That Sidekiq is a one-man business which allows me to exist as a one-man business (by simplifying a critical processing function and being free) is beautifully meta.
Thank you kind sir for sharing your wizardry with us mortals.
My business is based on OSS; people are used to no support. I've tried to guide my customers to open issues and stackoverflow questions to get a response from the community. This makes for a nice historical archive that others can search and find similar questions and answers.
I explicitly state in my support policy that emailed questions can take 48 business hours to answer. I take my laptop with me on vacation to answer support questions every morning. The rest of the day is free.
You could also contract out support for a week if you really want to avoid the laptop. Pay a contractor friend $$$ to answer your support emails for a week.
My main issue is that collecting money takes as much time/email as support. ~30% of my customers have some need for a manual touch during their annual renewal: forgot password, change email, billing question, etc. My first hire is likely to be an AR person who can handle that administration.
One reason to submit before it passes is so that you can see how others did it. If you're learning a new language and don't even know where to start, it can be useful to get help from others first then try to implement it yourself.
IIRC, exercism doesn't really encourage completing things for points, and didn't especially heavily gamify the learning process. Copying answers really just seemed like shortchanging yourself when I was using it.
Doesn't that really depend upon the way that you treat the problem? If you're just looking to pass, what do you have to gain? This isn't a course in College.
If you don't know how to even get started, what do you have to gain from just being stuck?
When I started on the assembly track, looking at others code to figure out how to get set up for the first challenge allowed me to do the rest on my own.
Why is the onus of lowering their standards being pushed on educated women? One of the issues the author states is that men increasingly go for younger women instead of ones their own age. Why do we value youth and beauty instead of education and accomplishments?
> Why is the onerous of lowering their standards being pushed on educated women?
A single person looking to find a partner is in essence selling something: themselves. When selling anything it's important to consider the target market.
If the market isn't interested in what someone is selling there's a few options:
1) Change the product
2) Find a different market
Changing the behavior of the market is not an option because, unless it's a really really desirable product, the market isn't likely to budge.
So educated women that the article is referring could decide to not lower their standards but the risk they face is being alone.
Both sides are lowering standards along different dimensions. Assuming the perfect mate is someone who is young, attractive, educated and accomplished -- men choose the young and attractive and women choose 'educated and accomplished'.
The article itself is saying that women's proclivity to want higher status male is due to biology. If we're okay with it, then shouldn't men's proclivity to want younger, healthier female be okay?
The article isn't pushing for women to lower their standards. It's just describing the present situation and offering an explanation for how it came to be.
So are religious leaders and mothers and Soviet social planners. But they are perpetually disappointed.
Because what is humanity without it's biology?
Instinct doesn't belong to the individual, it belongs to the species. And life doesn't care atoll about abstract moral principal. That's just syntactic sugar to help us manage and grow the hive given biological impulse. When we overcome a natural impulse guess what? It's a natural impulse doing that too. If we overcome all natural impulse (how?) this species is finished and are something else, certainly not "humanity" at that point.
Right now what really drives us around is 10's of thousands of years older than the beginning of writing and cities. At least.
It might be inevitable that we give rise to intelligent machines, become machines and that's it. Nothing wrong with it.
But at present we are behaviorally closer to monkeys even if we dress up in suits and have rules and values. Which don't (unlike what we generally conceive) have any eternal significance beyond being various versions of conventions such as "who gets to pick the lice off the alpha male first".
Point being, what we are is the reality of what we have to work with. Mating included. Puritan scolders will forever fail and life will keep right on going until the machine (if that ever happens).
>Why do we value youth and beauty instead of education and accomplishments?
I for one, do value these traits. If I were to choose between two equally looking girls, I would choose the smarter. On the other hand, I have a strict lower bound for appearance, and no amount of education or accomplishment can compensate for being under that threshold. We can still talk about programming though!
eh, this is like an obese man complaining that thin women don't want to date him, then when people point out the obvious, he complains why is the onus being pushed on him instead of on the thin women who don't find him attractive.
I started using the robokiller app and it's made a huge difference for me. I get at least a few telemarketer calls every day and I had stopped answering any phone calls. I've been using the app for a few months and now only get calls that I want. Definitely worth the money for me.
OP - do yourself a favor and read this short book (or just the first few chapters applicable to you). It's the best, most practical book on software engineering management that I've seen, and I'm only half-way through it.
I love seeing this on HN! I'm particularly fond of Bach's cello suites but I'm probably biased since I'm a cellist. http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1010/
My background is more on the singing side, and I absolutely adore his choral work (along with Haydn et. al). Over the years my voice slid down rather than went for a hard break, before finally settling in to a lyric bass-baritone range, so I've had the opportunity to sing pretty much every part over the years.
There's a long running joke amongst Altos that you can tell when the composer's wife was an alto, because you get melodic lines. Bach's choral work tends to include as much intricacy as his instrumental work, across all four parts. Bass still tends to get the "walking the root notes of the chords", but not to the same degree as with other composers.
I'm a tenor, but used to be a bass-baritone. So, the opposite of you.
The B Minor Mass is a favorite of mine, as well. I do enjoy Herreweghe. But have you ever listened to a one-on-a-part version? This is a landmark recording:
May I ask why you love it to be on HN? Sure, there have been lots of posts on HN over the years that I thought were borderline OT but for this I really don't see the connection to HN... But, in order to avoid tons of downvotes, I'd be happy to accept a good argument for why this should totally be here and not just, say, on Reddit.
Others noted a similarity between Bach's pieces and parallel programming. The way he managed to interplay tunes to create perceptions astounds. I'd suggest reading Goedel, Escher, Bach (sp?) for more. Also, organs have some relationship to transistors. I believe how they were engineered to handle air flows acts very similarly to a transistor.
For me, personally, Listenimg to Bach helps. His pieces are complicated in ways that stir my mind to creative thought and logic, at the same time.
My favorite for cello are the Bourrées in C. I'm not a pro, but I remember messing around with playing a (probably simplified) version of it on my bass guitar, everything an octave lower, and thinking I wish I had a lower C string.
The tapping on the fingerboard is quite audible, which isn't something I've noticed before. Is it normally muted (perhaps by mic position) in recordings?
No, it is not a typical ratio. Bootcamps often have cohorts where there are 10 percent or even fewer women. For a bootcamp to have 40 percent ratio is impressive and unusual. Also - remarkable for all women to have a job at graduation. The bootcamp described sounds very unusual and the numbers are so very different from industry standard - that I encourage anyone reading to do their own research.
I suggest talking to most recent grads of a program as things change all the time. For example, schools which previously had good placement may hugely expand number of cohorts - and not scale out job-finding resources or company partnerships.
The video isn't working when I try to view it so without it, there's not enough messaging and information to help me understand exactly what I should expect out of your product. Is it a dating site? It is a chat roulette knock off? I don't really know.
