isn't acceptable"

And incredibly boring. The usual estimate is that data science is 80% data wrangling: finding, collecting, and cleaning up data. The term "data scientist" replaced "data miner", because miners are looking for gold. Scientists are obsessed with finding out the nature of reality, gold or mud. They will do seriously boring stuff to set things up so that reality is revealed.

At one point, the word "scientist" in "data scientist" was used to distinguish between people who took the time to develop domain expertise from statistical consultants who applied standard methodologies without reference to what the data was or where it came from.

I'm sorry we have switched on resumes from reporting years to reporting years and months. It used to be that even 20 months off could just disappear.

When you're ready, drop this Hacker News name. Switch to something like makingChances.

Sounds like restarting may be helpful -- not expecting to continue from where you were -- getting a contracting agency to pitch you and going from there. Once you're in a job, most people don't care about earlier gaps, except that managers who don't know how to collect people who can do the work get fixated on superstitions.

To restate what you're probably already hearing from your therapist: everyone can become depressed. It's something you learn. Some people are more clever at picking it up than others, but everyone can learn it. Depression is episodic. It goes away and comes back. A common recovery is for the gaps between episodes to get larger and the episodes get smaller. Depression grants three super powers. 1) You can see probabilities and how much control you and others have. People without depression cannot. 2) You are ready to serve, even at the risk of your life. This is something that doesn't apply to most of modern life, but does come up now and then. Think of Oscar Schindler. 3) While in an episode, you can be confident that you will not enjoy things. So if you're trying to resist a bowl of ice cream, you have help: you won't enjoy it.

Your negative thoughts and feelings are a natural part of mammalian neural systems, like kicking when you're tapped under the knee and being able to see dim lights easier if you look a little away. Those thoughts and the feeling of dread are not necessary or helpful (in almost every situation). You do not have to respect them. In fact, when they appear, you can disrespect them. They are just an evolutionary glitch that served primitive communities, but were never in the best interests of the people getting them.

A triumph of well-administered A/B testing combined with creative innovation in seeking out procedures to test

This reads as if "blog" is a metaphor for "product". I'm guessing that blog process is a pretty good indicator of development strategy. Stale bland blogs predict stale bland engineering.

Nice demonstration that the entire point and argument can be presented in one (animated) graphic -- like code that needs no comments.