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Computer architecture and operating systems are really important classes imo. Maybe you dont touch the material again in your career but do you really want the thing you're supposed to be programming to be a black box? Personally I'm not ok working with black boxes.

A long time ago I had the idea of an app to gamify good habits, cool to see people making it real. How was your experience with Capacitor?

The fetishizing enabled the massive explosion in what's basically a university industrial complex financed off the backs of student loans. To keep growing the industry needed more suckers...I mean students to extract student loans from. This meant watering down the material even in technical degrees like engineering, passing kids who should have failed, and lowering admission standards (masked by grade inflation). Many programs are really really bad now like what should be high school freshman level material. Criticizing the university system gets you called anti-intellectual and a redneck.

A lot of debate around the idea of student loan forgiveness but nobody is trying to address how the student loan problem got so bad in the first place.

You can review and approve 40 PR's a day from intern quality work?

You really dont see why somebody wouldnt like a megacorp to take their hard work, use it to make a billion dollars, dont see a cent themselves, while struggling to buy a house in this very unaffordable housing market?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/total-happiness-in-the-world-...

I wish but I dont think we could be any futher away from professionalizing like engineering/law/accounting/medicine. There was a deliberate effort to flood the field and lower salaries and developers were so full of hubris and thought there was infinite demand for their labor and went along with it and still are. Maybe some are learning given the job market the last few years.

Despite software being in everything and harm to the public due to bad software has materialized every developer seems vehemently against professionalizing. Do you want a surgeon that went to surgeon bootcamp because "you dont need all those years in medical school to learn how to remove an appendix"? Do you even want an accountant who went to accountant bootcamp to do your taxes?

As much as I support community developed software and "free as in freedom", "Open Source" got completely perverted into tricking people to work for free for huge financial benefits for others. Your comment is just one example of that.

For that reason all my silly little side projects are now in private repos. I dont care the chance somebody builds a business around them is slim to none. Dont think putting a license will protect you either. You'd have to know somebody is violating your license before you can even think about doing anything and that's basically impossible if it gets ripped into a private codebase and isnt obvious externally.

A lot of people are deeply invested in these things being better than they really are. From the OpenAI's and Google's spending $100s of billions EACH developing LLMs to VC backed startups promising their "AI agent" can replace entire teams of white collar employees. That's why your experience matches mine and every other developer I personally know but you see comments everywhere making much grander claims.

>This is what you have seen with the rise with some of the worst technologies (Javascript) being used in places where it shouldn't because some engineers want to keep using one language for everything.

NodeJS was the biggest mistake our industry made and I will die on this hill. It has taken the crown from null. People have been trying to claw it back with Typescript but the real solution was to drop JS altogether. JS becoming the language in the browser was an artifact of history when we didnt know where this internet thing was going. By the time NodeJS was invented we should have known better.

What you described is an experience I would expect using couchsurfing.com which was around long before airbnb.

Source: Have hosted couchsurfers very long ago

Just like the software industry!

It's gonna flag most of the clojure ecosystem

"professional software engineer" is a meaningless title because the industry has no professional standards.

People have been using editors that look comparable for decades that dont need fancy GPU rendering to be fast and responsive. What is happening that stuff like that is necessary now?

Somebody didnt read their daily PR article about how CEOs are replacing entire teams with a few "rockstars vibe coding with AI"

Easy to grow when you're selling one dollar bills for 75 cents

My personal theory is there is a threshold of performance. Below the threshold the experience is bad enough it affects revenue so getting the program up to speed becomes a priority. Above the threshold only features are prioritized to drive more revenue. That's why despite computers getting orders of magnitude faster computer programs seem to run about the same speed.

The PR articles and astroturfing will continue until investors get satisfactory returns on their many billions dumped into these things.

I think the groupthink and independent thought axes need to be flipped. Way more toeing the party line and groupthink near the center. The more fringe you get the more independent thought there is. It might be crazy and wrong but it's not groupthink.

I would love to see how Clojure's "wealth of idioms and best practices that need to be followed and libraries that need to be known" compare to almost any other popular language. Clojure is by far the simplest most straightforward language I've ever used with very few details and gotcha's that need to be memorized.

Hasnt happened at the country level but has happened at the company level

This is really cool. I dont like the fire effect on the 3d view though.

This is an interesting idea but please no more AI graphics generation in video games please. Games dont get optimized anymore because devs rely on AI upscaling and frame generation to get playable framerates and it makes the games look bad and play bad.

It's much cheaper to run for Google as long as the ECMWF keeps cranking reanalysis for training data and keep generating new initial conditions for forecasts which are generated by combining new observations and the previous forecast generated by the ECMWF physical models which is not cheap to do.

Cause the "experts" did such a good job last time.

I learned from the last pandemic that the so called "experts" were in fact incompetent at best and power tripping political ideologues at worst. It was crazy watching the last 100 years of germ theory and infectious disease get thrown out and start over from scratch

1. The virus isnt real it's a conservative conspiracy

2. The virus is real but isnt spreading human to human (it obviously was at this point)

    Bonus: Thinking the virus came from a lab doing research on that exact virus in proximity to the first cases was a conservative conspiracy instead of an obvious first guess

3. The virus is spreading human to human but not through the air (it obviously was highly probable given respiratory symptoms)

4. Masks dont work

5. Masks do work

6. Masks do work and you should always wear outside your house but not needed at BLM protests

7. The social distancing rules had zero scientific backing

About 10% sounds about right not just for software engineers but the workforce as a whole. Of course the proliferation of this story is the exact thing we didnt need in this tech hiring recession.

Like this?

https://emc.ncep.noaa.gov/users/verification/global/gfs/ops/...

He doesnt challenge scientific consensus. What he does challenge is people making any claim they want then adding "because climate change" at the end which has become a problem. One side will deny climate change and the other side starting taking any claim at face value as long as you say "because climate change"

High blood pressure has been defined as blood pressure over a certain threshold when blood pressure is taken a certain way. That certain way is at rest when it's lower than moving around. All the data and research has correlated health outcomes that way. We already know blood pressure is higher when you are up and about than after you've been sitting down for 5 minutes. If you're trying to get out of your hypertension diagnosis using continuous monitoring you are in for disappointment because hypertension has been defined by your blood pressure when it's at its lowest.

Maps arent nearly as problematic in clojure because data is immutable by default on top of the functional paradigm where your program is basically a big composition of functions and the language is built around using maps. In Python I largely agree with the author. In clojure I love my maps.

Here is Rich Hickey with an extreme counter example although I would argue he's really demonstrating against getters and setters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc