Agingcoder

projects beyond a certain size in a large org imply things which are very different - people, networking, money, regulations, politics, business, security etc all things which don’t look spectacular when you have three people, but become very important and much harder with hundreds of people.

So career development really means ‘learning a completely different skillset which is not technical’

I played dk when it came out - most of my friends ( tabletop rpg fans) were really excited, and enjoyed the humor as well. It didn’t click with me, and I found the graphics hard to read and ugly.

I think populous or theme park were better games.

The first time I used it around 2007 I thought it was great. It was basic, but did everything that I wanted ( I’d didn’t care about the project management that maybe didn’t even exist back then I don’t remember ).

I think that it’s been diverted from its original purpose,and is now indeed horribly complicated since it’s supposed to be all in one package.

I’ve also noted that in large companies the quality of the product for end users, as long as it’s not a massive drag on productivity or on recruitment and is not core business, is irrelevant and that other factors are more important ( costs, contracts , easy to install integrate and maintain, quality of support, breadth of use within the company etc ). This makes atlassian a natural superpower.

I think about half of all desktop machines , since MS is pushing upgrades aggressively. Many corporate environments ( have already moved as well.

https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

That’s a different issue but you have a point esp since the Linux vs windows fight back then was essentially framed as proprietary vs free.

Microsoft says it ends in October 2025.

What am I missing here ?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-suppo...

Agreed - my view is that Linux on the desktop failed and will never succeed and its mostly alright since people have shifted their computing needs from desktops to phones.

So the market for personal computers has grown massively with phones entering it, and Linux has won here.

As to the general state of Linux usability - I’ve been using Linux since 1995, and professionally for more than 20 years - it’s great for professionally administered servers or workstations, less great for regular desktops / laptops where things pretty never work out of the box which is unfortunately not going to bring in extra users …

Unless I’m mistaken windows 10 is end of life in 3 months so this shouldn’t be surprising ?

Harry potter Matilda - are you sure there’s no legal risk here ? ( independently of the coolness of the project)

Right now it’s fairly limited , hence the many ‘programmers will always be needed’ opinions.

What worries me is the trend and speed at which things are progressing, especially with the amount of money thrown at it.

If you believe the trend will stay then many of us will be out of a job in a few years. If you don’t then you’re safe.

There are already markets ( translation, illustration etc ) where AI has changed things significantly. Ours is slightly different because it requires formal things to be correct unlike translations or illustrations which can be slightly ‘off’.

My view is that either AIs learn how to generate human debuggable or already correct code, or it won’t work and the trend will stop. I believe there’s a fundamental hardness here - if they break that , then other things will change and our world will be fundamentally different.

Note, this is all belief !

That’s indeed not high speed - high speed ( tgv) is closer to 200mph.

People working for large international companies or having lots of business related interests across continents. There is I think no substitute to physically meeting people at some point ( I’ve experienced this firsthand) so some people travel a lot. They’re expensive people as well, so making trips shorter and less tiring (business trips like these are exhausting ) is a good thing for them.

Yes, tools like zoom alleviate the problem somehow but not completely.

Iouring is very recent

Most of them are but some of them are good. I like the Cloudflare blog in particular which tends to be very technical, and doesn’t rely on magical infrastructure so you can often enough replicate/explore what they talk about at home.

I’ve also said this before but because it doesn’t look like an ad, and because it’s relatable it’s the only one which actually makes me want to apply !

I remember mouse control - I didn’t expect in a dos application at the time, and it also felt like a waste of space ( I think you had to fiddle with interrupt 33 or something like that to deal with the mouse which was more complicated than basic port reading )

Well you don’t need enshittification for that : in the early 2000s Sony released a digital music player that didn’t read mp3 but ATrac instead, and the provided converter was slow and buggy. Let’s say that consumers didn’t like it.

I’ve always wondered how they came to shoot themselves in the foot like that - any basic consumer or journalist test would have flagged that.

Coming from the same area, I didn’t even think that it might look odd to folks in other parts of the world …

Yes - happened to me once. I could reproduce it consistently until I turned tcpdump on , at which point it would go away. I resorted to ebpf as well.

Ah that’s nice a one - it’s ’do the wrong thing’!

I’ve spent many years working on hpc problems, and most people simply don’t have , or don’t care about, or don’t know what to do with performance problems.

Don’t have to because they usually have a full machine, and unless they saturate it, the problem doesn’t exist.

Don’t care, because many people think it’s alright if things are slow, or inefficient ( the user can wait, or will live with 100ms instead of 1ms).

Don’t know what to do - this one is interesting : many people don’t realize it’s actually possible to get the same result , but faster.

I got one from the play store once - I called them. The conversation was a bit surreal ( they kept telling me it wasn’t their fault , before eventually suggesting a refund )

I don’t really care about google’s ai features - I’m fine with regular old fashioned search engines. I’ve stopped using google because it doesn’t work anymore - I used to be able to find what I want , and now I can’t. Everything is lost in a mess of ads and what seems to be a collection of random answers.

I now instruct chatgpt to search the web for me and I read the result, since it works. I also read the news directly from various newspapers that I subscribe to to make sure they actually get money.

Both Ada and spark have zero costs abstractions, they’re designed to run on embedded platforms.

Spark is a different use case from rust - it’s a full prover, and the goal is formal verification, typically in contexts where human life is at stake ( say, you’re writing software for an artificial heart , to take an extreme example ). This comes at the cost of being less flexible, but they’ve been slowly evolving spark so that it can handle increasingly complex cases .

This is what happened to me a long time ago - I used to write software 3D engines, then 3D cards (3DFX in particular) happened. I remember losing interest at that time ( I eventually figured out that there was still work to do but still…)

Now that I’m quite a bit older, I have come to appreciate the game part a lot more - it’s maybe less techie, but it’s actually also why people make games. When I play with my kids then don’t see the tech - they see the game !

Indeed. Let’s add electricity and maybe double the costs ? Note some of the costs will be shared anyway with the bacteria culture anyway ( you need folks to interpret the results, real estate , etc ). Still at 4 usd/ analysis, it looks reasonable to me.

Thanks - I would suggest you write this explicitly on your website. I’ll add that the 23andme story will make some people at bit wary.

What are you doing to avoid data breaches ?

Do you know how cheap culturing bacteria is ( I really have no idea )?

At 1 million/year ( worst case ), that’s roughly 3k/day so 40 dollars / analysis using your numbers . Assuming the machine lasts a bit longer ( say 5 years ) that’s 8 dollars/analysis, assuming 20min/sample. Make it a bit faster (5 minutes) and you’re down to two dollars which doesn’t look super expensive to me.

Precisely ! The dictée is a typical exercise which exists only because the language is irregular. Most people in France dread this particular exercise, since you can’t win - points get deducted for every mistake, most people will make at least one, and if you make enough mistakes you get 0 points whether you made 5 or 500 mistakes.

Well, if you’ve built a career on something, you will usually actively resist anything that threatens to destroy it.

In other words, what is progress for the field might not be progress for you !

This reminds me of Thomas Kuhn’s excellent book ´the structure of scientific revolutions’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...