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I discussed this with my partner that takes her hobby of dog-training very seriously (like, we live with three dogs, and she sometimes does payed woroshops, e.t.c) that Border Colies are often considered to be the most intelligent dogs, but that might be mostly a side-product of breeding them to be eager to please.

In theory many other breeds could be more intelligent, but border collie is the one most likely to be excited to learn how to be good at the tests we give the dogs.

This is the reason why postgrest is mostly solution looking for a problem to solve. I.e. last time I had great usecase, I ran into the problem that I needed good integration with our identity-service and didn't want to do the workaround that the project suggests.

No, product/dev disconect was there quite often for years. Red Hat has kinda been living off the unix-to-linux migration that happened in early 2000s, and because I think we didn't wan to become the kind of company that just maintains legacy kernel for banking mainframes, we spent most of the 2010s comming up with ideas to see what gains traction. And sometimes these ideas were ... oversold ... to our potential customers?

Despite how nice I find the culture at Red Hat, it definitely isn't lacking in some of the corporate disconnects that sometimes happen. Like, I think we are working on it and it differs from team to team, but it still is there :)

Other than that, I don't see much change in the culture in general.

Well, there was lot of jokes at the start, people comming in to work in blue ties for day or two.

In reality, nothing changed, for better or worse, we did kinda speculate that this was kind of an expensive acquihire of one James M. Whitehurst and if the have to buy this profitable company alongside with him, might as well :D

Another speculation is, that we are one of the more profitable parts of IBM, so the rest of the company doesn't want to f- with that, but if we stop being the golden-goose our management was selling us as, more interference might comme our way.

Red Hat.

Worked there as an intern during college, continued for few more years and returned there after a brief stint at a startup.

Work/life balance is great, most code public has so many advantages and colleagues are friendly and decent humans.

Some teams might be worse than what I experienced, but even if I was growing mildly frustrated (i.e. pressure from product people to push product out of hte gate before it was ready and I was one of hte damned QA people), the robust internal transfer system meant, I could just move to a team where I felt my contribution was more valued even from non-programmers ;)

Well, I ask the same kind of interview question when conducting interviews for Red Hat and work-life balance is much better ;)

Yeah, beer 1000 years BC shouldn't be surprising anywhere?

So, in the end all of languages move closer to StandardML :D Like even python has sum-types and pattern matching now!

I think it is just about growing knowledge and acceptance on one side and growing need to demarcate yourself on the other. Everything is a spectrum, right?

I remember ~20 years ago, when I knew nothing of being trans-gender as a concept, and I bearly heard of some people being trans-sexuals.

These days I am fairly on board with the concept of gender as being a role in society you choose to play, that is often informed by your sex, but doesn't have to.

Yep, last summer I knew more people in my friend group that had lyme disease than people with covid.

I think part of it was that the sort happened when we were ~10yo? People from A-class were the sort of straigh-A student that then coasted on the fact learning came to them ~naturally, so maybe that is why the perceived performance declined.

Even more anecdotal thing, in my class there were more people doing extra-curicural contests, like Math-Olympiad and the like. We were even encouraged by teahers, along the lines of "No, try it even if you don't have top grades, that is the sort of thing where you need to understand what you are doing, not just ave all the right answers on the test." :D

Last hypothesis of mine is, that because we had a mix of sudents, the smarter(?) of us spend some time explaining to others (mix of goodnes of heart, being bullied and even having like a pay-for-homework manufacture?) ... and as they say, you learn best, when you explain?

But I could be completely wrong, rose-tinted glasses and long forgotten traumas and all that :D

Damn, need to reread Malushki i matematika.

I have seen less than 0.1% in my school fail like this. But yeah, it was punitive and usually did provoke a "well screw YOU!" response or ingrain "I must really be stupid" mindset.

T.b.h. as somebody from ost-block country, I did hate the cast-system based on the performance. In my school we had a class that selected for the worst students, and surprise, it created a class where so many people failed.

I was in class that had an even mix, some really smart kids, some not so much, and some comparable to the worst of the D-class. Like third of the of my classmates went for the sports-focused high-school, because they were decent at basketball and bad at almost everything else. But nobody was failing.

Like, A-class should have been the top students, B and C middling, and D poor. In reality, A was ordinary, B and C contained the best and the average and D was a failure.

YMMW, but after I learned some of ESR views, I no longer want to read his essays.

My solution for "I will always download" ... I have separate sim for my facebook account, and I only use it to register messenger.

I have contemplated switching to e-ink smarphone. Eink screens are getting usable enough for texting/banking, but are still horrible enough not to spend hours on social media.

Like, I wouldn't mind. Only thing that would kinda stop me would be fear of of the buildsystem, I remember fighting heaps of xml configuration for maven and ant ~10 years ago, so I hope that got better :)

For backend, most languages are acceptable, and depends on your team and personal preference.

Python will do the job. Java-shops still chug along. Go-lang is nice. Node-js is fine.

Personally, I prefer javascript to GO, as it is more expressive language, and because you have it server-side, you dodge most of its browser-side warts.

But if you plan to run in the Kubernetes ecosystem, Go has some nice things, and is usually simple and has the 'one obvious way to do it' vibe.

I used both GO and Node 'in anger', and one was not obviously better than the other.

I think the point of this is to focus on countermeasures that work, because if you divide your attention wrong, you can start approaching something like a sanitization-theatre, that looks like you are doing impactful things but in reality it is mostly for show.

I remember Zeynep Tufekci ranting about a school where they had strict procedure for doing a weekly deep cleaning, but no guidelines on ventilation.

Use what you know. You know python? Django is fine. Flask and jinja will be fine. Are you a front-end pro? Use react/vue/whatever, put it on netlify/e.t.c, and use firebase/other dbaas as a backend.

It depends. I would think of SCRUM as Getting Things Done for teams?

I.e. a popular set of productivity tools with a cottage industry of people trying to teach it behind it.

If you look at it as a set of tools, you can make something really tailor-made for your team and on occasion it lead to creating a truly bespoe process that fits our team needs and doesn't have anything to do with scrum anymore :-)

With things like standups, backlog refinements, storypoint estimation, based on my experience this works for team of 3 to 10 people, with a clear responsibility that work together on a project for at least 6 sprints (usually 2 weeks/sprint), where new work can wait for new sprint to start.

It helped us focus, storypoints started to work for estimating stuff after ~3 sprints, our managers got used to "no, we won't start working on it right away, put it in the backlog, you will join for prioritization anyway".

Extrude/scale/indent reminds me of my university days, so this looks great :)

Damn, this looks nice! Especially the procedural stuff.

I did use Blender roughly 10 years ago for school projects, and I would like to get back, anybody has a good tutorial lying around? :)

I did try to hack something simmilar to this by the way of Onyx Boox e-reader running Android and supporting my bluetooth keyboard and it was more of a novelty than anything else :D

But it was fun to write in direct sunlight, in just a slightly less of a hipster fashion than using i.e. https://getfreewrite.com/ :D

Yes, json is so much simpler. Afaik, that is the reason for its popularity, even XML can be too much (especially as you browse the list of vulnerabilities in parsers).

I'd vager Wordpress? Maybe Laravel? So not that different from choosing i.e. Ruby to do your business-focused monolith and get payed :)

Ok, I think the best part of these sorts of post is to plug other projects, right? :)

So let me plug Hedy by Felienne Hermans, a python like environment, that gradually introduces more programming concepts :)

https://hedy-beta.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/Felienne/hedy

I would say the event of having your own child is probably the highest stakes on the most personal scale you can get.

I have a kid (6yo), I have definitely found a lot of my happiness in being her father, but I see it as a giant responsibility first.

Like, it is amazing, and I see I get, as you'd say a lot of benefits, but the lens you view it seems weirdly side-ways.

Counter point, the fewer loving relationship and purpose you have in life, the harder is to raise your child, the more loving relationships and purpose you have in life, the easier and more rewarding it can be.

(Counter-counter point, yes, you can have many loving relationships and great purpose and goals in life that would be anathema to raising a child)

I'd say, go talk to your friends that already are parents? This seems to be one of those conversations that deserve full attention of a in-person conversation.

We call it `develop`.

I would say you have more options, if you expand your definition of tea to other things than literaly tea-leaves brew :-)

I.e. I had my wakeup ritual with Mint/Nana for a bit and it was nice :-)

But I did discover James Hoffman on youtube and am on a verge of becomming a weird coffe nerd :D