preordained

Could not agree more...I wish I had more of substance to add, but an upvote didn't feel sufficient

Humans, who are social animals, not being able to see/read each other's faces in person...forever?

That's part of being uncensored. Small price to pay, IMO

Ya think...

I can't understand those who think we are on a sustainable trajectory or (even worse in some ways) the "we'll keep trying lockdowns until we get it 'right'" camp. It's not working, adjust.

God, yes...JavaScript is the great "stick a bandaid on it" story of tech

Seriously. That's a WTF from me, dawg...

Said better than I could--much agreed.

This seems logical, but I've yet to experience a software shop of any complexity where you can just plug people in and out with this mercenary approach. A year or two is when I notice people actually start adding significant value, and the really high value work when you get in tune with an organization's DNA maybe still years later. Companies need veterans. If it seems like someone can't even pretend to get invested, it's a waste of time. Smart people who have a rap sheet of skills a mile long are cute, but I've personally found such peoples' dominant skill is marketing themselves...which I can't blame them for, but I think articles like this are the result of people being burned by the "mercenary" mentality.

I've felt this way for a while, that we're just spinning our wheels. UIs/lipstick gets prettier, but there is little out there we couldn't of had 10-20 years ago. Ergonomics of software development have made great strides in some ways, terrible regressions in others. There isn't much of substance to discuss. We probably don't enter the "new world" until quantum becomes ubiquitous or some other massive breakthrough.

Everyone who is answering in the negative here, no matter how sincere and what efforts they are making to discuss this rationally is getting downvoted. A. Why? Can we not act like this? B. Off topic, but whoever thought the downvote button was a good idea? It will always be a disagree/spite you button...wherever you find such a thing. It doesn't help. It never helps. Flag flagrant bad actors for mods to address, discuss anything else like adults.

Because, saying "look at the other guy" isn't a solution

If the code was initially a net positive (i.e. provided a feature users wanted/needed, etc.), then in a way, yes. It might be bad in the abstract in the way patching something with bubblegum is, but if it works at the time--it works.

I think the only way to argue it was wholesale bad is that it immediately and objectively sank future progress (like a fatal wound of sorts). If it made things a hassle going forward, you'd have to argue that it was so much of a hassle that it actually receded things back into a negative. Most companies rarely experience the debt that stops forward progress cold or can prove they'd be making X times more progress if wasn't for such and such debt.

That said, if you could do things in such a way that yields the desired result and causes less (there is always some, and never little) maintenance, that's ideal. The thing is, everyone is trying to code from that place. The only ones who aren't are those who can't (they really are incompetent) or those who have given into utter malaise or malice.

Fine, porn or gore or profanity, list of slurs. If you want to begin curating other nebulous concepts like "hate speech" at scale, it should be explicitly defined and you should held to being clear when you are acting upon violations for it, and responsible for applying your policy broadly and not cherry picking. "There is no neutral" so we'll just make it up as we go is just a ridiculous pass that big platforms are exploiting to the ill of society.

When, I don't know, +90% of public discourse is flowing through a handful of platforms, and they are cutting out what they don't like, teasing out what they do like a gardener sculpting shrubbery to present some customized, skewed version of the public consciousness...yah, it's a problem.

I think the publisher vs platform provisions do need to be revisited. I think small niche sites and forums could be allowed more latitude in how they curate, but at a certain scale a higher expectation of neutrality should be enforced. Really, just limited to taking down obscenity, porn, gore, etc. If any more grey curating is applied (i.e. these platforms attempting to deem for themselves what is "hate speech") there should significant penalties for not applying it generally; for instance, taking down a Trump tweet addressing BLM for being deemed racist in some way, and yet giving a pass to others saying "white loves don't matter" or the like.

A few giant platforms can't be allowed to be the grand arbiters of what is acceptable public speech and what isn't. The influence they have is scary.

I find it disturbing that a post like this gets downvoted. You've said nothing off-the-wall here. A downvote is not a rebuttal or an unceremonious verdict on the validity of your thoughts. Seriously not a fan of downvotes for this reason...just a blight on public discourse.

To get back on topic, I'd really like someone to explain in some way that makes sense to me (because I've heard none--maybe I'm just incorrigible, thought) how a mandatory vaccine is justifiable for a disease with an extremely high survival rate that elderly people who've already exceeded the average life expectancy are disproportionately at risk for.

Spoken like a blue mage ;)

The Waste Land might be the most pretentious thing I've ever read. It just oozes self-importance. I've never seen any work that could be described as great that has an overt peacocking quality to it.

What? Not without extra pay, that's for damn sure...not just "some" companies. That's ridiculous. I got overtime when I worked retail for crying out loud...

A part of me feels bad sometimes cause I doubt I'm good enough for some FAANG company...then I read stuff like this and I think, yah, ability or no, I don't think I'm type of person who would want to partake in this culture.

So, I looked at the article they are refuting (or one of them?) and expected a bunch of superficial criticism as suggested in this refutation, but it does not look to me at all that "superficial" criticism is being defended against: https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/

^^^Swallow your politics if you can for a moment and read. At a minimum it seems that the rebuttal here was being argued in very bad faith. Given the stage set, I was expecting bikeshedding about the Law if Demeter or JSON vs other format, etc...

The Disappearance of the Universe, Gary Renard

Yah, I have to say material like this getting any attention really accentuates the feeling I get that we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for how to improve in software. It seems like we're more and more focused on the (relatively) superficial...language ergonomics, conventions, etc

100% true. No idea why you were downvoted.

As an experiment, you should let one rip at an opportune moment. Should be enlightening whether they carry on as if this is indeed normal or try to gaslight you about your strange behavior...

The love to work for work's sake bit...I get what you are saying. But

>Many of them also been with the same company for 30+ years which is insane!

Why is this insane? More and more unusual these days, yes, but what is insane on the face of it? If you could have stability (good for raising a family, etc), lifelong relationships, and didn't have to "re-prove" yourself over and over again...isn't that desirable?

I see the don't-get-comfortable job-hopping trend more as a reaction to instability and a fear of being left behind...not some merit in itself. I'm not entirely convinced either that in most cases B-shop will provide you with so many more skills and new experiences than A-shop. For sure there are sometimes quality differences, but how much more often is it the same tune with different costumes and maybe a couple different accompanying instruments?

I guess I'm saying is job-hopping really some "good" millennial virtue...would we really want it this way if it wasn't a necessary evil?

I get what you are saying, and on a certain practical level you are right, you can't be that guy who never moved past COBOL...but I think it needs to be super clear that you can accept the churn (as necessary) but you sure as hell don't embrace it. Embracing it, IMO, is how JavaScript dev got to be what it is. Broadly speaking, a lack of nuance and temperance is the great blight on development.

Who needs em? Everyone ;)

I'd call the same interface but behind that is a layer that talks to REST and if there is some networking error that's a runtime exception. You are probably bringing a DB at that point so I don't know if you need explicit transaction logic. So you could have the service in the same JVM but then cut it out and make it a microservice just by adding a REST "proxy".

Discipline. For every one for whom (they believe) remote work unburdens them of social interaction and unwanted stimuli ergo unleashing a Jedi flow state of crazy creativity and productivity...there are others for whom this idea doesn't hold up...like at all. They are more distracted, aloof, and frankly they try to do just enough to somewhat register as a viable employee. They don't engage unless engaged, and they tell a lot of stories when pressed as to why assignment X is still incomplete. Were they working furiously but blocked by A,B,C? Maybe...who knows...all I can say is the lack of proximity _does_ embolden those who are inclined to be lazy and full of excuses. Some at least marginally productive employees do go full on dead weight under these circumstances, IMO.

Anecdotal...but that's par for the course in this thread.

Not to mention always asking me for more information for "recovery..." Get out of my life. I want you for email (for the moment anyhow) and nothing more, that's exactly how I want it, just back off. Even as I say this...I think I really do need to switch to an email provider that understands boundaries, paid or otherwise.