I think about the technical feat accomplished by Blizzard when they created World Of Warcraft. So much time, effort, money, and great minds working so that you could walk around in a virtual world with your friends.
"One of the things that blows students’ minds is to realize that women disproportionately, about twice as much, suffer from all anxiety and depression disorders relative to men, and almost all our models for studying anxiety disorders are based on male animals."
This right here is one of the concrete reasons for why we NEED to recognize neurological sex differences, and have studies that focus specifically on genders. We could discover loads about treatment differences by gender, and really help a lot of people who are suffering from depression (something that is becoming more prevalent by the day).
It feels good, and is a good motivator, when your code is received positively. Especially early on when you aren't necessarily confident that you are a "coder" yet. I think that is a great nugget of truth for anyone working on an engineering team.
That said, this person graduated a coding bootcamp + joined their first team less than 3 years ago. I'm not sold that they have much to teach about managing an engineering team (not that I do either).
Well said and applies to me as well. Thankfully myself, and the founding team of my company are all very aware that this is the case, and feel extremely blessed to have been born in such a fortunate position. I think in this case being self-aware is half the battle, the next half is to aid those without this luxury in concrete ways.
I agree with your point, but having worked extensively with React, it really does make development easier for me. While it feels like there is always a new shiny front-end framework out there, the ones that stick out like Angular, React, Vue, etc. all have real value that developers like! So I don't really see it as a bad thing.
The original maintainer of a widely used npm package had moved on and didn't have time to maintain the package anymore. Someone approached them asking if they needed someone to take the reigns and maintain the package going forward. That person was a hacker who, after having access to publish rights to the package, installed a malicious dependency. Anyone who has updated the original npm package within the last 3 months was hit by the attack. The details of the attack aren't extremely clear, but a few comments suggest the code was aiming to get bitcoin wallet credentials.
I don't think they're saying the students aren't "allowed" to voice their opinions. They're making the point that this is obviously what a college student would say when asked a question like this in the current social climate. No one is saying they are bad for doing so. The point is that it's an easy, ultimately fruitless article that highlights the well-known views of a large population of young adults.
I've noticed with a lot of these "get started in seconds" services, you inevitably run into challenges down the road when the complications of trying to use them for a project come full swing. Not to mention the shaky nature of cloud hosting with a company that could easily be out of business in 6 months.
Do you like your company? I'm also in philly but can't seem to find a cool company to work for (I have a software job as is but have been looking). The city feels somewhat dry of interesting software companies.
The person is just pointing out a logical big-business reason behind the decision they are making. It is pretty likely that they did it for PR, and the lobbying will help that as well, even if it doesn't work. No one has to "suck it up and give praise where praise is due".