One feature I decided was a requirement is holding me up. I really want pogo pins on the sides of the keyboards, so that they magnetically attach and the left will charge the right.

How do you charge the left and the right since they require separate cables?

(Note, my building is actually 3 phase 208 volt not 240volt so I don't have 240 volt plugs but 208volt plugs)

But give one of them $2,000,000 in mortgage debt at 3.0% interest on 3 properties that are rented out, and don't have the other have anything.

In 15 years, those properties will be worth 2-3x as much, and the debt will still be 2,000,000. This is what happened to boomers even though they don't realize it. Its not that houses are some amazing investment, its that no one will give you 7figure loans at 3% interest to buy stocks with money you don't have, but they will do it for a property.

I have come to absolutely detest online shopping. I have to return so much stuff, live with so many things that I don't actually love, generate sooooo much trash, and spend hours on hours researching everything because I can't hold it in my hand.

Then I walk into REI and ask them if I can try on a size 9 wide of a running shoe. They tell me they don't have it, so I ask them if they have any wide... they don't have a single wide shoe. Then I ask what they have and they say "Ohh we have 200 of the exact same shoe in the exact same size in stock"

And then I go order 5 different 9-wide shoes on amazon and return 4....

I had a team of 14 with 2 women and 1 non-white male. I had a team of 10 with 0 women and 0 non-white male. I had a team of 20 with 1 women and 0 non-white male.

Looking at it another way, thats 40 successful white male hires, and 4 successful non-white male hires.

if only having access to 91% of jobs instead of 100% is the reason you can't get hired....

edit: To clarify, as a software developer of 10+ years both in defense and faang, I have never once had a team where there was less than 50% white men.

Which is not always a bad idea, having a local supply and innovation of something can be rather important, local money is less "Gone" than foreign money, think of how healthy small towns are when all of the shops are local vs when they are not.

The problem comes when there is no realistic local competition. If you don't make something locally at all, an import tariff is just a stupid tax.

Making less than 10,000 of anything just doesn't seem to make economic sense unless you assume there is a chance no one will want any of them.

"How can we make sure this doesn't happen again"

"Its unacceptable than an obvious mistake happened"

that make corporations so full of random rules, because they think it's possible to prevent things like this. What matters is the frequency with which they happen, and how gracefully you handle yourself after it happened.

The example I always go to is U-Haul in the US. They have a functional monopoly on quickly getting a pickup truck or small box car. I used to tell people there was no need to own a pickup truck because I could go grab one for $30 once or twice a month when I needed it.

After a year of shitty apps, constantly being sold things I didn't need because they try to secretly upsell you 50 times during checkout. Having to go into the store to get the keys and wait in line for 1 hour behind people screaming about how they were cheated... I bought a truck.

U-Hual still has their monopoly, but they lost my business, not because I went to a competitor, but because I altered my life to no longer need their business.

Maybe instead of buying eink tablets, I would have kept printing things had printers been better products.

I like things without crowd interaction, like musicals/plays, because there is no dystopian parasocial aspect to it. I am only there because the live is different than the recording.

It often feels like as a community we don't have an interest in making better tools than those we started with.

Communicating with the compiler, and generating code with code, and getting information back from the compiler should all be standard things. In general they shouldn't be used, but if we also had better general access to profiling across our services, we could then have specialists within our teams break out the special tools and improve critical sections.

I understand that many of us work on projects with already absurd build times, but I feel that is a side effect of refusal to improve ci/cd/build tools in a similar way.

If you have ever worked on a modern TypeScript framework app, you'll understand what I mean. You can create decorators and macros talking to the TypeScript compiler and asking it to generate some extra JS or modify what it generates. And the whole framework sits there running partial re-builds and refreshing your browser for you.

It makes things like golang feel like they were made in the 80s.

Freaking golang... I get it, macros and decorators and generics are over-used. But I am making a library to standardize something across all 2,100 developers within my company... I need some meta-programming tools please.

Is your app as large and important as the OS of the device (Chrome/facebook/etc...) you should probably have similar language across devices.

Is your app very large but not that large? (Slack/teams come to mind) I think you can go either way.

If you are smaller than that (hint: you are) then you should comply with the design language of the platform, even if that means somewhat large changes such as moving buttons from the left to the right. The likelihood that users are constantly using your app on a iphone and android is really low.