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Across the entire codebase, we discovered an entire class of bugs that only never cause any issues because all the important rows in all the important tables had Id 1 (e.g. Currency 1 was USD and Country 1 was USA) - so in a few places where the ints got mixed up, the correct row was still accidentally looked up in the wrong table).
> "NYC recently hired McKinsey to conduct a 20 week study"
I mean, do I have to say anything else? The joke writes itself.
This cabin is at ~1500 meters of altitude, in a village with a road and several other buildings. For rural Switzerland, that's not living far away from civilization - that's just living in civilization. I would even assume you get normal postal service like every other place in Switzerland not separated from the outside world by cable car.
I'm sure it's worth investigating about the architecture of e.g. the huts of the Swiss Alpine Club [0]. These are up there in the ~3000 meters range, only accessible by multi-hour hikes and only seasonally maintained. German-language Wikipedia has a great lot of information and pictures [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Alpine_Club
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_H%C3%BCtten_des_Schw...
The standards for "ancient" are simply relative to your own cultural history. A 200 year old building in the US is ancient - a 800 year old building in Germany is also ancient.
There were lots of open questions, not only tech-wise, but also business-wise that made me really anxious (in both senses) to get to work on them. So I pushed the stakeholders to discover what they wanted. I asked for definitions of terms, clarification on business language, workshops to figure out what it is my software was supposed to improve, what problems it was supposed to solve.
I sat down with them and explained Agile from A to Z while also writing code, reviewing code, writing CI/CD pipelines, talking to other teams about architecture, and generally putting in work wherever it was useful - and that was everywhere.
Then a week before my 3 month trial period was up, I was told to clear my desk until the end of the day because that was not what the company was looking for. End of story.
I don't regret doing everything I did, but I do regret not playing it smart politically and doing it out in the open.
In case it was unclear, I was being sarcastic in my reply and pointing out the hypocrisy of being offended that "regular people" would have to foot the bill for ICUs - as if they weren't the ones relying on their existence.
During the night, it would drop to 40 (which is still fine), but sometimes below 30, at which point my heart monitor would blare an alarm, waking me up and scaring the absolute bejesus out of me, raising my heart rate immensely. A nurse would walk in, see that I was fine, and leave again.
This occurred nightly for a few days.
* Going around the circle, each player names a person and a category into which that person belongs (e.g. "William Shatner, no more actors")
* Without taking notes, the next person continues and so forth.
* If a player believes another player is in violation of any of the categories, they may formally issue a challenge. If the challenge is valid, that player is eliminated, otherwise the challenger loses one of their (2) allowed challenges.
The show works great because all 3 players are comedians and old friends, so they love to get ridiculous and varied with it.
Categories might be "No more people whose name fits iambic pentameter" or "No more people who any of us had a crush on" or "No more people who have probably used a microwave before".
Persons might be "Noah" or, as you mention, "Barbie". Resolving a challenge like "Well, how old is Barbie, really?" are solved sometimes through discussion or sometimes through a player promising to abide what Wikipedia says before the third, uninvolved player, looks it up.
According to the BBC, he used the 250k to move out of the airport [0]. He moved back to the terminal a few weeks ago before dying there.
I am an old school kind of engineer, and if you tell me your web requests take 2s instead of 20ms due to an architectural decision you made that doesn't have any other strong upsides, I would agree that that is insanity.
I don't find it odd to complain that publishing an artwork on DeviantArt has gone from "I intend humans to look at this" to "I (opt-out!) agree that a corporation may use this to generate new artwork for profit."
I would not complain if a painting of mine were exhibited in a museum and someone came in to look at it and draw something inspired by it.
I would complain if I handed over a painting of mine to that same museum to be exhibited, they scanned it in at high resolution, handed it over to a class of copy artists, who then produced artwork in order to compete with mine, before finally putting it up in a gallery.
Does that still seem odd?
My $0.02, having used serverless before. Those use cases are:
* Very very low traffic apps. POST hooks for Slack bots, etc.. Works well!
* Someone who is an "architect" can now put "experience with Serverless" on their CV and get hired somewhere else that is looking for that keyword in their CV scans.
Those are any and all uses cases.
We interviewed several people. The artistic director. Some people from our school who were painting a Sol LeWitt performance piece on the wall.
All in all pretty generic stuff. People describing what abstract art meant to them, how people could interact with it.
And then we interviewed the janitor (I was behind the camera observing).
He talked about how he hung paintings.
How there is a standard wire they put on the back of frames to ensure it was easy to hang frames level.
What the typical height of a hung artwork was. Based on how tall the average visitor was, and from how far away they would observe the painting.
It was the absolute highlight of that trailer.
They pick up the phone and answer your questions.
They don't have you wait in a queue for 45min and affirm that your call is important to them.
They don't give new customers better prices than loyal ones.
If they update local bandwidth, you get that for the same price you paid before, without asking.
That's it.
I gladly pay less than $20 a month extra for all this peace of mind.
- having to work together with assholes towards a common goal
- how sometimes you can cram for a deadline, but sometimes you can't
- how, often, how well you do is just politics and networking
Obviously fuck everything I learned about however pushdown automata worked. That's not relevant to my career now. All the above still is.
Of course you're not going to hire a woman if you could hire a man - they might get pregnant and be away from work for a long time.
Of course you're not going hire an older employee that knows their worth over a recent graduate that isn't familiar with the salary they should earn. You can rip them off much more easily.
People can be cunts but still act with some rational motivation. That's why we have protected categories, to make sure that that isn't a strategy worth pursuing.
Or we could build giant dueling death robots who decide wars 1-on-1 instead of pointlessly wasting human lives like in classic Sci-Fi schlock Robot Jox [0]:
> Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations—the American western-influenced Market and the Soviet-Russian-influenced Confederation—have agreed to outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disputes are settled with gladiator-style matches between giant robots operated by pilots called "robot jox" [...]
If you walk into a room and it smells like dog shit, a dog probably shit in that room.
If you walk into a second room and it still smells like dog shit, there might have been a dog that shit into both those rooms.
If you walk into a third room and it still smells like dog shit, check the bottom of your shoe.
In that (shitty) metaphor, it might just be that your office building (~i.e. the software industry) is next to a sewage plant (i.e. its problems), regardless of the state of your shoes.
I want to second this - today is the second time I heard of them. The first was a job offer on LinkedIn that also failed to describe what Datadog did. It did talk a lot about how it was enterprise scale and important, though.
I declined to look further into it.
For me personally, that's how my brain works. Sometimes I need to realign and discover that just because all the "9/10" (in terms of difficulty) problems and 7/10 problems have been solved, the 2/10 problem isn't that bad, just because it's now the worst problem at hand.
I feel absolutely the same... about taking a walk. That seems incredibly pointless, as you say.
However, if I jog the same route, I burn X kcal, and after dieting for a while, I know how much X is, weighed in food. Very tasty food, this long into a diet. That makes it incredibly easy to instead go for that jog.
It's incredibly weird. I can also take a 1h walk no problem to go buy milk at a shop 30min away. That ticks a box, so it's a Job Well Done for my brain.