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Dude thanks for that, first time I've heard that band, instant fan.

It was known as "the strategy of technology" and there's been a lot of controversy if really was as effective as many claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_Technology

Ha I was going to quote this exact passage. The "and miss a little bit. It's fine to miss" was oddly satisfying to read.

Am I alone in assuming they'll just do the Windows 10 unwanted upgrade, again, when 11 adoption rate isn't where they want it to be? Choice doesn't matter to these mega corps, so long as we use their stores and view their ads. Thank god for Gnu and Linux!

> If I reviewed every PR with the standard "is this exactly how I would have done it",

This, too many people think their way is the only way. It only takes one cancelled project or one company going bankrupt (and 100,000s loc going "poof") to understand this work we do, really doesn't matter all that much in the end.

Super critical code review culture can also end up with balls of mud. The two are not exclusive. Example is a team I was on that would critique the hell out of syntax and grammar in javadocs, formatting of annotations arguments, stuff like that, fine. But never look outside the source file for how any of it fit together. No design planning cause "code reviews". End result was tons of duplicated code everywhere.

Anyone interested in how things like this work and are built should checkout Ben Eaters channel on youtube. It is glorious.

Coinbase (and other financial services) do a pretty good job of requiring photo id on signup; I don't know what OF procedure is, but there's definitly precedent.

Whether meant for adults or not, juvenile diabetes is real and often overlooked. Anyone who has children or ever hopes to have children should file away the fact that fruity smelling diapers/urine could indicate a real problem.

Really cool stuff, I was wondering if anyone was doing diy photolithography.

It'd be cool if these could be made in a material transparent to protons, then it'd be a good anode for polywell fusion without the energy loss to Bremsstrahlung radiation.

You might be surprised, I often lead with an ambiguous "so, how's the work life balance here?" and more often than not interviewers jump in with a fair amount of info and sometimes even "knowing smiles". I don't interview with startups though, so ymmv.

> but it is more than merely packing in the unlikely Scrabble words

Stephen R. Donaldson objects to this comment and implied aspersion!

> Mainframe systems are facing a critical shortage of developer workforce as the current generation of COBOL developers retires. Furthermore, due to the limited availability of public COBOL resources, entry-level developers, who assume the mantle of legacy COBOL systems maintainers, face significant difficulties during routine maintenance tasks, such as code comprehension and defect location.

Old stuff is hard to maintain? Who would have thought!

This myth of a Cobol developer shortage really has a lot of legs. I personally know of hundreds of former Cobol developers who moved on after their jobs were offshored over the past 12 years. If Cobol paid current salaries, a lot of former Cobol developers would be back. But companies don't pay, and developers stay away.

This is the reality of the situation; until you're eligible for (edit) medicare, health is a significant expense. When paired with the "hedonistic treadmill" of spending, early retirement takes a lot more investment than many suspect. Even at a safe withdrawal rate of 4%, $2M is "only" $80k a year. You're not driving around in Ferrari's and eating caviar on that (parodying a rich lifestyle here). Of course there are levels, and one could live modestly in a LCOL area on that, but that's not what most people have in mind. Particularly for a "millionaire".

Isn't the minimum exhaust temperature the same as the temperature of the heated water? How can it be less?

> comments and I need to highlight and annotate PDFs, also ocasionally I sign there documents with my transparent GIF signature, I don't think sumatra can do any of these

Indeed, it's a "viewer" not an "editor" :)

Can anyone comment on the state of "re-hosting" solutions out there now? Seems like anyone who could, would be using one of those to get rid of the mainframe and run their code on commodity hardware.

> This post introduces Warp, a new Rust-based terminal

If one of the main selling points is the language used to implement it, then what do you really have? I propose that the preponderous of "x in y" indicates the death of innovation more than anything.

Or any other options for "small" batch sizes?

> This is the hottest job market I've seen

Clearly this is anecdotal, but what types of things lead you to this conclusion?

Depends on the definition of "failure". I'm sure lots of consultancies are doing very well with openstack!

It's telling junior developers don't click on IBM threads or else they'd be on this sub thread screaming that GP story is horrible, lying, cheating, and immoral. Oh how wayward the younger generations are!

It's really remarkable how out of touch large companies can get; especially after years of cost cutting and out sourcing.

I once worked at a company that who, after 15 years of RIFs, offshoring and chasing ever increasing margins, finally cut too deep. One of the critical people cut was my boss, the VP over a product that was an add on to one of the companies major products. Due to accounting the profits showed up on the main products financials, but our product was a critical enabling piece.

My boss was RIF'd, simply called one day and told not to come in again, ever. Like some low level employee. After the boss was gone there was literally no one in the executive team who knew anything about the product, it's customers or customer commitments ie signed contracts for features to be delivered. It was a beautiful train wreck I watched first hand. It was amazing to see the VP who did take over slowly learn the magnitude of the f-ck up over the course of several months. They lost several customers. These customers were pissed and literally had no one to talk to at our company. We had support reps fielding calls from CEOs at our customers complaining. A few law suits ensued. It was glorious to see.

This will always be the case. The last thing the majority of companies want to do is provide a clear path to promotion and pay increases. Face it, the vast majority of non technical companies are all about cost cutting, doing more with less. Hence job hopping is how developers get promotions and raises.

Hello Professor, I was not familiar with you or your work and leave this here for anyone who's similarly uninformed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hewitt

My assumption is that the tech makes good videos, but is basically limited in what it can do, without someone always offscreen handling the controls.

Chromebooks generally run Linux well, no need for a specialized distro post 2016 or so. De-chrome by installing mr. chromebox firmware and xubuntu (or distro of your choice) and you're set. I still use my acer c720 as a daily driver today.

Yes, very good comment; pity to those of who have lived it. I am living it now! It's kind of fascinating really, to see the coping mechanisms in a dying company. The people on the lower rungs seeming to go along with the same charade over and over, going through the motions. Waiting for another storm to pass, to get home to their families at the end of the day.

> directly causative of the great frustration and antagonism against "techies" nationally and particularly in every city that has been changed by this industry?

I'm not familiar with any examples of this, does anyone have references?