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Clearly stating what you know and don't is the honest thing to do, but building hype is better for business.

I'm not even sure, this time there is a more realistic risk that people outside of the industry listen to what he says.

And produce something tangible and useful, instead of talking like if sci-fi stories were real.

I wish he would just stop sharing his unsubstantiated opinions, tweets included, he got worse very fast when he entered his AI arc.

Yes. We need more of those little tutorials demystifying things we take for granted.

See this regarding android phones: https://www.youtube.com/live/Vuw72THyXsQ?feature=share&t=947

"Why would anyone have one?"

That will surely work in the EU, lol.

The size is only one of the factors, it can be small but slow, especially when the history grows.

The "simple" part is so hard to understand even for people with high seniority. Once asking for simplicity I got back a mass of low effort code that seemed written out of spite, even if that was not the original intent.

I've worked with people following the book to the letter and the quality of their work would vastly improve if they took the time to understand the catchy acronym. The author is not the only problem here.

Complete strangers, but yes, I can confirm that it seems heavily culture related.

How to slowly destroy a company's reputation one silly decision at a time.

Put this way it's way more mysterious and interesting.

> Most of the time people steer the conversation right back to the two big hitters - how much money do you make and who are you sleeping with.

This is probably the segue I hate the most and consider a deal breaker for any future interaction. A lot of people DO ask directly how much money do you make.

Hard pass.

Exactly, it's about projecting status for those who think they can.

> It sounds like you are over generalising from a limited set of experiences.

Definitely not, having a job where your values can shine is not the norm. And I don't know what your field is but most jobs, especially in the software development space are nothing to write home about or worthy of discussion with people outside the software bubble.

As always, individual experiences could sometimes deviate from the norm but that doesn't change the fact that most jobs are of little interest to other people. And reflect negatively on one's character when used to project status, like a lot of people do.

Sure, I do too when meeting someone with a non-standard job or a job that could be interesting from some peculiar point of view, but most jobs are definitely not that interesting, most are really just an exchange of time for money.

If you are someone that tells other people what he does for a living and talk about work when meeting new people, stop doing that and reflect on why it's so hard to come up with something alternative[1]. No, it's not because a good chunk of your time is devoted to work or something about values reflected in the work you do(there is not enough "space" for that at work).

Only insufferable humans cares about your title or the company you work for.

[1] I tried, it's hard.

No it's not, no one cares about your job. And having a job that reflect your values is not the norm. People want to know about YOU, not talk about what you do to get paid. Your hobbies for example are way more interesting.

No, thanks for pointing this out.

The prices in that table are different from the one in the source they cite: https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/

As expected, with the correct numbers, countries without gas, oil or nuclear have comparable electricity cost(they buy it from the french, etc...).

Not outdated at all, but it would be nice to have a new edition with the errata [1] and maybe some additional content. Some sort of anniversary edition.

[1] https://man7.org/tlpi/errata/index.html

We need a second edition of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linux_Programming_Interfac...

A http/ftp download application that split files in multiple chunks to circumvent file-level download speed cap on server side.

Accept that the two cities are not comparable in regard to crime, your reasoning above was flawed. Really, it's so safe that it feels weird, especially at night.

That's why we invented remote work. /s

You have no idea of how boringly safe Zurich is. You don't get stabbed in the streets there, you just don't. Also, it's full of tech companies.

If things don't go as I expect I would gladly switch career, opening a food shack somewhere for example sounds nice.

Or freeing up time for more complex parts of the job.