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You're relegated to the backend not because you know Java instead of Typecript, but because you don't understand the problems of frontend development.

Thinking about how a user interacts with a page, how asynchronous data loads, different screen sizes, how to handle intermittent connections are very different problems than most backend developers deal with. They are all very complex topics that have been evolving over the last 15 years. Modern frontend frameworks focus on addressing these complexities. Because JS/TS are the language of the frontend, the best frontend frameworks are written in these.

Why?

MIT vs Harvard vs Stanford are all amazing programs but are better for different types of people/interests/goals

Dolphin has been around since 2003. Don’t think it’s been the same devs, but there’s definitely more commitment here than just a college side project

Exactly! At no point while playing ZZT in 1991 did I think "I bet this company is going to dominate the film industry 30 years from now"

Science is a relatively slow process, it takes a long time to understand how diseases work. Virtually every other disease has been studied for years or decades before a properly understanding how it spreads, how it grows within the body, how it manifests, how it can be defeated. Influenza has existed for over a hundred years and we're still learning more about it.

The CDC needed to make decisions quickly at the beginning of the pandemic before anything about the disease was really understood. As they learned more information they changed those decisions. Did they do all of this perfectly? No. Did they fuck up at moments? Sure. Have aspects of their response been way too political? Yes. They're human and not perfect. They were working under insane conditions and made some mistakes.

At the same time that we were learning about the disease, it was also changing. The strains that are common now behave differently than the strains that existed two years ago. This also complicates the process.

You are criticizing the CDC for "flip-flopping" when they've simply responded to new information and a changing disease. Do you expect them to have known all they know now on Day 1 of the disease? Do you expect them to have said zero for several years until everything was 100% known? Whats your fucking point here?

I'm confused. Is this a tablet app? Some sort of JS demo? Just an idea?

That was like 20 years ago. I wonder how many of those folks are still around. It would be interesting to understand how they ran this project internally. Did it build off of that previous work or did they approach it from the ground up.

I've definitely played this game on a Mac. The Steam store does sell it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/Cities_Skylines/

Was anyone really disappointed that this paper was about the human skeleton with 6 Degrees of Freedom not 6 Dimensions?

I was hoping for a theoretical model of the human body if we existed in a 6 dimensional universe. Maybe I've been reading too much SciFi

This gives be some strong 90s web vibes. Before the days of html5, javascript frameworks and professional UX designers we used [ImageMap|https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images_imagemap.asp].

It was maybe not clean and professional but it felt fun. This also feels fun. It's clear that the person that designed this website found joy in the process.

Oooh this sounds right up my alley. I’ve started developing some tools like this but didn’t quite get as far as I wanted

I assume that most industries use specialized equipment that is incredibly expensive for the average person.

I like to do DIY projects around the house but I can't afford a tower crane.

I think this might take another generation. The Oscars represent the high production values/costs of the entertainment industry. Giving an Oscar to a 17 year old with an iPhone would threaten the foundation of a lot of that industry.

I suspect we'll see a tipping point soon (if we haven't already) where more minutes of time are spent watching content produced on an iPhone vs an expensive film camera.

When I was in school the loans were called stafford loans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Loan

I guess they've since changed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Direct_Student_Loan_Pr...

They are very much for private schools. There's no real limit on them. They tend to cover the difference between what a family can pay and what the tuition is. They're generally low interest and you don't need to start paying them back until you're done with school.

Since the loans always cover the difference the impact of tuition costs going up isn't immediately felt

It's a fun page, but the gravitational acceleration is clearly wrong. You animated some balls in CSS, you didn't model gravity.

I think this might be a good example of using the wrong tool for the job. JS would work great for this use case. No need to try to force CSS to do it.

This is SF specific, but I bet it holds true for the whole bay area Page 18 https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/FINAL-PIT-R...

Do you live here? It's still pretty damn nice.

Yeah I was also surprised by that line. I’ll give the author “harder to recover” but definitely not “harder to debug”

Unless I read this wrong "she" didn't get any actual interviews, just responses from sourcers/recruiters. I assume any actual engineering manager would figure out the bullshit on the first review of the resume.

The only interesting conclusion from this article is that sourcers/recruiters from top tech companies are attracted to candidates from other top name companies. It doesn't speak to who actually gets hired.

Obviously the top of the funnel matters, but this doesn't seem particularly scandalous.

I don't think that JEP is part of JDK18 yet.

Isn't this why we have unit testing, code review, CI?

Also most of us aren't working in these industries. Most software developers build consumer apps for buying stuff or serving ads.

All of Facebook was just down from a single error. No one died.

I want it to use deep learning algorithms so that it could produce a tax return that, emotionally, seems real, but in reality is just a bunch of eyeballs mixed blended with FSA rules.

The ACK operator runs in k8s, but I'm pretty sure RDS instances created via ACK will still run natively in AWS.

ACK is a just a k8s native mechanism for defining the resource and managing its config/state.

More a replacement for Cloudformation or terraform.

Source: I read some stuff and am not 100% confident.

My understanding was that rail was already pretty fuel efficient. Still, as the article said, things could be better.

How would this charge? Would you just swap out locomotives (battery cars?) periodically?

We have electric trains in city via overhead wires. I assume this becomes impractical at the freigh rail scales.

Shhhh don't let the secret out.

Yeah I think this is more of a Philly thing than a TSA thing.

I think its probably on the rare side at startups, but employees with kids are pretty common at larger companies (>1000). Obviously those places aren't doing full company offsites in an AirBNB

Maybe Nabisco/Kraft is a big advertiser on Twitter.

Seems more likely it's some random coincidence.

hah, you are correct.

I actually copy and pasted that from the article.

I might be reading this wrong, but it seems like this creates a second place where a project would need to express dependencies between modules.

You would need to do it for JOSH and whatever your build tool is. You'd probably need some additional git commit hooks to ensure your build tool of choice config is in sync with josh.