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Is there such a thing for go?

I'm talking more about things like you can't use apps that haven't been blessed by Apple without jumping through hoops, you can't easily install some third party OSS without installing XCode clutils, for a while you seemed not to be able to use sudo without booting into recovery mode and flipping some switch. Those kinds of things are 'developer-hostile' in my mind because they just make your life harder as a developer, and to what end?

I haven't upgraded and used Stage Manager yet so I don't have any opinion on it.

It's unfortunate that some of what made MacOS great for developers is now being phased out in favor of features that are lifted out of iOS. Apple has made developer-hostile moves over the years that seem out of line with it's old 'think different' ethos. I hope Apple takes this customer segment seriously and reverses course here, but I'm not super hopeful.

The real problem is that there isn't a reasonable alternative. Windows is out of the question for me due to not being a POSIX-based OS. WSL isn't integrated deeply enough and is still a pain in the ass to use coming from MacOS. I experimented with using a mostly stock Xubuntu setup for a bit and also found the user experience to be really subpar. Call me old, but I have no interest in dealing with the amount of configuration and tweaking necessary to be productive in a Linux environment.

Ultimately, I'm just going to stick it out with MacOS.

These questions are ultimately just asking what the work culture is like, they don't really have anything to do with documentation. And in that sense they're good questions to ask during an interview. As you allude to though, I don't think you're going to get good information if you just ask surface level questions about docs.

> Ask where the documentation is.

I've had a reasonably long career and worked at a number of companies at this point, and I've never seen this 'documentation' that engineers are supposedly producing.

It'll be harder, not going to bullshit you. It might take longer for you to find something, you may have to interview at more places to get an offer (especially one that's appealing), and when you do get an offer it won't be at a 2021 price. But there definitely are open roles to be had, the industry isn't broadly in a hiring freeze, and it's possible to get a job. You will just need to put more effort into it than you would have in previous years.

Something like 40% of the "renewable" energy being generated in the EU/Britain comes from burning wood, a lot of which was shipped from the US.

Strategically speaking, Google can’t kill GCP. Unlike Stadia, or Reader, or any of the n messaging apps they’ve developed, GCP is widely popular. It’s bigger in terms of market share than many public companies in the space, e.g. Digital Ocean. There are large public companies deployed on GCP. The repercussions of killing GCP are not like the repercussions of killing Stadia. It’s not just sunk costs we’re talking about. It’s real and growing revenue that would be at stake. I don’t think Google can outright kill it at this point.

About 3 years ago I left Silicon Valley after being there for 15 years. I moved to the suburbs outside of another major US city, near where I grew up. I had already been working remote, and especially during the pandemic it felt like a relatively future-proof decision to be outside of the SV network.

Frankly, now I'm not so sure I was right. No other place in the US (maybe in the world) has the amount and magnitude of technical talent and know-how, access to capital, or strength of network to compete with SV right now. Spend some time in SF, or Palo Alto, or Mountain View, and it's immediately obvious. Go to a cafe and people will be talking about tech. Your neighbor is probably in tech. Drive along the highway and you'll see billboards for tech products, and tech office buildings along the highway. Tech is deeply ingrained in the culture, top to bottom.

There is no other place in the US that is like this and the gap for SV is still only accelerating.

Makes sense in theory, doesn't always seem to in practice.

Not sure I agree. My anecdotal first hand experience is that it's irrespective of talent or work ethic.

Let's be real - a lot of tech companies over-hired from late 2020 to early 2022. Many need to cut staff now that the capital markets have dried up. The easiest way to do that without an actual layoff is to reneg on the promise of being able to work from home. A lot of people will just deal with it, but a small amount won't, and will quit. This is the easiest way to go if you're the executive team, since a lot of this 'soft layoff' will happen voluntarily and will save a lot of the expenses (not to mention the negative signals sent to the market) that come with a real layoff.

What do you use this for?

Neither is easy to do

GrandPerspective is free and has a lot of feature overlap http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

Web pages don't need javascript? Get real. You have to use javascript for your web app if you want to deliver a reasonable product experience. This is a dead argument I wish people would just stop making. The ship sailed over a decade ago.

Is it?

I worked at a micro-mobility company and spent a lot of time working with local officials via the company's government relations team. I assure you in London specifically the local officials did anything but bend over to enable micro-mobility.

Is there an antitrust case to be made here? Antitrust means a lot more than just 'big company'.

As someone who has bought one of these LE certs for money, I wasn't (just) paying for the cert, I was paying for convenience. I know I can get it for free and set it up myself. I don't want to set it up myself.

I didn't care in the last post and I don't care about this one either. I care about my productivity, I care about my team's productivity, and I care about getting stuff shipped. Those are the things I care about, and go works great for that. If you care about those things too, and you're using go, you shouldn't stop using go.

My whole career people have been telling me to stop using languages or tools I've been productive with. I've built successful companies where everything was written in python, the whole time people on HN telling me how I was using a lowly language because of things like whitespace significance or strings that were not unicode by default.

If you care about other stuff, fine. If you don't think go works for you, don't use go. Just stop telling people who are using go (and other productive languages) to stop using them because of obscure language design issues or obscure API choices that people rarely encounter day to day. That isn't what matters to most people, and it's actually bad advice.

The problem is that there are a ton of less experienced people reading stuff on HN (just as I once was) who will take this to heart but have nothing actionable to gain from it, except to think they're a bad developer using a bad language. They aren't, and they're not.

Most people don't do the math and realize that over a long enough time horizon a 30 year fixed mortgage will cost you less than purchasing the home outright. This assumes you take the money you would have sunk into the home and instead invest it at a higher rate of return, which is an option available to most home owners.

I've worked with plenty of 40+ developers who aren't burnt out and match neither of these categories

The convenience of an unlimited catalog of DRM'ed digital music far outweighs the rare inconvenience of music vanishing.

The NIH itself says different:

* 85.6 percent of people ages 18 and older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime

* 69.5 percent reported that they drank in the past year

* 54.9 percent reported that they drank in the past month

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...

> I have found that there is absolutely no bottom to the depths that people will sink, if they can make money.

I'm confused why you don't think this same reasoning doesn't apply to politicians and bureaucrats who would be doing the regulating.

"governments need to step in" was a pretty big leap to begin with

I'd care if I were an investor in such a company.

In the legal sense, competition doesn’t qualify as an innocent party.