I don't think anyone cares, really. It's a well established name, people knows what it means a REST-style API. It's not perfect, but nothing is, it's good enough. Let's not change its name, what would be the benefit of it?
It would only cause even more confusion for no good reason.
I concur most don't know what it means. Years ago I started reading around trying to understand it, and all I found was that the ones who supposedly did understand, really couldn't explain it clearly; and they all had different definitions.
Reminds me of "if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
Nitpickers do care. When they start adding HATEOAS and shoehorning semantics into HTTP verbs to make the API more RESTful, they make everything worse to use.
The problem is that REST is a buzzword, so you want to keep the word somehow, but throw out the nonsense.
> Nitpickers do care. When they start adding HATEOAS and shoehorning semantics into HTTP verbs to make the API more RESTful, they make everything worse to use.
Sounds like bad work organisation or bad priorities are a factor too. These same people could as well make sure some other spec is followed to the letter; e.g. email validation logic from another HN submission [1].
Hello, thank you for the suggestions. About the page, it's for a product so I thought the best way was to show pictures of what the product looks, so that people know what it looks on the other side after signing in.
We were trying to engage people in scrolling through the story, so they understand what the product is. Do you know of a great example of a product page that does not require so much scrolling?
I guess we could condense everything to 3 or 4 cards max, many of them are probably not necessary. That is a great point.
2 - It will take months to build courses, but I didn't want people to have to pay upfront while they are building courses. Maybe the free plan is not such a great idea?
I think I will leave it for a while to build more users and get feedback, but quickly require a minimum amount. I suspect that there will be a lot of users that never publish anything, but this is just getting started.
3 - You're right, this is a new product but I'm not sure how to tackle that, there is a chicken and egg component to it.
I think we will have to get our first 100 users one at a time, build trust with them and then after that network effect would kick in. Do you have any ideas how to handle that?
Thank you for the feedback, I super appretiate it! Cheers
I've been using 5 minute TTL in production for years, never noticed any problems with it. It has the advantage that it makes it super simple to deploy to production at a moment's notice, in case something unexpected occurs.
At least the freelance rates of today are about the same value as in the early 2000's, for the typical enterprise job.
I used to work as a freelance around 5 years ago, and I still receive some recruiter emails with occasional mention of the going rates.
It's the same as 5 years ago or less, which is the same since I remember in the early 2000's.
The rates took a hit with the 2008 crisis and stagnated since then. I think the golden age was somewhere in the mid-90s, where developers got paid really well.
I stopped contracting in 2001 (in the UK) and the rates I was charging then don't look much different to what is on offer today. It doesn't help that the UK tax authorities have been waging war against contractors, their latest wheeze is to force them into being employees.
The rates are heavily dependent on the skillset. I.e. for people well-versed in the latest and "greatest" tech, it's typically 500-600 pounds per day, for everyone else it's 300-500.
That isn't much different from what I remember in 2001. SAP was in demand and people were billing £750 per day for that, even ordinary stuff was at least £300 per day.
That's what it's been for at least the last 8 years (when I started contracting). For sure you can earn more if niche down, but for a generic 'mid-senior level dev turned contractor' those are the going rates.
I remember reading something like russian poor farmers that didn't have enough food for the winter to do this, it was called Lotska, which reported in scientific papers over 100 years ago - http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2010/03/curious-case-o...
"At the first fall of snow the whole family gathers round the stove, lies down, ceases to wrestle with the problems of human existence, and quietly goes to sleep. Once a day every one wakes up to eat a piece of hard bread, of which an amount sufficient to last six months has providently been baked in the previous autumn. When the bread has been washed down with a draught of water, everyone goes to sleep again. The members of the family take it in turn to watch and keep the fire alight."
But I don't find many reliable source about it. Does anyone if this is really true? It sounds hard to believe.
While I doubt they did this for more than a few days at a time, I can totally see them doing this to help get through winters.
I've had a couple of periods where I was flat broke and had food staples and a roof over my head but not much else in Canadian winter or two. That's essentially how I would pass a few days here and there to save money on food and expenses.
I would sleep as much as possible, fast until around 8pm, and eat a cheap meal (e.g. bulk pasta and tomato sauce I made from marked down cans of tomato and froze), then back to bed. A lot of the time, if I couldn't sleep, I would read. This was pre internet and I didn't have a phone or tv.
Days go by pretty fast like that (it was very, very cold out each time I did this and I had inadequate clothing for the weather so even a walk was not happening).
Eventually, the next thing I had to do would come up and I'd get back to normal. For context, I worked in kitchens so work meant "free" food (my jobs paid very little) or a couple times I was in a cabin in the middle of nowhere waiting for the weather to clear so I could dig out and get my car in the road. Nice to do this when you have a good supply of stove wood and a good book.
I've found this to be the case with COVID isolation and WFH. Not having any set work hours and nobody really even aware of whether I'm working or not, I'm sleeping a lot more (like 12 hrs/day) and not being very productive the rest of the time. This year has just vanished in a haze of sleeping and not doing much, a week can feel like a day sometimes.
This sounds a lot like the symptoms of depression. I have depression, and the isolation of the pandemic has really worn me down. I went back on my antidepressants about six months ago and I'm still struggling. Totally up to you, but you might want to try talking to a therapist or psychiatrist. It's one of the best choices I've ever made. Making that first call was hard because I felt like I was admitting defeat, but looking back I was actually choosing to fight.
Do you think the risks of taking antidepressants are worth the benefits? I suffer from depression, but I’m afraid I might do some serious damage if I go on meds.
I've also suffered from depression, and am now on meds. I can honestly say they have changed my life for the better, with no side effects (other than an initial 3 days of tiredness, which wore off).
However, there are a few caveats:
I am convinced that the placebo effect is so powerful, that if you believe the meds will harm you, they actually could. I can't back this up with science, but I think the only reason meds worked for me is because I was able to lose the negative preconceptions I had about them (same for therapy). Unfortunately, negative perception of antidepressants is so prevalent that this is very difficult (but doable).
Antidepressants shouldn't make you feel numb. Neither are they "happy pills". The goal of them is, in theory, to stop you feeling depressed _over nothing_. What they will hopefully do is bring you back to a stable normality, encompassing the entire range of normal human emotions.
Curing your depression will not automatically make you happy (but it will certainly help you on your way) – Only living a happy and fulfilling life, full of people you care about and things you enjoy, can do that.
You also need to give your body the best chance, by making sure no basic aspect of your life is severely lacking - sleep, food/drink, exercise, family/friends/social, hobbies that give you a feeling of accomplishment etc.
I'm taking sertraline (zoloft) now, and the only negatives I'm experiencing are slightly reduced libido and jaw clenching/grinding. I've started occasionally wearing a night guard while sleeping, and not really minding the decreased libido since dating during a global pandemic is outside of my acceptable risk tolerance.
I've also taken Lexapro and had good results with that, too.
The benefits are I was able to actually feel pleasure and enjoy things again. At my worst I was suffering from severe anhedonia -- literally finding no pleasure in any activity. Nothing I previously enjoyed brought any modicum of happiness: not food, not sex, not exercise, not work or side projects. It's a dangerous state to be in because when literally nothing in life brings joy you can slip into destructive choices.
The benefits of feeling better vastly outweighed any minor side effects of antidepressants.
There are some people, especially teenagers, who can become suicidal when taking antidepressants. But it's very rare and your psychiatrist will help you find a drug that doesn't cause those feelings.
There is no such word "lotska" in Russian. They could have meant "lyozhka", translating to something like "lie-down", an archaic word no one uses nowadays. Anyway, the story is unbelievable and has poor sources.
Some people might find this video interesting. Family that fled into the siberian taiga for 70 years to avoid religious persecution. One thing that stands out in my memory is how they said their main form of entertainment was sharing and analyzing their dreams.
Interesting. There must be some research detailing how much energy a human body minimally needs to sustain the rest state. Every activity needs some energy, beating the heart, breathing, metabolizing nutrients, fats. Turning from side to side (no avoid the bed sores).
This would yield the required the degree of preparations before embarking on such a long stretch of lockdown. Gaining enough fat, stocking wood/coal/water/bread, well, farming what's needed through the rest of the year.
I think this may be a survival stretch for some bad years, not a sustainable practice.
I really doubt there is any truth to that. I'm pretty sure they would have sustained themselves on Buckwheat, Boar, other game, cabbage, and over the last few hundred years, Potato.
They may have all slept together in one room around a fire and spent more time indoors during the winter but there is no way they hibernated. If that were the case millions in Ukraine would have survived Stalin's intentional famine (Holodomor). Families could have simply just rode it out sleeping and eating a piece of bread.
The web is just getting started, I don't see it hitting a stable point before it its 50 years old or so. More and more transactions are made online as opposed to before.
More and more jobs are available online, but it's still a small percentage. Imagine when most of everyone's shopping is done online, when half the people work remotely, and when all countries in the world not just the most developed ones have full access to fast internet.
> it's not the job itself, it's the whole system that makes it unbearable after a while.
Absolutely this. I'm in my mid thirties and I've been working professionally since high school (worked full-time through college). I still love the craft but I've had a hard time finding companies I enjoy working at long-term. Thought I found one, then we got acquired and the work and culture changed. The acquisition was probably a good thing as I don't know if we could have weathered COVID as a small company, but that fact only makes me lament the more the inevitable unbearability of it all.
I say this to underscore my agreement. It's not just one job. It's the whole system that seems unbearable. After a while you give up on finding the mythical company that fits you.
I think this is true, a lot of enterprise applications can be designed and are designed directly by the developers, that do a mix of backend and frontend work.
By using a UI library like Angular Material, a UI framework like Material Design and some simple UI design principles, it's possible to build a more than decent UI experience, without having UI specialists on the team.
So there goes OANN and Newsmax alternative reality business model.
Freedom of speech does NOT mean freedom of misinformation.
These companies (Fox is an example) get sued in court and admit they were lying, and claim freedom of speech as the right to say anything including spreading damaging lies, and get away with it and are not condemned.
I'm all for freedom of speech, but seriously this is getting to Nazi Germany "we lost the war because of the jews" lunacy level.
Freedom of speech does not mean being able to say anything at anytime, independently of the consequences, including lies and be guaranteed to get away with it.
No, some things that people say can get them into legal trouble, and rightfully so. Our freedom ends where another person's freedom begins.
For example, people can get sued and convicted for defamation, for saying something that negatively affected someone else.
The US might not be a democracy in 10 years if this goes on, it has to stop.
It would only cause even more confusion for no good reason.