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daviddever23box··on The Full Calatrava
It is interesting that most of the over-budget projects were in Spain itself; there is a long list of successfully-completed projects as one scrolls down the page.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: What is the most corporate programming language?
What do you mean by "corporate"? In the past, I'd have wagered C#, Java second, though I'd consider JavaScript / TypeScript to be quite more frequently utilized. Go / Rust / C++ are always good choices.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Seeking Advice on Next Career Move
It sounds as if your understanding of the problems differs from those of your new colleagues; have you considered whether your resistance to the changes is properly calibrated against the needs of the business?
daviddever23box··on Russia unveils secretive weapon to target SpaceX’s Starlink in Ukraine
Elon Musk himself?
daviddever23box··on The Windows 11 Trash Party
Stockholm syndrome is real.
daviddever23box··on CrabLang
You Rust folk are easily wound up.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers?
IMHO a mobile handset's primary use case is availability to respond to (mobile telephony) messaging events; as a consequence, its power management domains are intentionally oriented toward short-duration events.

A tablet device, on the other hand, is more likely to possess a higher-capacity battery and be usable for content generation / long-form editing.

daviddever23box··on Ask HN: What is the future of Go beyond tooling and cloud infrastructure?
Please describe what is meant by "waning enthusiasm", and how that figures into project fitness for purpose.

In general, though I use Go daily, I also see significant benefit to learning Rust, and applaud Microsoft's efforts to support it within a Windows context. That said, I see them as both complementary options AND distinct tool choices within a systems context.

daviddever23box··on Free Speech Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical of Indian Government
The easiest way to address this, schadenfreude or not, is to banner the site with a disclaimer, i.e., "Some content may not be available in India due to local moderation requirements."
daviddever23box··on Progressive Web Apps or Flutter: Which would you choose?
Do you have prior experience with building and signing desktop apps? If not, it is well worth using a framework that brings all of that boilerplate to the table. As an example: https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/wi...
daviddever23box··on Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales
Replaceability of an SSD doesn't provide much day-to-day benefit once it's installed and encrypted; for corporate users using enterprise images, removable storage may be a vulnerability. Buy an SSD up to your cloud storage capacity, double it, and call it a day.
daviddever23box··on GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
April Fools joke, or simply corporate foolishness?
daviddever23box··on Why are developers expected to estimate tasks at all?
Here's a casual thought: if you, as a developer, were able to generate code instantaneously, what time would be required to 0) gather initial requirements and create Jira tickets, 1) re-work your code based on changing requirements, 2) re-build and re-package your solution for testing, and 3) have your dedicated QA or acceptance team evaluate your packaged code in a staging and or production capacity?

Because those components are, fundamentally, a significant portion of the time estimate required to make plans from a business perspective–and nearly all of them are largely outside your control. AND-most importantly-your ability to gauge those timelines, without a single Git commit, is what separates highly-paid engineers from n00bs.

daviddever23box··on Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
There is a curious irony regarding retirement funds that invest in health insurance companies: if one is healthy and pays into the system, the insurers will reap ample profits, and one's retirement plan will reap the benefits. Get sick, and one may never make it to retirement....
daviddever23box··on Can I use university provided laptop for working on my own startup?
Use macOS Guest Mode, and do your work in the cloud, within the (Safari) browser. There are no files stored locally, and the browser history is cleared at the end of the session.
daviddever23box··on Augmented Reality Welding System
There is nothing like the smell of hot, ground metal to remind you of the heights of career achievement possible in the industrial Midwest of America. A simulator will never give you that holes-burnt-into-your-shirt feeling.

If you can weld, and you can code, the world is your **ing oyster. One of the two will pay your bills.

daviddever23box··on Ask HN: How do you know if leaving your 1st software job will make you happier?
The best physical analogy I can muster is that of a sail: wind propels you forward, yet it's never originating from one direction. Ride the wind to your next challenge; the younger you are (and with the least amount of external responsibilities, e.g., family, mortgage, debt reduction), the easier it is to adapt to quick changes in wind direction / speed.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Staying in an Incompetent Engineering Org
This sounds awful, but to what extent does a mediocre yet functioning engineering org affect the company's bottom line? Does the bar having been set low actually matter?
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Font Size Changed on Mobile?
Simply search for "get user agent" and post.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Font Size Changed on Mobile?
Which mobile? No changes on Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/110.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15
daviddever23box··on GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone, but refuse to switch
I wouldn't trust a drug dealer with an Android phone.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Code Signing or No Installer?
Manufacturer-signed installer, Microsoft-signed DLLs or executables. Anything else is a virus.
daviddever23box··on Microsoft is forcibly removing internet explorer from PCs
I have zero sympathy for those who, by designing an application solely for use with Internet Explorer, put their heads into the lion's mouth, expecting to get their face licked. (Same applies to Safari.)
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: What would it take for you to switch to Android (from iOS)?
Blue bubbles are the least of it; if you're a Windows user, you may find that Android is more to your liking (and matches your acceptable level of risk as far as security goes).

I might recommend that you give an Amazon Fire tablet a whirl first; like Apple, there is a walled garden approach that might make the comparison easier (plus it aligns well with the Windows Subsystem for Android).

daviddever23box··on My Fear of Commitment to the First CPU Core
Agreed - multi-core processing is now ubiquitous, from a Raspberry Pi on down, and negative affinity concepts ought to be in every junior engineer's toolkit (NOT that they should be cargo-culted, but understood and deployed where it is beneficial).
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: HiDPI Linux Laptop Suggestions?
Razer Blade 15 should do the trick.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Feeling Hopeless and Lost at 23
Get your hands dirty. Learn a new practical skill that will pay your bills. Don't worry that your degree will be useless, because ALL university degrees are, without the practical application of those skills to back them up.

A philosophy degree will serve you well as a foundation for analysis and thought. It will not pay your bills on its own.

Lots of successful people run into this straight out of uni, because experience cannot be taught, and long-term success is borne by experience. Good luck!

daviddever23box··on The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+
From an employer's perspective, the extra cost of a ready-to-roll development target is always worth it in terms of productivity.

Today's constraints are not tomorrow's constraints; I'd rather be hustling to acquire the skills necessary to earn 500x (or greater) that $100 USD per month.

daviddever23box··on Nim and Go programs identified by Carbon Black as malware on Windows
That's what consenting adults do in lieu of 'bcdedit /set testsigning on' via an admin prompt. Alternately, one can call off the antivirus dogs and get on with it.
daviddever23box··on Ask HN: Reject/ghost on all job applications with 8 YoE, what am I doing wrong?
Resume / CV is everything - as a manager who hires, I can discern quite a bit from one's resume style. Tell me about your work, not the number of languages you think you know.

Friends are important to the process; let them review your CV to see whether your description aligns with real life. Good luck!

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