> I suspect if I was a kid that used a deep voice to say that I was an adult it would also fool it.

There should exist frequencies impossible to reach for anyone but post-pubescent men.

Of course that would make it teen-age verification at best.

What about women, though? Do they not get to age verify themselves? :P

Women also undergo voice change, just less pronounced.

Now the problem turns into being able to tell men from women.

EDIT: this of course isn't a serious proposition.

Then again I wonder what effect this would have implemented on e.g. a porn site. Women also watch porn, but with enough tuning I think it shouldn't produce too many false positives - if only due to the demographic of the users.

Surely the vocal cords and larynx of an adult woman are on average larger than those of a 10yo boy?

Presumably because "money".

Or they just don't know tech outside of SV, which is understandable, considering the rest doesn't do nearly the same amount of self-promotion and, well, they're not from SV anyway so why should SV care?

The other day there was this article: something something nerds, which assumed (almost) everyone in tech was looking up to Jobs and Wozniak.

I think I saw my first Mac in 2006 or so and only for a brief moment - it belonged to an artist the parents of my high school friend employed. The next time it was a musician. That was really the stereotype in my corner of the world at the time and using Apple devices for programming seemed like a weird idea.

I worked for a company which emulated this style.

In fairness the exposed brick was already there when they rented the place.

There definitely is/was a nerd subculture in Europe, it's just that those who represent it were always only vaguely aware of the existence of Jobs and Wozniak.

Linus Torvalds on the other hand - that is a household name.

Jobs is not the one to think of when relating to nerds, Wozniak is. Jobs is the one who comes in and takes most of the money as well as the limelight when some nerds have done something interesting but then act like the dog who has caught the car. European nerd culture is more Fabrice Bellard and Linus Torvalds, less Steve Jobs.

null is of type 'object' though, while undefined is undefined - way better to have a separate type.

Peer groups sort themselves to an extent. It's never everyone that does X or is into Y.

I recall being immediately out when one of the boys asked which football team I support, to which I replied "none". So I got sorted to the much smaller group of kids who are not into that and we had our own common interests to bond over.

Looking at my daughter's social circle it starts as early as in preschool.

"wait longer" - the other day I had two drivers cancel on me and the third only accept because he was within line of sight to my location.

We talked and turns out the driver can earn as little as 1/3 of the price you paid. I asked if tips are also "taxed" like that and apparently no, so I just left a 100% tip.

I'm getting a normal taxi next time.

This.

With some practice you can even get a decent idea what note a given sound is by humming it - it's far from precise, but at least you can tell e.g. E from G.

My experience is that it's even worse: they've already produced enough code that the codebase matches their taste and theirs alone.

So in essence you have one guy working at 4x and e.g. four other getting just 0.7x - net effect is still positive, but everyone save for that one person is miserable.

Mind you, the 4x dev doesn't necessarily have to be particularly talented - they only need to get their foot in the door before anyone else.

Back during the ZIRP days you could immediately tell that this is the case in a team by staff rotation alone. Nowadays people understandably cling to their jobs, so you might now know until it's too late.

The latter has an easy fix: the perpetrator is not allowed to take new work while there are pending review comments left unaddressed.

By perpetrator you mean the person postponing performing a code review?

Right? Right?!

Otherwise you place all burden on high performers to not only push PRs but babysit the rest of the team.

It's not an easy fix, especially with AI letting people cosplay as high performers.

> you place all burden on high performers

If their PRs don't get merged they don't perform. It is trivial to overload your coworkers with secondary tasks due to your "high performance".

> If their PRs don't get merged they don't perform. It is trivial to overload your coworkers with secondary tasks due to your "high performance".

We're all aware that a huge portion of the busywork that makes a team successful is not actually reflected in their upwards-facing deliverables (increasing test coverage, improving infra, adopting new tools/methodologies, preemptive security patching, etc). Your actual high performers, if you have any, are doing all that stuff in addition to their regularly-scheduled duties.

If management weren't at least tacitly on board with this arrangement, your high performers would go work somewhere else. So my experience is that good managers don't tend to see this your way.

Yeah I agree. I was trying to makee the point that it is quite easy to make yourself blocked by others and it is a deep skill to get other stuff done while blocked anyway, like say cleanups and tests etc.

> it is a deep skill to get other stuff done while blocked anyway, like say cleanups and tests etc.

Which themselves generate more PRs (or larger PRs)...

To make myself clear:

Reviewers have comments which were not addressed by the PR author - author not allowed to do other work.

No such comments, especially no reviews - author can do other work.