pdr2020

You're right, it can't simply be because Muslim country ties to China are economically huge/vast... oh wait.

This is one of the most cleanly straightforward and mature posts I've read on HN in awhile. And quite practical too, particularly that last portion. Also, agreed.

They don't understand the original tradeoffs that led to client-side only applications.

Let them experience the pain of rebuilding that old wheel :)

I used to believe this too. You've acquired/developed negotiation skills, you should reap their rewards, etc.

But then I consider, I've seen many individuals who are such strong engineers AND communicators, and deliver amazing work.

Yet, I was constantly paid higher than them, simply because of my more aggressive/arrogant attitude.

Time has given me a different view. There ARE pay discrepancies that shouldn't exist, but do simply because of lack of information.

And companies fuel the idea that it's something we need to protect, from our fellow colleagues because we worked/earned those pay discrepancies.

But in the end, it's the company that benefits the most from those discrepancies. Not me and not you.

Well that's completely wrong.

Attractiveness is a trait that signals health, not intelligence/social skill/etc.

That's why we evolved to desire attractive people.

It has nothing to do with being a marker for intelligence.

I agree wholeheartedly.

As an arts/law graduate, who has since moved into a senior, highly technical IT role, I can honestly say that had I not moved into the IT field, my existing and already large university tuition debt would never have been repaid within my lifetime.

There is such a huge glut of humanities graduates in Australia now, that unless you are graduating within the very very top percentile, you are guaranteed to have wasted both time and money for no return.

Agreed.

Quite genius.

Rust is much too low level for most glue/web services. Unless you have a specific high performance requirement (and Go doesn't meet this), there's no real strong case for migration here.

If you remove the specific technical choice from mind (a great engineering team can move mountains with any data layer, something I've also learnt working in numerous contract teams at multi-billion dollar companies) - the simple act of rewriting and consolidating huge amounts of data/infra (and stacks) can yield enormous gains.

I will be tracking their technical reporting more closely over the next year.

I enjoy reading thoughtful posts that canvas all the possibilities, rather than pressing another singular opinion.

This was intriguing, thank you.

For me, it's half half. I actually do love the aesthetic of the open office, the large clearing space and the beautifully connected common areas. It's so vast and 'open'.

But I do hate the lack of productive areas. Although, I did once work in a tech giant that really spaced out some individual desks, and positioned many of them next to beautiful open windows.

I'm assuming the parent meant how would this specific configuration of elixir + phoenix + liveview scale.

I was going to point out the same.

I disagree on the Javascript count, specifically modern, statically typed Javascript.

I might choose another language for perf characteristics that JS cannot match, but otherwise Javascript is a truly expressive lang right now.

I watched Gordon Ramsay pretend to be a beginner chef on some TV series too. Despite slipping up numerous times, teaching chefs don't discover him.

Why? Because impressions matter and will frame you as "X", until you strongly challenge and overthrow that initial impression.

I agree with dagmx.

However, I'd carve out an exception. In an interview where you have, without a doubt, not done well and there's greater than a 80% chance that you feel you won't proceed, this question may potentially be a good hail mary, for salvaging the interview.

But, I've never used the technique before. And unless you have alot of interview experience, it will also be difficult to make judgement calls on how well or bad an interview has gone.

The source is credible, but looking rationally at this, the cause of the interrupted economic flow was not some underlying or unstable monetary/country factor.

This is a self-induced economic freeze.

Yes, an unfreeze won't immediately revive the world, because some capacities will have been lost along the way. But once demand ramps back up, you'll have entrepreneurial individuals and companies findings extraordinary ways to meet that rising demand, including who knows, repurchasing/rebuilding the required capacities :)

On a sidenote, I intensely dislike statements like this that hedge their point.

lol people are not rational spenders. Once they begin receiving any sort of stable income, they will bank on receiving it and splurge.

Which is a good thing for the rest of, ironically and economically.

It also assesses how good someone is at preparing to solve specific kinds of problems.

Which is fine. If you're naturally talented at whiteboarding, great. If not, but you've prepared months ahead of time, great also.

If you're not naturally talented, and haven't prepared because of naivety or due to some principle, well, that's not exactly a great signal to an employer.

Wouldn't this be fixed by presenting a on-site assignments? For example a small project, with test suites, where a feature or two needs to be completed and tests updated?

(Disclosure: We did this at a company I worked at).

Webpack 5's modules federation ;)

Point 2 is such a golden piece of advice and so obvious in hindsight, yet this is the first time I've encountered it online.

If you have any online written pieces or blogs, please share them.

tenets, not tenants.

This is the correct mode of thinking.

Rationally consider what conditions could be creating the current scenario, and keep all of them in mind when considering any news/claims that Japan is an outlier.

Also agree that COVID-19 will be fertile ground for dissertations in the future.

If the government has such strict criteria for testing, might it also not have implemented strict 'stages' that you must proceed through after a diagnosis? And a further, stricter criteria before even allowing hospitalisation?

My other suspicion is severe cases will try their best to hold off on self-reporting given the strict government testing criteria and lack of awareness/panic.

This is one key way that Japanese and US society diverge - Americans are much less afraid to 'make a fool of themselves' if they believe they are correct/in danger. Japanese unfortunately, much more so and especially when given direct government directions.

That's.. actually a very salient point.

"All this to say: I think we are losing our economy and I think probably this isn’t effective."

Fixed this for you.

(Additional comment: I will counter with I'm really amazed how quickly people threw away the economy in an effort to reduce lost lives. Normally, I expect people to be much more mercurial)

Nope. If I use Youtube as a smoke signal for what an authoritative web components-based implementation should look/feel like, then it's definitely not in my 'ready-to-adopt' category. Youtube has significantly regressed as of late, with strange bugs/quirks throughout.

I'll stick to frameworks that emit standard HTML thanks.