csben

I've joined the discord server advertised by grepLeigh in another comment.

I don't see it in tech circles as much, but in other circles like consulting, banking, advertising, it's pretty common to see people constantly cycle back and forth between the same set of employers every couple of years. Think Goldman Sachs trader leaves for JP Morgan, then leaves for Morgan Stanley, then leaves for Goldman Sachs, and so on

The idea that senior engineers need public commits to be even considered for a job seems a little extreme to me. There are myriad reasons why an extremely competent senior engineer might not have public commits.

The lack of public commits does not signal whether or not someone is a competent senior engineer.

This is a really cool project. I always love when people build new flows around email. I wish you the best of luck with it.

This is definitely going to work the way policy creators imagine and not incentivize companies to throw as many hacks under the rug as they can.

Yes, this does happen. Especially for HR related matters. But that's definitely more of an exception than the rule. For most services that I use on a day-to-day basis, the experience is seamless.

My experience is completely opposite of the author's. I sign on once a day when I access a service that uses my firm's SSO solution. I'm then automatically signed in to all other services as I use them. It's quite seamless. I have no complaints about the SSO setup in my firm.

Web development is the way things are moving - a lot of "desktop" apps now are web apps in disguise (thanks electron). It's worth getting familiar with web development for the job opportunities alone.

It looks like reporting is only required for commercial transactions. Reporting for personal transactions hasn't changed.

It always (still?) surprises me how difficult it is to share files across the Internet. You'd think this would have been a solved problem already given how long we've been communicating with each other electronically.

Do you have a source for your claim that '"ALL" seed oils are problematic'?

Personally, I only use seed oil (canola) to cook with. I'd definitely be interested to know if that's something I should stop doing.

How large is your payload? Asking out of curiousity.

How do you find side gigs developing web applications for companies? I read about it a lot on HN, but never understood how these opportunities just fall into people's laps.