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You would lose that bet. Walmart has invested a LOT in modernizing stuff over the last 10 years. You cannot deliver groceries in less than an hour using the old inventory. It's not perfect, but what it's been done given the scale , it's nothing short of a miracle. Source: I have been working there for 10 years.

The whole way Tiktok went black and the number of times it has mentioned President Trump in a positive note - to me - reinforces the idea that Tiktok is just a propaganda tool (in this case, for Trump). I would not be surprised if the whole act of going dark last night was because Trump told them that's how it needed to go so he could be a hero by Monday.

The way most of our biggest companies and wealthiest are just lining up to do Trump's bidding is what I would expect from unstable 3rd world countries but never from the US (I know cause I came from one).

DRY is about modularization and identifying higher level abstractions when possible (and useful). When you have a domain driven mindset, it's much easier to put in practice. But really, you need to learn how to balance things. And you can only get that natural intuition with practice, lots of practice. If you give up early and think repeating is ok all the time, then you will never gain that intuition.

Regarding mocks, there are mocks that can hurt you and mocks that will help you. Mocks that can hurt you are mocks you generate by hand and it represents an idea of what production is, or maybe the untested, specified contract. Mocks that help you are the ones that are automatically generated representing actually what production has. Mocks like these have saved me from potential P1s many times - and millions in business losses. In an ideal world, I wouldn't need mocks, but also in an ideal world LLMs would do my testing.

I joined HN back in 2008 and I am mostly a lurker, but when I see an article that just plainly promotes bad practices with no samples of code or without going in depth. An article that would have been voted down or ignored to oblivion back in the early days of HN. I have to say something. I have seen enough bad code (specially in recent years) - I am afraid the new generation is getting their tips from all the wrong places.

I graduated in 2007 at the top of the housing crash and a few months later the great recession. My first job as SWE out of college was making 50k in a small company.

What got me through is that I love coding and learning, specially as a new grad. In hindsight, these are the times when great things happen - we just cannot see them. It happened in 2000, 2008 and I hope it happens again. Don't get demoralized, keep going at it and remember why you got into this profession (hopefully not just for the money)

Located in Washington DC. It used to be like this half a decade ago. Now, many things take longer to deliver.

In my experience, almost nothing is 10 bucks anymore at Amazon. Having prime would have meant - 5 years ago- that I would get it tomorrow or within 2 days, but now it means I will get it by the end of next week. Then the product I bought will come apart within 2 months. Right around the time the return deadline expires. The customer experience is at least one order of magnitude worse than 5 years ago.

I pay around 15 bucks a month for my HOA. They take care of common land and also the 3 kids playgrounds in the neighborhood. They also have to approve any changes to the exterior of a house which can be annoying.

One interesting thing they do is that for things like new decks or replaced ones, you need to submit an application for approval which should include a building permit by the county. It gives prospective home buyers assurance that certain things were done correctly. Before a house is sold, the seller needs to provide an HOA disclosure which triggers an inspection for which a seller needs to ensure all changes were made with the approval of the HOA. Our seller (an investment property management company) had to fix several things in our house to being them up to code to get those approvals, which helped me as a home buyer.

Besides that, the HOA has been very responsive, we did replace our windows without their approval but it was relatively easy to fix given that they were similar windows.

I guess to get it working again,just uninstall the android webview system. That did it for me

About an hour ago, my Gmail app started crashing as soon as I opened it. I thought it was my pixel 3 but I guess it's sort of a widespread issue.

I think it's a bit of both, but to be honest, it doesn't feel like sticking it to the man.

Why? Because it's a ponzi scheme. People who made money off this already (and are not holding the line) are not the people affected by the man. I don't believe my plumber, my electrician, or the busboy at the restaurant are investing their money on GME stock using Robinhood. Who do I see doing it? My friends, mostly young white collar workers with money to invest/lose in a bid to trying to get rick quick. Your typical reddit user of sorts.

I mean, my first few years on this country, while going to college at night, I worked construction. I worked with all kinds of people, from all kinds of lives and believes. When 2008 happened, many of them lost their life savings or their houses. At that point, I was working as a software engineer already, my older colleagues lost a chunk of their 401k - which they probably have regained and built upon by now.

Sticking it up to the man? I don't think so. The end of this will be fast and painful to many.

Feliz año nuevo! I still remember joining hacker news to comment on something back in 2008 and lurking from 2006. It's impossible to enumerate everything I have learned form this community. All I can say is Thank you and let's have a great 2021!

I also was trying to figure out why I would use this over Bazel. Then I remember reading a story yesterday about how ex-googlers miss their tooling when they leave. Their CTO is an ex-googler, so maybe this is the reason.

If it's not forgiven you fight and accomplish nothing and divide further. That's what we have seen the last 4 years.

That's why being a politician takes some skill.

Obama also worked with senator Byrd. Byrd was no perfect but he disavowed his relationship with the KKK. This kind of self correction and compromise is what has always held our country's politics and made it different than other's. Obama said it better:

"Listening to Senator Byrd I felt with full force all the essential contradictions of me in this new place, with its marble busts, its arcane traditions, its memories and its ghosts. I pondered the fact that, according to his own autobiography, Senator Byrd had received his first taste of leadership in his early twenties, as a member of the Raleigh County Ku Klux Klan, an association that he had long disavowed, an error he attributed—no doubt correctly—to the time and place in which he'd been raised, but which continued to surface as an issue throughout his career. I thought about how he had joined other giants of the Senate, like J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Richard Russell of Georgia, in Southern resistance to civil rights legislation. I wondered if this would matter to the liberals who now lionized Senator Byrd for his principled opposition to the Iraq War resolution—the MoveOn.org crowd, the heirs of the political counterculture the senator had spent much of his career disdaining.

I wondered if it should matter. Senator Byrd's life—like most of ours—has been the struggle of warring impulses, a twining of darkness and light. And in that sense I realized that he really was a proper emblem for the Senate, whose rules and design reflect the grand compromise of America's founding: the bargain between Northern states and Southern states, the Senate's role as a guardian against the passions of the moment, a defender of minority rights and state sovereignty, but also a tool to protect the wealthy from the rabble, and assure slaveholders of noninterference with their peculiar institution. Stamped into the very fiber of the Senate, within its genetic code, was the same contest between power and principle that characterized America as a whole, a lasting expression of that great debate among a few brilliant, flawed men that had concluded with the creation of a form of government unique in its genius—yet blind to the whip and the chain."

As a dad and an United States citizen, I am proud to call Joe Biden , my president.

When he was sworn in as a senator - after his wife and daughter died in a car accident after he won the seat. He said: “If in six months or so there’s a conflict between my being a good father and being a good senator, which I hope will not occur, we can always get another senator but they can’t get another father,”

As a father, I understand the feeling. It also shows me he is a fighter, he has always been. We need someone like him to unite us and move us forward.

Watched this 12 years ago for the first time as a junior dev - new to the workforce. In short, his words help me every day of my life. My life would not be the same if it wasn't for his last lecture.

At the end of the day, we all implement systems - large and small. The more moving parts a system has, the more complex its implementation tends to be. Decomposing large systems with moving parts takes many tries to master.

This is just my 2 cents but according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Japan has only done 923 tests for 1M of their population. That's much lower than any developed nation. One thing the article claims is the spread of the virus by asymptomatic infected people. Given this low level of testing - it's hard to gauge the true level of infection in the country - although the continuous decrease on daily cases is good, it doesn't mean it cannot spike back up. We just have to wait and see what happens.

Same boat as you. I have a 9 month old and a 2.5 year old. Wake up at 6am-7:30ish am to do some work. Then help with the first one until 8am and continue until 12:30pm (6hrs) Then I resume at 8pm-10pm for 8 hrs. Wife does 12:30pm-5:30pm and then does 8:30pm to 11:30pm. It's rough,.but when we are tired we will take a PTO or two. We are extremely lucky we can at least do this. It's rough but, I am learning much more about my kids and I am enjoying them as much as I can while this lasts. It's also a good time to potty train! To beat fatigue, make sure you sleep at least 7hrs and eat well. Go out to walks with your kids (just to get some air) or play in the yard. Good luck, we will all get through this and will be much better because of it.

I have lived in the US for 20 years now - I am a millennial. I am originally from Peru. When all of this started I thought the US was going to handle it. We all were going to rally together and take care of each other. We would exercise social isolation and hold this virus off. The rate the trend is going should be scary for anyone (at least the people reading hacker news). I am surprised of people thinking this won't affect them. If widespread and out of control, it will affect everyone.

Funny enough that my country of birth, Peru, just declared a national emergency and declared quarantine for everyone in the country. Peru is a democratic country - at least for the last 20 years - but it had to enact this to stop the virus from spreading. It's a bold move, it's not a popular one, but it's the right one imho.

We should be doing the same, our current leader is - unfortunately - a coward who will always be afraid of taking a risk. It's on us then, as responsible citizens to make sure we don't go out unless we really need to for a while - at least that we can control. Just my two cents.

Touching article I can relate to. I lost my mother to leukemia two and a half years ago and I still am reminded of her everyday. This kind of grief is one that will never leave me. Every memory of her has the potential to bring tears to my eyes, but there are memories that give me a smile and there are many that inspire me to be better person.

My son just turned one year old a month ago. He is going through his cutest phase yet. He wants to play, walk, talk and say hi to everyone. I think often of what she would say to him, what she would cook for him, or the advice she would give me on raising him. So many things to wonder but then I see my son smile. He has my mom's smile and he loves to smile and laugh.

Life can be funny like that. Besides the teachings and memories I have of my mom, I am lucky enough to be also reminded of her smile every day through my son.

I wish! I don't think we do that anymore though.

Thanks for letting me know. I took it out.

Good idea, although we do have our own recruiting team that has emails created for that purpose, but I am not part of that team. I am a software engineer who is looking for new awesome peeps to work with :) (I was also hoping my Karma + longevity in hacker news would give me some cred, but I guess that didn't work hah)

Because I get lots of spam if I use my corporate email. If your resume looks good I will reply to you from my Walmart account. It's not the first time I posted the job here, we actually hired two people from HN.

Actually. I have been with the team for over 2 years and a hacker news member for what feels like ten years. The reason I don't put my actual Walmart email is because of all the spam I actually get. If you are actually interested. Shoot me an email and I will reply from my Walmart email.

WalmartLabs DC - Reston, VA | Software Engineer - Junior, Mid or Senior Full stack ONSITE - Full-time

Technology is at the heart of our business, enabling Walmart to achieve revenue of $500 billion in 2017. Each week, our systems serve over a million associates, and the nearly 260 million customers who visit our 11,504 stores in 28 countries - under 65 banners. The @Labs teams in Reston are creating the next generation of store systems using cloud-native technologies.

We are enabling a more efficient workforce through smarter systems that evolve continuously. We are creating awesome customer experiences through products that blur the lines between online and physical retail. Best of all, we have a great work culture!! We encourage continuous learning — hosting talks and learning opportunities weekly— and we love it when you contribute to an open source project. We also give back to the community through organized volunteerism and meetups. Contact us If you are bright, like to be surrounded by smart people, enjoy challenges, and need to see projects through to the end!! We are seeking great software engineers who are interested in solving problems of scale within an increasingly competitive retail landscape.

As a mid to senior engineer, we would like for you to have a good working knowledge of at least one JVM language (preferably Java or Scala). Junior candidates can code in any language (though Haskell would be impressive :) ). Get in touch at wmlabs.dc@gmail.com

WalmartLabs DC| Reston, VA | Software Engineer - Mid or Senior ONSITE - Full-time

This is a (semi) new branch of WalmartLabs (used to be Walmart Technology) that is focused on modernizing the stores systems. This is a great opportunity to work with very smart people in very challenging problems. We are a new team and we are trying to find great software engineers to grow our team. We need them as the scale of the problems we are trying to solve is huge and we put a lot of focus on creating elegant solutions for those problems. One big plus also is that we encourage continuous learning (we have workshops and tech talks often) and we love it when you contribute (or have contributed) to an open source project. We want to give back to the community in different ways too (we volunteer, and do meetups frequently). So if you are super smart, like to be surrounded by smart people, solve difficult problems, seeing projects through to the end, and you want to help define and build our office culture, you should contact us! Just a note, as a mid to senior engineer, we expect you to have a good working knowledge of at least one JVM language (preferably Java or Scala). Get in touch at wmlabs.dc@gmail.com

Walmart Technologies East | Reston, VA | Software Engineer - Mid or Senior ONSITE - Full-time

This is a (semi) new branch of Walmart Technologies (not to be confused with Walmartlabs that focuses on the .com site) that is focused on modernizing the stores systems and everything else that is not .com really. This is a great opportunity to work with very smart people in very challenging problems (I actually mean this, I am a software engineer who just started last November and I am astonished at the projects I have been able to work on so far and the technologies I have used). We are a new team and we are trying to find great software engineers to grow our team. We need them as the scale of the problems we are trying to solve is huge and we put a lot of focus on creating elegant solutions for those problems. One big plus also is that we encourage continuous learning (we have workshops and tech talks often) and we love it when you contribute (or have contributed) to an open source project. We want to give back to the community in different ways too (we volunteer, and do meetups frequently). So if you are super smart, like to be surrounded by smart people and solve difficult distributed problems, and you want to help define and build our office culture, you should contact us! Just a note, we expect you to have a good working knowledge of at least one JVM language (preferably Java or Scala). Get in touch at wmtech.reston@gmail.com

Walmart Technologies East | Reston, VA | Software Engineer - Junior/Mid/Senior On-site - Full-time

This is a (semi) new branch of Walmart Technologies (not to be confused with Walmartlabs that focuses on the .com site) that is focused on modernizing the stores systems and everything else that is not .com really. This is a great opportunity to work with very smart people in very challenging problems (I actually mean this, I am a software engineer who just started last November and I am astonished at the projects I have been able to work on so far and the technologies I have used). We are a new team, the oldest member has been here a bit over a year, and we are trying to find the best software engineers to grow our team even more. We need them as the scale of the problems we are trying to solve is huge and we put a lot of focus on creating elegant solutions for those problems. One big plus also is that we encourage continuous learning (we have workshops and tech talks often) and we love it when you contribute (or have contributed) to an open source project. We want to give back to the community in different ways too (we volunteer, and do meetups frequently). So if you are super smart, like to be surrounded by smart people and solve difficult distributed problems, and you want to help define and build our office culture, you should contact us! Just a note. For Junior devs, fresh out of school, we don't care what language you code in (even though we use Java here for the most part so at least you should be willing to learn it). For everyone else, we'd expect you to have a good working knowledge of at least one JVM language. Get in touch at wmtech.reston@gmail.com