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This is a fascinating topic, some of the comments are interesting too. I wonder whether some folks who knowingly or unknowingly use this technique to their advantage are the ones recently insisting the end to WFH and a return to the office? It's possible they're not given a chance to unleash their alter ego at home while the family members are around?

This is one of the most beautiful comments I have ever read. Thank you writing them.

First attempt is 5. But anxiety levels were sky high. Throwback trauma.

Delphi?

Have they given up West Bank yet?

Fascinating story and the use of virus to repair genetic anomalies. What other uses can there be of similar conditions? And why aren't we hearing more of it (if the approach is viable)?

Why wouldn't "isPayingCustomer" not be part of the Customer object graph immediately after logging in to begin with? (Maybe I didn't understand the use case properly)

Thank you for sharing this experience.

There is no default life script. Everyone is a myth legend. A hero. You can't fault an opinion piece like the posted article, but there's a chink in this thinking. Such opinions - give agency early and it will yield dividends not just for the individual but for humanity as a whole appeals to our most primal human conundrum: our sense of purpose and our destiny in life. The idea of the one individual making geometrically disproportionate impact for all humanity is mythologised. And it's an error. The flip-side of this myth is the ugly face that if we as a society stop producing such myth legends (the original author claims it might have stopped after ca 1968) we are failing as humanity, or worse that if you do not become that myth-legend you are unworthy of respect, or dignity. This is a terrible way to look at things. I do agree about the author's powerful comment that kids (adolescents) today are hardly considered useful for any form of vocational education outside the cookie-cut education systems. But can you orchestrate this paradigm like the CCP did in the late 60s/70s forcing urban kids to learn farming as part of their education? Or is it a naturally existing societal affordance to enable such evolution in kids?

There are many unspoken mythical legends living today, huddled in their numbered and anonymous cubicles. There are many unknown engineers who've done crucial work within their own boundaries of "scripted life" to prevent bridges from collapsing or payroll runs to be corrupted (just in time). No one hears about them. No one celebrates them. But there are billions of us on this planet achieving myth-level brilliance daily just by being responsible parents. Or just by being simply kind to fellow humans.

There is no default scripted life.

Edited: added "Or just by being simply kind to fellow humans."

Is there a good full example of Closure (or languages like Closure) that deals with a complete and real-world data-intensive problem (eg. order processing system) that I can go through to see how languages like Closure embody this simplicity philosophy against the backdrop of the existing Java/C# paradigm?

DIWHY

(Incredible talent shown though)

Thanks. Can you comment on how this differs from a “mutable” RDBMS model but one with automatic history based on triggers for example?

Yeah, by all means, make you employees put in those extra hours, but please pay them additionally for their extra hours fairly. The moral hazard (for abuse) is squarely in the employer's camp if the financial consequence of allowing a culture of 80-100 hours per week does not dent the payroll budget.

What was the result?

This is profound insight. Well put.

Microsoft PhotoDraw

Tesla. Or rather, TSLA. (So far)

Right now, yeah. But if this tech trend (miniature, low power, cheap, commodity) continues and we can run our apps on them ... it might be a game changer. No?

This is so exciting. Is this type of "movement" (trend) likely to see data centers coming back on premises for enteprise markets? (ie. back from cloud)

If you write your views, tvf and stored procedures to use common elements defined once and once only (this starts with once and once only tables), maintenance is easy peasy. If you let every developer create their own view for the same business logic, then you are creating an unmanageable creature.

This also applies to "composable" code written in the application layer outside the database.

What a comment! (Tips hat)

Why is P2P more successful in India than in Africa (eg. South Africa)? Serious question and TIA for anyone with insight.

The problem is that we are taught to care too much. And this is a side-effect of a domain that obsesses with optimisation. The higher-ups simply do not understand this. Take sanguy's advice. My own advice would be to quit the profession but continue to use your talents to build something of your own. If you still do not want to do that, take the first exit.

He doesn't speak of ageism in our industry. A lot of the frustration comes from realising that experience in our industry is short-changed for ageist hiring and compensating policies.

Pretty much sums up the narrative. It had to be a non-alcoholic beverage because serious business was being conducted and the fact that it allowed folks to remain awake and energized for the long and boring accounting was even better.

Thanks. I love reading this type of grammar preppie school prose - a communication style designed for elites to recognize another deserving of status. It wasn’t until recently that I learned that most folks didn’t talk this way back then. This style of writing was what Ernest Hemingway “dismantled”. I love both Hemingway and Fitzgerald, btw ... concordantly, of course.

D) The country you didn't mention is the one I was talking about. You know which one. Very well.

And yet he didn't! That cooler box, those planks just inches from denying him one more day.

I am an atheist but such stories always evoke a delightful supernatural indulgence. I was vicarious with my enjoyment when he said "The world seemed to vibrate with a new intensity".

What an incredible story. Is this what Carl Jung would call "synchronicity"?

Exactly.