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> While the writing group was relatively small, it reportedly began in a "remote work advocates" Slack channel with about 2,800 members. If so, it might reflect the concerns of a significant number of Apple's non-retail employees.

I’m at a different tech company where employees penned a letter to leadership on another matter, which was picked up by news outlets.

And that group wasn’t influential at all - they just happened to be the loudest people. If anything, the news media made the issue appear to be orders of magnitude more significant than it really was. Quite frankly, most people didn’t care.

IMO there’s really no “news” here. This is clickbait. There are differences in opinions on what office vs remote work looks like in a post COVID world, and that applies to pretty much every company including my own.

The slack channel has 2800 people? How is that relevant?

Most of the top comments are saying how Lambda is half baked. It might very well be, but it’s funny to see the one comment so far that is positive about Lambda get downvoted and the poster singled out for not providing a clear solution to ops problem. The HN hive mind disapproves of your experience!

Why prohibit my kid from doing something when I can abdicate my responsibility to the child completely and rely on mass hysteria or government intervention to do my job for me? That’s basically the argument against what you’re saying.

Cigarettes destroy your mouth, lungs, and cause cancer. And they’re so bad we passed laws that you cannot sell them to minors. I’m no fan of Instagram, but if you don’t want your kid on social media, don’t let them go on social media. Should we also ban porn sites, Internet forums? Since search engines can be used to find inappropriate websites or set the wrong expectation about body image, sex, etc - should that all be banned?

I don’t care for social media but I certainly can’t get behind all this unnecessary cancel culture.

I don’t necessarily believe Instagram or any social media for children is a good idea, but these kinds of headlines “the modern Bond villain” are a bit hard to take seriously.

What research do I need to do? We paid to fix one of the vehicles out of pocket but had to file an insurance claim on the other, and our premiums went up because every window was smashed, including one of the mirrors.

This is a bad faith response, and I’m going to assume you’re a troll and not engage any further. Good luck!

“They” is BLM. These people held BLM signs. And I never heard or saw any BLM leader come out and condemn these terrorists. You know it’s really interesting that you post these mental gymnastics to shift the blame away from the criminals, trying to tell me, the victim, that I’m in the wrong.

Please go troll somewhere else.

We had BLM protests in my city. I’m all for the message behind it, but they smashed up mine and my husbands car windows. Should have taken advantage of the lax work from home policy and should have stayed home I guess? I’m no fan of the actual “organization” or the people behind it though, and it’s sad FB is actively censuring information.

I haven’t lived in LA, Chicago, or NY. But please help me understand — why does another city being worse off (whether that’s true or not is besides the point) makes it okay for Seattle to regress?

And why would I move from my city to Chicago? I was born here and lived here my whole life. Chicago is worse so I should be thankful it’s not as bad as Chicago? I mean, should I be happy it’s not as bad in Seattle as Mexico City, or the pollution isn’t as bad as New Delhi? I’m genuinely interested in where you’re going with this.

Quite frankly Seattle is quickly fading from being a livable city. My children go to a school that has homeless people shooting up heroine and throwing needles on the school grounds. But sure, Chicago is worse in your opinion, and so I should pay taxes to city of Seattle while law enforcement becomes a joke.

Seattle has a lot of unnecessary problems and the government is convinced the only solution is more taxes. I’ve seen this city regressive massively in the past 10 years. I honestly have no idea what they do with public money. The council members have openly called for nationalizing big companies and adopting a communist model - something my immigrant parents fled from.

Modern software development is a convoluted mess of poor abstractions, new frameworks and flavors of the week, and essentially a million different ways of solving the same problem.

I work with some of the most brilliant people in the world (in my opinion) and the problems we are working on are how to grab peoples attention and show them relevant ads. And we don’t call them “ads” but recommendations.

Sorry I’m working right now and wondering what I’m doing with my life.

What’s the criteria for a “bad comment”? And how do you objectively evaluate it?

I lurk and post once in a while. What I’ve noticed is that rarely is something downvoted for being factually incorrect (relatively speaking). You just have to offer a perspective that doesn’t conform with the hive mind and the downvoting essentially amounts to censorship of opinions.

Not a book but Ray Dalio’s “How the economic machine works” is a very accessible 30 min video on how the economy functions.

>your diet determines your size - your activities (or lack thereof) determine your shape

Damn. This is really well stated. With all the hundreds of fitness experts and personalities on the Internet and YouTube, it actually just comes down to this.

I agree on many but not all of these points. This list is setting some expectations, and what I mean is that some programmers here will see this list since it’s trending on HN and lose their self esteem or try to forcefully change their behavior to meet this bar.

> A lazy programmer is super efficient, does in a couple of hours what would take a whole day to others, so that they can spend the rest of they lingering on the couch feasting on Netflix.

This is a crazy high, unrealistic bar. It’s almost comical.

> A lazy programmer startes at the code for hours, trying to figure out the way to write as little code as possible.

I may or may not want someone on my team to do this, depending on what it is their working on, its significance, etc. but staring at your code for hours on anything you work on probably means you’re not great at making trade offs and haven’t considered if what you’re doing is actually worth trying to over optimize.

> A lazy programmer uses the basic UI template the hosting service provides them and then they say it’s brutalism.

This is some pretentious gate keeping. Does the lazy programmer also hack into government “mainframes” in 10 seconds?

> A lazy programmer do not deploy in production, they instruct Jenkins to do that. Therefore a lazy programmer is not afraid of deploying on Friday afternoon.

Jenkins isn’t a solution to when you deploy. You could have all the tooling for effortless deployments but not have enough test cases, canaries, etc. And your software failing, especially if it’s a service, could have a blast radius that now impacts several other teams and their on calls on a late Friday. And it might not even realistically be in your control to get the automation quality to the bar you’d love to have because of competing priorities and ROI.

If you’re someone young at HN, please take this stuff with a grain of salt. This document sets realistic standards of what it means to be a lazy programmer (in a good way) the way the Kardashians set standards on beauty with their fake photoshopped Instagram images.