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At my first fulltime job my boss and a colleague constantly made jokes that I work too much. Really depends on the company but if it's a corporate it's kind of normal and you might not get any upside unless you work significantly more than on the contract

It's not that SPAs cannot handle that but it's rarely a requirement.

I've once launched a product on (early days) Google App Engine and it was unusable as purely server-side rendered website because sometimes it would take ages to load or worse an error would come up eventually. With AJAX it could be solved and failing requests could be repeated. It's a pity that this is rarely done but it is of course possible.

I think SPAs are awesome, there are just so many cases that SPAs can handle easily and more gracefully. From non-redundant input checks over interactive elements to optimizations for spotty networks or even offline usage.

Anyway, it's painful when a page won't load or it takes 10 seconds to load for no apparent reason. That's why profilers need to be used, loading indicators within the elements and also there's the trend towards frameworks with small footprints or even to go framework-less.

No worries! I guess I stayed very much on the theoretical side of things with not that much applied stuff. So I started working on the side while studying (also realizing that it's quite rewarding) and also tried my luck with a Web App. But later I looked for a fulltime job, created profiles on Stepstone and Monster. So recruiters were calling in and I went from there. Probably nowadays it makes sense to create a LinkedIn profile and as well of course write companies directly. Indeed.com has a lot of job ads, btw it's normal if job applicants only match 70% of the required skills.

Portfolio is good to have, esp. smaller companies will be happy to take a look at it. Large company usually have very standardized processes, your degree is more important and then it depends how interview and challenges go.

My background is actually in Physics where DS seems an obvious choice. Although I didn't like experimental Physics much where people do lots of statistics. So I tried to shift focus on DS but I never really got off the ground, usually when I had the chance to work on something DS related it wasn't fun at all. (Also as you mention, model building seems not to be too popular) So I worked for years as Full stack engineer but shifted towards Backend. That I find most rewarding, sounds like Backend is also interesting for you. So I recommend applying there, I think the hiring stage is still competitive for people starting but far less then DS

I find it quite frustrating and now only read news from really established sources, no more online news from smaller or niche outlets. Since quite some time I also avoid websites that had a lot of trolling. (Like the German Heise.de) On the other hand when I see completely outrageous comments I sometimes take the time and contradict them. FWIW from all the feed-like platforms, Reddit seems to keep up quite well these days

No it's not. In the non-free world text itself is censored. Nobody prevents you from sending News article links via Whatsapp, who cares. But people constructing SEO-optimized fakenews links is really bad and IMHO there is no way to prevent that without putting in the work that actual journalists and publishers do. People can still visit the news sites (in the "free world") directly. In fact maybe this would stop the bankruptcy of the news outlets that's been going on since more than a decade

What I'm saying is, FB is amazingly bad at handling news content. Everything they do in this directions backfires badly, becoming a cesspool of misinformation leading to riots etc. I mean if people link content anyway, why don't people just visit it directly?

I mean with the inception of Google News, people thought News has little value because it is so repetitive and many news outlets went bankrupt leading to less and less reflected news to what we have now. I think if people would go for (Online) Newspaper subscriptions instead of just clicking on the most flashy FB post, this would surely make the world a better place and would be quite contrary to China where Newspapers are censored

> I've actually considered running everything off of (multliple instances of) SQLite so that I don't have to manage Postgres.

If you considered SQLite, then you might want to just run a local Postgres instance on your Application's VPS and connect with a unix socket. The DSN is as simple as postgresql://dbname while still providing all features like replication

Yeah, IMHO they should just get rid of all political content altogether

> Upvoting because such stuff needs to be discussed

I guess but at this point it's really hard to tell fact from fiction. Already years ago I've read about Neo Nazis in Ukraine in niche publications that sometimes come up with some funny views close to conspiracy theories. (To be fair, The Intercept is not exactly mainstream media either) It's no coincidence there has been a massive wave of media manipulation for more than a decade with Putin now seeming to pick this up.

Anyway, FB has manoeuvred itself into an amazingly bad position. They pivoted from personal and recreational content to online news with a mass of people doubting competence and credibility of journalists and publishers. The negative effects are becoming worse and worse. Probably the smartest move for them would be to move away from news and leave it to media outlets.

It's quite crazy though that they left it running for 14 years after making the area around it inhabitable and causing fallout over whole Europe

Ukraine has gas reserves that seem to be mostly untouched because of regional turmoil and therefore a temporary inability to get that gas out of the ground.

IMHO the only logical explanation is either that Putin is truly delusional (which doesn't seem very far fetched if you saw his 1h speech/theater) or he wants to reinstate a soviet union'ish government (just consider how he dealt with oligarchs that didn't comply with him)

Many people use the BSDs for their transparency and despite Linux catching up in many areas, BSDs (which are arguably more political) have a rock solid reputation. (Maybe that's why all of Apple's flagship products are based on BSD - never heard of them using Linux though) IMHO people forget that software development is of course about the tech but really half of the work is about people, both in Opensource and Commercial developments. Large orgs think twice before they use a (perhaps free) software with bad reputation

Yeah that's also why I stopped using it. Why didn't they just fork it and change the name? I don't get it.

FWIW at some point it also had quite severe stability issues. I'm sure those were solved but that might have contributed to the fact why there was no effort to fork it but instead people went with ZFS, XFS and eventually ext4

Yeah, all these cool names like toxic workplaces, burnout didn't bring us much further. (Maybe I'm biased subjectively and through my choice of workplaces but from what I see it just gets more.) OTOH I think language and the chance of looking stupid/lazy are limiting factors of efficiently raising these topics. In fact I strongly believe in practice bringing up any of these topics directly just makes them worse but silently acting against that actually has an effect on the long-term

I think this is missing the point of news and this sums it up very nicely:

"Read three books on a topic and you know more about it than 99% of the world."

That's why it's called "news", it's living, recent information that is in the making, being talked about and discussed. Everything else is great but it's something different and likely is encapsulated by an echo chamber.

Nothing against reading up books about politics for instance but it's at best complementary to news. At worst - not being a political scientist - you might select the "wrong" book and find yourself wasting time how people describe obscure views.

But yes, in general I agree of course. Watching/reading too much news can be draining. But really, our current democracy is built on the fact that people consume news from at least one mainstream news outlet. How else do you know who to vote for?

Not sure, vector calculus isn't very intuitive either if you start with it, with Pauli/gamma matrices it's even worse. Having studied Physics myself, I haven't encountered one lecture where they were able to give a reasonable geometric explanation. (Symplectic Geometry and GA provide it) IMHO if the the same amount of effort was used to force vector calculus into people's heads, it should be doable with these tools as well. Unfortunately there is already a lack of books about the topics

That. Last week I had 2 interviews. One was after a recruiter from a well-known consultancy wrote me the 2nd time and I answered, writing that I have only tiny experience (let alone skill) in what they were looking for. She convinced me to proceed, saying that I'm a perfect fit. 2 weeks later I get a rejection exactly because of the skills stated were missing in the CV that I sent before the interview...

Another interview was at a company where both the external recruiter and the CTO lied about their closest competitor, claiming they got a 100M funding while in reality they had a 5M funding. (And the company in question 1.5M) Relevant because they wanted to make options part of the salary. Also the CTO claimed the competitor lacked a key feature. I looked it up and they had it...

I'm getting really tired of this market and look forward for Meetups to happen again. That's where one can really meet the people and their companies.

The whole delivery business is becoming increasingly absurd to the point where many places are in walking distance and delivery services only deliver from close places during peak hours. A really streamlined take away option would oftentimes be much better (than waiting 15 minutes at a place and worrying whether they got the order right...)

> There's no whistleblowers from the electricity company, even though it literally kept the lights on for murderers and traffickers

To play devil's advocate here, if those people completed their sentence and they are being resocialized they have access to what any regular citizen is supposed to access.

OTOH if they haven't been sentenced yet and the electricity company knows of it, I think they are walking on thin ice if they don't report it. I'm sure there are heavy sentences for keeping a blind eye on trafficking.

The other point worth mentioning when money laundering happens, tax evasion or even misappropriation of state money the bank is facilitating those crimes which really stands by itself.

So now I'm really wondering what the legit use case of the anonymous accounts is supposed to be.

> I don’t see a problem with the simulation technology being ‘good enough’, in fact already VR is good enough. The problems with VR revolve more around the real potential for VR being highly intense experiences which you just can’t do for 8 hours a day

It's definitely fun to try for half an hour though. On the other hand I could realistically see some potential if they made the fully immersive experience a bit less intense, e.g. by providing an app that you can navigate with mouse and keyboard on a normal screen.

Other than that many problems are solvable, also there are surely corner-cases where fully immersive experiences make sense (product demos for instance). But considering the amount of problems that already exist with legacy social networks, the actual Metaverse might come from a new startup or be post-poned another time.

To bring a counterpoint, I've worked very hard for 6-8 years. (5 years studying but also working on the side at programmer during the time) That surely simplified some things and now another 8 years later it's very easy for me to find a reasonably well paid job. On the other hand I came to realize I'll always have to work on mediocre things unless I continue to put in a sustained effort into it. (Work place politics included because everybody wants more of a limited resource, be it money or interesting tasks) Luckily I studied mostly out of interest but the effort put in was surely out of pressure

Going back in time I could have just continued to pursue that side gig, go for other freelancing jobs and do my own (hopefully paying) projects on top. Quite likely I might go for this myself soon again

Snow Crash which has been the inspiration for the name Metaverse. Just ordered it, while not using it I might at least stay a bit up-to-date

I always thought that if I don't have someone constantly looking over my shoulder or checking what I do, I might be able to come up with much better long-term solutions and use idle times efficiently for that. Turns out 100% home office is just highly demotivating for me. I think flexible 20% office time per week would be ideal. Also having to take care of 2+ meals a day myself is more work than I thought

Ah wow, interesting. Didn't expect that

Actually small business advisors insist that founders do need a detailed business plan. But it's both necessary for founders, people giving advise and everyone involved that it depends on the kind of business. I used to think business plans are old school and overly formal. But it's good to know the correct reason.

But it's also a self-sustaining cycle. Actually developing Applications with GTK is relatively straight-forward. I think UI development but esp. cross platform UI development also suffered a lot from fragmentation with both frameworks and languages. So chances finding good documentation for a chosen combination are low.

(And yes, using WPF or QT is ridiculously difficult despite having full-featured IDEs)

Something similar happened to me. I worked at a job where someone proposed using a purely functional React framework. Ironically I ended up implementing most code and everyone else left eventually so I worked on it alone. People underestimate how non-standard that stuff is. Nowadays I rather avoid using a Functional programming language although I've seen also other companies using or considering pure FP but it's usually a one man army...