Thousands (USD) for a drink or two, tens of thousands for a bottle or two. It's a very well known scam in some parts of Tokyo, and similar forms exist in many parts of the world.
Long and short, don't let someone on the street talk you into going into a bar or tea shop or whatever, and especially don't follow them to a second location.
> I think I’m a unicorn. 14” M1 Max, triple displays, albeit with two cables. We also have an M1 Pro in the house ...
you're not a unicorn - both the M1 Max and Pro explicitly support multiple external monitors.
the base M1 laptop model that was released only supports one internal and one external. if I close the lid of the laptop, I can only use one monitor even with two cables.
seconded, bandcamp has been my primary source of music for quite a while. I admire the company very much, use the site daily, and annoy people with my frequent pitches.
that said, I have to disagree with you about the app. in particular, the cache seems to be the source of my woes. it's difficult (impossible? I don't even know) to deal with any payment or cart related features through the app.
my main problem is that songs regularly get stuck in a bad state, only starting the songs at random points instead of 0:00, and the only way I've discovered to fix this once and for all is to delete all data. sometimes songs just won't play, and I retreat to youtube to listen to something that I've already purchased.
This is my take as well. There are a lot of lines that would be right at home in anything moderately jazzy or progressive, and plenty more that I would have a great time using as a starting point.
Linus has also seen and written about a lot. Would you say that he was justified in his tone prior to his apology for his tone?
Granted that his tone and her tone were very different, but, imo, as a reader of her posts, this wasn't necessary. Educating junior devs is more productive than considering them randos.
> Would you say that he was justified in his tone prior to his apology for his tone?
I'll take my downvotes here, but personally I think Linus with that apology crossed the threshold into old age. Quoting Tomasi di Lampedusa:
> The Prince who had found the town unchanged, was found much changed himself, whom never before would have used such accommodating words; and since then, invisible, began the decline of his prestige.
This comment thread originally consisted of one single reply by someone who, apparently, was not aware of Rachel by the bay and her wonderful blog. That post concluded that calling a fellow worker a "rando" was toxic, and that they wouldn't want to work with the author.
While I agree with Rachel here at a high level, and have been a dedicated follower of her blog, I completely agreed with that comment. You shouldn't be shipping things in the manner described in this post, and you shouldn't be considering your coworker "some rando" and looking down on them for not having the same schedule as you.
People are free to project "looking down on" or contempt onto the phrase "some random person" and the (subsequent) use of "rando" but I felt like it communicated precisely what was going on: this is a large organization, and the person is totally unknown to this sysadmin.
Even aside from whether "rando" is contemptuous, the issue isn't that they don't have the same schedule: it's that they are not respecting the company-wide schedule, nor are they respecting fairly obvious norms of professional software development.
I'm a teacher, and I very much believe in educating people rather than putting them down, but jumping on a single phrase/term when there's nothing else to suggest contempt here strikes me as odd. It's especially odd when the entire culture of sysadminship has a reputation of eye-rolling and begrudging wizardry to protect users from themselves.
I think this is a fair point, and I cannot disagree with what you've said. But, I must reiterate, the tone of this piece changes dramatically if "some random person" becomes "a junior developer".
As far as the company wide/normal schedule goes, at my previous place of employment, major changes were routinely performed (by me) off hours on a Sunday with only relevant personnel on hand. This was primarily for B2B reasons where the vast majority of our clients were doing mission critical things from Monday to Friday. I don't feel that this was the case in these circumstances, which is why I completely agree with what was really said here, and with your reply was well.
I suppose my personal experience in this industry leads me to believe that small snipes like that uncover much deeper contempt than is revealed on the surface.
I think there's a legitimate development culture gap. I've had good friends tell me that, at their company, it's totally acceptable to roll things out on a day's notice and you're expected to help make that happen unless you have something more urgent to do. I doubt that's a functional culture for any but the smallest companies, but that still means there are some places where it'd be unacceptably rude to shove someone off and not help them release their code.
There’s a specific creative tone to this article that incorporates these expressions. There is narrator persona who has a style of voice. I think you and the other people who are seemingly offended are missing this?
Agreed, those parts of the post seemed highly filled with contempt and even though I can empathize with that, it's not a good look. The description of the author's responses in the company chatroom remind me of highly toxic irc chatrooms where people sitting idle in them forever verbally abuse newcomers or people asking questions from some self righteous angle of superiority instead of engaging in simple discussion.
It's very very off putting and detracts from an otherwise good post. Makes the author sound like someone who simply has nothing but ire for their fellow employees.
this is not a technical position managing security. most tech writers at major news institutions are likely not tested with technical interviews - they are writers with domain knowledge, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that.
Long and short, don't let someone on the street talk you into going into a bar or tea shop or whatever, and especially don't follow them to a second location.