nickh9000

Erlang is not a panacea. It excels as a middle layer, one that orchestrates work. It's not a tool to perform intensive calculations.

Maybe it is time to upgrade from that machine.

(serious) hobby project: beanstalk, vertx, java, dynamodb, elasticache. Frontend: Kotlin.

Yeah, but nope. Just get xfce, it has similar ideas and it is so much better.

What briandear is trying to say is that extreme points of view damage the democracy regardless of whether they are to the left or right.

And your point is extreme, for example. You are claiming that he is unfit. That's your opinion but wasn't the opinion of millions of people.

Personally I think he is extremely unqualified, and should not have been elected. Again, this doesn't matter.

The point is, he is the president, trying to delegitimize him serves no good to this country.

A democracy is built on the losing side acquiescing and letting the majority rule. This is why it was a big deal when Trump stated ahead of the elections that he would dispute them if he lost: it was a threat to the Democratic process. A civil war is the final result of this, when the minority does not want to give up control.

Yes, why not.

I am curious what would 10 years of experience would translate to.

Dude, never ever sell yourself short. Also proposing a salary of zero implies you work will be worth zero.

My kid would fall asleep 100% in the car. Heck there were times when I would take her for a drive precisely for this purpose. After five minutes driving she would fall asleep.

I then used to take out the car seat with her so not to wake her up.

Apparently the designers of Mass Effect did their Sci Fi homework.

Thinking about how you would shard your data is hardly over engineering. On some storage systems you are forced to anyway: Cassandra, dynamodb.

And the cost of building the solution from the onset is hardly a killer. The pain usually comes from operational complexity.

Apparently I should stop using gitlab.com By choosing to not shard your data you have basically put a cap on scalability... or at least one which will be reached faster than if you were to decide to shard.

The whole point why you should worry from the beginning is so that you don't have to re-work everything and put a huge risk to the business when you have to do it.

No, by all means share the MD5 hash of your passwords. After all it's a one way hash. /S

While that's true the rest of the world does need concrete answers on questions, rather than, "We are only 95% certain that statement X is true." Basically scientific rigor is important to make good science, but that does not apply to policy and the rest of society. In other words, when making a statement that goes to the public, qualifying statements are problematic.

The scientific community is at great fault for not being loud enough about the impact of global warming.

Seems like you are taking your interview rejections to heart.

Don't do that.

Most companies go with the mode don't hire unless the candidate is a great fit, because they don't want to bear the cost of a mistake. I have failed a decent number of interviews, some on technical ground, some on personal ground. I still think I am not a bad programmer, despite the failed interviews.

Like you I also have doubts about my abilities despite 12 years of work history in the Valley. Impostor syndrome.

Realize that most people are not as smart as Zuckerberg, and that they don't have to be. Don't use geniuses as a measuring stick of yourself.

The most important question is whether you like coding. If you do, pursue it. Whatever deficiencies you have, you will mend as you get more experienced.