nickmyersdt

See also: Smart Motorways in the UK. Otherwise known as "how can we funnel billions of pounds into the construction industry for zero or negative benefits to tax payers"

https://www.electropages.com/blog/2022/03/smart-motorways-ki...

https://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/campaign/climate-chang...

I bought 30 Lenovo and Dell laptops for new starters at our business and have definitely found that, over the last two years, both present more issues than I would have expected from either. We've stopped buying Lenovo because of the problems our users were having, sticking with Dell and trying to weather the issues.

I only feel bad that life is a lottery and our global and local economies are rigged to improve the lives of winners whilst grinding the life out of losers.

I'll be honest. You can know bits of front end engineering and get a front end engineer job without knowing it all (got to start somewhere).

I think that you'll find newer entrants to the field argue you don't need CSS (or HTML or Accessibility) knowledge. They will say that these are someone else's responsibilities.

My take is that if you are responsible for what is delivered to the client (the response) you are also responsible for all the aspects that the user interfaces with.

Otherwise the argument is that's there's a front end to the front end called the interface which is someone else's responsibility.

Some businesses may have designers that code components and CSS however I'd argue that that's still "the front end" and that if the designer "can't wire it up" then the job of front end engineering is shared by designer and developer, rather than split.

So, my answer would be "no", you're not a "complete" front end engineer if you don't know CSS, HTML (semantic/current version), accessibility and browser APIs.

You can be a front end engineer who is learning those things and needs help from others to deliver a "complete" front end, that's fine.

Not a book but I enjoy https://www.moesif.com/blog/

But how will marketing determine the effectiveness of their efforts if I don't "just add a single line of code" for every social media company to our website? </sarcasm>

I like mindmeister, I have used it for a long time.

I think because it doesn't make anything better. It just provides alternative ways (often much poorer) to do things. Disruption comes when a new technology solves a real problem/need that everyone has.

Can you not do something with that time that enables your business to grow and pay you more?

My calendar for blocking out time in big enough chunks to get things done and not feel stressed.

For themselves, with very high day rates, and impressive networks of contacts.

No. I don't lie online or IRL. The world has enough dishonesty, and I don't feel the need to partake or receive interaction online. I'll occasionally ask a question or answer one, but it's more of an idle interest.

I generally think that most people behave online in a manner they may not do IRL. I don't know if that's a net positive or negative thing overall.

I guess there are lies which aren't harmful (white lies?) and lies which are. Telling the difference isn't always easy. Sometimes the truth can be harmful as well, however at least the truth is real rather than fabricated.

Don't know where I'm going with this. Interesting question.

And accordingly the glorious sunny weather that has been present for the last week has vanished with promise of rain.

Java was created by Sun Microsystems.

SQL was created by IBM.

C# was created by Microsoft.

I don't know if your question was intended to mean "commercially successful" or if by commercially-backed you may have meant "closed source".

I work in a way that requires me to focus for periods of time.

I find that booking a time that is mutually convenient (even for a short conversation) is preferable to possibly interrupting or being interrupted.

It means I can give my full attention to the exchange and make it a priority. Call me when I'm in the middle of something and you'll get less attention because my mind will still be on the task I was doing.

There's no part of my day that isn't busy (work, team, manager, personal).

Personally, for casual, non-priority conversations, I rather async mechanisms (messaging) be used first, and then if something develops that warrants a "face to face" conversation, we prioritise that time.

I think if someone has said "please book time with me" they have already made you a priority to talk to because they are giving you the most valuable resource a person has.

Being 25% over budget when the programme is already extortionately expensive compared to similar infrastructure projects in other countries. And each time we do "another one" it's even more expensive than the last. There is an entire industry purpose designed for ripping off the tax payer.

If anyone knows an identity solution that supports bilateral and multilateral saml (federation of identity providers), automatic retrieval of metadata/certs, Oauth, Oidc, group rules, IDP discovery (routing to IDP based on identifier), wayfless, and IP Authentication I would love to hear about it. We run a B2B that sells our web based service into education (primary to through to university) and have a small team so are always interested in solutions in this space.

Whilst the names may change, there have always been threats and attacks on democracy, wealth, welfare and sovereignty for as long as history records.

Typically with the aim of shifting power from one group to another.

The world isn't getting worse, we just hear a lot more about what's going on.

People are as selfish and power/money hungry as they've always been. Humans haven't changed, there's just a lot more of us each day.

We're a long way from global peace and economic and environmental harmony but I feel like there are a lot of people who want to try.

More people than ever before and with the Internet providing means of rapid, global communication and coordination those voices are reaching further.

If we can replace capitalism with something sustainable that brings peace and equality to all, perhaps then the world will start to be a better place (but will we ever rid ourselves of the selfishness that means some people want to be more equal than others).

I wonder whether this will drive smaller companies out of business, given how important software is in modern businesses, when hiring/retaining engineers becomes so expensive that business models fail or only juniors can be hired, which may lead to other forms of intolerable expense.

Surely the reason is capitalism? If you make every person compete for lining their own pockets in order to determine their quality of life, every channel available will be exploited and every effort will scale as far as that channel will allow it?

Correct link is https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/I-write-code-100-hours-a-week

I don't have any written or direct evidence, however I worked for a public service broadcaster, who regularly dealt with Apple and Netflix, and the feedback from both was that star-rankings were driving a lot of royalty payments and user choice (people would ignore poorly ranked content). The impact of this was that low performing content providers made less money. By removing the collective scoring, the company would implement their own recommendations algorithms, which gave them the ability to both deliver 'better' recommendations based on what the user consumed and spread the royalty payments more broadly. If what you wanted was to see what everyone else was watching/listening to though, that's not in the interest of their business. Anecdotal and third hand but I believe the people that relayed this to me.

A capitalist one.

I didn't say it was reason for a daily meeting. If you don't find you need them, don't do them. Just agree with your team they are unnecessary. The teams I have worked with have always found it helpful to be able to adjust their plans with the whole team in situ (e.g. I need someone to help me with X; ok, I can help if someone else could do Y; cool, if Z can work with me, I think we could do Y. If we do this, we should tell A that B won't be done this week.)

I agree on the teacher point. There are some teachers that really care about unleashing genius, creativity and curiosity. There are some that just want the paycheck each month. And a scale in between. I question the "system" and whether it's measuring (or able to measure) the 'right' things? As most of the behaviour from teachers and education leadership is based around attainment. Likely that putting a bunch of people in a cohort and trying to help them grow into curious, motivated individuals can't be done on a large group basis.

Largely, I think economics drives most systems, and the behaviour within those systems. It requires people to think and act beyond those boundaries for humanity to move forward.

If there were no developers, or no software, or no Internet, I wonder what humanity would look like right now.

Yeah, I think there are too many industries that take more than they give, however they prey on human weaknesses. The global logistics thing is interesting as arguably globalisation is the leading cause of destruction to planet Earth.

I would like to think the two aren't mutually exclusive, however I do think that sports players (and actors/musicians) are turned into what are essentially money making vehicles (whether that be advertising in sports or royalties in entertainment). Those that are considered "A" game are those that earn the most money for other people.

I think of my own style of management being less about "saying no" and more about supporting the team and business to find ways to say "yes" that are both sustainable (no burn out or dissatisfaction from developers) and impactful (makes a valuable difference to our customers or business).

I think of management being able to influence the conversation in a direct way, and also committing to the company direction (even if I don't personally agree with it).

Really?

I'm a developer who has gone into management.

Most of the software that is churned out just keeps the money flowing.

Garbage collectors, nurses, utility workers, teachers, parents.

All seem infinitely more valuable to humanity then anything developers do, unless you're advancing medical or bio-science.

Admittedly, due to demand and the ever increasing globalisation of systems software is exploding, so developers are in demand.

Most valuable type of person (I despise the word resource applied to people) I guess depends on your definition of what is valuable?