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When you get a week off from school and only have your 40 hour work week, you realize that you don't know what to do with yourself, having (temporarily) forgotten how to fill your spare time with personal activities.

(But don't worry - you'll regrow that skill quickly once you're done with your schooling.) :-)

> We would not put a pilot in the cockpit without extensive flight training; why would we expect someone with no IT experience to be close to successful? They do not know what to execute on or what to prioritize which leads to endless risk reduction efforts and diluted focus. IT is a highly skilled and trained job; staff it as such.

Isn't this (general pattern) what led to the creation of the USAF as a separate military branch from the Army?

Perhaps we need a use military branch - The U.S. Software Force!

How do vaccine injuries compare to bad outcomes from Covid REinfections, though?

I found plenty of remote opportunities for several years prior to the pandemic just by sticking to my guns, passing and passing and passing on all non-remote opportunities.

I was hopeful, perhaps naively, that sending some knowledge workers into the rural regions of our country (U.S.) might help to alleviate both the cultural and economic divides that plague our society.

But I guess Google & others don't care.

INTERNATIONAL political power

Maybe we just like controlling each other's behavior? Maybe we can't handle more than one input dimension at a time, and even then that dimension needs to be binary?

It's not a binary consideration, but you have expressed it as such.

How big would the bumps be if the layers were scaled to the size of Texas? :-)

Genuine question because I honestly have no idea: how much additional learning curve is added by the average cloud provider to create a Kubernetes hosting context/setup?

Knowing nothing about K, I’m constantly wondering how it could be simpler than dumping a binary into a PaaS (web) hosting context and letting it do its thing. I’m interested to learn.

I’ve wondered about this myself - might you have any more information or be able to point me/us to any particularly good data sources?

U.S. Destroyer Shows Up Right Off Crimea On Vessel Tracking Sites But It Never Left Port

This bizarre spoofing incident around the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea is the second of its kind in the last two weeks.

I would accept a life-saving medical intervention that drained my life savings if I were convinced that the price were competitive and fair.

But under our current system, this could not be further from the case.

Is there some technological advancement that has created this most recent low code hype?

I’m certain that there have existed companies who didn’t want to pay programmers for exactly as long as there have existed paid programmers; what’s unique about right now?

Avoided it all year while traveling the country by only going to outdoor activities, and also getting groceries while masked.

Got it at Christmas from a gathering with only 3 other family members.

I often wanted to go do this as a child growing up in Arkansas.

In hindsight, each time I would bring it up my parents would have something of an "oh shit, anything but that!" reaction and would quickly distract me with some other activity or suggestion, and to date I've never been.

I'm certain that to them, the suggestion was essentially to drive several hours out and back to play in the dirt.

(this article is well-written and quite interesting, btw)

You nailed it.

There are a good number of legitimate uses and legitimate users for these vehicles (I know a lot of legitimate users), but the vast majority of the giant vehicles on the road have only 1 visible occupant and no visible cargo.

And although I am doubtless projecting, I can't help but envision a fresh hot latte in their cupholder, which the driver is on their way back from procuring.

Judging the appearance of some late model vehicles, I'll joke that we might as well skip a few small steps and go straight to mounting Hellfire missiles on the front. :-)

I think an extended conclusion to draw, which is worth articulating rather than leaving off at a vague notion of humility, is to (try your best to) account for all of our intellectual limitations in the design of the systems that we build.

None of us remembers particularly well. No one can run all of the code in their head. The future person who has yet to join your team doesn’t even get the chance to “remember” the reasoning for the decisions that we make today.

New Microsoft project name idea: Microsoft Namespace

I've created a website - https://sievejobs.com - to allow job seekers to hard-filter out companies with this sort of interview process, and also to quantify to hiring companies exactly how many job seekers they're missing out on.

(The site treats other job elements similarly: open seating plans, remote-ness, etc.)

Excellent resources indeed.

I feel like I should also mention that I tried some bare metal embedded Rust about 2 1/2 years ago and didn't get anywhere with it.

Now I try and there's support for quite a few boards, and it's easy to get started with them. (good CLI tools, etc.)

I have the impression that the Rust ecosystem and community have progressed very rapidly in the embedded direction, and in short time.

Am admittedly too inexperienced to properly weigh the pros and cons of various platforms, but I find the Rust support for certain embedded platforms to be compelling.

https://github.com/atsamd-rs/atsamd

I have at least managed to get some literal blinkenlights doing what I want on various Adafruit boards with very little effort.

“Oh no, now I’m ruined!” :-)

My 1 year at a consultancy out of 13 total as a dev gave me the the impression:

1. You get to walk on 10x the eggshells for the same pay

2. Shorter project ownership time horizon might have been fine with me, except this particular group was so intent on presenting the appearance of utmost competence to the clients that they couldn’t do the necessary course corrections that become apparent maybe 1/3 of the way into any project, once you’ve gained the initial bit of experience particular to that project.

The result was a quality of work that I was not willing to be a part of, so I bailed.

This actually looks like a truly useful website - I’ve noticed previously that it can be quite tricky to search for jobs at job board sites such as Indeed etc.

Be sure to include employee reviews of the employers as a feature! Those are similarly tricky to uncover.

Your team’s velocity will be faster from week 2 through the end of the 2nd year if you build the rapid feedback cycles provided by automated testing and CI/CD into your progress from the beginning

UNLESS your team lacks the experience to build and maintain a test suite with a high benefit-to-cost ratio, which is unfortunately the case for most teams.

In this case I don’t have any good solutions, other than choosing one’s team and teammates carefully, before starting the project.

I love your shoelaces analogy.

I’ve expressed it as sprinting forward as fast as you can while looking straight down at your feet - which is basically the exact same sentiment.

Of course there’s always “stopping to sharpen one’s saw”

A new I came up with myself “removing the stoplights hoping it will end rush hour sooner ...”

“Continuous integration and testing practices? We think those things are great, but we’ve been too busy to get to that, because we’re a startup ...”

Thanks. I'm honestly not crazy about it, but am holding off until profitability justifies purchasing something more succinct. :-)