maxvt

We got a great new word for it now: "slop" (as in, "AI-generated slop").

It can be human generated as well, and the key point is exactly as you wrote it -- it only exists to sell ads around it and has minimal or even negative (wrong or outdated information, poor reasoning, etc.) nutritional value.

> It also just seems like there's a huge random element, like am I debugging code written by somebody who thinks at the same level of abstraction as me? Did they write comments I understand?

Isn't that part of what professional software engineering is about? Unless you worked with the same group of people for a decade and have had the time to mind meld together professionally, _any_ random developer at a new company is nearly guaranteed to think in a different way and have their own philosophy of code comments.

Checking for mental flexibility and adaptation to varying approaches for others is a great subject for an interview as a software engineer.

This takes deep expertise and a system oriented, long term view with a very precise eye towards the details of what's technically possible at every individual step.

This kind of knowledge and experience doesn't come cheap, and we all know how much US city governments pay. I was at one point, very briefly, motivated to apply to a city job before I learned the pay is approximately 1/3 to 1/4 of what the private sector pays. The USDS routinely posts on "who wants to get hired" and the comments on that and other thread also mention a 66% to 75% salary reduction from baseline.

This is even before we get to legal liability and political risk shifting that can happen when there is a fully responsible contracted company involved.

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All offers get weighed against WLB, perceived bureaucracy, perceived reputation of the company, perceived alignment with role and level, perceived value that the company derives from the position, and the expected competition for the role. The combination of all of these could lead someone to reject or negotiate the highest dollar value offer.

I'd be curious to see how "packaging for production" is addressed. As described, this is a tool for development purposes:

> Think: a single binary that bootstraps your Python installation and gives you everything you need to be productive with Python, bundling not only pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv, but also pipx, tox, poetry, pyenv, ruff, and more.

A lot of that dev tooling is not needed in prod, in fact it is a liability (features available for misuse, code/image size, higher resource requirements). Would there be a "uv-prod" to only deal with the minimum subset of environment setup / container building that enables production use? Would uv build packages that are runnable in prod but themselves don't contain uv? It'd be interesting to hear the plans.

It is getting flagged because transit is a thing, investment in transit is the most glaringly obvious way to reduce our reliance on roads in moderately-and-up populated areas, and the author ignores that.

In less-populated areas, biking/walking is not feasible anyway, the distances are too large regardless of weather (see any documentary of the Amish lifestyle, many have to rely on out-of-community drivers for some errands because distances to store, doctor, etc. are too far for a horse and buggy).

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/ is a good read on Section 174, for those who might be curious.

Might be interesting to also cover areas / specialties like "devops", "security", etc.

And count who is only interested in remote. That ratio seems to be _way_ higher here than on the general market, to no particular surprise.

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Or we'll go back to doing more onsite interviews at a whiteboard.

Could have been the Bombardier C-Series but they have been effectively shut out by a combination of aggressive competition by both majors and "anti-dumping" action when Boeing chose to pursue regulatory relief instead of competing on price. Now the C-Series are the Airbus A220, competition successfully averted.

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

I would not suggest people to follow this in 2024 if they are building any system of non-trivial scope and expect it to be adopted by others who are not required to adopt it.

Back in 2017, I compared "code as documentation" to being dropped into on the street of an unfamiliar city, while a good documentation can serve as a map of the city. [1]

Nearly all recent successful efforts for large new systems understand the value of both high-level overviews and detailed examples / onboarding materials to make adoption easier. When solutions to a certain problem are abundant, people do not need to settle for options that do not have great supporting documentation of the four primary kinds. [2]

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/maxvt/i-got-a-lot-of-problems-with-i...

[2] https://documentation.divio.com/

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At a young age, perhaps start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Opera....

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> Facebook, Google, Amazon and GitHub have sessions that never expire. They think it’s an acceptable risk. I think they are right.

Three of these companies have a strong vested interest in keeping you logged in all the time and to minimize the friction of interacting with their services.

GitHub, if you use 2FA or corporate SSO, does expire sessions. Perhaps they make the tradeoff of risk vs convenience for username/password users, as is their right.

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Two decades in the industry, variety of experience across eng / devops / cybersecurity. Looking to deepen my management skills (the area where I find the most interest and impact in the past several jobs) with an EM / TLM role.