GiorgioG

> Americans have the some of the cheapest housing and highest salaries in the world and look around and cry foul.

I must be living in a different America then.

> I've learned the hard way that many people in this country do NOT actually care about democracy.

Our democracy has been eroding for decades. Congress collects paychecks while gridlocking progress, even on bipartisan issues that could help ordinary citizens. Super PACs and "campaign contributions" (aka bribes) ensure the wealthy control both parties. Democrats and Republicans both spend recklessly and divide the nation. Democrats won't admit it, but their approach has driven half the country to prefer what the Republicans have become: essentially a cult.

Does anyone really get time to refactor anything these days? Seems like (at least where I'm at), everything is go-go-go, feature work.

Interesting, I've never gotten annoyed by my Android-loving friends/family. Even when I tried switching to Android nobody gave me static.

> Software can now adapt to you, not the other way around. Better yet, AI is making it possible for anyone, not just developers, to create single-use or custom applications.

Yeah, because that wouldn't be a customer service / troubleshooting nightmare.

> But within the next decade, millions of people will be able to create software. Designers, marketers, product mangers, and others will be the first.

Hahaha - clearly the author is young. All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

The self-entitlement is getting old. Nobody's forcing you to switch platforms. If your Apple-friends send you an invite, you will not be shunned from the event. Yes even the uncool non-Apple users will be allowed to participate in said invite.

The paranoia is real.

A friend of mine is a pilot for these types of folks (founders of non-tech household names), unless they're going to an event (say the Super Bowl), they fly into smaller airports.

> Cut the hours back to something sane, and as much as possible time the airport closures in ways that affect the ruling class

The ruling class flies private aircraft and don't have to operate out of large municipal airports.

So sick of these bullshit "cuts" not being called what they are: layoffs.

In a few months Bluesky will have more users than Canada has people.

Microsoft has never taken it seriously, often releasing Visual Studio with broken F# support. It's fine for something you want to tinker with (like say Elm), but not something that's easy to sell to engineering managers when starting a new project.

Every time I futz around with another language I go back to C# for backend work. Part of it is likely due to familiarity (I’ve been using it since 2002). I wish MS would put some additional resources into F#.

As opposed to .NET’s mostly portable library ecosystem?

Don’t worry, the next model will be trained on all your fucking queries.

It's a paper launch.

I don’t want Kubernetes period. Best decision we’ve made at work is to migrate away from k8s and onto AWS ECS. I just want to deploy containers! DevOps went from something you did when standing up or deploying an application, to an industry-wide jobs program. It’s the TSA of the software world.

> Choosing to "not be political" means choosing to be inclusive to Nazis and to be dangerous for nearly everyone else.

That's a fucked up take. I guess because Gleam doesn't explicitly call out pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and other low-lifes that they must be inclusive of those folks too right? Gleam is so dangerous for everyone else as a result. /s

> First and foremost, their statement about community on their homepage spoke to me

This will probably get me downvoted to hell, but here goes anyway. You know, sometimes I just want programming stuff to be about programming. If I want social justice I will go to the appropriate place. No I don't support Nazis or the like, but there's a shitload of other types of discrimination/injustices that I (and most others) also don't support, that we don't see plastered everywhere.

Your mom experiences much better vastly different than mine. Trust and transparency is not something we have in the current “free market”. Musk is neither the first nor the last lying executive.

I hope you’re as vocal about your higher ups.

The taxpayer pays for all the lies.

I’m not a big fan of Elon Musk, but this is just the typical executive talking up their product and to some extent being overly optimistic about timelines. You’d think with the quantity of software engineers in HN this would be obvious, but the (rightful IMO) disdain for Elon Musk is resetting people’s brains.

Ah yet another reason for people to flee the nanny state.

No, it's the morons who pick a technology (in this case DynamoDB) without understanding it is the wrong tool for the job at hand, leaving the rest of us holding the bag for years on end for their poor choice of tools.

If Europe invested more in their militaries they could dictate their own terms with their neighbors.

DynamoDB is great if you want to fork over a lot of money to AWS on a monthly basis. It's inability to allow you to query on arbitrary attributes/fields without creating a separate index (i.e. copy of the entire collection) is mind-boggling. There are so many better, less expensive options out there for 99.99999% of use-cases. Friends don't let friends use DynamoDB.

These are layoffs. See what he did there?

Screen Time (iOS), and teach them to think for themselves. It really depends on what kind of personality your kid(s) have too. Our son is a rule-follower, so it's generally not an issue once he gets past the initial annoyance of not being allowed to do/have something.

That wouldn't require a quota (5%) nor an announcement.