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Been doing this strategy for over 20 years.

As a hiring manager / lead for technical positions, this is fine, and often proposed by the 'resume experts'. Where I get incensed is these statements where the original design/architecture that this individual was responsible for was the problem, and they are just bringing something back to baseline where it should have started. I see this ALL THE TIME. And this is with grace towards changing requirements etc. And not just on resumes, I see this on internal corp. accomplishments, and typically the higher the level the more the savings and more the unnecessary waste was to start. For example, CFO once claimed like $20mm in savings because he decommed a financial module that they bought and NEVER used and NEVER needed - this guy crushed is bonus this year.

Lets see how far from the $20billion offer they IPO at.

Bring back XML or a better format than both, or at least a DTD for JSON.

Never a fan of these 'click bait' headlines, and surprised it made it this high in hacker news. We get the 'premise', Mr. Money Mustache has been preaching similar for years, but these numbers are just not realistic. You need money to buy the house, maintain it, clothes, healthcare, NY is going to jack your taxes up, etc. and more, as all the folks have mentioned here.

Can some folks live more frugally, for sure, but this is unrealistic.

Dealing with this right now as a consultant. Also a 'semi-govt' company, with much more in annual revenue than in this article, running a highly critical production workload, and is having problems with a ESOL version Open Source software - that they are scared to touch/upgrade, and that is available in a fully up-to-date version, for purchase, with support etc., and indirectly asking us to support it, by essentially pawning off any and all changes related to said SW to me. Well, I recommended the upgrade path (to a current/supported and paid version) and I stopped making any changes to that component. They are still hemming an hawing, its unbelievable.

I haven't seen this guy in a while... tbh, at one point it almost felt like he was a shill for something.

Anyway check out the symbol: NANC

"Yet I think Tim’s single review was possibly as valuable as all the others combined".... and yet you don't even tell us anything about his review.... disappointing esp. considering the screenshots/level of details on other input.

On a different note, def. feel you pain regarding the copyeditor.

I see 'this guy' who wants or does build his own ORM, in every company I've worked with.

Reminds me of the BMW Heated Seats SaaS option.

What's even worse is the planned obsolescence, its such a huge waste of resources. I had a GE DW and fridge from the 1950s until 1995 and they still worked, albeit were a funky lime greenish color. And that DW washed the dishes better than the new replacement. Currently dealing with a 2 year old LG fridge that is dead.

I tend to disagree a tad with what you have said below, I've lost count how many interviews I've done at this point, one challenge is on the intake side and how many darn applicants there are or can be and that its typically the recruiting team interacting with them at this point.

The question in your example, is fine to include, but you need a non, yes or no or scale question to weed out unqualified candidates. For me, this is a very succinct question with a definitive answer. You'll be surprised at how many people will answer 'extremely comfortable' with Javascript yet not know what === means, so I'll ask something along the lines of 'what is the strictly equal operator in Javascript"... while any javascript programmer will know this, you'll be surprised that this type of Q alone knocks out 50% of the applicant pool, most of whom probably selected 'extremely comfortable' btw, and save my org. a TON of time.

"For example, for a role that requires experience in JavaScript, it's not unreasonable to confirm that experience in the questionnaire with a question like, Rate your comfort level working with JavaScript on a scale from not comfortable to extremely comfortable."

Yes - This.

What would be amazing is if Swift and/or Kotlin could just be the 'native' language across both platforms and work at native speeds on both platforms.

As long this doesn't put Kitboga out of business.

Have to give PROPS to the author(s) here... been using Notepad++ since I can remember, which is probably 21 years. Probably one of, if not the first app I download on a new Win box! Congrats!

This hit home and very recent experiences. Was even in my little notebook of ideas to write about.... seems its already been done. Nice job... and you can almost paint all corps. with this brush, esp. decisions made by upper management that is incentivized on financial metrics that can be gamed....

Reads like a "How to PM" and "Extreme Ownership" rolled into 1 doc.

The one area that I'm wondering a bit on is the statement that you need to be working on multiple 'videos' aka projects at 1 time and if your not then your a FAILURE... so whose priority list is "prio" when, lets say, you are working on 5-10 projects? And they all have prios/emergencies etc.... Interesting expectation setting here. And concludes with a rather harsh statement too with the "failed as a MrBeast employee that day"...

For reference: Work on multiple videos EVERYDAY Please do not come in and only work on one video during a workday. That’s how you fall behind on future videos and create a nasty cycle that i’m trying to stop. If you drop everything and go all in on a video for 3 days then that’s 3 days your other videos will fall behind and eventually you’ll have to drop other videos to focus on those videos and it will snowball into you can’t do anything but focus on what’s right in front of you because you murdered any lead time you had. If you ever only work on one video during a day, you failed as a MrBeast employee that day

At the time, NT being able to run on multiple architectures (e.g Alpha), was rather impressive esp. at the time. Believe this was based from a lot of the knowledge of the former DEC team working on NT. Reading the comments here, esp. about drivers, it makes me now think how much engineering went towards this and perhaps the limitations around the driver architecture, that could have been put towards a stronger driver design AND hot add of certain SW, as I probably lost a year of my life waiting on NT reboots.

He knew exactly what he was saying - he didn't want to "OWN" the problem nor the solution....he was abdicating is sole responsibility for the mess... and rightfully so as its a cross organizational issues (based on the thread). This is a great example of what folks should expect when hiring/working at a large corp. So much time and effort is spent in this EXACT manner. Its amazing that anything does get done, in some respect. Its also why I found the startup experience amazing because there's no time/place for this, but if they succeed, then all end up in this type of environment / scenario.

AND, I can vouch for the pain and suffering that "Marketing" can place on tech teams and end product fails.... heck MS , to this day, cloud "EXPERTS" can not explain their pricing model, or just chose not to.

The fact that the push primary school students through to higher and higher levels of math, when they 'fail', is a sacrilege to the student and a stain on the education system. I see so many capable students that don't have the prerequisites for the current math level, and are now just completely lost with NO chance of finding the path in the current system. And completely demoralized and disenfranchised.... all for what? To meet some BS metrics? This really needs to change.

This will sound pretty dumb, but with all the amazing cross platform games written in Unity - which I thought was Mono or some form of cross platform library with .NET as one of the primary languages, I always wondered why there was not a more 'business app version' of this. After using Xamarin, Appcelerator, and dozens of other 'cross platform tools', with to be let down from ALL of them in the end and/or support dropped.... Having to support multiple platforms, esp. IOS vs. Android still seems to be stuck in the stone ages, esp. for small dev teams that can't allocate massive resources to multi-platform...

To be fair, MS has done an incredible amount of work to keep backwards compatibility. It may not 'show' to the end user, but they put in significant programming hours/effort $$$s for this. Now, this doesn't mean it was all for the 'end user' but they did benefit a bit from this.

How about some actual examples?

I so wish Perl was still in the 'mainstream' and Perl 6 didn't fizzle. Love Perl.

Latest example - VMWare (aka Broadcom now) perpetual licenses - REVOKED!

Again, justice is served for a small, very small, subset of the white collar criminals. Bring the real crooks (e.g. insider traders etc.) in for justice.

the incarnation of what VBlock was supposed to be?

We just chatted with Atlassian and just installed a pretty large on-prem env. (mandatory to meet restrictions), and think this title is misleading in that you can still buy supported on-prem server products, with support licenses. Will the focus of dev. be for their cloud products? 100% - TBH who isn't doing this now-adays (cough MSFT etc.)

RANT: This force to cloud is total BS though and the S*T that Postman just pulled reinforces my general disdain for 'forced' cloud. Hopefully comps. will realize this and fill this spot in the market. RANTOFF

OMG, AI to create more Javascript frameworks.

Just came across Otherweb also. Was working on similar as a hobby project, more interested in back-end than front end, so cool to have on mobile.