Yeah, I'm watching more. These are incredible. I really like how she describes what she's doing in tempo with the music as she does it. The description is basically part of the performance. Really unique and engaging approach.
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I decided to step away from my job as an engineering VP and try something I actually wanted to do. It's terrifying, especially in this economy, but I wake up and feel excitement in the morning instead of dread for the first time in as long as I can remember.
I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten further on their own, instead of becoming a feature that Cursor bought to try to stay in the game.
I must be on some grandfathered plan though, as I'm not paying near $500/year. That is a very steep price.
I'll definitely be coming to check you all out at Kubecon.
2. These are people that convince others of things for a living. The skills that allow them to be good at their job also allow them to negotiate for extremely favorable compensation mechanisms.
3. At this point, it's how their industry works. If you try something else, you won't be able to hire sales people. They are very competitive, and not idealistic like engineers. You're not going to convince them to take a flat comp structure that is the same as every other employee's.
> The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted. - Huxley
It will likely make them a social outcast, to a degree. The question is whether that's a good thing or not.
I don't understand how any business thinks opening retail packaging and selling the product as new is acceptable. There has to be some logic to it but it is baffling, and an absolute deal breaker, to me.
I'm not at all surprised to hear it's a business in decline.
The absolute critical thing for learning, the thing a teach and/or parent must do to make a child successful, is not just giving tools. You have to inspire a child to love music. You have to plant in them the seed of desire to create beautiful sound. And you have to make it fun to do. Otherwise it is just another boring chore, with no clear internalized goal.
When we wanted our children to learn to play an instrument, we spent months playing Bach and Mozzart for them, and explaining what was going on in the music. We played our instruments around them, and let them investigate them. Eventually they started asking us how they could make their own music, and that's when we began lessons.
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Granted, there's a lot of chaff in books as well, but their quality to junk ratio is wildly better than Google, and they generally go much deeper.
It's really unfortunate it went this way, because Atlanta badly needs alternative transpiration options. We would likely have been better off with heavy enforcement around proper storage and riding of scooters, but so many people absolutely hated them due to how it was handled that I'm not surprised to see a ban instead.
The poor handling of how they were rolled out did a lot of damage long term to fixing transportation. Now there will be an uphill battle against a ban passed in reaction to the mess they created. Disappointing all around.
That is not at all what it ever meant, and is very much the opposite of the original meaning. For what it's worth, I personally think this is probably the best approach now though.
> Then it turned into 'developers need to work with the operations people.' Wait what is this just a mantra or something?
This is sort of it. Calling it a "mantra" is fine, but it was meant to be a cultural shift. It was actually pretty successful, which I think is why most people are a little mystified as to what it was originally about. It has become just the way things are done, so it is difficult to recognize as a change. Back before this change started to happen, developers and operations teams used to be much much more divided. They rarely spoke to each other until applications were preparing for release, and then it was the dreaded "throw it over the wall".
Operators didn't want devs touching their environments and breaking things. Developers didn't want anything to do with production, because once the code was released their job was done. The whole idea was to align these incentives, and to modernize Operations (which was frankly very stuck in old mindsets).
> Now it's just a fancy word for 'sysadmin', apparently?
This is what people mean when they say "if you are hiring 'DevOps engineers' you're doing it wrong".
Anyways, it's basically a dead phrase. If you've been in the industry less than 15 years or so, it's basically meaningless to you. The movement it came from achieved its goals so well that it no longer has any useful meaning. It now just serves as a way to nerdsnipe people who were there into explaining what it actually meant.
For trying to get to pro level: Programming Kubernetes. This one is focused on writing code for the k8s ecosystem, but it will teach you a lot of the internals.
I suppose journalists may still believe that have high status, and that is the mechanism that really matters.