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I don't think this has anything to do with free speech to be honest. Even though I find it odd and upsetting that free speech is severely limited for the worse in other contexts in the corporate world.

It's not irrelevant because there might be other platforms where you can buy the same product cheaper. And the 30 percent cut information might be a good hint to look elsewhere. I guess that's why Apple fights this so viciously.

Imagine that they upgrade the touch UI in your car, and it's a complete redesign, but only on one specific screen in a sub-sub-sub-menu which you usually only open while driving.

Now you are speeding with 150km/h down the highway and voila, the screen is gone (it's there in fact, but it's not the same screen any more).

Have fun poking with this new updated UI and workflow.

BTW, this example is exaggerated of course, but not completely unrealistic, and it's easy to find similarly disruptive situations triggered by a UI or workflow change.

I wish this problem would be more 'forefront' in legislation, because TBH this is already at the point of being ridiculous, completely out of touch and also FINANCIALLY DAMAGING to the customers and/or users.

> One way to fix the social problem is to vote politicians out of office

I think this kind of reactive view of the problem oversimplifies the issue. Many times it's a magnitude bigger problem to undo something than doing it in the first place.

The exact thing that makes development fast is not to make decisions. In fact, this is such a fundamental principle that Uncle Bob spells it out this way: "A good architect maximizes the number of decisions not made" and I wholeheartedly agree with that. Also as a sibling comment mentioned it, Rails and similar batteries included frameworks (like Angular for example) are the way to go for rapid prototyping, since they include everything you might ever need.

Now the submission is even flagged. This reminds me of fascism TBH

Why is this flagged???? I argued with many people on this site that people here are indocteinated... But really? People can't even stand reading something which is well argued and contradicts their belief?

Anyone who writes a blog and happily announces to the world that he thinks there are idiots everywhere should not give advice in the first place IMHO.

This is what I would call pretentious signaling behavior if there would be such a term.

Just to let you know, those things are not needed at all if you use a different type of ORM, similar to ActiveRecord or Django ORM. It all depends on what you choose. So probably the first mistake was that you didn't do the homework of exploring ORMs maybe?

In my experience people who have trouble with ORM usually try to use it for something which it is not well suited for: namely OLAP.

ORM can really get in the way when you want to express groupings, aggregates, and all kind of joins sprinkled with let's say stored procedures.

But this has nothing to do with the ORM itself. It's just a fact that many people don't understand/consider the tradeoffs before jump into acting on something.

Nope

I couldn't care less if you ban me or not. I will change account and keep posting.

Also there is nothing personal in that message. And this is not the first time that some displeased person flags my message just because he feels unsecure and have difficulty to properly interpret the text posted.

In some cases when I post the same message again, it gets a very positive reception.

The fact that messages are flagged and removed despite of the positive reception goes to show how fascist and indoctrinated this community is, and also how capricious you are and goes to show that the rules are up to interpretation so posting a link does not clarify anything.

In fact you are the one who is doing the personal attack in this case if you think about it. So maybe it's time that you live by the rules that you preach?

I think the point is, that these type of articles are like fairy tales. I wouldn't be surprised if Quora would be the first to announce an in-office only policy when the pandemic is over. If it turns out so, then the whole interview and the post is worthless. That's why time and long experience/exposure matters.

> People are very productive and a lot of them actually prefer working from home.

But later:

> So as we are doing this, we’ve run a series of surveys of employees asking things like, ‘How productive do you feel like you’ve been?’ ‘What can we do to make you more productive?’

So you concluded that your workers are productive, but you want to run a survey to find out how productive are they??? WTF?

You just dismissed one cornerstone of modern civilization. Namely higher education. Good job I guess?

BTW, another thing: are you saying that computer science departments are not deemed to properly accredit people in computer science knowledge...? But no-name low-ranking SW engineers in a dim-lit meeting room in front of a whiteboard are good judges of CS knowledge?

You completely missed the second part of my post: "The whole hiring process could be replaced with a timely renewal of accreditation."

The accreditation would be available to anyone. Just like anyone can become a lawyer in Japan for example. You don't need to hold any diploma for that. Although it might increase your chances to get accredited if you have formal education.

Conversely: Is it simply a coincidence that people like whiteboard interviews and believe they work? Seems pretty convenient to me.

Can someone explain to me why isn't it ever part of the discourse to talk about certifications?

Most of the software engineers are certified right from the start when they graduate in university. All these people hold a certification in their hand, namely their diploma which proves that they are actually deemed suitable to hold any software engineering job in the industry.

The whole hiring process could be replaced with a timely renewal of accreditation. Then anyone who passed accreditation could be deemed as passed the technical interview. And then case closed.

Take home assignments can be automated the same way as leetcode tasks actually. So there must be something else to it.

I think people underestimate human nature in this case. It's a known thing that many interviewers just do the interviews for the sake of feeling superior than someone else.

It was another trend in the industry to ask stupid brainteasers like "Estimate how many gas stations there are in Manhattan" until Google banned the whole thing altogether. Google judged that these questions only serve to make the interviewer feel clever and self-satisfied. [0]

It's time to do the same with whiteboard interviews.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/

I think you made a logical somersault. Leetcode doesn't imply any of those, neither good memory for details or that you can "solve" problems that have been solved before by applying theory.

You missed the whole point of the OP's post it seems. The only thing that leetcode implies is that you can solve leetcode tasks.

You can confirm the same using a take-home assignment and a code review together with the candidate. Or even with an on-site pair programming. Neither of those require whiteboards.

Not at all. Hypocrisy is the act of criticizing OTHERS for something, while engaging in the same behavior. That's completely beside the point and no-one talks about that here.

In other words, beside my previous comment you missed the part of the discussion where we concluded (see the grandparent's post again) that both the value and the behavior originates from the same source.

This has nothing to do with an external third person's view.

You miss the point actually. The poster made a statement without any proof. It's a classic logical fallacy.

And your example...? Proves what exactly? It's the exact opposite of a cognitive dissonance. The behavior is consistent with the company values.

But the discussion point is that the company behavior is most of the time inconsistent with the company values. E.g. Exxon value is env friendly energy <-> Exxon true behavior is causing env disaster

That's actually incorrect. Cognitive dissonance means that someone's behavior, attitude or thoughts, beliefs are inconsistent. Or in other words someone participates in an action that goes against his beliefs, ideas, values. Which is exactly what the grandparent post refers to:

> They all have their own stories about how it's okay to exploit weakness in people.

This is definitely inconsistent and in contrast with almost all the above mentioned entities' mission statement and their corporate values.

Can you point me to the discussion where I can confirm that this has become a buzzword?

Why don't you move your bed to the office then if you like it so much?

> can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?

Looking at you Japan.

"The taming of Japan’s media watchdogs has attracted growing attention from overseas. On April 19, David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of expression, wrapped up a weeklong fact-finding mission to Japan by expressing “deep and genuine concern” about declining media independence in Asia’s richest democracy. The following day, the Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders lowered Japan’s place in its annual ranking of world press freedom to 72nd out of 180 nations, between Tanzania and Lesotho"

And no, this is not whataboutism. This is just a context so to understand that the above turn of events that the OP refers to is not unprecedented in other strong democracies either. Or is Japan an autocracy too?