rlabrecque

Yeahhh; I feel this. I'm in the office 4-5 days a week again; and the rare days where most of my day ends up being in-office only interactions are great. The quick catchups in the hallway; not either forced catchups that always happen at the wrong time for someone, or never catching up. Socializing while going out for lunch; not doing lunch alone, and then having to make time for socializing when I need to be working. Those days are waay better than zoom meeting hell days OR WFH on no-meeting days. Commuting is new to me since Covid and that sucks but those days remind me what work could be like so I put up with it. :/

I wish I had the time, because it would be fun. Back when I DID have time, I actually got that thug1 source code almost playable on Windows. That source code was only for the console versions, and the code assumed if it was compiling for windows (and not Xbox windows..) it was only for tools, so a lot of pieces worked completely differently.

I think the core problem you have is a lack of consistency. I'd try to trim down the number of different types of device/deployment methods/etc you have. It's too hard to scale wide as a single person or two, but you can go very deep in one stack and both know it very well and also get into a spot where it's kind of like either everything works or nothing works if it's all exactly the same, which means ultimately everything will have to work well.

This is so sad and well written. Lars is one of the best people I've ever met, no one should have to go through that, especially not him.

Similarly they offer very little support, almost no communication, and yeah, just kind of weird.

yes.

I don't work at Amazon, but my C-suite and leadership team is in the office and that really makes a HUGE difference in going back.

Both by them leading by example and getting to have the face to face time with them.

This is much nicer for other people coming into this. It's the same problem with spoken language and slang, slang is better if you know it, worse if you don't.

This is one of the bigger discussions I've been involved with lately; and I agree it really comes down to "bespokeness".

When you have a 'system' which is 500 LOC, and 10 usages of that system totaling 10 lines each; compared to 10 bespoke implementations of 50-100 LOC each... you get into a spot where the system is battlehardened because of all the users, while the bespoke implementation have issues all over. Then when someone goes to add the 11th use-case of this; they are going to learn from and copy/paste the other version, probably exposing some latent bug in the bespoke version.

I suspect there's probably a decent compromise to be made, like some kind of "reconcile" command, that explicitly tries to find orphan resources that reference resources it knows about, and tries to rebuild state.

Similarly I was 'online' much more during my teen years than I am today. I think two key things changed:

1. I started enjoying things outside of the internet more and more, partially due to how the internet has changed, partially due to how I've changed. 2. There's less FOMO due to as you mention, being able to be "online" anywhere. This creates an entirely different atmosphere, I won't miss something because I'm not at my computer. This actually leads me to being online much less, I can be out and about doing things and get ping by my friends on Discord. Very different than when I didn't want to go out because I couldn't talk to my friends.

Agreed, I'm curious as well. We load tested with real-clients faux-users, up to 1 million concurrent. And only stopped at 1 million because the test was becoming cost prohibitive.

Hey there, I'm a Canadian living in the US on an L1 right now, it was a good fit for me. What my company did was set up a Canadian Entity (subsidy) and started paying me through that for a year before I made the trip. It worked out well.

I feel personally attacked.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Agreed, though I think there were 2 jumps with cell phones, the original mass produced ones circa the late 1990s, and then smart phones circa 2007-2008.

Also this: https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-maps-insane-backward-compa...

Whew, this hits close to home.

It absolutely blows my mind that Menstrual cups aren't more widespread globally. I basically wouldn't even know about them if my partner didn't use them. They seem like a better option than tampons and pads 90%+ of the time.

Are you saying that people would blow through $250k/year? lol

Someone that works in the industry probably knows better, but OpenTable has your full history of your dining experiences booked through them. What restaurants you frequent, how often, what time you go, how large your party was, how often you failed to show up.

I believe when you booked a reservation the restaurant got to see all of this.

I deal with this constantly. Someone gets a bug report for a crash, let's say a null pointer dereference, so often I see:

> if (pPointer == nullptr) { return; }

> Crash is fixed!

I mean sure... but that's not the problem. Why was pPointer null here in the first place? So few people take the time to understand that :(

The best interview I ever had was similar, the largest chunk of it was me and my boss whiteboarding out a problem together, he had the marker. We were solving a problem that I'd be solving on the product, and that he had implemented on a previous project at a different employer. It just felt great.

My biggest problem with the buses is frequency. My gf lives just off Glenoaks in Burbank/Glendale, there's a bus that comes right by, but it's so infrequent that it rarely makes sense. "If I head out now, I might make it to the bus stop in time, if I don't I can walk to my destination quicker than the next bus will come. Am I willing to take that risk?" (The answer is almost always no.)

I looked at taking the bus from BUR to her place. There's a great route, right from the airport to San Fernando Road, just down the block from her, maybe a 5 minute walk. Except the bus only stops at the airport HOURLY. Google maps was saying the ride would take over an hour, because the next bus wasn't coming for nearly an hour. If you set the "Leave by" time to when the next bus arrives though? The bus takes maybe 3-4 minutes longer than a lyft to that stop.

I disagree with that first part. At least in software engineering. Remember when you just had software engineers? Eventually we got things like game programmers and web developers. Now every game has at the very least an audio programmer, gameplay programmers, network programmers, graphics programmers, platform engineers, etc. Web Developers are even more specialized, walk into any web development shop and you can find people that only ever work with say React on mobile, or one person that specializes on browser compatibility, or analytics engineering.

Part of it is the size and scope of the projects and the general complexity added to the field, but 20 years ago 1-2 people would have done all of these.

Taking that express bus from downtown Seattle to Redmond which had free wifi was awesome the first time!

Not the person you're responding to, but C++ for me. I make a normal Seattle salary while living in Toronto. Which after conversion seems to put me higher than people with 3x my experience in much better paying sectors than I'm in... It's stupid, and it sucks, I wish my company was local, I don't prefer remote. I do much prefer making literally double than I'd make locally though. :/

I mean it makes me feel less bad about my $5k loss on xrp.

Many of these are real problems, but they are way overblown.

There's a big difference between a break and enter, and "The airbnb guest stole my lamp when he left!"

This is such a weird site.

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The white paper seems non standard too, where's the disclosure timeline, etc?