fatnoah

> I'm in third place with 71 votes. I gave the story behind the naming convention, because I like people to know the "how and why".

Stuff like this is basically what drove me away as well. The top-rated answer was frequently not the answer. It was "an" answer to "a" question, but not the "the" answer to "the" question.

That, and I'd ask a variation of a question and it would get flagged as a duplicate of an already-answered question, except the original question and none of the scored answers contained the answer.

> “Humans are far more decent than they believe they are, ..."

Agree. A human being a terrible person makes the news, the dozens of daily acts of kindness and decency never do. I remember a news story about someone breaking into and stealing from a storage container full of donated toys for kids at Christmas. The headline was that a one terrible person stole stuff, not that hundreds of people gave stuff.

On the more personal side, my dad passed away from cancer when he was 46. While he was being treated, the nearest quality treatment center was in a major city over 100 miles away. I remember being amazed at the number of people that just showed up to help out in big and small ways. A neighbor I don't recall every having conversation with in 15 years offered to drive for the bi-weekly appointments. Another person in town who was unemployed also drove a round trip because they had the the time and even refused payment.

Later, when my mom was aging, a neighbor plowed and shoveled, handled some light care maintenance, and other tasks without being asked and without accepting compensation. They actually seemed offended when I said I could pay them or hire someone to handle the plowing so they didn't feel obligated.

None of those things would ever make the news, and only the people involved will ever know.

> We get absolutely nothing out of it.

Except from compulsive shoppers like me that can't walk into a Staples without buying $100 worth of stuff.

> but I do know as a user that they appear to be a confusing mess.

I'm a very tech savvy person, and understanding the ins and outs of passkeys has been a time investment, and that's the problem. Technical and security merits notwithstanding, they're a confusing mess. I understand how they work, but what I don't really understand, is how to recover when they don't work.

Selfishly, I end up being tech support for my extended family, and I don't have the stamina to try to explain to them how this works.

I've been involved in successful and unsuccessful platform builds. In the successful ones, I either had absolute authority or I built for the desire paths, even if they weren't the "perfect" ones that I desired. I anchored on the non-negotiables, which I kept to a minimum, and then optimized to get people on board, even if that meant deviating from my perfect vision.

One way to keep myself honest in being on the desire path was to go from win to win (win = someone using platform and being a satisifed "customer") iteratively as part of the full build. It also helps avoid platform fatigue, and ensures that should some priorities change, we've gotten some value out of the effort.

I'm the same. As a student, I could vividly picture the page of the book containing the details of whatever problem I was working on. I have close to zero artistic and design ability, but am very strong in engineering and spatial reasoning.

Sorry for missing this. We're hybrid in-office right now and can't do remote.

FWIW, I worked on map rendering in a past life at another large tech company. General policy was to show "official" names and borders based on the user's country. It wasn't quite that clean, but IIRC there were a surprising number of disputed borders and place names in the world.

I grew up in a house with little to no sugar and never really developed a "craving" for sugar. I'll absolutely eat it if it's there, but really only consume it if it's zero effort, and generally in small amounts since many sweet things taste overly sweet to me.

...and Coinbase directs you to send a physical letter when their voice chatbot fails. Seriously. I had a login issue preventing me from accessing tax forms and the phone tree eventually got to the point where a sane provider would hand you over to human chat.

When the Coinbase voice agent gave me an address to mail a letter to and hung up, I was so shocked I had to call back and go through the process again. I was told to mail a letter describing my issue to an address on 5th Avenue in NYC.

Art of the deal: Pay $1.2B in exchange for a $900M investment elsewhere.

> Buying a house can be an investment, but it's also buying a place to live.

I'm a strong proponent of both owning and renting, and each has tradeoffs vs. the other. I've moved between renting and home ownership a couple times, and I appreciate the customizability of ownership along with the very real financial advantages.

On the other side, I've also enjoyed "freedom" of renting, where I didn't have to spend any additional time, energy, or money on maintenance tasks. In my HCOL part of the country, I could also afford the rent to live "downtown" when owning anything remotely similar was out of the question.

Your "also a place to live" line is fantastically underrated. When the housing market was flat or declining, I'd always get annoyed when people said something like "I've owned this house for 5 years, but now it's worth $20k less than when I bought it!". That also means if they sold it right now at that $20k "loss" then they effectively paid $333/month plus upkeep to live somewhere for 5 years!

I saw this in action on a smaller scale. In a past job, my wife organized events for a decent sized company. After an event, she'd typically have a $300k+ balance on her corporate Amex. When she went on maternity leave, the person filling in for her job neglected to actually pay the bills, so when she returned there were quite a few emails and voicemails from Amex regarding the over $500k balance.

The messages started as polite and eventually started to get more desperate in tone. At no point were they threatening or adversarial.

My favorite recent example was submitting a resume for a job that was almost a word-for-word description of my current title and job at a similarly sized company. Within 24 hours, I got the rejection, and several days later, a recruiter reached out to let me know that my profile looked like a great match for the role and wanted to schedule an intro call.