"intention-less" - agreed. Lacking in connection with anything human. It feels like a glorified /dev/urandom. I feel empty looking at these. I once wrote a program that iterated over every combination of colours of pixels to create every possible image for the specified size - similarly empty.
I can't say I fully agree. Maybe for scripting languages. Some projects require knowing the intimate details of a language and its sharp edges, and that knowledge can take years to accrue.
But you're fine because you didn't give them much personal data. Because by now you're perfectly aware of this scenario. So you take your privacy seriously.
"It's weird how long it's taking for people to rediscover why strong static types were a good idea."
It sounds like you're projecting your limited experience eg you've dismissed all Ms dev. Many people have been using strong static for decades. The benefits have never been out of sight. Many use dynamic, but many have always used strong static.
I have no tolerance for politics at work. As far as woke at work goes, not too long ago someone in my office commented on slack "I don't approve of unnecessarily gendered emoji" - I can't even begin to imagine what sort of mind produces such thoughts. First world problems? No idea.
What rubbish. In the UK the figures have been blatantly inflated. The entire UK media has turned into a bought and paid for government propaganda machine; the only journalists left are the independents. The whole thing has been such farce that I now struggle to acknowledge anything more than the presence of a virus. I still, after a year, don't know anyone who knows anyone who's died from this catastrophic, sky is falling, disaster pandemic. Condolences to anyone has been affected, but this whole think stinks with deceit.
Ok, thanks. I was in sub-Saharan Africa, so zero exposure to the Mexican aspects, and I don't recall anyone ever giving a damn about fat content in anything. We also had banana, pawpaw, and guava trees - avos were just one of the standard fruits.
I don't understand this avocado obsession of recent years. What's the sudden interest? "Avocado on toast" - what's that about? Some sort of dig? Or people genuinely think this is exciting? I grew up with a couple of avocado trees in my garden from '80-ish, but it's not like it was a rare earth mine. This makes as much sense to me as people getting excited about oranges; genuinely confused.
There's no chance of me hugging the people I work with. None. Ever. I would only go for drinks with a few of them, but not often. Places vary, and in previous places I've had good drinking buddies, but hugging work people has never happened and never will. I'd hug the helicopter.
Naming gets far worse than that. I've worked on code where the naming was not just unhelpful, it was outright misleading. One of the worst I remember was a project which unsurprisingly was named after a game of thrones character. As I never watched game of thrones it took me about two weeks before I could even remember the stupid name, during which time I was also dumbfounded as to how the program worked until I realised the naming in the code was equally bad, completely misleading. Then there's the place where the stg1 environment was actually the dev0 environment...
You're simply aiming way too high. Those companies are all world renowned; most companies are not. Nice to have ambition, but it has to match reality, and evidently it doesn't. Apply to companies that aren't known beyond the city; work your way up from there.
I'm running Arch on mine, 2.5 years old, everything works fine, and I love it. I get dells at work, and also have a mbp, but no contest - surface laptop 3 is the bar for me.
Vote libertarian. Governments will do what they can to make their jobs easier, to show off success. I know left leaning people are going to dislike that, but it's a double edged sword - if you want eg a national health system, you're going to end up with the government telling you to eat your five vegetables each day.
Strangely, sometime last year I commented on HN about a contribution fiasco, and a bunch of "community" jumped on me, downvoted every response to their refusals to believe it. I've mostly abandoned Go at this point, partly due to the language, very much due to the "community". (Posted from a different account - to save you the time of looking).
Only for people who moved there, knowing full well that they were moving into a different culture, and that as a minority they would have to adapt to local norms. I've lived in a number of countries on various continents, and I have never expected the locals to adopt my way of doing things - I think that would be utterly bizarre. If you go there without a degree of humility and willingness to adapt you're a colonist.
I would no more like minarets in very country than i like starbucks and mcdonalds in every country. It seems to me the anti-xenphobia people are in fact killing off cultures as they create a single global mishmash culture. The excitement and adventure of travel is on its way to dead.
I don't know that I'd go so far as to say Tesla is screwed, but certainly massively over valued. I am baffled at how valuations seem to think all other manufacturers are just going to shrink away without any fight. I agree with the increasingly zealous misuse of downvoting; I had an account on another device which had every single comment downvoted; presumably I said something someone didn't like, but with no associated comment who knows.
Back when cyberspace was a separate world, not just a digital representation of this one. I feel the same about the industry regarding work - the work place and ways of working have changed, and I no longer enjoy it. Where is the new off-world to escape to?