GiorgioG

Nobody saw this coming...nobody /s

CEOs would never lie.

/s

Clean Architecture and Uncle Bob can take a hike.

Interest on the national debt is by far the largest share. Both political parties spend like drunken sailors.

I'm going to blame Claude Code!

In the US police have no obligation to protect the people.

People who still remember Zip drives! In college I did tech support for Iomega. It was an interesting time ;)

Great now let’s follow suit in all 50 states.

Let's not pretend this started with this administration. I'm not pointing any fingers at any one party or politician, but this is nothing new:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

'By the late 1990s ECHELON was reportedly capable of monitoring up to 90% of all internet traffic. According to the BBC in May 2001, however, "The US Government still refused to admit that Echelon even exists."'

Maybe if young folks could afford housing they'd have kids...there's a thought.

We produce way more than the punch-card wielding developers of yesteryear and we’re doing just fine (better even).

They didn’t get here on their own. In 2016, Democrats ran an uncharismatic candidate in Hillary Clinton while pushing aggressively progressive ideas. Enough swing voters decided to take a chance on something different, and Trump won his first term. Without that win, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

In my experience DevOps has little interest in doing actual DevOps - they just want to run ops. They want to advise (or tell us we’re holding it wrong) but not actually get their hands dirty. On the flip side, devs don’t want to spend a ton of time learning k8s or how to manage servers, cloud services, etc.

DevOps is a mess of our own making - embracing K8s created complexity for little gain for nearly all companies.

Humanity is imperfect/flawed…that’s how.

> HN is known for its optimism and abundance mindset.

At this point I think you’re just trolling.

If you’re serious however, come back after you’ve spent a year in your desired first management role and we’ll see if you still feel the same way.

The first step is for you to get your head out of the sand and look around. Jobs are scarce unless you're knee-deep in ML/AI. You're talking like a naive, idealistic, young person. I'm long past any of those attributes and I do have a family and a mortgage. Sure you can move to Europe, workers have more rights...and they earn a hell of a lot less than we do here in the USA (my brother lives in Europe.) And even there companies try to employ contract workers so they have more "flexibility".

Workplace organization...for tech workers? I haven't seen it.

By all means then, lead the revolution.

It’s already normal and has been for a long time. Defeatist? No, people who have mortgages to pay and families to feed can’t be martyrs for workers’ rights. You want to change it, I’m not opposed, but you make it sound simple/easy.

That may work where you live, but as a small cog in a big wheel in the USA, profit over people is the rule, not the exception.

I did not say MongoDB weren’t being assholes here. I’m saying asshole behavior is the norm and should be expected. I have an excellent boss (and his boss is fantastically supportive too). Several coworkers have needed leave for sometimes weeks and they have accommodated them. I don’t expect this is the norm or written in our company policies.

IMO, there should be a balance. My brother lives in Europe and it seems every time he has a small ache/cold he can go to the doctor and get a note for a couple of days off. On the other hand, companies here in the US expect you to be at work unless you’ve been hit by a bus.

If only LLMs didn’t just make shit up regularly.

$5,000-7,000...that's crazy.

LLMs are nothing more than fancy weather forecasting models…they still get things wrong a lot.

The Fortran compiler worked though.

Can't wait for this AI shit to be over so they can get back to their bread & butter...great dev tools.

Layoffs by another name.

Different people optimize for different things. I have a 450 mile trip (each way) next weekend. I can do it in 1 full tank of gas, but realistically I’ll stop once to fill up halfway. I don’t plan any other stops. If I had an EV, I’d probably have to stop twice, for 30+ minutes each, extending my already long trip by an hour each way.

Add most of what Martin Fowler said to that list.