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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

I know you probably meant "it all boils down to that" but I am totally going to try to make "it all boils fish to that" a thing now :D

Just last summer I bombed a take-home interview project with Lufthansa Technik. They wanted me to implement Rock Paper Scissors a litte bit "over-engineered." Long story short their definition of "over-engineered" was much more involved than mine. I thought I would just need to implement it such that I showed that I wasn't bullshitting them about being able to do that which I said I could. Maybe 2-3 hours of work. I was wrong. Knowing what I know now, I would have had to spend at least 8 hours on it. They expected me to implement a complete backend, frontend, test suites, and design the application such that they would I would be able to extend it to fit an unknown requirement that they only revealed to me during the review of my assignment.

This culminated in the Engineering Manager saying to me at one point: "Wow, you have a lot of experience, it's sad you didn't show us that in your assignment."

TL;DR: Bombed a take-home assignment with the vague requirements of "over-engineer it on purpose" because my "over-engineering" was not over-engineered enough even though it completely fulfilled all requirements. If you're going to give take-home assignments please define hard requirements up front and avoid vague guidelines like "over-engineer this please k thanks"

On my system it is located at /Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/NoteStore.sqlite. I have a relatively older mac osx version though and an ancient 2013 MBP. Could be that the file location has changed in the meantime.

This is so cool and way cooler than my tool!! I chose JSON because it was the easiest option. And also because it is the format I wanted to support first, but mostly because it was the easiest.

Wow! this is so cool! I had no idea about this!

Okay this is awesome! 100% cooler than my project!!

Wow that is so cool! I had no idea Notes.app worked with IMAP!

Literally 0 added value here over the other library. In fact, my tool is a net value subtraction from the other library. The other library has way more features and works great! This was mostly a project for my own learning of how Apple Notes stores its data. I honestly didn't expect it do get any attention!

You should absolutely just do this. 100% the better option. I wanted to learn more about how Apple Notes stores its data and see how I could interact with it.

Over here in Germany they have well-established apprenticeship programs for many more jobs than in the US. There are apprenticeships for software developers, for bankers, for "Bürokauffrau/Bürokaufmanm" (office clerks/administrators), for media work, for all sorts of medical jobs, and so on. You name it, and there is probably an "Ausbildung" (apprenticeship) for it here. The apprenticeship programs are still somewhat not as "prestigious" as going to university, but they will get you in the door at a company for that job.

Many people even combine the two, opting to do an apprenticeship and follow it up with studies, or vice-versa, or do both at the same time.

I didn't make this, but find it incredibly cool. Thought I'd share.

I hate everything about this :/

I definitely fall into this category. I stopped on Day 8 Part 2 this year getting frustrated and falling behind. Good practice for sure and I feel more prepared for next year, still, just wanted to post that I identify myself in what you mention here!

This hits hard for me. The part about being in control especially.

Hey fellow former devout mormon here. Im sure our journeys have been radically different but I identify so much with what you are saying here.

Thank you so much for this! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas spending it exactly the way you want to.

I had no idea this was even a "feature" of Alexa. Super glad I never got one.

I had a friend show me some of the stuff you can do in C++ nowadays. I had no idea C++ had evolved so much!

Side note but not captioning the xkcd graphic and modifying it is a bit sleazy. Yes, it is mentioned in the following paragraph but a caption would be better.

No snarky comments from me. Just RIP and I hope their families are compensated. No compensation will ever bring back those people or extinguish their families anguish but something is better than nothing.

This seems like an unnecessary space hog. If you are that concerned about reproducibility isn't that what npm shrinkwrap tries to solve?

How exactly is it broken? Seems to be working pretty great. Great clickbait-y title though!

I like this a lot _except_ for the usage of green. IS there a theme like this but without the heavy reliance on green? IDK what it is but green is just off-putting for me.

To learn

ah corporate speak at it's finest

Don't envy the engineers working on this right now. Good luck!

Why is backpressure trending on HN lately? Is there some sort of event/talk/blog post/discovery I missed? :) This has got to be the third or fourth Backpressure-related submission I've seen in the past month.

Can someone give me an elevator-pitch for Zig? When would I use it? Is it worth checking out in 2021?

Does github still use Rails in a sort of monolith? I like examples of "monoliths" in the wild that gasp scale as well / better than dozens of microservices painfully working together just to show me a metrics dashboard. Dont get me wrong, not against microservices, it's just that more often than not such architectures have brought more pain than good in my career. I will most of the time gladly trade the overhead of maintaining/managing microservice-glue-infrastructure for a large modular monolith.