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The problem is that I don’t control the entire IT org and my group has to deal with issues like presentation logic bubbling up into our APIs from underpowered and overhyped low-code platforms.

I guess the difference between you and me is that I’m open-minded about the possibility that some of these tools might potentially, someday, be better than what we’ve seen until now.

Also as you point out, getting funding for preventative maintenance or continuous improvement is extremely difficult in a corporate IT environment, especially if there isn't a product owner to advocate for the system and to secure funding. Although I do believe you need a product owner to drive the work to ensure it delivers business value, and not have it driven solely by developers.

I didn't know this was happening. Do you know where the market is moving to?

It’s all there (I’m trying to not give away too much, we’re not connections, but I can see your education and your work history and your endorsements, let me know if you want more proof).

EDIT: looks like you updated the link. ~Let me know if you want me to delete the info I found.~

I searched for Operation Safe Pilot, and it looks like they matched up aviation medical clearances with social security disability claims, not with general medical records. If you're claiming for a disability, there's something seriously wrong and you shouldn't be flying, or you're lying about the disability and committing social security fraud. Am I missing anything?

FWIW, I've seen a lot of material promoting heat pumps in colder climates.

The pretentious tone seemed to gently mock the readers and the perceived elitist nature of the New Yorker, rather than the monster truck enthusiasts, so more like the show Frasier, rather than the self-awareness lacking titular character within the show.

The idea that React 10 years ago is the same as React today seems to be highly oversimplified. React was simple, then hooks were added, and state management fads that turned something simple and intuitive into an IQ signalling exercise. At least that was the case when I switched to back-end only dev a couple of years ago. And of course other parts of the stack also keep evolving: TypeScript (which is probably a positive, but again, I know people who do bizarre things with the language to build their "nerd cred").

Off the top of my head there was also Grunt/Gulp/Webpack/whatever is around now. NPM-Yarn->NPM. Angularjs->Angular 2.0+.

How many different CSS positioning methods are there? (that's what led me to leaving front-end, I was expected to do a pixel-perfect rendering of a design for a time-critical back-office app for some reason).

On the other hand newly minted accounts (a few months old) seem to be getting involved in arcane things by nominating articles for deletion, despite having flimsy edit histories and limited experience on Wikipedia, possibly to build credibility for adminship in future. A worst case scenario is that the long-in-the-tooth admins finally let go, and these dodgy noobs gain adminship.

I've kept a clean sheet over a multi-decade editing career, so I can't be dismissed as a crank who doesn't understand the project, but there needs to be some sort of reform.

In any case, most people are born into a religion and have no real choice in the matter. They acquire various markers of their religion (a name for example) from their parents. You seem to think it’s a personal choice, but for the vast majority of people that’s not the case.

In the context of the person whose resume was rejected, he was not considered for the job based on his name and his educational history, which marked him as a Muslim. Even if we accept your argument that religious practice is a choice that can be discriminated against, there is no indication that he actually was a practicing Muslim (I don’t know if he was) he was rejected, sight unseen, because of those markers.

Fortunately you don’t make the law. But, regardless, he not only violated company policy and also broke the law, his “personal preferences” put a large program of work at risk.

You leave your prejudices at the door and hire the best people for the job: one of the fundamental rules for (non-f*d) businesses.

So no, I’m not going to engage with it.

EDIT: it looks like you’re from India, so you may not be aware of this. In most western countries engaging in workplace discrimination based on religion would get you into serious trouble, and quite likely fired. Not only is it illegal, it’s bad for business (losing a potentially valuable senior staff member because they’re the “wrong religion” has seriously hurt our project). Your reaction is quite telling though.

The article also brushes up against caste, but doesn't explore the role of caste networks in tech.

If that's the "bridge to the west" that India is pushing, I hope some of those tendencies are stamped out, hard.

It's interesting how much Americans venerate the founders. At the same time, I recall that no less a conservative jurist than Antonin Scalia thought that they made a mistake by making the constitution too hard to amend: https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/how_scalia_and_ginsb... ("Scalia said fewer than 2 percent of the population could prevent enactment of a constitutional amendment. “It ought to be hard, but not that hard")

As an outsider, especially looking at how powerful the Supreme Court has become so both sides can read a seemingly inflexible document in a way that suits their purposes, did the founders foresee this?

The iPhone X seems to have aged a lot better than the iPhone 8, which it was released alongside, but it looks like Apple's decided to kill both off at the same time.

How much of this math gap is because other countries focus heavily on test prep and exam performance?

My spouse works in early childhood education and they use ChatpGPT routinely for low-value boilerplate stuff (social media posts that no one reads, etc).

A relative is in commercial real-estate management, and they also use ChatGPT routinely (in fact they started using it before I did).

So I don't think it's an echo chamber.

Could the decline in test scores be related to a shift im how schools approach these tests?