captaincaveman

Agile or not software projects are normally .. projects, with an expected budget. Much of that budget gets 'used' figuring out what the point of the project is, requirements, managing the project deliver, stakeholder management and reporting, working with other teams to access, integrate and understand systems ... then the building of the system is built with what left, which leaves no room for your 'gold plating' ...

Also worth being aware of https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover (wine based) Fairly cheap and great for not having to have a windows machine at work!

In my experience (not 60 but I don't see it getting better), is when learning some arbitrary tech you have to bump your head on a lot of tedious things, there is so much to learn it takes a lot of effort to get to that eureka point. With age I am less inclined to dedicate hours to this, the outcome doesn't feel worth the effort anymore, the knowledge soon becomes redundant as the new shiny comes along. Perhaps this due to experience rather than age to be fair.

Also as a junior engineer, its not that the problem your trying to crack is likely to be some business problem, most likely some stupid bug in your code.

Criminal record only a problem for the subset of businesses that care/check about that sort of thing, which is less than what others are saying (25 years experience in UK).

Over 60 and a junior programmer isn't easy, your salary expectations are possibly higher and your willingness to grind through problems is also probably lower, I know both of those would be the case for me, and mean no offence. So yes to be honest it will be a bit harder for you, however, its a job seekers market at present and with perseverance I don't doubt you'll find a job, and without that same grit you'd unlikely to last as professional engineer today anyways.

Most companies don't do all that leetcode stuff in UK, interviewing is still a pain though.

That sounds very risky, don't have all you eggs in one basket.

Remote work is likely to continue to grow, find something your interested in, diversify your skills, take your time (not some hot tech of the week), create more options for your future.

Chin up, things often change for the better don't give up hope.

I actually did read a few (those that actually had them), and asked follow up questions in Discord. The view from the teams generally was no transfer of rights to the NFT holder, you have the control of transferring the NFT via smart contract and that is all. The NFT has a relationship with typically a piece of content (image, mp3) but what that relationship isn't actually defined.

What a particular platform does when it sees that relationship is up to them. If no platform does anything with that data then your NFT does exactly nothing.

I remember ART from 25 years ago, sounded very promising even if I didn't fully understand at the time (nor now, but not revisited).

Obviously back-propagation based NN have become very popular (even got a rebrand as Deep Learning), how has ART changed in the last 25 years, is there any interesting results using ART instead of DL?

> If you want something done why not just put it all in the job description? This is in jest, as we obviously both know why. I'm not faulting you from playing the game to your advantage, but I also can't fault the other side from playing the same game to their advantage.

Because that's entirely unrealistic (like you said, we both know that), and normally there are broad descriptions about 'enabling', 'supporting', 'growing', 'innovating' etc. If I could exactly specify what the every task was, then I'd program a computer to do it (half joking). Like I said I don't hire code machines, I hire people and typically if I just wanted Jira robots I'd outsource the project. As a senior or above (all that I hire) the bulk of the job isn't about writing code.

> The question shouldn't be about what is desired but what does the compensation warrant?

It sounds like he is getting well compensated, however, I see your point, and in my case its not about trying to squeeze more out of people for a lower cost, typically its more about developing people and growing skills and leadership.

I don't entirely disagree with the OP, my point is be careful with whom you do this with, in some places this is totally fine, in others its morally dishonest (less bothered personally about the contract stuff, as that is typically cookie cutter guff).

Legal consequences possibly depending on your contract, and if caught and the employer wanted to go public (unlikely), then you could get media attention etc, not gonna help you with future jobs.

If you an IC, getting the work done and your employers are happy, then good luck to you.

If your not pulling your weight, then likely you're putting work/stress on to others.

I suspect despite thinking your just doing your job, getting your tasks done etc, you're not really contributing in the spirit of what is asked, expected and what your have been entrusted to do. Perhaps the roles you have taken are very transactional (Jira ticket monkey) and you are expected just to do basic tasks and not contribute beyond explicit tasks, however in the many companies I've worked in the last 25 years that has almost never been the case. As a hiring manager I would likely feel you had betrayed my trust, and had taken the place of someone who could have contributed more.

I don't disagree its annoying for a consumer, I live in Europe. However, a publisher has to license the content from a producer, that producer (or distributor) sets the price on a regional basis. In the US the ROI likely stacks up better than for Luxemburg. A publisher (Netflix etc) would prefer to have a simpler model, but it has to make sense financially. Part of the reason large publishers are also increasingly producers, not just for exclusivity of content.

Exactly right, if you don't have clearance you either need to gain it (at a cost mostly) or you swap or edit it out.

It sounds like these people are naïve, I don't think they know much about broadcasting/media.

It sounds nice and utopian for the consumer, but do the economics even stack up, who is paying for this, most likely the consumer or the creative.

How could it even work with all the existing contracts in place, I'd assume they would need to continue, so even in this fantasy it would only be for new content, and how many years before that reaches tipping point?

*edit: less harsh

Exactly, BBC would need publishing rights in all countries the viewers would wish to watch it in. Unless they changed all there existing agreements with rights holders to not be constrained by territories, which they aren't going to do, or at least only for a lot of money (and even then they might not be able to if the rights are already granted exclusively to someone else).

Bit of a hatchet job of a report in my opinion, you can tell the authors dislike but not backed up by any strong well reasoned arguments, just scorn.

And it is an interesting use case, with pros and cons and an ethical aspect, is it really the right time to do such an experiment in that country?

Solidity is an awful language, and Ethereum a crappy constrained system (its a block chain, so is to be expected to a degree), that I'm not surprised there is a shortage of people opting for not very special salaries.

Rust on Solana sounds promising, although I believe (could be wrong, no experience on Solana) it based on the EVM too?

Haskell on Cardano makes a lot of sense from a correctness aspect, except you now need to source people ...

Have you managed Jira in an enterprise? How about a long lived one that you inherited which has a hundred half baked projects, 50 crappy plugins installed and users that keep asking for their own snowflake requirements. Jira is classic enterprise software where they tried to support every feature every enterprise asks for, so they can say yes we support that in some cockeyed way. Now its the de-facto standard and they turn the screws with the price going up year on year, they keep changing the UI but the UX still sucks and you lose track of all the crappy linked sites and documentation that is now wrong .. gahh, you can probably tell I'm not a fan!

Where does AR sit between Metaverse and Ubiquitous Computing, the middle path seems like the sweet spot to me.

Dunno, maybe I'm out of touch and people only build for $ and agenda ... sad times!

Why jump to the assumption I would want Chrome?

I was put off by Firefox by some questionable opinionated decisions they made. I don't want a browser with a political agenda, just want one that that follows the specs and performs well.

I can't say this is true for everyone that voted, but can sadly confirm that I know for many this is true, certainly had a significant impact in my opinion.

I did this once in Malaysia as the piece of crap car I rented ran out of fuel 5 minutes after leaving depot. Walked to petrol station, tried to fill up Coke bottle with petrol, which created a wonderful petrol fountain/volcano all over me .. then a nice long walk back to the car in mid day sun ... was still a great trip :P

Fuel is/was a lot more expensive in UK.

Confluence/Jira is abysmally slow with everything it does, anyone know how/why that is?

Certain demographics are cheaper, less demand high supply, daytime TV audiences ... so yeah maybe a sweet spot!

If a competitive alternative cool electric car appears, and they use advertising to steer the opinion of the public of being the best electric cars on the market ... I think Tesla will start advertising!

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Terms have different meaning in different context, I think both terms are valid in this case, thus a qualifying word to remove ambiguity is the normal solution.

If I understand what is being stated correctly; even if I assert a prohibition in my licence for my creative work (code) not to be used by Copilot (or any other machine learning model as training data), it wouldn't matter as its not covered by Copyright?

> addressed at a higher level.

Odin?