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This is because cook books while useful, aren’t entertaining stories. Now if they named it after a good character from a story everyone knows, say the hunter from the big bad wolf, and it’s purpose was to chop up evil wolves taking advantage of grandmas and little girls with baked goods, then everyone knows that character, and as long as the purpose of the service is to defeat impostors trying to do harm then it is fitting.

And if the junior doesn’t know the story of little red riding hood, well then it is your lucky day and you are one of the 1 in 10000 who gets to tell them the story.

Wrong answer.

Names should be cute AND descriptive.

His point is good though. Descriptive names add overhead that might need to be changed.

Giving something a cute name but describes its general purpose, means you have a lot of leeway, but if you get to the point where even the general name doesn’t work and you want to change it, then you actually have a new product and creation is better than evolution when it comes to software.

Joey, the small service that hops from one place to the next in what seems like ~~ab~~an endless loop, is like a baby kangaroo, and it can even grow into a real kangaroo and do whatever they do, but it isn’t gonna become a fire breathing dragon, and if Joey is trying to be forced into being a dragon instead of a kangaroo, well maybe it’s time to start from the beginning and decide which programming language to use ~~snd~~and go from there.

Think of it, instead of writing software, we just write fantasy stories, and the software that tells the story is our product.

I don’t know about you but I could probably come up with some cool stories of Joey the baby kangaroo.

I’m going to start a company and name all the services and APIs supporting the software after the best characters from mythology, and just start making good characters and then figure out where they go in the story.

The story is already written, but the characters have to be fleshed out.

Oh my goodness if you have an older car that isnt as quiet as new cars, driving in that right lane along that stretch is the worst, with the constant noise from it. I drive in the left lane until I see someone getting close to me then I get in the right lane till they pass and then switch back to the left lane.

The issue with DDD is not in the philosophical concept. In that he is spot on. Things are in hierarchies, everything is described by a combination of two or more patterns that are more fundamental than those below.

The problem is always in people thinking it is an easy magic solution. DDD is not easy. If it were it wouldn’t do anything.

It is in fact very challenging to come up with an ubiquitous language, and to have it evolve as our own understanding evolves.

Organizations looking to use it to make things easier, are doomed to fail. What it can help with is making things good and right and even beautiful in how a problem is solved.

I really liked the reference to platonism at the beginning.

I feel like at times our problems in the west can be rooted in relying to much in Aristotle and empiricism and not enough on platonic thinking (you could swing too far one way though).

DDD’s ubiquitous language IS the key as he says. Political discourse is the king of lacking ubiquitous language, though that seems more intentional, so we can use words intentionally meaning different things to one group or another. The result though is an inability to work out problems. Engineering organizations at least are not intentionally using different language, but the result is the same, an inability to solve problems.

I think the issue with any definition and why people say “everything is a cult”, is because I read this list and it makes me feel like progressivism is a cult based on it. Though I’m sure a progressive would say Trumpism is a cult.

LDS is accused of being a cult. But they’re generally nice neighbors. Is it still a cult if it gets big enough? Islam would’ve once been a cult as well as Christianity.

At the very least it seems any religion is a cult. We can argue then about whether something is religious or not.

I want an interview to show me why this person is better than a machine. So if a machine can do leet code problems easily, by simply describing it with comments, it is the person’s ability to describe in those comments I want to evaluate.

Thoughts somewhat inspired by Seth Godin’s lynchpin

“_The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you._”

Soon your ISP will also get a cut of every online purchase you make. Since you did it on their “platform”.

Yes I read “The aviator” right after. I also liked it, in some sense it was just like Laurus, though at the same time a completely different story.

But that was the main thing I noticed, was like, this is a world that thinks completely different from me.

I get this. The problem is whenever I gain some new depth of knowledge it expands my mind such that I also realize more of how little I know. Yet the pursuit of it is still thrilling.

Laurus. This book was awesome. But no one I know has read it and I just want to talk about it.

Maybe finding those random strangers to talk about it with is part of the spirit of the internet of old.

That is depressing. Or maybe not.

I was thinking his point was how there is a lot of collaboration that isn’t actually useful, just as there is a lot of sitting at your desk “working” that isn’t useful.

It doesn’t mean you never sit at your desk and work, just that sitting at your desk doesn’t mean you’re working. Likewise for collaboration.

This is a helpful reminder to me. Thanks.

I identify with what he is saying.

When I’m confident in myself I can do this and be effective. Go think about a problem not sitting at my desk.

When I’m not confident in myself, I act like an impostor and try to look like I’m doing work.

The hard part is remaining confident in myself, when myself has not always given me reason to be confident in it.

Baloney. What is hate speech? It is that which is worth cancelling over.

Think about it. Kanye just did such a genius thing, even a child could see it.

They can’t cancel him for doing something so obvious.

He just walked out onto the media stage buck naked, pretending he was wearing a fancy robe.

Ultimately you know it’s like both things can be valuable.

A bunch of 1-2 year stints might quickly help you identify the patterns if things they work well generally abd what doesn’t.

Meanwhile a 5+ year stint will give insight into how a company maintains things and adapts and can also teach valuable lessons.

I’ve averaged about 5 years over three jobs.

My current one was going pretty well for a year, but COVID stuff and life craziness made it less enjoyable for the next year after a re-org.

I waited another year and tried switching teams at the company and while it started rough I feel like I might find a groove that will get me a couple of years.

After that I might go look for something else.

Sometimes there is a good year followed by a bad year followed by three good years. If you leave after that first bad year you might just jump to another good year bad year cycle and in the end have less good years if you just stayed five years at each place.

Whoops. I mean European companies. (Reading it now the us most definitely meddles with whole countries)

Exactly. People seem to be forgetting this most of all in this thread.

Though I can’t recall any specific times where the US blocked the acquisition/merger between two European countries.

I’ve actually heard from many friends that even though they are in a “favored” group, because of their skin color or gender, they hate it because they suffer from even worse impostor syndrome than the average developer.

They might genuinely be awesome and yet they sit there and doubt and ask “am I only doing well because of something not related to my work”

So visual cues are replacing ultra sonic ones?

I just see bats flying in these huge swarms not colliding and I’m like maybe we shouldn’t give up on ultrasonic sensors.

It would be awesome if one day we go back and hear all these small town and college radio stations and the types of shows in them.

Woukd be a cool time capsule.

I don’t think your “democratic society” will remain that way for long, unless your Putin, in which case Ukraine is eager to join your country.

Why did they seize his coin? Did the person who seized it back actually break into something?

Principles are fine and dandy, but why are principals of innocent until proven guilty ok to be broken by “democratic societies”?

I mean it’s just an appeal to might makes right. My mob is bigger than your mob, so I take what k want.

It’s like we’ve lost the foundation to what the idea of a free country was.

Anyways Bitcoin is stupid still.

Has docusign become what google has to search? Like I say to my insurance agent, “do I need to docusign something”?

This is also where companies can save a ton of money if they develop tools that allow customer facing employees to do their jobs much more efficiently.

Yeah I can respect that. For me it’s more about living for yourself or sacrificing for others. You can choose either whether you have kids or don’t have kids.

Kids just happen to be the easiest way to force yourself to stop living for yourself.

I mean it sounds comfortable, and minimally stressful, but if it’s not that you can’t have kids, you should start a family. You’re now in such a good position to do it!

Then your life can be chaotic, messy, stressful, and you lose much freedom for many years! But on the plus side you learn to sacrifice everything you’ve done and earned for the good of children who don’t even know how to appreciate it!

I think there is like a skull and bones conspiracy that every founder who gets venture capital and every other mega company agrees to make interviews awful.

That way employees don’t want to go through the trouble and would rather just stay where they are, and will accept less pay than they could get.

It’s like a cartel and it works as long as everyone involved keeps up the gig.

It’s either that or interviews just suck and no matter what you do they will suck.

Or maybe interviews are just fine and people just need to accept they are stressful. If you can’t handle the stress, then build a good network with friends and relatives, and let a little nepotism make it easier. If you can’t do that then just accept you won’t get paid as much and your job might not be perfect.