Animals have immune systems too. It’s not a phenomenon unique to humans, as Anthropomorphism would suggest.
> they don’t like it
Who? HNers? I don’t care. I think it more that people don’t like seeing themselves as the virus or cancer, when we could easily change our behavior and we wouldn’t be.
>what's hampering Silicon Valley innovation right now is the outrageous cost of living.
I wish a “remote hub” concept would become popular. Where you work remote but need to be close enough to come in once a week or for big meetings. This would allow people to move a little further away and would possibly allow areas right outside the bay to become an extension of Silicon Valley.
Part of the reason the Valley is so successful is because after work you can pop over to a meetup about your very niche expertise, or meet up for coffee with some old coworkers.
If you only come to the office once a week and otherwise live outside of the valley, that gets a lot harder to do.
I live in the south bay and already feel the pinch, as most of the meetups I'd want to go to are in San Francisco, about an hour's drive away. When I worked in SF, it was no big deal to stick around for a meetup or a drink. Now it's 1/2 a day's outing.
I live far from the Valley but every single time I'm in SF I make it a point to attend a meetup three or four nights a week. As a coder I meet the people who wrote the books or headline the conferences. I can walk up afterward and ask for advice.
I meet founders, some of whom will eventually be household names and others not. I've kept up email correspondence with a few of my fellow user group managers and I try to take them out to lunch when I return.
Probably will be in SF in April if any HN'ers want to hit me up, especially those interested in the No Code space.
In general I disagree with this, if we spent a fraction of what we do on car transit on mass transit we'd be able to support mass transit basically anywhere, except large cities with ridiculous spread, like Phoenix.
In particular here though I was just talking about better commuter trains and (the existence of) HSR, neither of which is really dependent on density.
Who would support mass transit? If everyone has the option of low density housing with the luxury of their own cars, they're going to take that option instead of mass transit. The proof is everywhere.
Mass transit becomes slow when it has to make many stops and goes for long distances.
NYC subway is only efficient because Manhattan is so dense, and much of areas around it are reasonably dense.
Commuting from further away, like a couple dozen miles into NY or NJ, becomes massively more burdensome, because a train has to go all this distance, and the station is not close to home. Of course, you can spend this hour or two reading, or maybe writing or even sleeping on the train, unlike driving.
That's why you make it multi-track. I grew up in the suburbs of chicago and the rush hour train could take you about 30 miles into downtown in 35 minutes as it just picks you up in the suburbs and then hops over to another track where it can drive the rest of the way without stopping.
> I don’t understand people who think it’s always been some civil gathering.
In the early days of social media, the idea was to create engaging communities, which I felt for the most part happened. I was on a LOT of social media platforms in the mid aughts and really got a lot of it with the people I connected with. For me, it was actually quite positive and healthy then.
In the last eight years or so? I had to get off. The overwhelming negativity, the weaponization of the platforms, the "cancel culture" and a rash of other things just make a majority of the platforms completely unusable now. On top of that, you add in the incredibly poor track record these platforms have with user data and privacy, the non-stop tracking, and the thousands of ads in your feeds?
It used to be a joy to use these platforms. Now it's gotten to a point where I'm not sure what the point of social media is anymore.
I was going to build a mobile web app but I don’t like the way iOS handles button clicks on the bottom of the screen. The first click is ignored and it slides up your bottom menu bar, then you can click the button.
You don’t have as much control in the browser.
- if using an orm have a hook in your orm model to update the search database whenever a database entry updated/created/deleted.
- if not using an orm, update your rest api/view/any code that does CRUD to update the search index after successful data update
- create a command line tool that sync all existing data to the search index. Probably only used a couple times when initializing the search index with existing data, but it's pretty handy for testing purpose.
One of the reasons why I think 100% distributed, remote team might not be the best.
Which is why a middle ground where you work remote but within 1 hour of a “company hub” so you get to see you team a few times a month.
Ive been remote for a year and a half and I feel I’m not making lasting connections. It’s probably different for single folks but it’s hard to visit coworkers with a family.
I had something similar, to the point where I didn't really know anything about the people in my team. One small thing that can help a little is to spend more time on the small talk in team meetings and video conferencing. "The weather is good today" is cliche, but a good segway into "I might take my bike out for a ride around town", and maybe a chat about what type of bike you have etc...
Try moving across the country, then later accepting a remote job. Not only have new connections been minimal, my old networks have largely died after 5 years of 0 maintenance.
