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This is why I have come to the (anecdotal) conclusion that one can only integrate into a group / society / culture when one learns / masters the language.

There are many nuances that imply the importance of particular details in the hidden meaning of the wording. These get easily lost when one does not fully comprehend the language used.

You are so wrong. Your phone is constantly broadcasting ALL the SSIDs it was ever connected to (and you did not remove).

I show this live when I do general security presentations. Live on stage with nothing more then a Raspi and a Wifi USB dongle.

It freaks people out to see there home, holiday, local bar, family in law and other historic SSIDs scroll by.

> How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff?

It allows you to sell more ads to the marketing people since it sounds very compelling. So there is your model.

The fact that I am still shown ads for items of the complete opposite (football) team that I am clearly (online visible, on FB, in my gmails, from my google search history, from my chrome browsing habits) fan of; show the targeting is still... moderate to say the least.

This.

All other "meaningfulness" is just pure bonus. And no: I am not unhappy, nor unfulfilled.

This is not an article but a bunch of glued together tweets (you might have known, I did not) nor does it fulfill the title.

Rather it poses the question: "[...] what would a history of Jobs, drawing only on sources written by women, look like?"

No more, no less.

TL;DR

I could not find the answer directly in the article but in spotted it in the URL: elon-musk-is-really-really-excited-about-his-starship

Edit: typo

Not been in your position, but what truly spoke to me was the book by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, titled:

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

In short: The key lies in adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less satisfying than vacations or concerts); Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and Invest in Others (spending money on other people makes us happier than spending it on ourselves).

My introduction was in BASIC (sinclair zx80), I started my profesional life as COBOL coder, in the meantime I reversed ASM to "unlock games".

I can asure you that in every step allong the way, the code (-base) I created horrified me 5 years later.

My point being: I appriciate the advice "throw it away and do it proper" but I can asure you, given enough time, the next person will not understand your solution.

Being it old languages, being it old paradigms, being it olt skool tricks of the trade: code stales. The best advice on this subject I read here (a couple of times) is to try to understand the requirements and take it from there. If that is not to your liking, you proberbly are in the wrong line of work and should try to do only greenfield stuff.

A person who send their resume with no directly relevant experience (being fresh out of school) but listed an array of holiday jobs that got me intrigued.

During the interview, it took me 10 minutes to make the decision to give him a change. He took it and owned it. Worked hard, learned fast and had a great personality making my other coders (8) feel more at ease, motivated, honest and communicative.

Since then, I make sure HR does not hard filter all responses and try to give at least 1 or 2 outliers a change. Results are what you expect :)

One other great hire was a person that came back into the industry (coding) after a 10-year break (children). Over performed like nobody I have ever seen. She is now a C level at a very large international company, x times my senior.

This is the 12th time (see: past) that this subject has been linked.

The 3rd time this exact link (ietf.org) has been posted.

Except for emotions: do we realy expect a new and exciting discussion will take place?

No idea why you are getting downvoted, since this perfectly acceptable explaination of a 0-day.