How concerned should I be?
What are the unspecified policies the developer claims that the company has failed to uphold? Who is this particular developer, and how much should I trust them? (I don't follow nginx development at all.)
I celebrate the fact that open source licenses exist specifically to allow people to make a fork like this when they have disagreements! But I don't know enough about this particular case to decide how it should affect my own plans.
Yes, that is exactly what he is saying. Yes, it is completely absurd and would undermine the bedrock principles of our legal system. However, apparently somewhere between 3 and 6 members of the US Supreme Court may be seriously considering it.
(To be fair, he does claim that this absolute immunity would go away if half of the House and 2/3 of the Senate decided to impeach the President.)
Yes. The average cost of cancer treatment is around $150,000 USD here and expensive cases can be much more.
Here is my perspective on the answer to your question:
Our government is not functional. It is not that it doesn't "want" a healthy work force, but that it isn't capable of setting any sort of a policy.
The last time the US made any meaningful change in healthcare policy was under Obama. My impression of what happened is that there was a brief (2 yr) moment when the Presidency, House, and Senate were all controlled by the same party. The Democrats passed "health reform" which was basically the Republican health care reform package from 4 years earlier.
In the 13 years since then, the only Republican position on health care has been that Obama's "ACA" law is "bad". There is literally no suggestion of what else would be better. (I'm not counting the anti-abortion laws as "health care" -- they are seen here as a moral issue, not a health care one.) The Democrats' position has been a mix of "we shouldn't let the Republicans take us back to something WORSE!" and "the whole system is broken and needs to be replaced".
We have two problems. First, our government is structured so that it cannot easily accomplish anything, at least without cooperation between the two opposed parties. Secondly, one of the two parties is insane and wants to destroy the government (and has enough electoral support to win almost half the time).
Under the government's theory, in this case, I cannot understand how the Google App Store is a monopoly, but the Apple App Store is not. Can anyone explain that to me?
I like the way you express this. "Cis / Trans" isn't about your gender, it's about whether your gender has CHANGED. (Although it may not be your GENDER that changed, but what people THOUGHT your gender was.)
In a similar way, I (a cis male) usually call myself "straight", but that's not really accurate. I don't feel like I'm attracted to whatever gender is different from mine (which happens to be women); I feel like I am attracted to women (which happens to be the gender that's different from mine).
Putting it differently, if some magical spell were to transform me into a woman, I don't imagine that I would then be attracted to men, I imagine that I would be attracted to women. So instead of calling myself "straight", I should probably be saying that I am "gynosexual" (attracted to women).
On my profile it says "redditor for 18 years".
Congratulations and welcome to the industry!
So, what are your first impressions? Is there something so far that has surprised you about the job?
Does it "put you on a watchlist"? Well, it depends on just what you mean by "a watchlist". If you mean any list anyone has then yes, I'm sure there is someone making a list of who they saw participate in a community about anarchism. Probably some other member of the anarchist community who is looking for like-minded friends. If you meant some US government list that is used to persecute people and deny them jobs -- we did that up until about 1975, but it's not something we do today. If you meant some US government list that is secret, but might be used to consider whether to give someone a security clearance then the answer is maybe -- after all, the list is secret, so we wouldn't KNOW if it exists.
"Can you get arrested/charged for crimes?" No. Discussing anarchism is NOT a crime. Now, if you have a chat with your anarchist friends about the best way to build a bomb and about how you plan to use a bomb on October 7 to blow up the President or some Supreme Court justice, then THAT is a criminal conspiracy, and you should expect to be hunted down and arrested. But if you are just discussing policy the First Amendment guarantees your right to free speech and free association. And while the enforcement of that has been spotty over this history of this country, at the moment we don't put people in jail for joining an online community.
Hmm... A few thoughts based on my somewhat extensive experience (~25 years working in this industry now).
How hard it is to get used to conventions. So I’m doing TS React and C# .net. I know react but this app is something else. So many custom hooks.
There are two things here. One is getting used to the conventions -- that's something you actually pick up fairly quickly after you've done it a while because you start seeing the same (or nearly the same) conventions in new locations. The other is getting used to a new codebase you haven't worked in before -- and that one never goes away. As far as I can tell it ALWAYS takes a while to get familiar enough with a new codebase to feel comfortable in it.
there are no timescales (only 6 employees). I get given something to do and left to it. I’ll be wondering am I doing it right is it taking too long but nobody ever comes for an update
That can be a bit of a red flag. For the moment, while you are brand new, just take advantage of it. But in the longer term you probably want to push for some clearly expressed expectations, or else set some yourself. A project with no dates tends to float along blithely for some time until one day someone suddenly decides it's 3 weeks overdue and has to be finished by tomorrow or heads will roll! Once you have enough experience to be confident in your estimates, you'll probably want to head this off by creating estimates even if they aren't requested.
It’s just difficult as I’m used to working shitty jobs where you are pestered all the time.
And THAT, unfortunately, isn't really a feature of the job so much as a feature of having a good boss. Poor tech managers will micromanage and pester you all the time; skilled tech managers will set clear expectations then let you handle it yourself. You likely won't always get a manager who does this well but you should enjoy it while you have it.
I found that to be pretty insightful.
I completely agree with the analysis that the ability to search is in tension with privacy and a guarantee that posts will be forgotten. Allowing individual posts to declare how they should be shared is a good idea.
He can appoint two new members to the Supreme Court and then have them rule that Trump, as President, is immune to being prosecuted or held responsible for any state or federal crime but like Bush v. Gore it isn't a precedent and doesn't apply to any other President.
Thank you. That worked.
That sounds like it might be worth trying. Where can I find it?
Thank you.
Honestly, from what you are saying it sounds as if you have a fairly GOOD boss who just isn't giving you the level of support that you need as a brand new developer. My advice would be to say that to him something like this: "Boss, I understand you are busy and have a lot of other things requiring your attention, and you have been very understanding when I've tried to operate with little direction. But I am feeling that as a relatively new developer I need a bit more mentoring and direction. Are there any assignments where I could pair up closely with another developer and do the work together? I think that after one or two assignments like that I would be much more effective."
Thank you. It's a thought that has been rolling around in my head for some time and this was my attempt to put it in words.
Here's what I use:
A swappable battery. I could buy a few batteries and never be out of power. I could replace the battery on an older phone without pretty much having to replace the phone itself.
The ad hominem criticism is irrelevant. The communities should be removed or not removed based on the server's policies regardless of who first raised the question.
Wait for a passing blimp. Project the bat signal on the blimp.