joelbluminator

True, but what happens to Europe/Nato when it finds out U.S isn't gonna protect it anymore? Bad news. Huge spend on defense, higher debt, etc.

Med isnt immune to automation or remote work as well (telemedicine)...its surprising a bit. I would be really surprised if there isnt tons of automation 10-20 years from now. Nurses are pretty well protected though.

Well plumbing has problems as well: cognitive requirements are not especially high so in theory many people can do it if they are trained. Many immigrants to the U.S probably consider it.

You seem to be doing the same thing ...

This is quite rare and also types would have done nothing in this case.

Sometimes I provide a different point of view on internet comments. It's a big part of discussion forums you know.

Well YJIT succeeded to improve Rails by 30% in a year , so it IS possible. https://speed.yjit.org/

I'm saying for anyone's own mental health, we shouldn't expect constant praise and positivity from comments. You're gonna read stuff you won't like on the internet.

It's completely unrealistic Elixir (or anything else - Julia, whatever) will replace Python as the main AI/ML language, that's what I wanted to convey. I agree I was being a bit too snarky but what I said is true and was an answer to what OP asked. You can't be that sensitive while reading internet comments, you'll have a rough time. As for my past comments on Elixir - I tend to remain factual. I used to have a hard problem with the way the Elixir community was crapping all over Ruby to poach mind share but I moved on. Ruby also did that to Java when it was starting so that's life.

> I'm pretty pissed off that I'm on the hook for about $150B for the disposal of old nuclear waste

Jeez that's a lot! what's your salary?

I don't know that a truck driver or a nurse has a better social life than a software developer. Sounds plausible but far from certain.

isn't that called installments/credit?

Even if they raise it 3-4 times it would still be extremely low historically.

> there is finally “nowhere to go” but down

That's definitely possible but it can definitely still "go up" - even for years. We're already used to debt to gdp being around 130% in the U.S (which a decade ago would have been unthinkable), who says it can't go to 200%. These numbers lose their wow effect really quickly and we all get used to them. In fact, breaking the current dynamic is so hard and risky that central banks are tempted to stretch the debt further and further to prevent a market crash and a recession. And yet there's inflation for real now, a sign things maybe can't go on like this for long.

I really have no idea but I'm not brave enough to make predictions over such a random thing as where the economy goes next year.

> In the future, you might interrupt the coworker

Not many people are gonna risk confrontation with a colleague over some candidate they don't know. Especially not during the interview, maybe afterwards when things are calm. I'm agreeing with you here but let's stay realistic; some companies have assholes working for them, sometimes these assholes get to positions of power. Usually the company knows damn well employee X has a bit of an attitude problem but...guess he adds enough value (or acts well enough) to keep being employed.

> Overall I'm not sure how much value we get out of coderpad

Well so you're pretty much in agreement with the author it seems. He's just more convinvced than you that coderpad is actually more bad than good that's all, you have a bit more doubts.

Everything he said is spot on. I suspect algorithm interviews are optimized for FAANGS - e.g if you can do the whiteboard and coderpad under pressure and interruptions you'd statistically do well in FAANG. I suppose that's true otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. But this hiring process is extremely broken for most everyone else; FAANGs don't really care about false negatives; they have so many great people wanting to work for them its ok for them not to hire some great people. But this whole process seems problematic to me for smaller companies who are in great need of good people and aren't drowning in great resumes. You can't really afford to miss 50% of great people if you're a startup, and this process will do just that; it will let you hire good people but also not hire good people on a really bad margin. Companies who are not FAANGs, especially startups, are better off coming up with some hiring process like the author described; it's not perfect but it will have less false negatives.

> because there isn't any significant changes in the technology of carpentry at least once a decade making carpentry skills obsolete in the eyes of the marketplace

That's a bit extreme I think. Tech changes yes. But let's say you were a a C#/C++/Java/Python/Ruby dev 10 years ago - how bad has it all changed in the last 10 years that your entire experience is somehow nullified? I'm not denying that some higher-ups like to adopt this line of thinking to justify hiring cheap juniors. Self respecting engineering companies don't really buy this bull.

Yeah I'm not sure about quoting Christopher McCandless so much... I was fascinated by him as well but end of the day he was a super young dude who decided to go into the wild with insufficient preparation, on purpose, and died of hunger. It is what it is. He never amounted to become Yoda or Ghandi or anything that we should be so comfortable in quoting him.

Still. For some data scientist who knows nothing about programming, or for some CS student getting started with his first programming assignment - which is easier - Python or Scala? I'd say Python, by a lot.

In what way is Scala a better Python? The 2 seem nothing alike to me.

You have a Jewish friend got it.

Yeah...no we are definitely talking past each other. good night!

> Lots of things are 3-5 years old

That's ancient!! I need tools that are 2 weeks old tops.

I agree. Other than the template part(handlebars) Ember is pretty sweet. It's a shame it got to the state it's in but it is what it is.

Point being? There are problematic quotes from some Zionist leaders. There are actual Nazi quotes from Palestinian leaders. The Palestinian Mufti was a known Nazi supporter and had close relations with the Nazi leadership (including visits to concentration camps etc). Even the current PA leader Abbas, who is considered a moderate, wrote a PHD which basically denies or mitigates the holocaust.

While some aspects of Zionism were indeed troubling in today's standards, when push came to shove the Zionist leadership accepted partition to two states (in 1947).

How does quoting Jabotinsky from a century ago help us in solving this conflict? Unless your only point is that current Israel should be dismanteld.

> It is amazingly clueless for you to offer the Nazis as an example of why Israel should be around, when in fact they are an example of exactly why Israel should not be around.

You sound borderline anti semitic saying stuff like that. You have no idea how obtuse that is.

You are all over the place sorry.

> It was also determined long ago that all ethnostates are stupid and dangerous and should not exist.

It would have spared millions of innocent deaths if Jews had a country during WW2. So maybe it's not always that stupid. And in fact, taking a whiff at the current state of things for Jews in the diaspora, I still think Jews should have a place of their own. I am not forecasting another holocaust, hell no, but it sure becomes harder to be openly Jewish in the West.

BDS wants to dismantle/discontinue or whatever word you see fit Israel in it's current form by advocating for "the right of return". That means bringing in around 5-6 million refugees (overwhelmingly 2nd and 3rd generation descendants of the original refugees, since it was 73 years ago not many of the original people are alive) to create a Palestinian majority country. By any meaningful sense it won't be Israel anymore just as the U.S won't be the U.S if 300 million Chinese people move there. So I feel like destroy is a harsh but sensible word to use.