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Smartphone should not be compared to a calculator. The closer analogy would be kids bringing in their friends, cousins, music, games, photo albums, films etc into a class and interacting with them.

I always thought watching films that steam in the dark streets was some cool 80s aesthetics. As in 'You are in this dark corner of the city where nobody can hear you' scary or edgy.

What stops management from committing Feature A to be delivered after 250 tasks are completed? Yes the fact and the reasons that the Feature A expands to 500 will be documented, but who will care about it? This will still be a "delay" from the management point of view.

..or hjkl if we are at it. Asking for my friend (primeagen)

> Contractors can get a new role almost immediately...

Perhaps inside IR35 and perhaps for a low rate. Big corps mostly do umbrellas these days.

lobbying == bribing == crime. Unfortunately this equality doesn't hold in reality and on a macro economic scale is a fundamental source of corruption accelerating climate heating, sanctions impact, arms trade, human trafficking, ecosystem collapse, unemployment, etc. Nothing will ever change if we keep tolerating lobbying.

Troll farms are flourishing on Youtube. Especially this week when lots of bad news from Avdiivka started coming. Most of comments by @user-... are from trolls. They will share similar amounts of likes too.

... except the difference in rate.

Where should I find all the good, secure projects?

The relationship between you and your job is very personal. What works in your situation does not necessarily apply to others.

I find it similar to having kids. Most of adults have them, but the impact they have on their lives is so different. It all depends on financial situation, support from the rest of the family, friends, health situation..

In many cases this is not a different league, but an entirely different game with different rules and goals.

The article calls the lack of pro-activeness a CBF, but that is a symptom and not a cause. The fact that you CBF might not necessarily be a problem with you. It could be that you are in a different frame of reference compared to some other people who "do things perfectly".

Maybe moving maximum amount of Jiras into a done state is valued more than delivering this excellent refactoring. Maybe skipping unit tests and dropping feature branch to testers is perceived as a more pragmatic approach. Maybe your perfect commit will be unrecognizable a couple months later, because company is "moving fast".

People with great jobs in great companies will not understand this and call it laziness, procrastination or any other thing that will put you at blame. Just like people with great families will not understand what it means to have abusive parents.

Software development is about processes, but often developers have no say in setting up those processes, there is no feedback loop. Some naive manager will push to maximize some theoretical metric. In some cases you can adapt, circumvent certain obstacles, but sometimes you just CBF.

I wonder when is the right time for the governments to start protecting local jobs the way they protect farmers from the cheaper produce grown abroad.

Isn't it with .Net 7 it becomes simply .Net and confusion with Framework, Standard, Core is now gone?

"Net zero" and "carbon offsetting" are greatest hypocrisy catalyzers invented by greedy corporate sociopaths.

Youtube without adblocker is a completely different experience. I hope web survives.

It is going to bite most of the families. Chip shortage impacts new car deliveries which in turn is driving up used car prices. It is a very bad time to upgrade your car if don't want to invest in a brand new car.

By exercising every day and playing a music instrument. If you can't exercise, just do a ~2 hour walk (in any weather). Go out and walk. Same with music, if you don't know how to play, just make sounds with it. Any sounds, the way you can. I use my bass guitar as a stress ball. I can't play it in a conventional sense, but I can make sounds I like and it helps me.

Did you mean private schools? Public school education in the UK is quite problematic.

And NS2 was not operational at all, therefore the accident hypothesis is less likely there.

Gorbachev saw Pizza Hut come and leave his country.

My manager uses excel, yes he is the reincarnation of the Office Space guy.

Could it be because of the fact they are Italians? Or are you assuming the whole world must speak the perfect English?

Getting many things wrong by the Eurovision observers is part of Eurovision. BBC is the worst (or should I say best) in this regard.

Italian and German fascism lasted relatively short period of time. Generation that "invented" it had a chance to change their mind.

Russian fascism runs for multiple generations. Russia never was democratic. Russian mentality is to have an aggressive leader ("бьёт - значит любит").

Navalny is perceived as an alternative to Putin, but he supported Crimean annexation and Georgian war. There is no evidence the remedies that worked for Nazi Germany will work for Russia.

all day I dream about scripting

Militarily, yes, but politically it would have looked a bit better if there was someone else apart from Lukashenko to support them.

Had a Swedish colleague and he said he did a military service. Answering to the question "why" he told us that Swedish must prepare not for the if but for when Russia invades. That was before the Georgian war when Russia seemed to be less aggressive. I guess the perspective should be changing within the country.

No, you are definitely not. But some insecure interviewer might feel this is an enormous red flag to be doing so.

Good point that software "industry" is not new, but I would argue that it is not an industry in a literal sense or at least it is a special industry. The special thing about software is that it is governed by the social aspects a lot.

And because of this, software has poor standardization practices.

Engineers in other sectors could prove their qualifications by showing certification diplomas, even education and years of experience would count. In software your qualification would be determined by some random dude and how well you fit his CS fetish of the month and that is it. Experience and education is only important while filtering CVs. If you designed a chip, an aircraft or skyscraper it is immediately impressive. If you built an FX trading platform it means almost nothing if you are a bit skeptical about pair programming.

It also applies the other way round. If project uses microservice architecture, what exactly does that mean? The result would be a wildly different if you compare such projects at FANG and some investment bank. How software is tested and released will be different in any team. And how that affects the poor developer will vary too. What is a good software? We can have an opinion, but there is no formal definition.

And because of this fragmentation and fluidity software as and industry is doing very different things. It will learn in some cases in others it will be incredibly ignorant.

Not switching yet, but evaluating the switch. Will be interesting to know how it goes.

I thought it was an SQL thing.