If you're new to the 'professional' working world, then I can understand a lack of conformance with the norms of those environments. However, if you've been working in professional environments for a while, there's no excuse for not understanding those norms and why they exist, short of some kind of cognitive differences.
and sometimes happen to be the same cognitive differences that get incorrectly hand-waved as "just being shy" by individuals who don't live with said differences.
This article does a decent job of summarizing some of the issues that face the mentally ill and pointing out that psychiatry without strong community support is almost useless.
However, it's really just a subtle ad for a book, which probably just reiterates the same points in greater detail via lots of anecdotal data and case histories, points the finger at the government for not spending more money on programs designed to support the mentally ill within their communities, and doesn't provide any further concrete solutions.
Hasn't this same book been written over and over again?
I agree with this perspective. Absent from this article is the recognition that the absence of all these things is rooted in American culture that is inherently uncaring, eg. Hyperindependence instead of interdependence, puritanical moralizing instead of compassionate listening, scientific certainty instead of intellectual curiosity, silent/vocal denials and blame-shifting instead of acknowledgment, engagement, accountability, and responsibility. Oh, and financial anxiety and racism. Where are the leaders talking about how they got over their financial anxiety (instead of patching/feeding it with more money) or how they're renouncing whiteness? White-body supremacy started with the lie that there are white bodies, yet even social justice warriors will try to shame me into keeping it going, instead of acknowledging people who think they're white need to stop practicing the lie if they want to get anywhere past the racism of the day. We can use white privilege to help those who don't pass for white while refusing to base our identities on literal lies.
I also see these things as endemic to academia, especially in the sciences, and regard them as roots of our current replication crises, alongside capitalistic pressures.
I've mentioned this before, but I think the conflation of 'developer' and 'software engineer' can really cause confusion when hiring. These are different roles that most HR, management and even most 'developers' aren't clear on. When you aren't clear on what a 'software engineer' actually does, and don't hire based on what that role really means but based on some other semi-related criteria like 'works well with clients' or 'bills lots of hours', you're going to wind up with a lot of confusion.
This looks interesting, but the coolest part of this site is the forums. I had no idea that phpBB was still in active development/maintenance. It's surprising how ridiculously fast it is, and how much information is packed into each page. The topic pages are full of images and complex layouts, but it still renders completely in less than a second. Granted, Cloudflare and caching are a big help, but it goes to show what years and years of continued development and optimization can do.
This is why server-side rendering is making a comeback; for over a decade, ever since Chrome and V8 came out, the focus has been on making JS faster, but in the meantime rendering plain old HTML and CSS (especially without animations or other complexer calculations) hasn't stopped. Especially newer versions of rendering engines, employing 3D acceleration and tile-based rendering will make these things really fast.
Years ago we decided that vBulletin 3 was getting too old (it had been superseded by the slower 4 and 5 by then; slower because they did more 'tidy' coding in the back-end (object-oriented PHP) and tried to build a more JS-heavy front-end.). We first tried Discourse - we tried it for days, trying to migrate posts, but it was just so heavyweight, it seemed aimed at enterprise companies with a free-to-spend credit card linked to AWS, not some random fansite out on the internet. I gave up eventually.
Instead we went to Xenforo, which was built by the same people behind vBulletin up until v3, after which that company was bought out and the people left. They built Xenforo with similar goals as vB 3, just with a fresh start, and the result was an old-fashioned but fast forum software, suitable for mobile, some JS sprinkled here and there for e.g. instant posting without a full page reload, but other than that a pretty vanilla piece of software.
I'm fully agree on it phpBB-based sites awesome in performance and, as for me, it is exactly "classic" forum engine, which also used by RCGroups[0] and FlightGear[1].
Remember, this is Wall Street you're talking about, so both things can be true: Twitter can miss analyst's expectations, and the stock can go up because other analysts see an opportunity based on different expectations.
If you're expecting much of what Wall Street (or journalists covering the markets) does to make sense, you're going to have a bad time.
The founders may have energy industry experience - which is what you want, since it's the operating domain and they'll have industry information and contacts that 'outsiders' won't - but they seem to have a pretty strong development team: https://utilityapi.com/team.
The founder is pretty active on hn[1]. And coincidentally, his most recent comment is about why it makes sense to work at an energy company as part of market research.
I thought that referring to your base URL in a canonical tag was a bad idea - why would they do this, since the content on each of the two pages is different?
It's ok to send feedback, but understand that it's probably not going to change anything at the organization in question, except brand you as the 'Anti-Teams Crank'.
It's also perfectly ok to reject a position based on anything at all; the UCC suite they use is a perfectly reasonable reason, considering how much time you'll likely have to spend using it. Hell, I rejected an offer because the office was in an old building and the wooden floors creaked like mad.
However, given the weight of your opinions and the emotional response you have to an environment that doesn't suit your needs, have you thought about starting your own company?
It's not only unclear at first glance who the audience is, but what the tool actually does. It seems like some kind of no-code tool at first, but then it mentions pair programming? I'm confused, and don't want to wade through a swamp of marketing text.
We're decidedly a "low-code" or even “yes-code” tool. You use the drag-and-drop interface to design the app, while all of the app's logic is written in an in-browser text editor environment. Everything is multiplayer from day 1. It's an IDE in the style of VB6 / MS Access / FileMaker Pro, but built with modern web technologies at the foundation.
We're building for early-stage technical teams and independent developers that want to reduce the iteration time on prototype -> production apps.
So multiplayer bubble but more industrial/data-centric, real database (operated out of band) for full data modeling power & operational scale, and use javascript to define business rules with control flow and loops?
One note: we have some lightweight persistent data stores built-in for convenience, like a key/value store. However, you're always able to build on top of your own database / API and most of our early users do.
Why would a person use this over salesforce, Wordpress, or the dozen other CMS systems out there? I watched the 5 minute demo, it is doing nothing complex. How many one off sites we all seen that are written by a tool that ended up not able to handle the complexity. Tools like this need a huge "never" been done before hook, and this one does not readily have it.
