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Where do you get stats for short-term rentals? Anecdotally, our last landlady illegally evicted us, converted the house to an airbnb, and then bought the next-door house from the long-time owner to make it an airbnb as well. Not in a vacation town, just downtown in a second-tier city. It seems like a pretty common trend in our neighborhood, I'm wondering if short-term rentals are clustered in dense, walkable areas and the stats are skewed by exurban owner-occupied homes that are 30 minutes drive to everywhere.

A&W Canada is kicking ass with plant-based offerings - their veggie burger is delicious, and they're in every rest stop on the highway so I end up eating at least one every road trip

In my experience companies don't have long-term plans or vision for their products, and it leads to work becoming tedious. You come in excited with no understanding of the product, you get knowledgeable and learn what's good and what's bad. Eventually you fix the bad you can fix and learn what bad you can't fix, and then the frustration outweighs the enjoyment.

I've tried to bring up these kind of big picture frustrations with managers before, but they're always focused on surviving the next 3-6 months.

Tickets by themselves are a symptom of a good process and not the end goal. If you don't know where tickets come from, why they exist, or when to do them, then the whole process is nonsense.

I've seen this repeatedly at places where they want developers to track what they're doing, but they don't have any product function to populate the backlog, groom it or prioritize tasks. It's basically anarchy but the devs just document what they felt like doing. Of course developers come to resent this system because nobody wants to read their diary - everyone else wants to know how close things are to being done. But because the whole project hasn't been scoped and broken down, it's impossible to get that knowledge from a snapshot of what people have been doing.

same, i joined a place where it turned out a small group of people basically held all the power and had created a byzantine system only they could reason about. management was also trapped because the devs who knew the system held all the power.

Lol I've seen this in action, lots of staff devs being architecture astronauts or diving super deep on a hot new technology, and meanwhile some intern is building the stupid webapp that actually gets used and makes money.

The concept of the data mesh makes sense, but I'm not sure what it means in practice? You have one big redshift and a catalog that says "this team owns this dataset", and that team does their own ETL? Likewise teams own kafka topics, etc.?

I'm excited for generics to land in Golang so we can have efficient set implementations instead of abusing maps.

I would love to hear a theory for how the supreme court could take this case. Free exercise?

Yeah I can't read the article, but as an applicant this would immediately trigger a yellow flag. If the CTO/director/whoever decided can justify it as a unique differentiator then maybe it's fine and it's a cost of doing business. If they just don't want to deal with k8s because they like their home grown thing, it's going to be a drag on the company long-term to maintain.

Do other people feel like this at startups? When there's no clear direction and everyone is just working on whatever they find interesting, I just tend to check out. It's just not interesting to build software for the sake of building software, I feel there has to be some product vision or clear feedback cycle to keep me motivated

Isn't this the free market at work? How would all the companies collude to collectively bring in more marginalized people? It's like saying "I want higher wages but I don't think one company raising wages will achieve that". The companies are competing because that's the system they exist in - some of that competition will be zero-sum, but according to arch capitalists some of it will be a net positive

Where other people see fully automated luxury communism, you see the end of the human race? There's more to life than working

Just off the top of my head, big cities include Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener. You make it sound like Toronto and Vancouver are walled cities in the middle of a vast wasteland, but most Canadians live in places with >100k people, and even more can drive to a mall within 20 minutes.

Do you want to break up the country so all the money and people are in one part, and you and a bunch of dirt roads are in the remaining part?