That is such a good point. It distracts us from thinking about what our industry really needs right now which is unionization and regulation. The risk of off shore outsourcing and AI and imminent. These kind of posts provide false promises of riches.
I also want to point out it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that most founders come from well off backgrounds. Their parents can essentially foot the bills while they're getting things off the ground combined w/ the natural access to capital growing up in wealthy circles provides.
I work in the auto industry. Cars have changed so much but at the end of the day they're still just internal combustion engines that spin wheels. I suppose EVs represent true innovation but I'm still dubious on their future.
we suck ass at preserving history/things in this country. We all have this attitude of tear it down and build something better. No one is talking about improving/maintaining/repairing what we already got.
Kind of reinforces the idea AI is going to lead to mediocrity in a lot of industries. I feel like our food, like the stuff at the grocery store is a great example. Our bread is made on a production line. It's good but not great. I feel like the real bummer is the option to get great bread tends to disappear overtime as everyone moves to the 80% solution and the training and economics needed for the artisan solution disappear.
I looked at the example app. It was basically a spreadsheet. To me that's what make the internet special is not only can I share my shit but people can their shit w/ me. Sharing is what makes it special.
It is odd. It all stems from this idea that engineers make ugly products but that's just not true. I do think some engineers are more well versed in design than others though. I will say the ones I've met who are well versed in design are prone to doing odd things when comes to stuff like storing data. Like they won't know that area well and will introduce slowness or delay which also kills the product experience. I think like anything to be successful you need a high functioning team w/ various specialties, oddly enough I'm not convinced you actually need a dedicated "product" person.
So many "hacks" are the equivalent of some fool left the front door wide open. If you left your front door wide and were robbed the public would have 0 sympathy for you yet people scream at the Hackers when these companies cheap out and don't do shit to update/maintain/enforce basic best practices around security.
I mean this looks awesome and all but I feel like constantly developing/learning new languages and frameworks has been such a giant waste of resources in our community in general. I hope things stabilize in the future. I've got 15 professional years under my belt at this point and I don't feel like an expert in anything.
I feel like the ability to deal w/ this type of thing is more person to person assuming you don't have young kids to worry about. Like I do encounter that type of behavior but I don't know for the most part it doesn't bother me. It does make me feel uncomfortable from time to time but I can look past that.
I get the logic from the mocking camp e.g. we're not here to test this dependency we're just here to test this function/method whatever but when you mock you end up making assumptions about how that dependency works. This is how you end up w/ the case of all my tests are green and production is broke.
I think it's hard to beat e2e testing. The thing is e2e tests are expensive to write and maintain and in my opinion you really need a software engineer to write them and write them well. Now manual e2e testing is cheap and can be outsourced. All the companies I've worked for in the US have had testing departments and they did manage to write a few tests but they were developers and so to be frank they were really bad at writing them. They did probably 80 or 90% of their testing manually. At that point who we kidding. Just say you do manual testing, pay your people accordingly and move on.
This reminds me of the time managers tried to judge developer productivity based on lines of code changed. The person who ran the build script to generate the minified output for production kept winning. Mgmt was like why is this person generating 10x what you all do. #rockstardevelopers
Last time I checked overall BTC has gone up in value over the last 5 years and by a large margin unless you bought at all time highs. The statement it lost value through inflation doesn't even make sense.
could see these "statistics" being used to gauge to public response to political decisions. That's pretty dystopian. "President Biden, the 'data' shows your response to Palestine was not very popular".
I think climate change has the potential to f up us in the next 10 years. Assuming that happens I could picture a world where the likes of Bezos and Musk run the show. The Pinkerton's of the 21st century.
I'm not sure if you're American but take a look at the food situation here. Eating out practically anywhere is total garbage food. If you want high quality stuff made by people who know what they're doing be prepared to pay big bucks. A little pastry shop opened by me with a professionally trained French chef. The croissants are out this work but are like 8 bucks a piece whereas the Costco ones are maybe a dollar a piece and taste good. The market obviously incentivizes consumers to purchase the Costco variety but that's b/c the Costco variety is being more heavily subsidized than people realize.
the market is really tightening up. people love to say if you can't find a job it's b/c you're not skilled blah blah but if your making good money it may be hard to find another job at that income level.
eff your personal well being but don't take it personally it's just your part of some cohort the elite have dictated must return to the office. you see we've calculated out that we sell the building at a loss of x dollars if we attempt to sell right now, and our other buildings have a couple years left on the lease and can't get out of that, plus we already pumped y dollars into renovations in this building plus we received tax breaks to come to these communities to offer you poor slobs jobs and now the mayors and governors are threatening to take back those tax breaks if we don't get buts in seats soon. Now we now some of you will leave and we've factored that into our calculus. The math says x% will leave which is totally acceptable and way cheaper than breaking leases or pissing off governors and that sort of thing. /sarcasm
Nothing is what it seems in this industry. If we had a free market system here in the US GM would of went out of business in 08 and the streets would be filled with cheap BYD imports from China. We have major domestic protectionism in place b/c in times of war the auto industry can and has been used to produce the machines of war. EVs produced in the US by domestic automakers are heavily subsidized
Feel like this is complicated by the fact that a lot of the orgs I worked followed Agile and had cards w/ the work divided up in weird ways. A lot of times I was doing shit just b/c the card said so, if I had more autonomy I would of been doing a totally different subsection of work.
was in europe over the summer I did see a lot of teens doing dumb shit that teens do by the subway and in the streets. maybe they'd go out more if there was stuff to do. let's be real suburbia kind of sucks.
Renewables can't power things like trains, planes or semi trucks. What we need is world where we recognize that everyone owning their own personal automobile is probably a bad idea. We need walkable neighborhoods and public transportation but we also need to recognize how powerful fossil fuels are preserve them for heavy duty tasks that would be near impossible w/ human muscle and or renewables.
you have no idea how well protected the domestic auto industry is from foreign vehicles. people will cite Honda and Toyota but the rules were altered in a such a way to bring Toyota/Honda in and put downward pressure on the domestic industry but not kill them. Let's not forget GM went out of the business and our government bailed them out.