joeblow9999

One man's 'lax oversight' is another man's 'free country'.

Congress critters just cannot bear the thought of any action taking place without plenty of their 'oversight'.

The first part gives a really great description of a senior engineer.

The sky is falling!!

(repeat until something negative happens then claim prescience. rinse and repeat)

I do not believe this. Even when I was flat broke starving I could always scrape up 400 somewhere and that was decades ago. Credit cards, friends and family, pawn shops. There's a way. This is a VERY misleading headline.

I wouldn't call that 'bouncing back' it was at 20k several months ago...

A lot of govt jobs are already this. Glorified welfare/sine cure, whatever you want to call it.

are you kidding? That's a great way to enjoy a nice bottle of wine.

'worked at startups and established companies and built a variety of systems at scale - frontend, backend, db and client'

These companies, and especially the interviewers, don't care about any of that. They only care about algorithms and puzzles. There are plenty of sites that cover all the typical algos and puzzles that interviewers like. Just practice those over and over.

Good luck with that

"Women are typecast as front-end developers, while men work on the back end – where they generally earn significantly more money than their front-end counterparts."

I'm guessing they don't understand the difference between front-end coding and front-end designing.

There ARE more women in UI and UX design. But I haven't seen a significant difference in the sex ratios of Angular/React vs. Python developers. It's mostly men across both.

I won't be using a 'secure' messaging app built by the govt any time soon...

'A lot of me is fearful that the company is buying time until the founders can exit, and pass the problem on to the new owners.'

That is exactly what is happening. Leadership us under no illusions about their platform. However, an exit strategy like this is typical and not necessarily bad for anyone. The buyers often don't care about platform quality as they are going to rewrite most of it during integration.

Smart contracts rely on Block chain but Block chain is not smart contracts

Licensed by whom?

" I think the idea behind the law is good, but the short-sighted implementation makes it useless."

As with most laws...

what could go wrong?

Sorry but you have to get lucky, too. No way you can turn 100 into 250k no way no how unless you are coming out on the good side of the luck factor.

It's nice, and I'm sure you're a good player, but you definitely got lucky.

" Before Black Friday[1] chased all the soft money out of the game, pretty much anyone with an ounce of sense could play profitable poker and some people made a lot of money very quickly. "

You're best edge in the softest game of all time is not as big as you think it is.

Just because you don't want to take that risk doesn't mean others shouldn't be allowed to do so.

Indeed. This is indeed a scam. Well maybe not a scam but at least a prevarication. Government of all entities should not be engaging in tricks like this.

All the monies are fungible. "This money goes to schools, this money goes to road" is a farce.

It's a paraphrase of Buffet's quote 'Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful'

Not so young.

Is China running circles around America?

"3 wrong convictions a year out of 100k trials. Which would probably be pretty "acceptable"."

Not if you're one of the 3.

the vast majority of rewrite movements I've observed or been part of are clearly, unambiguously due to the fact that:

- the legacy system is a spaghetti code nightmare - with arcane and manual deployment process - years of band-aid hacks layered over every component - inseparable two-way dependencies across all bounded contexts - inscrutable data structures - nearly impossible to debug - utterly fragile and mostly undocumented - riddled with dead code and unused components that merely confuse the poor soul tasked with debugging - often so intertwined with dependent systems that there's a dev "environment" shared across programmers because no one can develop on their machine.

THIS is why your programmers fantasize about a big rewrite. Every time.

to be fair most of the old guard are not fans. It doesn't mean they're wrong but it could mean they don't get it.

On the other hand, Buffett is negative and he's never wrong so there's that.

In the end, you can't rely on appeal to authority here. You have to go with your convictions.

That'll solve the problem!

"A message/photo/video lasts for a short time and then goes away"

Not to mention this was never the case. The messages disappear from visibility on your phone, but those messages are preserved forever for the NSA, the FBI, the local police and most importantly, internal analytics for SnapChat.

.01 very lucky

I still don't know why I should be legally barred from offering a service that blocks certain packets. You can buy my service if you like.

I can imagine a service that caters to certain parents who are concerned about the insidious effects of social networking. This service blocks Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Should this be ILLEGAL?

I don't think so.

"It should absolutely be concerning to us that Amazon is dominant even in these smaller markets"

Serious question. Why? Every market has a leader, a dominant player, and sometimes a couple of them vying for the top against myriad smaller players. Why should I be "concerned" about this natural state of affairs?

Insanity