julius_set

As an engineer who’s done most of it:

• Native iOS / Android for years • Backend development • Frontend web development • Machine learning models

I would suggest you one thing:

Do your research on finding really good succinct tutorials. The best approach is asking the right question on google.

You usually find tons of blogs / tutorials with very basic or simple examples. Your task — if you want to learn it — is to _research_ and find the best tutorial that covers the most ground in the shortest amount of time. This is not easy to do, but that’s a good skill quick learners have.

Absolutely disgusting abuses of this technology / science. I hope this never comes to light

Can’t take Indeed seriously when they’ve omitted a major part of the industry which is:

- mobile

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-top-5-most-in-deman...

https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/job-skill-mobi...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

Unrelated but i read ExpertsExchange as

Expert Sex Change the way you wrote it out.

I mean it makes total sense. Supernova explosions are far more powerful than whatever we create in our labs on earth. Of course they will generate exotic molecules.

Ignore this.

I studied Genetics and CS. What you can do instead is reach out to the PhDs and gather information from them to start getting a general sense of the direction.

This is easy some schools allow you to sit in on lectures / come to events. Most PhDs are usually off working independently though. Make friends with the competent PhDs gather info. Hack the system you don’t need a PhD you can hire one later.

This is all assuming you have the raw talent of product and can lead well, and can convince people exceptionally well, otherwise disregard.

All this talk about representing UI elements in either JSON, XML and / or code but what it’s state? How the hell is neatly encapsulated next to the UI in XML and JSON. Dynamic URLs? Dynamic Ids, dynamic image urls?

I am. I’m building an automated design tool that converts design tool files into auto generated code or a templating language that can be used to render views / flows natively on web / native mobile. I’m looking for someone who can help with web front end and backend, I work horizontally across the stack on iOS / Android building SDKs and native mobile experiences. I have 6 years of experience in the industry, have been part of a successful acquisition and now mostly highly interested in building this design company idea.

Why am I building this? Companies waste too much resources on building design then handing off later — essentially 2X the work. Giving designers / product people this sort of technology would empower them to validate their ideas quickly — essential to finding product market fit quickly.

Where I’m currently at: - I have an exceptionally fast text editor - I can convert 3 of the major mobile design tool files into a templating language than can be used to render native views on the fly - Mac app centered around this technology - Lots of hard problems solved around the current idea

What I’m looking for: - someone who is as excited about this idea as I am - someone experienced in backend and web front end - Next steps are finalizing UX / porting a web app for people to use (sort of like Figma) - integrate in analytics services - versioning system for designers

Reply to this post if anyone is interested I’ll post an email to connect to if anyone cares.

I mean if there are no other intelligent civilizations (yet) in the universe — which seems highly unlikely based on the numbers, then we have an obligation to seed the universe with ourselves and propagate other species through genetic enhancement and grooming.

We might be the progenitors of other intelligent species who might look back at us fondly and remember our shepherding.

Again highly unlikely, but a good point that we should not kill ourselves beforehand.

You can love and hate someone at the same time, it’s not an or situation

You need a lot of stuff in Africa before data centers become a priority...

Great article, BUT there are no examples of what the hell a product engineer ACTUALLY does.

It might be good to point out that data driven development is key. A product engineer collect insights with each feature that is created backed BY ACTUAL DATA and not armchair hypothesis

Well if this is based on old traditions indicating a gesture of financial commitments then we should expect more to be buying engagement rings now:

Apparently some women are earning more than men, why should I spend my hard earned cash to impress your friends family over a rock? Why not invest the money into something productive.

An idiotic tradition.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/googl...

I am disgusted by these people. Absolutely revolted. I understand this is a subjective statement but something inside me recoils at these people,

I’m hoping one day we can be done with this money obsession. To live in the Star Trek Next Generation universe would be a dream come true.

This article defines great and the best engineers by:

“For the purposes of this article, we’re arbitrarily defining “great” candidates as those scoring between 95th and 98th percentile on our technical interview, and “the best” candidates as those scoring at 98th percentile or above.”

A test that they’ve come up with internally. What makes this company an authority on determining great and best engineers purely on data structures and algorithms style interview questions that most likely a recent grad will be efficient with (for software engineers anyways*).

This article is standing on a house of cards. It’s first principles lack and the assumptions it makes on top of those first principle is highly questionable.

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I dream of a world where instead of finding the most suitable tool or practice for the task at hand, developers follow the mantra of questioning those most suitable tools or practices without blindly adopting them

Is it too much of a reach to make a claim that due to our high starch diet compared to other hominid species our brains developed at a faster rate due to our brains consuming a higher yield of the energy stored in polysaccharides.

Therefore isn’t it imperative for a majority of paleo and keto oriented diet people to consume complex polysaccharides for their brains to perform optimally? *with the exception of people who must follow it for serious health reasons

Errrm., not everyone can run. Some people experience excruciating pain due to herniated discs when running, fortunately there’s biking :)

The major problem is we die, so if we didn’t die then yes those 10,000 years of civilization would help because of the life experiences of the survivors,

So:

1.) Not everyone reads history books 2.) We die 3.) Social stats reset at birth, pray you have parents who treat you and other people well

The only permanent solution is an evolution of our species where the asshole gene is gone or a collective hive mind

Inheritance is usually bad since extending from a base class puts you at risk for shared and a centralized dependency for your subclass implementations. I would even argue a protocol witness approach here makes more sense than protocol oriented.

There’s a lot of people commenting and supporting the author of the article and in his practice of googling and how normalized that is.

This leads me to a hypothesis. I would argue a large percentage of software developers are average, the bell curve for extremely brilliant engineers and extremely idiotic engineers must be be low for each end.

So what is considered average work?

I would working on mundane issues which involves a lot of googling. It would also reason that if you are googling a lot you aren’t doing anything that’s breakthrough or exciting since if the rate of your googling is high that would indicate that the problem you are solving is quite common.

There is a large difference between building things with React and learning how React works and trying to create your own.

I’m not sure why the “re-inventing the wheel” I dread the day we stop innovating and resign our career lives to “well someone else solved this problem so it must be the best solution - no need for me to innovate.”

I mean that’s all well and dandy but as the article itself mentions: “these parameters are toxic to human and animal life on Earth.”

Your definition and data for life is only the current life on Earth, since we don’t have a clear understanding of other types of life in the universe we cannot fully support this hypothesis.

I love the sheer will. I can help kick off iOS development, how should I contact you personally before I start posting in your GitHub .org?

If you find iOS / macOS views cumbersome to write programmatically you should feel fortunate you didn’t have to write Android views programmatically.

Just out of curiosity when did we start policing words?

I generally agree with you but let’s play devils advocate, at what DOES political affiliation matter. If you know a candidate has ties to Al-Queda do you hire them, given that their work so far and resume indicate they would provide a 100X increase to your teams output? This would be an extreme example

I’m happy to this posted on Hacker News. This book is one of my favorite books and ahead of its time.

The idea that stars could be living entities, that the universe itself could be a fully conscious living entity, and that the creation of the universe might be... (well I won’t spoil it for you!).

Please read this if you get a chance to!

This too, I’ve also worked with people like this, it is extremely frustrating to teach someone who wants to be mentored not take your mentorship advice and continue to make the same mistakes.

The counter argument here can be that I possibly may not have mentored the person in the right way using the right motivation, but methods I tried were (ranked in succession):

1.) Showing by example but asking to come up with own examples 2.) Templating examples 3.) Listing out steps 4.) Finally just directly asking to do x, y, and z

Utilizing data patience time boxing.

This is definitely a difficult problem I don’t particularly have an efficient solution to, my best answer is just find someone to mentor who will execute

This article assumes that the person you are mentoring is open to being mentored. I’ve worked with some engineers who were definitely junior despite having years of experience and very opposed to even a slight suggestion on how to improve their thinking process or implementation process.