wfhBrian

The new bubble wrap, nice!

Reading HN causes epigenetic changes...

If you don't get that, then you don't understand epigenetics

My impression of this thread is "I don't know the difference between genetics and epigenetics, so here is my opinion on weed..."

The only reason I know the difference is because I used to use the gym at the same time as an epigeneticist.

In short, all genes can be flipped on/off based on their environment.

And reading HN does impact the environment in which your genes live

The other issue with linking is that the "best" in the windows market is that it's heavily dependent on current promotions. It's easy to find windows laptops discounted >20% which really throws off the direct comparisons at retail prices.

Value-based fees by Alan Weiss

Maybe from a VC business standpoint. But I'd disagree as far as "indie" (small cap) businesses go.

A couple years ago I switched from Google Docs to Obsidian.

Unfortunately, as other have mentioned, Google Docs omits some seriously impactful features.

All it would've taken, at the time, was collapsible/foldable headings for me to stick with Docs.

But since then, I've grown to appreciate the millions other things Obsidian has to offer, like the ease of developing plugins which, to me, make Obsidian feel like it's an OS within my OS.

There are great places to work in-person, for example, any of Musk's companies which have missions that require extreme levels of communication and dedication that can only be achieved through colocation. This makes it worthwhile.

And it's great for other people to be able to choose something more flexible, whether for family or some other desire, and be able to leverage the benefits that remote work provides.

But even in small company, it's absurd to think that there's a single answer to "which is better" for every employee.

What's more absurd is that the executive-level positions tend to be more flexible. If anyone's to benefit from in-person communication and spontaneous interactions it's those making decisions that impact those people.

As an outsider, neither employee or employer, to me the whole thing looks like an abusive relationship, particularly egregious on the employer side, but not without problematic actions from the employee side either.

And while HN is an outlier, most people work to survive, not the other way around. Imagine if the same energy that went into promoting RTO, or even WFH for that matter, went into "enabling individuals to make worthwhile contributions and feel good about what they do."

Queue the "people are lazy and can't be trusted" and "basic income is the only answer" choir.

/end rant (cost: -37 karma)

> for original art to flourish, there comes a time for the artist to seclude themselves and create without market pressures, the influence of popular culture and daily distractions. Us devs can learn much from him.

Strongly agree.

You can use a replacer function to special handle stringifying functions if you needed to do that.

Imagine if we had the same enthusiasm about increasing human intelligence.