As a huge fan of Top Gear and The Grand Tour, I read Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure. Really fun book giving an inside view of what it took to produce these shows
Stories like yours absolutely kill me and I feel so much anger toward the management class that thought it would be a good idea to overhire to such an extent and cut us off like it doesn't matter. I know this is unpopular on HN, but I have never felt more cynical about founders than I have as of late. Almost every founder i've spoken too seems to be drinking from the same jar of koolaid and thinks of workers as dispensable resources that can be let go off in a moments notice. I hate that this is what we've come to.
Probably the best take so far. I lost my job earlier this month and have been noticing that the advances in AI are going to be taking away what I would consider my day-to-day. While i'm in the market still for a new gig, I'm slowly coming to the realization that it might take me much longer than i expect. The increase in CS graduates and everyone wanting to do software is also not helping much unfortunately. I feel like software engineering as a career is going to go along the wayside due to AI. Unfortunately, im unsure what to be upskilling in to stay relevant.
I've heard similar arguments several times, and every single time these kinds of arguments go up in flames when costs are brought up. Even discounting the "elasticity" that building applications on the cloud, its simply far cheaper from a cost perspective to build on cloud. Folks fail to mention that the cost of having the kind of all-round support from IBM that you mention comes at a significant cost that is unaffordable to most business. Its probably cheaper to debug esoteric Linux issues than to call in IBM support. In fact, IBM knows this and has moved a significant chunk of their support team abroad to reduce costs and remain affordable. In my experience, these support teams are usually of poorer quality.
Being born in a country with a weak passport can hamper your travel experience in ways I never imagined before. I was born in one such country and travelling was always a pain. I needed a visa for pretty much every country worth visiting, was given the side eye during check in, and in some countries subjected to secondary checks. Switched to a European passport a few years ago and I’ve never had a better travel experience. Somehow, i felt I was treated with greater respect than before.
I wonder what their query routing service at the end of the article does and what it’s use is? If they have vertically partitioned their database, shouldn’t their application queries also be split in such a way that they query data from the partitioned database and join them somewhere ?
This is my anecdotal experience - there has been a lot of fluff around several products, possibly because of low interest rates. There are few focused builders but the rest seem to preach the concept of “building” but really it all seems to be for show
While I understand the sentiment in the article and this thread. Streaming services like Spotify have unparalleled recommendation and discovery systems. Even if I were to store my music locally, how would I discover new ones to add to my playlist?
I mean this seriously, consider moving documentation to your version control system and save your documentation in markdown. Markdown is powerful enough to format and store documentation of most forms you might need, combine that with a VCS of your choice and you’re set. All documentation changes are tracked and stored alongside your code changes. As a bonus, you won’t have to pay atlassian or deal with the clunky confluence UI!
And that’s a valid choice if that helps get your app up and running! I think the goal of the parent comment was to establish how making complex technologies simpler helps us deliver more
Bitwarden. I’ve been using them ever since Lastpass discontinued their free version. I simply made a text file export of all my pw’s on lastpass and imported them into Bitwarden. Just make sure you delete your text file!
> It's quite another when experienced seniors ban the use of SQL features because it's not "modern" or there is an architectural principle to ban "business logic" in SQL.
While I agree with the idea of pushing heavy compute to where the data resides, I wholeheartedly disagree with the statement quoted above. Concentrating business logic in SQL makes it effectively untestable. Its not easy to "compartmentalize" SQL code such that each individual piece is testable on its own. Often, this lets major issues go unnoticed until the SQL query executes in production on some unexpected input data and people are woken up at 3AM. Adding on top of this the fact that SQL exceptions are a PITA to debug on a normal day, and it probably isn't any easier at 3AM
What options does an Indian engineer stuck in the green card backlog have? Do they perpetually continue renewing their H1-B? Does this mean that they are somewhat limited in terms of being able to switch jobs?