Scubabear68

In my experience, local reporting has stagnated so badly that they now survive by kissing up to whoever is in power. The majority of pieces are puff pieces commissioned by the subject or friend of the subject, be it a school superintendent or local town council or what have you.

And yes, the bias is heavily to the left. I am very centrist in my views so a left or right leaning bias would be upsetting.

We live across the river from Bucks County PA in NJ, Bucks County journalism and the NJ equivalent are just shills.

> The reason for this is that it's hard to hire native UI developers, but easy to hire web devs

Funny. Back in the 90s Microsoft just hired kind of random kids from college to write their OS in C.

My record is about 9 weeks to get onboarded enough to do work, where "onboarded" was getting my Laptop to work and login and access to a few critical systems.

These kinds of costs are baked into every level of the company. This is a place where they calculate it costs about $30,000 to add a period to the end of a sentence in a static website.

> 1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems.

The author lost me right here.

Not because he’s wrong about this in general - he is not. But it seems to not be any kind of differentiator at Google. Maybe the opposite is true- make it as screwed up as physically possible, then make it a little worse, then release it - that seems a lot closer to the lesson Google engineers learn. As long as you are “first” and shipped it.

Then get promoted, move on and meanwhile your crap code eventually gets the axe a decade later.

You’re right. And it was bad.

This is bad too.

Yep.

Except when it’s not I/O.

I’ll bet FIFA feels pretty silly now about their peace award.

I think categorizing around 90% (from the cited link) as “nearly every” is accurate.

The sixties were over 50 years ago, I know as I am a child of the sixties :-)

Given how necessary driving is to living in nearly all of America, and that a with certificate is the primary point of ID to get one, there is a very strong motivation to get a birth certificate.

No.

Python’s issue is that it is incredibly slow in use cases that surprise average developers. It is incredibly slow at very basic stuff, like calling a function or accessing a dictionary.

If Python didn’t have such an enormous number of popular C and C++ based libraries it would not be here. It was saved by Numpy etc etc.

I think you misread your cited article. It does not say only around 10% could easily out their hands on a birth certificate. It says “9% don’t have proof of citizenship readily available” while traveling. It properly indicates nearly every US citizen has their birth certificate.

Of course you are right, basically no one carries their birth certificate around. Which is probably countered by the fact that birth certificates are pretty easily falsifiable because there is no standardization of them.

Same here. Was using Java in the alpha/beta/gamma days. Have built a lot with it. Would not use it for command line tooling by default, only if it happened to be the simplest option (like maybe a library or something does nearly everything needed).

From the article:

> It has been proven numerous times already that strcpy in source code is like a honey pot for generating hallucinated vulnerability claims

This closing thought in the article really stood out to me. Why even bother to run AI checking on C code if the AI flags strcpy() as a problem without caveat?

This omits the fact that Musk has slashed costs in critical areas of Tesla cars, notably in relying only on visual sensors.

They abandoned the hardware most promising to help enable self-driving.

The main thing I read was the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman.

It requires even more suspension of disbelief than a usual sci fi / fantasy combo, but was worth it for the characters and laughs and “where will he take this next?!”.

I have no idea who you are.

I know who Rob Pike is.

Rob is not strutting around with no clothes, he literally has decades upon decades of contributions to the industry.

I think Rob gets a pass, yes, due to his extensive contributions to software.

And he is allowed to work for google and still rage against AI.

Life is complicated and complex. Deal with it.

Nope.

As a trivial example, someone with celiac’s disease is not going to value your gluten ridden bread very high.

Gold is a VERY unique metal and its value comes directly from that. Particularly the complete lack of oxidation, I'm sure it was seen as absolutely magic that it would not tarnish while every other metal known at the time would oxidize very easily.

Value is ultimately always in the eye of the beholder.

All I have to say is this post warmed my heart. I'm sure people here associate him with Go lang and Google, but I will always associate him with Bell Labs and Unix and The Practice of Programming, and overall the amazing contributions he has made to computing.

To purely associate with him with Google is a mistake, that (ironically?) the AI actually didn't make.

Just the haters here.

Reading this I feel like I live on another planet.

I recognize this guy seems to only be dealing with FAANG type companies, but the disconnect from my own reality is so vast it’s hard to reconcile.

I have never worked anywhere with the L4/L5/whatever crap. No one I have worked with has either. It sounds downright dystopian that people are reduced to a basically a number (if you leave out the L).

I am assuming he left the job this year? If so, more disconnect. I am working but looking, and this job search is the hardest I have faced in over 30 years. Just talking to a human is almost impossible. This guy went on a zillion in person interviews? Is he maybe talking about the distant past of two years ago?

The NDA minefield? Maybe I am naive or sheltered, but it’s never came up in interviews and was not something I ever sweated. For the simple reason that there is no secret sauce so magic that I could tell someone in ten minutes in an interview and spill all the beans. But what do I know, maybe YouTube has some secret variable this dude invented I am just too dumb to understand.

I could go on. But the entitlement coming off of this post as I stress about paying bills and keeping my kids in school and fed as I read this on Xmas eve is a lot to take.

Am I that much of an outlier that I need to get with the program? Or is this as out of touch with the current reality as I feel?

When I was about 12 I got an old TV in my room which I of course decided to take apart to figure out how it worked.

I was VERY smart and of course unplugged the TV before doing anything.

My flat head screwdriver brushed against the wrong terminal in the back, I was literally thrown across the room several feet, and my flat head screw driver was no longer usable as the tip had deformed and slightly melted.

I later found an electronics book that had a footnote mentioning grounding out the tube before going near it…

Nope.

Becoming well known even in a smallish circle of a few hundred or thousand people will likely immediately lead to stalkers and crazies coming out after you. My theory is they are directly drawn to people who make some sort of splash, for whatever reason, even if it’s local and small.

My interpretation is that this had little to do with specifics of RFCs, and everything to do with the verbal culture described.

I don’t care what format you use in terms of both process and also literal format. Just write shit down.

I think you are confusing limitations of Java at the time with something else. Interfaces everywhere and single implementation classes has nothing at all to do with Microservices or SOA.

Please don’t fall into the Fowler-said-so trap.

Just because he says something does not mean Fowler “formalized the term”. Martin wrote about every topic under the sun, and he loved renaming and or redefining things to fit his world view, and incidentally drive people not just to his blog but also to his consultancy, Thoughtworks.

PS The “single application” line shows how dated Fowlers view were then and certainly are today.

Loved your sentence at the end about tar -cvf.

Every generation seems to have to learn the lesson about batching small inputs together to keep throughput up.

In my experience this is best done as an out of band flow in the background eg one of the zillion services that collect and aggregate logs.

I wish the article had stuck with the technical topic at hand and left out the embellishment. In particular the opening piece talking about what is happening outside the exchange.

What happens outside the exchange really doesn’t matter. The ordering will not happen until it hits the exchange.

And that is why algorithmic traders want their algos in a closet as close to the exchange both physically and also in terms of network hops as possible.

I don’t understand why you would have a logging microservice vs just having a library that provides logging that is used wherever you need logging.

Wherever Robert Heinlein is right now, he is shaking his head sadly. Told ya so......