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Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?**
I am turning 35 years soon and I feel like I haven't achieved much, both personally and professionally. I have held jobs in small and big companies for mostly for 1-2 years each, traveled and lived in different countries, had 2 failed startups, and have about $500k in savings. I am single and haven't had a serious relationship for many years now.
As time went on, I started feeling less excited about everything, personal or work related. I used to be excited about ... ⌘ Read more
Poll: Where do you live?**
I read a tweet that referred to HN as "Silicon Valley", which struck me as odd because I suspect most HN users, like me, are located elsewhere. This piqued my curiosity about where HN users are located, so if you don't mind me asking, where do you live?
Edit: Sorry about the randomized ordering (I forgot HN does that for polls). Thanks ahead of time for using cmd+f or the equivalent to find and vote for your state or country. Also, each US state is included as "US: {state name}".
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Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
I've been using Google Maps a long time, and during all of that time I have only used GPS for location tracking on Android.
Depending upon the version of Android, I've had different things disabled. Wifi scanning. Bluetooth. Cell location data. Etc. Always with one single goal -- GPS only for location.
And further, this is always, especially with newer versions of Android, restricted in many ways. For example, only allowing when an app is active, and so on.
Googl ... ⌘ Read more
Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job?**
I live in western Europe.
I've worked for 4 different companies, for European salaries, without doing any leetcode type interviews(I ditched any company that was doing it), it was either take home tests about real problems, technical questions, or sometimes just trust in my abilities given my previous experiences.
I've never really trained for leetcode(or not consciously at least, I did do a bit of algorithms/data structures of course), mostly becau ... ⌘ Read more
Poll: Why are people leaving their jobs?**
There has been quite a lot of press about the 'great resignation,' with employees leaving jobs in droves. This is likely hyperbole, but it does seem that there are a large number of people switching jobs.
If that is something you have done or are considering doing in the near future, why?
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937305
Points: 425
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Anyone else having problems with Firefox? (Fix in comments)
The latest version of Firefox (96.0 and 95.02) seems to have a problem where as soon as you enable DOH (DNS over HTTPS) the browser is unable to establish any connections. Disabling this feature once enabled doesn't resolve the issue, closing the browser leaves processes hanging in the background consuming resources. Several of my friends have reported (Windows/Linux) seeing the same issue but we haven't been able to find a solution.
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Comments URL: [https: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918052)*
Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business
Article URL: [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-california-alleging-google-is-paying-apple-to-stay-out-of-the-search-engine-business-301453098.html](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-california-alleging-google-is-paying-apple-to-stay-out-of-the- ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?**
Hi,
I've just had a bizarre thing happen and wanted to see if the HN community could come up with some theories as to what happened.
LastPass blocked a login attempt from Brazil (it wasn't me). According to an email I received from LastPass, this login was using the LastPass account's master password. The email doesn't look like it's a phishing attempt.
What troubles me is that the master password was stored in a local encrypted KeePassX file.
I ... ⌘ Read more
Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
Hi, my Christmas is solitary this year, no family or friends. I'm not even having a Christmas dinner. I'm not sad about this, though. It's just the way it is. What I wanted to say is, if you are in the same situation, you are not alone. So have a virtual hug from me.
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682002
Points: 502
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
Points: 503
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AWS appears to be down again
Console is flickering between "website is unavailable" and being up for my team. This is happening very frequently just now, reliability seems to have taken a hit.
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286
Points: 503
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Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
Article URL: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B001%2718.5%22N+93%C2%B035%2740.5%22W/@39.0219215,-93.5946774,253m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xd87af7588b9c362e!8m2!3d39.0218056!4d-93.5945833](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B001%2718.5%22N+93%C2%B035%2740.5%22W/@39.0219215,-93.5946774,253m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xd87af7588 ... ⌘ Read more