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Threads view! Yea, I think I just get anxious that I'm simply not being productive or earning my salary. Sometimes I worry that I won't get back into the zone or be able to pull of…

I have similar work habit and, though I wouldn't say it was due to depression, I will become guilty and/or anxious when I'm in one of my low-productivity phases.

It looks interesting. I have to wonder if the sideways action of this ax is tough on the wrists? I know with a regular axe when you get a bad hit and the ax goes sideways, it's ver…

I don't think he confuses the two - he talks about both in detail. The issue is with the concept if the flat interest rate combined with service fees and signup fees that make the …

It does because you were trying to insinuate that 1 hour delivery of food is a logistical nightmare. You probably are thinking more along the lines of Amazon.com and shut out of yo…

There shouldn't be a key baked into the app. Each user gets their own unique key. so the worst you could do reverse engineering the app is to steal your own key. There should never…

It is true you have to trust that the native app is not tricking you into thinking that you're entering your password on Facebook. But, at least if it's implemented correctly and n…

I think it's valid to ask questions like this. We get advice all the time warning us not to try to invent our own algorithms for certain things. Obviously if we all did that, thoug…

You're correct - you shouldn't ship an app with a secret key embedded. That would be a flawed implementation. It's hard to be specific without knowing what you're doing. If you hav…

#1 is a fairly standard security concept used by protocols like oAuth or JWT. It requires an API key pair (public and secret key). The secret key is only used for signing and is ne…

Using a standard library for authentication like oAuth or similar is generally a better idea than creating your own. It's also usually easier since you don't have to re-invent the …

My first introduction to ORMs was hibernate. I immediately loved the idea but to be honest it can be extremely frustrating to get things done - especially if you are good at writin…

In my case it just saves a lot of time on "plumbing" code. Having DB entities represented consistently as objects is helpful for doing all kinds of things. - having events fire on …

I use an ORM that does basic mapping but let's you write your own SQL to cover situations that mismatch (still contained in a data layer of the app). It basically just saves a ton …

Or #7 the programmer who is too cool to use modern, stable, popular tools that would be perfectly adequate for solving the problem. Instead insists that the team write everything i…

I think those are all perfectly fair questions however I would take the answers you get with a grain of salt. I wouldn't expect an employer to admit they're 6 weeks away from going…

Yea good point. They would probably be more likely to get their money back actually, but it won't be a massive payout.

I'm not really into trolling but I will admit it's funny too see somebody who takes themselves way too seriously getting strung along. Particularly if I find their opinions disagre…

Actually a lifestyle company is pretty much the term for any business that makes a great living for the owners and employees, but never results in significant profit for investors.…

My experience is pretty much the same as yours. I feel sharper in some ways. I definitely work much smarter than I did in my 20s by magnitudes. Although, mildly annoying, I find my…

I think universities have always been this way. It's ironic because they are places of learning and exploring. But only when the topics do not concern the running of the institutio…

I've noticed the HN hive mind becomes interested in certain types of non-tech topics for a few days and then moves back to tech. I find the non-tech links to usually be an interest…

Not sure I agree about heroin being gentle and harmless, but I do think that making any drug illegal immediately creates a black market, which in turn leads to violence and powerfu…

It's not really surprising to me. Oracle has been the DB system for enterprise systems for years - they have a lot of corporations running on their platform.

Well if your story doesn't seem to add up then you might find yourself explaining things. My point is really that there is no advantage to lying about being a student vs a rich tou…