endemic

Why? Seems like a good idea, relying on the LLM to write for you won’t develop your skills, but using it as an editor is a good middle ground. Also there’s no shame in saying an LLM is “better” than you at a task.

I’ve never worked at Microsoft, but the author’s three takeaways is how it’s always been for other companies.

A “special operation”

> There must be some very interesting psychology behind this.

It feels good when you win! If you cheat, that just means you're smarter than the other player.

> I'm still not convinced that phone and laptop ewaste is a real problem.

I don't throw away phones or computers myself either, but a cursory Googling should be informative. From what I understand, it's a lot of "out of sight, out of mind" in wealthy countries.

> Advice would be to try to find a job or role doing something you’re interested it.

Sounds great, where do I find it?

I thought it was Windows only, but looks like there's a macOS version now!

necessitating such programs as https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ (no affiliation)

What are some other techniques you’ve noticed?

What's your strategy for continuing education?

Yeah, code is a means to an end.

_Very_ loosely related, but I'm reading The White Company by Conan Doyle to my kid, which pretty much describes this exactly.

Rules for thee, not for me!

> Messaging and group chats are the only real social media now

This is accurate as far as I'm concerned. Interacting directly with actual friends; no ads or clickbait content injected.

IIRC it's against Apple's guidelines to use push notifications for engagement/spam; not that that ever stopped anyone.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Not much

It's not just React, but all the other rando packages that your co-workers installed.

'cos you put yourself out there

It’s rough for the old timers because as consumers of the web, we’re forced to use SPAs that have objectively worse UX. And sites are built that way now “because it’s how everyone does it.”

IIRC when Jobs came back to Apple, there was a major board shakeup.

autodidacts existed before youtube

If this will stop the proliferation of terrible JavaScript implementations of <select>, I'm here for it.

I did this once and it was obvious the interviewer wanted me to point out his pet "gotcha." Not a great experience.

I think the argument is that for a good chunk of business work, you don't need to use the "interesting"/"deep" concepts. Sure, you'll need time to adapt to the idioms of the language you're using, but following examples you can be just as productive as others in a relatively short time.

You can do a lot with CSS these days: https://css-tricks.com/the-checkbox-hack/

They're not wrong though

I really loved some of the multiplayer games on Wii U that took advantage of the gamepad. Completely brilliant to have one "special" player with the gamepad + second screen vs. the rest of the plebs with Wiimotes.

The BeBox is my holy grail of retrocomputing! Had to settle for a partition on my x86 machine. Loved BeOS back in the day.

Sure, I don't mind the ads. The pervasive tracking and data collection and profile building is where I draw the line. Tons and tons of JS churning my browser to sell me stuff. If my adblock eventually causes some sort of economic disaster, so be it.

> it makes you better than people who don't use our products.

It seemed to me that this was more of a product of the fandom. "Even though this Apple computer is less popular/useful, I'm a discerning tastemaker and am better than the unwashed Wintel masses."