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I remember the tolls like that as well. The Ohio Turnpike had them as late as 2000, IIRC.

A lot of that book took into account real life events and people. Unfortunately I don't have specifics on that one, so hopefully the parent does.

Also, that book is fantastic, as are the prequels.

This is very true. I live in the DC area and the number of ridiculous "clean coal" ads plastered all over public transit and TV/radio here is insane.

Lobbyists will be the death of us all.

Dude, this isn't aimed at you.

It's aimed at wealthy people. People who have so much money that they write the rules against not only you and the rest of the 99% of suckers in the world, but also for the rich, who make up 1.5% of the world. The rich laugh at us suckers, but actual wealthy people -- the .5% -- squash them like bugs when they try to skirt the rules as well.

See Bernie Madoff, the college cheating folks, etc. Rich people are just as screwed when they try to beat the wealthy.

They're the reason you can't make money and that you've been programmed to think you're the target of this.

Oh and those taxes you complain about? You likely went to public schools built on eminent domain land and drove on publicly funded roads or used public transit. Taxes pay for that. All of it. If we taxed actual wealthy people -- those with connections and inherited wealth -- these conversations would be way easier and you probably wouldn't have had to work so hard to enjoy those privileges or freak out at articles like this.

Ooooh going to see how this matches up with my personal list/the one my company uses for data engineers.

Will definitely submit feedback if I feel like something huge is missing.

Thanks for posting this! Hugely helpful since I've gone from software person who did a lot of data work to full on data engineer.

Yes. It is ok. I hate that we've made it a norm to expect everyone to have the same hobby -- exactly the thing you do at work, and it better damn well be a hobby that you can monetize.

Some people code and live on the MeetUp circuit when they're not coding. I do those things on rare occasion, but I've got a wife, a small child, and other hobbies.

I like that this article reminds all of us to not normalize overwork.

That said, it seems anti-hustle is becoming the new hussle, and yes, it's ok to code on your own as well if you enjoy it, want to learn, etc. You just shouldn't HAVE to.

Wasn't this a maguffin in one of the Batman movies?

Why was this downvoted? I literally thanked the poster for sharing this because it was interesting and a thing I may have to run into soon.

I'm sorry you're all offended that I'm on legacy projects right now and we're not at this point yet.

Someone sent me this a few weeks ago, and I've been playing with loading his datasets into a graph database. It's kind of a mess of CSV and some column formatted files, but it's a fun process.

Will share if I make something of it.

That wasn't immediately relevant to me, but is definitely a good read since I imagine I'll be dealing with these problems within a year.

Thanks!

Sure, I barely check email. Why do I get nothing done?

Oh yeah, Slack.

This! And the two can coexist as well -- Data lake for everything (partitioned appropriately) and modern data warehouse for the stuff from your data lake that you want to curate (of course with partially structured intake first).

I already loved figs, but TIL they are metal AF and I love them more.

You know what service had both communities of interest that thrived AND individual followings AND wasn't overrun with Nazis?

Google Plus.

Now excuse me while I shed no tears for Jack.

Wow, this is right in my age bracket and I never heard this one at all.

Surprised it hasn't made the rounds again revamped as "Don't go to this website!" or "OMG my friend's brother downloaded this app. and..."

Yes.

Next question.

Once Google Reader died, I found The Old Reader (theoldreader.com) and just ran with that.

I never stopped using RSS, and trying to get syndication from Twitter would cause my head (and my Twitter feed for things I actually care about) to explode.

I'm sad that we still have to remind people of these things.

The difference is Silicon Valley has some people on the inside of this one.

All of this makes me want to re-read Cryptonomicon very soon.

That's what I took from it. Forbes is aimed at the people buying solutions so from the perspective of a CIO or CTO (or even the people they're supporting with their analysis systems), the article is telling them that they may not be getting what they think they paid for.

This is about industry trends, and you CAN get a representative sample in reasonable time, for some definition of reasonable. The takeaway from this article is that what someone in the data space may think is reasonable isn't what someone who just paid for an army of data scientists and a data lake solution because those things are sexy thinks is reasonable.

So much this. It's why data engineering ends up being more and more useful, even if it's not sexy. Automating the boring parts of dumping all the ugly data and cleaning up the stuff that is sampled is a better use of resources.

I think you and the other top post folks are disagreeing with the title of the article, not the actual content of the article itself.

The author agrees with you in that you should actually do the work (you're a tech lead not a PM or purely management) but also actually tell your team what is expected and enforce it, not just assume they'll see what you're doing and copy it.

Strong this!!! I've done what the article suggests not to do and it failed miserably. I was put in a tech lead role and had little coaching on how to lead, so I mostly cargo culted based on what I thought other leads did and missed the point.

Yeah I was excited by this concept until I realized the link was to a site where I had to give them my PDFs.

I want a simple library I can use to do this locally for security reasons and because it's a rarity when it happens, but a big problem when I do have it.

Yeah, I wouldn't hold to that feeling bad part. It's a Futurama meme that gets lost in the context of no GIFs. I forget that HN is like the internet of my youth. :)

I 100% agree with the idea of using privilege to promote the unprivileged and educate those in our own demographics.

This is a bad idea and the person proposing it should feel bad. -- Every underrepresented group in tech ever, as well as introverts and junior folks or those switching from other specialities

(Seriously, I get that we have problems with pipelines and tech. interviews can be pretty terrible, but this is worse. Respected people are already in a pretty set demographic that's harder to break into, and anyone they've worked with is going to be similar. )

I loved the tone of this article because it's fairly relevant, and with a small facelift, could have been advice to web developers circa the early 2000s.

Data science is still a thing, and it's maturing in the way that applied sciences do when they get to the point of needing a little more engineering background. Tech. just is never that glamorous, but the dirty secret is that only people in tech. seem to really get that, so we have this hype cycle every few years.

What if this whole time the wall is really to keep US residents inside the country to make sure those hard working pharma execs get their rightful money? The slats are like those parking garage spikes that go one way -- US residents stay in, and everyone else can come in but never leave, keeping the easily exploited workforce from drying up.

Nah, that'd never happen.

I've been saying this for years, because I started doing web apps when we pretty much were sending raw SQL over to a database. Even after ORMs got bigger, I still stress knowing SQL even if you don't use it often, because it helps you understand the ORM.

And oddly enough, now I'm a data engineer. Everything I do, even when I'm not doing pure SQL, is influenced by years of experience in SQL. Either the languages of my big tools are still based on SQL in some fashion, or it simply helps to have an understanding of the ecosystem to figure out what's going on at scale.

Everything else has come and gone and come again, but SQL has help up pretty nicely. The only other skills that come close for me are working in languages that branched out of C (because the syntax isn't so different over time) and years of on again off again procedural languages (ColdFusion, vanilla Javascript, etc. leads to it being way easier to pick up Python).

Wait, what? Who is this even written for?

Jobs in other countries? Interview every 3 months? You'll have to move locations constantly if you keep doing the latter, because you're going to get known as the person who wastes everyone's time on interviews you likely aren't taking seriously. Also, word will get out and it's going to be obvious that you're not at your current job half the time because you're in interviews, doing tech challenges, etc.

Also, who even has time for this nonsense? I may have in my 20s, but the market was different then. Now I'm 40 and married with a small child. Pretty sure this isn't going to go over well, and doesn't fit for a whole slew of other folks who are even less privileged than I am with my legit career.

Some places are great for job security, but yes salary compression and lack of employer loyalty is a thing. Job jumping here and there is fine if it works for you and you're not burning bridges, and promotions work well for some and not others. Note that you can also change specialities (sideways move), and improve in your technical track OR go into management. You can also just sit at a Staff/Senior Staff/Senior Consultant type role for YEARS as a technical expert that continues to grow but doesn't manage people or projects and get FAT bonuses as long as you keep your basics relevant.

If I didn't better, I'd think this article was trolling, and not just the lunacy of someone who had a bad experience and lives in a bubble. Even then, I'm not sure anymore because it's too hard to tell in 2019.