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Further proof of the blind insanity of capitalism. They are basically shipping water across the ocean from one desert to another.

"The company announced in January 2016 that it paid $31.8 million for 1,790 acres. Some of its fields run alongside the Colorado River.

The company grows hay for cows in its dairy in Saudi Arabia, where the monarchy has set a policy of growing less alfalfa, wheat and corn to reduce pumping of groundwater from the depleted aquifers of the Arabian Peninsula."

> I’ve done over 500 technical interviews ...

> This takes hundreds of hours of prep (usually outside of work hours) ...

> Don’t schedule more than 3 onsites a week unless you have endurance. I’ve done 6-7 in a week - wouldn’t recommend.

Where do you find the time? I stopped doing practice interviews because I kept doing badly and also lost a day of annual leave each time.

> but at Google's scale it doesn't really make sense, purely financially, the staffing required to support every free user.

This seems to get trotted out often whenever Google providing support gets mentioned. But I don't think anyone is asking Google to suddenly offer support for every customer question under the sun. Maybe they just need to provide a little support for some of the big problems: like algorithms banning people from all of the Google services that they have used for many years, for non-discernable reasons with zero comebacks. They spend plenty of money getting people on board their services (and extracting as much data as they can from them) but none on retaining customer loyalty after an algorithm gets it wrong.

It's not you - it's node.js

(I'm thinking of getting tee's printed with that slogan).

I've never understood why a new ball in introduced only at the tournament itself - where no players have had any previous experience with using it, and any changes it brings - rather than for the qualifying campaign so that any nuance required can already be learned and thus they would get to use to its full potential. For a tournament featuring the best of the best, where the champions of the world are to be decided, changing the equipment that all participants have been used to in the previous years is a weird idea.

As he also mentioned he was involved in early React, so maybe Facebook? They are known to use it for spam filtering, amongst other things.

I get your point (i think), but people don't need software. Software is great to have and enhances life to no end, but you could live without it. They do need food though.

Why does working to make software pay so much? Yet working to make food pays so little?

perhaps if agriculture and food generation was priced more in line with its value to humanity, rather than along the lines of cheapest product wins, there would be more feasible careers in homesteading, simpler lives and farming.

but in a world where NFT based companies are claiming to be worth billions what hope is there of that? :)

I feel more or less the same I think. However, if the income was the same as with a tech job, I'd go back to it in a heartbeat. Sitting on my ass all day in front of a screen is soul destroying in many ways - I'd much rather be out doing something in the garden :)

I'm not disagreeing, but having worked for 20+ years now as a web dev, and also on and off on farms (parents, relations, neighbours, friends, and 30 acres behind my house), I'd move to a farming job that offered the same income in a heartbeat, no questions asked.

There is something much more comforting about having worked yourself to physical tiredness and a feeling of having accomplished "something useful" instead of having fried your brain yet again over some bizarre node.js ritual for the benefit of some capitalist ecommerce overlord.

I'm willing to admit that there are fulfilling jobs in software development that aren't directly feeding the capitalist beast, but they seem to be few and far between.

While google use CWV as a part of pagerank (higher scores get higher ranking) most site owners will demand higher scores. They don't care why their site scores bad, or necessarily want any of those useless javascript trackers and animated widgets removed. They want a higher score and you had better well use every trick you can think of to get them there or they'll pay someone else to do it instead.

This is not a developer issue, this is a capitalism issues. Websites are used to make money, ergo they must rank high in search engines. A google engineer framing this as anything else is simply naive. SEO is a high stakes game, and they are the chief architects that made it so.

Don't get me wrong, personally I am happy that Google have forced sites to follow standards, move to more modern solutions and stop using so much javascript and other cpu and bandwidth hogging resources, but while they also continue to demand tracking of the world they are also contributing to the bloat, and being just a little bit hypocritical: "no bragging about scoring well in lighthouse, but it would be a pity if your scores went down and nobody could find you in a search ... ".

What you may be missing is just how high of a percentage of the population of most western countries are not classed as healthy by any metric. Overweight, unfit, damaged through nicotine or alcohol abuse or even simple naturally occurring diseases where our health systems are able to keep them alive but not make them healthy again.

Unlikely. The rest of their programmers toolset are mostly java based.

https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1574642/lg-zx-88-inch-zwart.... - thats quite the discount

Sometimes honesty and truth can hurt. Sometimes you have to accept that and move on. Alternatively you can coddle people so that they think every thing that they do is wonderful and a gift to all of mankind. Or you can take offence at honest criticism everything and ... well here we are. Word policing, and overbearing nicety as form of karma currency are not good things. Adults sometimes call each other not nice names. The world is not a cosy blanket left in the sun covered with kittens.

When deciding what is fair in tax, we should perhaps consider not how much is paid in tax, but how much remains after tax. If a middle to low income earner pays $10k in tax, but then has trouble paying their bills, or keeping a roof over their head, have they paid a fair share? When a bilionaire pays $100m in taxes and has billions left to fritter away on going to space or playing with crypto stocks, have they paid a fair share?

As badly as Zillow perhaps: https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/zillow-just-gave-us-a-lo...

1 year old safari. it was added april 2020 - https://caniuse.com/?search=datetime-local

You can't grow food and crops in suddenly warmed up permafrost earth. Generating nutrient rich soil takes a long time (decades to centuries for long lasting results). Global temperature rises are happening too fast.

Probably just a handful of internet cranks. How many would you estimate?

> - doesn't understand yet or doesn't care that being an a$$hole online has consequences

What are the consequences? I have never seen any. Trolls continue to be trolls. A$$holes continue to be a$$holes. Isn't that what the grandparented post was saying though (in a roundabout fashion - I am presuming they do not "verbally abuse people face to face" but perhaps I detected sarcasm where there was none).

> If more people took the concept of don't be a dick just because you're safe behind the keyboard, I don't think we'd be where we are now.

Which was the entire gist of the OP, no? Perhaps I misread / misunderstood.

Not hard as a rule, but it has one fairly difficult (for many) yet deciding factor: getting that high earning job when you are young, in a FAANG (or comparable company). Working for these type companies is a luxury limited to a very low percentage of people indeed (I have interviewed for them).

Anecdotal (but nevertheless true): I have (at least) two millionaire neighbours (less than 3 doors/gates away). Both won the lottery - one euromillions and one national lotto draw.

And if we are talking average income, then everyone on this side of the village is a millionaire simply because of those two. However, most of the rest of us seem to struggle daily.

Whats the point in dying a millionaire though? Surely you want to spend some of that money while you are alive (and active - not 80+)?

Whoosh

California / Silicon Valley is witness to that unusual and under-reported aspect of climate change where it simply rains money.

For anyone else who is confused when trying to track down this author - I believe Robert Hamilton should actually be Peter F. Hamilton

The problem isn't necessarily web developers, or certainly not all web developers. Thanks to constant penny pinching, very little gets developed from scratch in-house anymore - instead everything is put together using a myriad of third party code (often cheap third party code) that does things in very opinionated ways, meaning all of their dependencies become your dependencies, and every time you add another third party lib you get more dependencies. So you end up with a gigantic base of dependencies - none of which can easily be eliminated because its just a giant house of cards.

The alternative is every shop building their own functionality from scratch, with the result being 100s of competing libraries all doing very similar things but slightly different.

What needs to happen is the same as in most industries - end users / customers needs to realise the real cost of things and pay that full price. No more cheapest possible solutions. No more making do with lowest common denominators. Pay more money for better solutions.

https://treo.sh/ perhaps ?