wildrhythms

In general, I find less and less time is given to me and other coworkers to document things compared to a few years ago.

The companies are getting tax breaks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...

The summit was two days ago, September 10th according to the article.

I think it's happening at every tech company. They are now being led by tech-illiterate company hopping businesspeople rather than passionate engineers.

Seems like your programming partner was particularly micromanagey. When I pair program it's more of a conversation to discover different approaches. If you're having to tell someone where to position the cursor, that's missing the point!

I live in NYC and no it's not.

Street View

Probably because a lot of computer science programs are stuck in 90s era curricula and many don't teach web development whatsoever.

Relevant Tantacrul video on the erosion of the Sibelius UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

I used Sibelius extensively circa version 5, and refused to upgrade for many years. I used it to get through my music minor in college. I still have the installer and a k*ygen on a hard drive somewhere since they stopped selling licenses to it and I lost mine. Still my preferred software, and yes I've tried Musescore. It's not nearly the same. Old software still works.

Indeed, Leetcode tests algorithmic knowledge but no domain knowledge. I work professionally as a front-end developer and I dread losing my job because I could never pass a Leetcode interview. I can thoroughly reason about web development, I know the stack front and back, it's my passion... but a Leetcode interview doesn't test for that at all.

I think every tech-related company looked at the high bar at big tech, assumed the algorithm questions was the only signal (it's not), and have been poorly aping that ever since.

I also think a simple 20 minute discussion between a hiring candidate and an engineer simply discussing how to build something will give you better hiring signals than any Leetcode challenge.

>but every comment you want to post costs one cent

So the wealthiest people get to spread the most propaganda?

Love the aesthetic they're using here. Reminds me of another project in this same vein https://mmm.page/

Nothing hidden about it.

>tech companies are more trusted than most political parties

The bar is that low huh?

>They'll appeal to conservative and neoliberal circles.

So, no different than every company on any given day under capitalism?

I miss the dedicated fingerprint reader. It was faster and more accurate than the ones built into the screen :(

I also get headaches after consuming aspartame, and they are more severe than a normal headache, and come on about 30 minutes after drinking it, consistently.

Last I checked Google doesn't 'sell your information to people', but it does offer hyper targeted ads; the ethics of both scenarios are deeply rotten to me.

I have no doubt RTO appeals to extroverts socially, but the sudden and seemingly coordinated push to RTO is about tax breaks:

>New Jersey and Texas are states that stand out for spelling out exactly how often employees must work from the office to qualify for tax breaks. Before the pandemic, several New Jersey tax programs required workers to show up at least 80% of the time, and one Texas program set the threshold at 50%.

>Provisions like these were designed to ensure that the jobs boosted local revenue from income, sales and property taxes, and bolstered downtown economies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...

My concern is that these platforms will soon sell Human Created (tm) content back to us.

Contrast to Angular which has a 'services' concept where this data fetching logic can live happily divorced from the view layer. https://v17.angular.io/guide/architecture-services

"No." -The U.S. and Israel

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/un-votes-end-us-embar...

I closed the tab after 1 second.

These companies do what we all knew: they continue polluting, while sending a small fraction of their profits to a so-called "green" company in exchange for a piece of paper certifying some "offset".

Sounds awful for anyone who values work-life balance and code that isn't poorly hacked together at the last minute.

A hammer in search of a nail.

Nice article, and reminds me of my personally most used method: window.crypto.randomUUID()

Material Design (a design spec) is not Material Web Components (a Javascript component library).

Just want to say I read the Mistborn series recently and it was excellent :)