I had this issue when I had a larger team to manage. I'm also one of those who remembers an email that was sent 3 years ago by some random guy listing all these useful things. However,it doesn't work for most people.
The communication needs some guidance too
1) anything quick and simple- chat
2) something more complex - email
3) something complex and likely to stay relevant long in the future - knowledge base, documentation, etc
4) major announcement- medium matters less but they need to be stored somewhere for people to refer to later.
Communication requires enforcement too: I had people in my team that kept saying that they weren't told about x,y,and z. If those are repeated behaviours( they usually are), they need to be managed accordingly so people would start take it seriously.
There's an element of practice too. Ideally, you want a very thin layer of oil to cover the base, or maybe even less. It doesn't need to be a lot. Also an average saucepan would produce quite a lot popcorn
To prevent burning, shaking and occasionally lifting off the hob is required. Also not adding too much corn helps a lot. The maximum a saucepan can take is when the entire base is covered with them.
This is good advise. A lot of devs, or techies in general, often live in a bubble,so end up thinking that if their standard dev shop has all the integrations, automations,and whatnot,so it should be the same everywhere else too. It blows my mind when see businesses operate in a way as it was 1900. I still remember how I told a business owner with 50 people or so how they could use shared mailbox in the operations, so it's easier to pickup the inbound emails as multiple people work on it.. It was as I just showed the path to enlightenment. However, it's difficult to see these problems when you are an outsider,so my advice is to go out and speak with many people who work in different sectors and face very different problems than an average HN reader.
Or simply use large saucepan. Pour some oil to cover its base, wait until the oil gets high temperature, pour corn. Then, shake it every now and then. We used to make tons of them when we were kids and even now I make it occasionally, when we do movie nights at home
This is a convenience that will turn into an absolute nightmare for average citizens in a few years time. Imagine saying something the state doesn't like and suddenly half the doors in the country won't open for you.
Programming is part of my job, but I only have to do it every now and then. However, I'm considering pulling a plug on programming side gigs I do sometimes. It's so intense, the brain feels like it's going to explode+ there's that anxiety and that the whole thing will fail before I can even submit it. I'm not sure the money justifies every time.
It's partially because of dilution. There are so many things out there seeking our attention. There aren't enough people on this planet to support it all.
No need to. If your experience is solid, there's plenty of work for consultants. Not those types, who walk in and get told to create a CRUD app, but those who can advise on tech, its implications on the business, the risks, etc.
This is poor business management and has nothing to do with the technologies at hand. If a company has a software product but the devs can be pulled into ' let's fix this button on our contact form' anytime, then it's simply mismanaged.
You can outsource the task, but you can't outsource the discussion afterwards. I recently had to hire: shortlisted a couple of candidates and gave them a simple task that shout take 1-2h to complete. I also gave them more than a week to complete it. They could have outsourced it,but they'd struggle to walk me through the whole thing, because you start poking around to see how deep you can ask and it becomes pretty clear pretty soon where their limits are and why they did x over y and etc.
What it generated in Django was very simple and likely far from the quality an experienced engineer would come up with, but at my knowledge level that was enough.
I always wanted to do this very specific in Django. I don't work with Python,so even though I knew what I want to do,but my skills weren't there to create working code. So I thought I'll throw the problem at chatGPT. The generated code had a couple of flaws, but I managed to fix them in 15 min or so and got a working result. The code also gave me some interesting perspective on how some things could be implemented.
We moved country a couple of years ago and with all the covid restrictions still in place, we needed a place to stay for a few days,as our apartment wasn't ready by the time we landed. So we got this really nice apartment in a nice part of the city with great access to shops, etc. The place had tons of positive reviews. We walk in and you could immediately tell it hasn't been cleaned. Stains on the bed, wc not cleaned, the fridge is filthy,etc. The place was managed by a company so eventually I ended up talking about to someone and they confirmed it hasn't been cleaned and offered to get a full refund or some massive discount if we stay. We couldn't get out fast enough. It was also impossible to leave a review, because the booking was cancelled..
I do agree with you. My feeling is that there will be a rise of so called super experienced users- those,who didn't just get all the answers from the prompt but learned instead and hordes of people who won't even know how to do basic stuff without the AI helper. The former group will be small, but extremely well rewarded,while the rest... Well, not so much..
I'll add to the list:
The closes my dad ever was to 'travelling abroad' during the soviet occupation was when they filled up a bus and went to Yugoslavia. He knew everyone on the bus except a couple of guys who showed up last minute and sat in the front row of the bus all the time. It was quite of a journey for him at the time, because he mentioned it at least hundred times when we were growing up.
Samsung, as a conglomerate with all the affiliates makes up 20% or so of Korea's economy. The entire state is motivated to keep it going,so a financial analysis of some 20 year old in wall Street don't have such a huge impact. TSMC is the same, it's a strategic company in taiwan,so again the entire country ensures it's not going anywhere. In the west, GE and similar companies are important, but not that important,so idiots like Jack Welch get more mileage than they'd get in Asia.
If it'll make you feel better, fox shareholders are prepping lawsuits against the executives to recoup the money the company will need to pay the settlement. So it's not the end yet.
Google always had a problem of launching tons of of stuff and then killing them. I vaguely remember reading some articles from earlier days that pretty much everything gets killed or dismissed if it can't be justified by numbers. Some purely creative processes get killed very fast because of these rules. The days where you can come up with some shit and carry on for years ended very long time ago there.
There's another type: who comes into the kitchen,right at midday, knowing well that there will be another 15 queuing to do the same, puts in the food and walks away for a half an hour. I had to take food out quite a few times because I can't wait around for some princess. Obviously stopping it mid journey is a crappy thing to do.
Before going full remote when covid started,we had a couple of offices. One was filthy, stuff all over the place, fridge looking like it's been a nuclear war inside,etc. The other was always clean,no stupid leftovers, toilets were pristine, and everyone always had "wow" moment when they walked in. I was in the clean one. How did we do it? Everyone cared about it from day one. People weren't leaving plates on tables but were putting away into the dishwasher. For the fridge we had a rule: not consumed by the end of Friday - it goes to the bin,no excuses. And even if it's only a few employees who care about it and do challenge others when things aren't right(e.g. leaving empty boxes instead of dumping them,etc), suddenly it becomes very easy to maintain high standards.