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I think placebo is a very strong effect most people underestimate.

normally breaks are not paid? in the us maybe

Often a mid level engineer salary at least.

I mean truck drivers make much more money than you'd think.

I have the opposite experience. Goes to show the difference between people. I've always had trouble internalizing the "physics" of physics or chemistry, as if it were all super arb…

But if the alternative becomes more real estate investment than we already have won't that be even worse? Investing in the stock market at least in principle is investing in busine…

Likely a lot of medium posts? That's my theory anyway.

And then you get to the reason why everyone complains childcare is expensive.

What if you get a much better service from Uber? Most local produce initatives fail because they're not actually better than the global/international variants, especially considere…

OOP is for problems that require complex modeling, indeed if you require just complex calculation it is useless.

For sure. Cost for example? Just pointing out the obvious steelman people seem to be missing.

You can go on sidequests but first you need to accumulate sufficient credibility.

You can configure opcache to never stat unless it's reloaded

Funnily enough PHP solved this perfectly with composer, but unfortunately it's not an enterprise-level programming language /s

Whenever I read HN talking about PHP I am reminded of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. The level of discussion on the topic is abysmal, compared to (I guess perceived?) the discussion…

The comparison would be towards other languages in its class: Python, Ruby, Javascript. Besides the shared nothing architecture mentioned by sibling: - A more mature community and …

Normally PHP developers are competent in Javascript but try to avoid it due to the clusterfuck that javascript is, especially the ecosystem.

It is not the same issue, due to how opcache works. No one remotely competent runs PHP without opcache in 2025.

> Nothing stops someone from simply enforcing the same division in a single large code base. I'd say nothing except human nature.

Is it an US thing that on-call shifts are unpaid? That is not common in Europe. Generous compensation and additional time off is quite typical for engineers handling on-call burden…

Laravel and React/Angular developers right?

Have you checked out NPM?

I think this is partially why things like discord and in general semi-private circles are very popular. Here on HN discord is often criticized cause it's inherently a closed platfo…

Can you recommend some models for the gaming wireless headphones? Are you using Kleer?