I downvoted it because the tone of the response was rather annoying, more fitting to some popular subreddit than HN.

Ah, so the house part comes from warehouse. Not obvious to say the least.

> Currently all the layers in patent application process is incentivized to ignore quality.

Hasn't it always been the case? There's a ton of old patents for shit which can't work as described.

In some cases they can make things worse, it's worth remembering that query optimizer looks not only on indexes, but also on statistics and estimated operation costs. If your statistics are out of date and your criteria are not specific enough (e.g. they match 80% rows), then an index is going to slow the query down. It needs to traverse the index to get the row IDs, fetch all the blocks containing them, read those, filter out irrelevant rows. It's probably going to be faster with a pure full table scan (due to linear reads).

The guy mentioned he has social anxiety and autism, the likelihood of him being able to improve his soft skills meaningfully without a long (and costly) therapy is unlikely to say the least.

Perhaps? Soft skills includes stuff like writing though, not just schmoozing.

Their hosted postgres was pitiful until very recently too.

The field of interpretation for "can reasonably expect" is very wide though, how many devices you own are still receiving security updates?

I use lists as one of the coping mechanisms for ADHD, depending on the day it's anywhere between 20 and 100 of various granularity depending on what I'm doing and how I feel the given day.

They are in tier 2 in europe, I'd be surprised if they are at 120k euro+ TC, regardless of level.