ajeet_dhaliwal

I get it. However I find without significant direction from me it architects things badly and/or introduces poor patterns or lack of maintainability so it’s not like you can just let it run. However manual coding does seem more tedious now and I try to get it to a point where it writes most of the code while I make adjustments.

This is one thing to let your accountant choose imo. Only thing I outsourced right away (bookkeeping and taxes). I asked questions and learned what they were doing over time but it gets in the way of running the business to focus on that imo.

They do. That’s my point. Train riders are subsidized. Car drivers are not

I’ve lived both, car centric US/Canada and London. At first public transport seems great but over time the realization sets in about how uncomfortable it is (no seat warmers, cleanliness, having your face in people’s armpits) and inconvenient it is (not door to door) and that wouldn’t be so bad but then the unreliability (signal issues) and expense of the tickets and tax subsidies makes it a bad deal. It should exist as an option, I’m glad it does so I can have less traffic on the roads, but it’s overrated. HS2 in the article is this expensive just to build, imagine the maintenance costs for the next century. Whether you use it or not, residents will have to pay for it.

Drivers and residents pay additional taxes to maintain roads and pay for their own cars. You can’t get tax payers to maintain your own car.

Imo, as someone who lived in central London for 9 years with no car, the Uk puts ideology first oft n. Obsessed with trains. They are unreliable and expensive. Even the London Underground doesn’t pay for itself with tickets, needing subsidies from tax payers. It may be best to build wider roads and highways and everyone buy a car.

Of course you’re not responsible for his death, you need not feel any guilt whatsoever.

However to the general point, having been in this industry for close to 20 years now, unnecessary complexity and constantly changing frameworks and conventions for little to no gain is stressful.

This has ruined my day.

I loved them so much when younger it inspired me to become a programmer. I wouldn’t be in tech without them. Nowadays I don’t play other than with my kids. I believe this decline is because there are so many other problems to solve and responsibilities to take care of when older. When relaxing for an hour of the day I tend to want to do something passive.

Good idea, this is useful. What do you use as your source data? LinkedIn jobs?

I'm not worried. Will adapt as needed or die. Editing to add, I don't mean to sound flippant but I believe it's hard to predict things very far out and adaptation/iteration is the way forward. The true 'heroes' are the researchers, scientists and engineers involved in solutions around energy.

This issue is the biggest one I believe:

"For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live. The fallout from this decline in living standards will be exacerbated by the fact that the difference between the extremes of wealth is greater now in developed countries than it has been at any time in several generations."

It applies to Canada and the UK. This changes things massively. Inheritance matters more than hard work. Of course there will be some who excel more than others, become millionaires etc and will be fine, but it's still a fundamental shift when the average/median person cannot.

I know you say Studio display feels excessively expensive, but I just got one two weeks ago and I couldn't be happier. If you can afford it, it's worth it.

Yes. Is OP exaggerating? Or is the board member actually saying such things?

These are all different things.

Subscription vs one-time payment (+ maintenance/updates payments) are two ways off offering to pay.

Freemium just means offering a free tier to let users try the software and offering a way to upgrade to unlock features on paid plans.

B2C vs B2B is business to customer vs business to business.

SaaS is software as a service, as opposed to say installing an application on premise in a data center.

A startup could be offering a fremium B2C SaaS for example, or a freemium B2B SaaS.

The latest Macbook Pro has 24 hours of battery life and is a powerful laptop. It's not the thinnest laptop, but it's not bad, how thin do you really need it to be? To me the overhead of replacing one machine with two wouldn't be worth it for development on the go, but if you enjoy building desktops that's different and may be worth it to you.

CI plays a huge part in supporting test automation so I can see why this is a pain point. This also impacts deployments in general.

Speaking specifically to test automation I find that most companies simply prefer to make the calculation that they'll take the risk of an issue occurring over investing in test automation (and testing in general) until the problems become so large and financially catastrophic, or a regulatory issue, that it gets embarrassing for a VP/Exec and then the decision is made to properly invest. That's not an ideal approach because building this out as you go is more efficient.

The typical other problems are how best to shape the testing pyramid. Having large number of unit tests > medium number of integration tests and a small number of end-to-end tests is always proposed but I find in most cases the pyramid becomes inverted due to the natural issues associated with problems really being only of concern if they actually impact an end user and the end-to-end issues cast a wide net even though they are very challenging to maintain and do require appropriate investment in resources.

I want to mention Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) with which I am involved to tackle another issue. Clarity around test results and what is actually being tested due to bad reporting and trouble accessing relevant results data. Understanding testing across the systems for a team is essential to knowing what's actually running, how often and what the output is. This helps understand what additional testing may be needed and identifying what's failing.

Overall, most of the issues related to test automation stem from the calculation made too often mentioned above.

Thank you. My dad was 43. Yes he was Indian and I believe you are right about enhanced risk.

My dad died from a heart attack in 1992. His arteries were blocked. He had very high cholesterol and statins were unavailable until the mid 90s. I was found to have the same issue and it was so high I was told it had be familial. A couple of doctors told me eating healthy and exercising could help keep it down but others said, no not really, it's not a little high, it's massively high, I need intervention, so I have been on statins for several years and they have kept my cholesterol levels in the normal range. I am grateful and I do hope that if the second set of doctors are right that the first set learn about this.

I don’t know how widespread this is but I don’t do this for the very reason you bring up with differences between countries, I drive in both the UK and Canada most years.

It just seems like an old convention that has stuck, seem'm much simpler to anyone not familiar with ships to say 'ships left' or 'ships right' than to have new words. We don't do this with cars. You have a left rear door, not a port rear door.

Talking about humans here, not alligators.

Violent criminals do not suddenly appear on the streets from out of a portal from another dimension. They start out as babies, then toddlers then children. Something goes very wrong, neglect and lack of guidance, developing a delusional reality of the world , and by the time they are adults are unable model how the world actually works and cope to sustain themselves. Desperation and short-term thinking sets in, and violent crime follows.

Social values really matter. Countries with low crime rates don't have them because the police are educated about deescalation. That is important too and I support that, but the police are largely irrelevant to the underlying issue. This is coming from someone who grew up thinking social conservative types and people going on about social values needed to relax. I was wrong and realized that when I had children. Children absolutely need stability, reassurance, love and guidance from their mother and father, it's absolutely critical.

Almost everything.

Great read. Interesting parallels to software engineering failures. Time, pressure, quality control, operator error, documentation, training... a human challenge.

We originally used it at Tesults.com (the test automation reporting dashboard) because it's got a great API, documentation and to some degree due to the reputation of the company. Overtime, we've had no issues with it and so currently see no reason to change. It's possible we don't run into problems because Tesults is a b2b service and customers don't typically do things like charge backs and we deal with any requests for cancelations/refunds etc. promptly but that's just speculation.

I came across this last week when I got the HP Laserjet MP110we to replace a 12 year old Samsung printer that I just couldn’t find drivers for for the latest macs (Samsung sold their printer division to HP). They also have chips in the toner to detect an unofficial one and try to sell you a subscription. Seems like multiple steps backward although Wi-Fi printing from phone and laptops without cables is pretty cool (I realize I’m years late to this)!

I have a similar background. I don't think you can regret it because it's the circumstances you found yourself in early in life I guess as a child. If you were severely bullied or mistreated to be insecure and lack confidence it's natural you will need to unlearn that and it will slow you down compared with those raised in a more positive environment. Just bad luck. Look at the positives instead, you have a decent brain, you're not severely handicapped etc. Just try your best man.

I don’t know if there has been a decline but since working on SEO for Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) which is in the developer/B2B SaaS space I have realized that tool comparison type articles rank highly and they are either content marketing by a vendor or they are pay for link sites. The first I would expect to rank (although that’s not necessarily great) but the second I would not. We have not paid. Some of these sites have such poor quality content and are filled with ads but surprisingly they continue to rank.

Sometimes the most honest thing on page 1 are the links labeled “Ad”. Almost everything is also often an ad.

There are people in those cars. I lived in the center of city for 9 years without a car and being walkable is great but you tend to end up limiting your life to a small area. Cars can enrich lives, open up opportunity and for families with small kids, make getting around more convenient. No need to be anti car to the point where cars are not an option anymore, optionality is key.