danny_taco

Ok. Let's pretend this is what is done. Russia gets to keep all the land it took from Ukraine, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides.

Who's going to stop Russia from re-arming and building up its army only to launch another attack in 2-3 years? Who's going to prevent them from destabilizing Ukraine until it falls?

Russia won't stop until it has destroyed Ukraine, that much is certain. Russia only understands strength, and they won't stop until stopped by force.

But hey, peace is more important right? Maybe they should just take Ukraine, capture, torture, rape and murder all the people they deem as undesirables and convert it to another Russian oblast as it was once before. Then there will be peace.

I would imagine you would also lay down at your own home if someone breaks in and tries to rape and murder your family just for the sake of peace?

In my experience it doesn't do much. For example, I made the mistake of contributing to the campaign of a politician. Now I get texts from candidates all over the country. If I reply STOP to one, I just get sent more texts from another number, for another candidate in another state. I just got tired of replying with STOP after the 20th time. This just guarantees I'm never giving any money to any candidate ever again.

If you actually read the article, what we send back is just IOUs or funny money. It's irrelevant what we send back actually, because the goal could be deindustrialization of other countries. The actual goods created are just the side effect of industrial production in order to keep their industries running until they need to swap them to military production.

Maybe we work in the same company. I'd like to add that usually the engineer responsible for the feature being bug-bashed is also responsible of refining the document where everyone writes the bugs they find since a lot are duplicates, existing bugs, or not bugs at all. The output is then translated into Jira to be tackled before (or after) a release, depending on the severity of the bugs found.

I'm surprised it took this long for LinkedIn to do layoffs. The amount of recruiters looking for candidates, tech companies hiring, etc. has gone down since the beginning of the year. As such, the income from LinkedIn that is tied to job postings has decreased. In order to continue looking good on paper they have decided then to layoff employees to cut costs.

The same thing has happened at other companies that make money from job postings.

The main reason we all work for someone else is for money but there is something to be said about the things we build at work and not caring about them. This is something that took me a long time to realize but you need to stop thinking about software as a field and start thinking of it as a skill set. From there figure out what interests you. Wildlife, economics, vehicles, etc. or whatever, and then use your skill set to work on what field of your choosing.

Working on something that doesn't interest you just for the sake of technology is not something that will ever make you happy. If you truly have no interest in anything then that's another problem on itself.

Call it what you will, but what Russia is doing is trying to dissolve the Ukrainian identity through genocide and terrorism. I'm looking forward to the day when Ukraine gains back its stolen territories and pushes back Russia to their borders.

And who do you expect to foot the bill to recover your money? There are ways to mitigate this risk and it's not the taxpayers problem you mismanage your assets.

I've worked for the US government and I can tell you we all are humans.

The concept is called extraterritorial jurisdiction, and it is used to do these types of prosecutions.

Elon or Putin are not stupid, far from it, but that doesn't mean they can't make stupid decisions, and not only make them but double down on them.

For example, look at Putin and the state of Russia and their invasion of Ukraine. I think everyone would agree it has been one of the biggest military and geopolitical blunders ever. As far as Elons acquisition of Twitter, time will tell if it was 'stupid' decision or not.

People with disabilities often struggle to find content they can consume because it's not a11y friendly. Unfortunately in this case lawyers are capitalizing on this law that was made to help people with disabilities to go after websites that are not a11y friendly.

Maybe before shutting down you should consider making your content a11y friendly by adding captions to your videos. It is extra work but consider you may be helping a portion of the population that is often underserved.

You talk about the figures being meaningful, while you seem to be making up numbers of your own.

I was at Accenture Digital, now rebranded as Accenture Song, when Hertz was a client in our office. Most projects had the same issues.

I was hired as a developer to work on the front-end of a very ambitious app for one of the biggest oil companies in the world. One year later we delivered a crappy single page app, a relational database and some data pipelines, and in exchange we billed them no less than 20 million.

I think I mentally checked out at 6 months in when I realized I couldn't fight against the current. Management was incompetent, half of my team mates had no experience or ability to work as software developers, and all the individual contributors were the ones with the pressure to deliver and work on weekends. Yeah, I'm not going to work extra hours because you don't know how to say no when the client tells you they want this extra feature and they also want to cut down the timeline.

The only reason these companies are successful is that the top execs are friends with the other execs at fortune 500 companies so they mostly figure out a way to spin it as a success so everyone gets their bonuses even if no value was created.

Having said that, it might be because when I'm writing JavaScript it's just me.

Well, you don't need types because you only look at your own code. The advantage of having my IDE tell me what to expect when I'm refactoring a piece of code someone else wrote is a few orders of magnitude more useful and informative than having to jump through various functions and files to understand what's happening.

Years of writing code do not equate to proficiency and expertise. You may have been writing code for many years but I would go so far as to assume that you experience is actually very limited.

Your impression comes from the fact that you have not worked at larger teams, as you said so yourself. It's relatively easy to build something scalable from the beginning if you know what you need to build and if you are not already handling large amounts of traffic and data.

It's a whole different ballgame to build on top of an existing complex system already in production that was made to satisfy the needs at the time it was built but it now needs to support other features, bug fixes and supporting existing features but at scale while having 50+ engineers not step on each other and not break each others code in the process. 4 friends in the basement will not achieve more than 50+ engineers in this scenario, even when considering the inefficiencies of the difficulty in communication that come along with so many minds working on the same thing.

Despite his flaws as a human being and damage done by Microsoft in the 90's, overall his contributions to humanity greatly exceed his shortcomings. What are your contributions to humankind? Have you done anything to make the world a better place?

The answer is, probably not, or at least not as much as Bill. So be wary of passing judgement to others so easily lest you be judged yourself.

Unlikely. Now, once their whole metaverse gambles collapses then, that may be the start of the end for them.

Have you tried implementing a well structured and well developed migration system for node? How about a unified folder structure, best practices and patterns? Scheduled cron jobs? Templating and asset bundling? All of this came with Rails out of the box with sane defaults.

I guess I should be thankful re-inventing the wheel on all of these aspects in node has given me hundreds if not thousands of hours in compensation.

Well then, it sounds like you need to put your phone down or at least don't open Slack, knowing well what would happen if you do. The onus is on you to disconnect from work, not to ensure everyone else conforms to your schedule.

I completely agree with you, and I've yet to see a compelling argument against this. I've been doing this since the rise of the SPA, all the way from vanilla, jQuery, Backbone, Angular 1.0, Ember and React and after reading your comment all I can think of is "great, we're going back to handlebars templating again".

There is no net-gain in re-inventing the wheel. It just becomes yet another thing to master to stay relevant. In a decade of doing JS front-end applications things have only gotten more complex and more time-consuming.

Thankfully I've found a sweet spot where complexity, velocity and quality are in balance using technologies considered no longer cool and that's fine with me. I get to focus on the actual problem at hand instead of trying to figure out the inner workings of this new shiny thing.

The breaking the law bit comes in the form of an accusation to the SEC that Facebook misled investors by not disclosing that they are in fact not doing everything possible to combat the spread of extremism and radicalization through their platform as they claimed - that they decided to ignore this because it would impact their profits.

Misleading investors is a crime from what I understand, so if found guilty on that account, they did break the law. Now, if they will be found guilty is another matter. Personally I don't think they will even be prosecuted for it.

I agree, and the harm is already done. What we can do is legislate new laws to combat these insidious practices from facebook. Which is unlikely to occur, so the problem will persist until something breaks. And that is how it's done, not by skirting the law, but by not adjusting it to our times.

Because Japan for some reason went all out on hydrogen, so Toyota being Japanese followed suit. What makes me wonder is why didn't they just look outside of Japan to realize this was not a good bet.

I see you get your "facts" from Facebook. You are gravely mistaken, and you contribute to the propagation of falsehoods that are making dealing with this pandemic increasingly difficult and detrimental to everyone.

The mRNA vaccines have all been put through standard safety testing before being rolled out to the public. In other words, they are not experimental.

Who could have predicted machines would be very good at multitasking. As of today they are STIL writing code AND creating more wealth through gold hoarding AND smart contracts at the same time!

"As time passes we see more and more groups intentionally exploiting this and exploiting it more often, and it feels like it will only get worse, especially since we can see it happening overseas in major political referendums or elections"

Out of curiosity, what election or elections are you speaking of?

I used to agree, but then I tried all the alternatives. And as others have mentioned, it's as good as one configures it to fit the team needs.

Very spot on observation. I'm currently on the 'I tolerate it' bucket but I'm actively trying to hire for my replacement so I can move back to being an IC again.

At first I really disliked it but the more time I spend doing it, the better I get at it, the more rewarding it becomes. I fear by the time I find someone to actually replace me, I won't want to go back to being an IC.

If you look on youtube for this event, you'll see there was a vehicle driving in front of the pack that was aiming a laser at the feet of the runners. It appears to make it easier to follow a pace very accurately by making sure your feet are following the laser.