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I love PostgreSQL, regardless of the version as far as it's >= 8. Super efficient and reliable RDBMS yet less "enterprise" that Oracle. I always wondered why MySQL gained more popularity.

European companies don't give you any stock/shares (even startups) as far as I heard from my friends who work in various countries in Europe.

Benefits/perks are rather equal across the employers. Europe is a socialistic world, lots of things are regulated by law.

Again, that's what I heard from some folks currently working there.

I worship the creativity of the author to connect Tetris, Czech Republic, Marc Andreessen, Dungeons & Dragons, Mortal Kombat, Clinton, Trump, and Putin.

I find that relatively quiet and less complex music works better for me – such genres as downtempo, nu jazz, trip hop.

While I enjoy a very broad spectrum of music in general (from classical music to death metal, and from avant-garde jazz to hardcore gabba), fast, complex, loud or noisy music seems to get pretty distracting in many cases.

But that might depend on your job, actually. If you are a football player and you spend most of the time working out or outdoors, energetic music may work much better. Or, if you are a factory worker, where you have to deal with 120dB noise over your shift. I don't think ambient would be a good choice there, rather thrash metal or hardcore. :)

If you need some specific examples of "calm" music that works for me, please let me know, I probably could recommend something in particular.

Could you please add screenshots? I myself was a huge fan of FastTracker and Impulse Tracker back in the 90s, but I don't think people are going to download this tool just out of curiosity without seeing pretty pictures of the music app in advance.

PS I apologize if there were screenshots, but I just failed to find them.

Can you please elaborate what you find so "special" in those screenshots from the article? I mean how is it really different from most of the modern apps/websites?

+ Use some attractive subject and maybe a picture in the email (optional). Just to have better chances to draw attention.

I am so sorry to see that there are people so much limited in their way of thinking and with how they treat their and the others' lives. Hopefully you will learn your mistakes over next years. I will pray for you. :)

I am afraid that I have to say now that most of the things you have written are objectively wrong. Too bad you don't seem to comprehend that... But it's good that it doesn't really affect me and my life (which I consider pretty happy, by the way :) ).

You could try to go outside and talk to different kinds of people more. Maybe changing multiple occupations wouldn't hurt either. So you could meet and perceive people from different worlds. That usually helps broaden your mind.

Have fun with your objectively wrong life. :)

You know, a few years back I had exactly the same attitude towards Git. I hated it, tried to approach multiple times and still hated it. But after working with Git on multiple projects, and having developed some deeper understanding of how things work there, I honestly think now that Git is one of the best tools that have been invented over last 20 years for improving the development processes and engineering excellence. I don't really want to defend it, the learning curve is apparently pretty steep (at least it was for me), but I would just recommend to not give up and keep trying. There are some good tutorials how to handle it and why it's helpful (Atlassian's Git book, for instance).

Nope. I can only reiterate that you've completely missed the point. It actually was that people may have different opinions, regarding their priorities in their lives as well. And it's only up to them to decide what those priorities are. Whether you like it or not.

I am not operating on that principle, actually. And I don't recommend anyone to follow it. I am not sure why you have come to this conclusion. My point was that saying that "all the successful people got successful because their personal things mattered for them more that their business" doesn't seem to be correct, and I gave the example with Steve Jobs. I don't really admire him, I never met him, and had no idea what kind of a person he was. I honestly just don't care because it doesn't matter. The key point I was trying to explain to you guys is that people are different, some of them think and behave differently, some of them may have different values and priorities. But we all live our own lives and make our own choices clearly understanding what we do. So, you just can expect from people around to live different lives with different view and goals (regarding all the things - business, families, food, hobbies, education, etc.). And that's okay.

I am afraid you are still not getting what I've been trying to explain. There might exist completely different perspectives and things can work differently for different people, different relationships, etc.

Not spending a lot of time with your family doesn't necessarily mean having bad relationship or having troubles with your relatives. Moreover, if your partners accept what you do and how it affects them (sometimes maybe in an unfortunate way), it actually can make your relationships much stronger.

What will happen with the next generations - no one knows. I think it's a bit irrelevant and idealistic. I live my own life. I want to make the best out of it. For myself, for my family, and for all the other people. What will happen after my life ends won't really matter for me (I am an atheist/agnostic). I am not saying we shouldn't invest our resources in the next generations, but instead of hoping on our kids and putting all the burden on them, I firmly believe we first should do whatever we can ourselves.

I am afraid your examples actually play against you. Steve Jobs (just off the top of my head) completely abandoned his family and built one of the greatest company of all times.

Please just try to get a bit out of your personal mindset and try to think and look at these things from a different angle. If something seems to be bad or wrong for you doesn't really mean that it's bad or wrong for everybody.

There are some valid points in what you are saying. But they all depend very much on tons of personal things. E.g., on your relationship with your spouse and kids. I probably got lucky, and my wife understands what I am doing and why, and why I don't spend a lot of time with her. She just accepts it, and we've been together for 13 years already. Or, say, if you enjoy doing whatever you are doing more than anything else.

I am not saying that all people should follow that. Again, my point was that there are people who try starting/running a business, who are in love with what they are doing, whom you may even call insane to a certain extent, and who expect to find (at least at early stages) people who completely share their goals, vision and beliefs. And who won't hire a person who thinks that there are things more important, regardless of whether it's their family or a weekend hiking.

I've read while ago that founders of some startup (AirBnb?) had spent about half a year to hire their first employee, and the question they typically asked the candidates was "Would you take the job if you knew you would die in a year?", or something like that. So, I personally understand and share that approach completely. As you can see, at least I am not the only person who treat these things that way.

And, again, I am not saying that it's for everyone, but people should keep in mind that it can totally be the case when they apply for a job at a startup. People are different. I agree that most of them feel about life same way you do - treating their families or some personal hobbies as higher priorities. But not all of them. Some people approach their lives differently.