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I didn't mean to start religious discussion, rather used this term as in writings of Mark Weber (value of hard work etc.). This is more about set of principles that shaped Western and American societies, not really being related to religion anymore.

Imagine if all improvements over the course of history would be kept in secret for gains of owners of capital. Who own rights to the invention of an axe? Probably the first one who put a stone on a piece of wood. Should he has all rights for it forever? I couldn't really agree.

I see a lot of protestant mentality here in comments valuing any kind of even inhumane labour which does not allow to meet basic needs over not having a job, but also not suffering from hunger thanks to the social support system.

In my opinion, we as a society should aim to work less and less, collectively making use of automation and technological progress. But it will be hard when we label this as being lazy and not valuable member of society.

I don't really agree with commenter above, but this argument is blatantly wrong. Executives are paid the way they are just because they are in charge of, among other things, compensations.

I migrated about one year ago and this is a feature I really love. Every service has unique address and goes to separate folder via rules.

Also, there are automatic aliases when you use your own domain. Say, you have [email protected], then all *@name.domain.com are also working aliases, like [email protected]. Really neat feature.

> but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour.

It is not. The value fire-fighters, teachers or nurses provide is much higher than, say, an enterprise developer, yet in most places the other earns more.

I wasn't clear. In Europe, part-time employees get their time off pro-rated based on working hours, while full-time ones get minimum required by law (20+ days per year, depending on country). Plus additional ~10 paid public holidays for everyone.

> How do you decide who qualifies for four weeks pay?

You don't. Every full-time employee have right to paid holidays, like we have in every other country in the world.

Compared to what?

I recommend this book n which this method is described and explained. Also F#.

https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi...

Not in Q4.

It's older than facebook, JPG and the idea of hiring programmers in India (1987).

http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

A manager went to the Master Programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the Master: "How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?"

"It will take one year," said the Master promptly.

"But we need this system immediately or even sooner! How long will it take if I assign ten programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer frowned. "In that case, it will take two years."

"And what if I assign a hundred programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer shrugged. "Then the design will never be completed," he said.

New trend?

I randomly checked few servers using NordVPN and was able to connect via Russia.

You can say that in Polish, i.e. title "Pan" (Mr) or "Pani" (Ms) with either first name, last name or both. So I think people from certain cultural/linguistic backgrounds may not find it unnatural.

"Track as much as possible in your current system."

Well, this joke is going around in devs' communities, but in fact never happened to me, at least not in last few years.

Although I have met a few of fellow techies, totally sure that no first-line recruiter is able to grasp basic IT knowledge.

I've moved to Finland four months ago. There are not so many (indo)-european patterns you notice right there, although they exist. Some words are tricky like "appelsin" - "orange" or "matka" - in my mother tongue "mother" ("travel"). Needless to say,I would be much more lost if alphabet were not latin. Or if Finland were not officially bilingual, so most useful information is available also in germanic Swedish.

I didn't watch the whole serie yet, but the first two are pretty solid and still fun. The first part doest not cover JS at all, but is rather a brief history of computing.

Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg

Understanding parser combinators: a deep dive - Scott Wlaschin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY&t=1021s

I cannot find it right now, but I am quite sure that in last few weeks there was a post on HN with roughly the same statement, but for high protein diet.

Well, actual duties. Go and ask two to five people of the same/similar team/level to write down what they were mostly doing last week or month.

One of the hardest time for me is on-boarding a guy or girl who is poorly informed about their role. Not any better when I am the new-joiner.

I believe its's more due to post-processing in Lightroom.

Were you in summer? The problem with air pollution is rather seasonal and while in warmer months it's not an issue, winters are terrible.

Source: I lived in Kraków for 4 years.

I do not know how it looks like in States, but in my home country (Poland) it's quite easy to buy rectified spirit (90%+ ) in a normal grocery store for cooking or so. But nobody uses it to produce vodka by mixing with tap water, expect teens 20 years ago.

Never seen it in Spain though and definitely not in Finland, when I live now and it's impossible to buy a wine after 8pm.

Of course they do not.

That's partially true. It's from "herba thea", so basically redundantly added the "herb" part to the common tea name.