While there are areas where my functional convictions have greatly diminished, my mid career zeal had the tremendous benefit of illuminating new architecture and data design principles. Storing data as discreet changes…
My perspective is that I had recently realized that I didn't have a great justification for having used JWTs in my last two projects (and worried I had been part of a cargo cult myself). Truly. I can't see their value…
And my favorite album, Abbey Road, was composed right before the crash. The concluding medley may only exist because they were spinning out. RIP George Martin, you gave us much.
Fascinating. Do you think (remember) that the incentives for bands were different? I know people listened to more full albums because it'd be tedious otherwise, but was consuming music more of a dedicated activity than…
Love it. I feel similarly about the quality (don't know what else to call it) of the many songs I listen to from that time, compared to similarly popular songs over the past decades. Though for me they're also nostalgic…
I have similar thoughts but they can be broken into two distinct feelings: Ideally everyone would routinely have their attention called to the sword of Damocles, or at least listen to Dan Carlin's Destroyer of World's…
I think his point's logic is as follows: If you don't think the default school is important, why would you care if a kid switched? -- If the response was that it's too expensive to allow them to switch that'd be…
I agree about the contradictions and hypocrisy but the answer can be much more pragmatic: > As a non-US, non-Chinese citizen, is there something that makes TikTok espionage and Facebook not? Or is it just "china scary"?…
> Overcomplicating things leads to overcomplicating things. This would be the most efficient title, subtitle, and entire contents of most posts about programming principles. However, each reader has to have a similar…
It's strange but really cool to zoom out and see various meetings between people in different rooms, or when we bring an outside contact into our space for a meeting you can introduce them to coworkers ad-hoc (like a…
I think it's a good point that there are many more domains within large organizations than one might expect from the outside. However, people are undoubtedly in more specialized roles and teams on the whole. I'm merely…
Are you able to compare the experience of being at a Big Tech company against a very small team with wide responsibilities? I'm in my 11th year as a developer and left a pure tech company 6 years ago where I was…
Love it. I do think there is more activism at play than you might. At a minimum it provides the fear mechanism that prevents employees from challenging the work, particularly if they aren't even on the project (why…
Sincere question: since idioms and metaphors are rooted in history and shared experience, isn't dropping extremely common usages kicking the can (if you will) in the other direction? In other words, by trying to be…
Same age, same boat but I wonder about two independent factors: how my cumulative health decisions have depleted my energy reserves, and if being lower on the Dunning-Kruger curve had some distinct advantages earlier in…
While there are areas where my functional convictions have greatly diminished, my mid career zeal had the tremendous benefit of illuminating new architecture and data design principles. Storing data as discreet changes…
My perspective is that I had recently realized that I didn't have a great justification for having used JWTs in my last two projects (and worried I had been part of a cargo cult myself). Truly. I can't see their value…
And my favorite album, Abbey Road, was composed right before the crash. The concluding medley may only exist because they were spinning out. RIP George Martin, you gave us much.
Fascinating. Do you think (remember) that the incentives for bands were different? I know people listened to more full albums because it'd be tedious otherwise, but was consuming music more of a dedicated activity than…
Love it. I feel similarly about the quality (don't know what else to call it) of the many songs I listen to from that time, compared to similarly popular songs over the past decades. Though for me they're also nostalgic…
I have similar thoughts but they can be broken into two distinct feelings: Ideally everyone would routinely have their attention called to the sword of Damocles, or at least listen to Dan Carlin's Destroyer of World's…
I think his point's logic is as follows: If you don't think the default school is important, why would you care if a kid switched? -- If the response was that it's too expensive to allow them to switch that'd be…
I agree about the contradictions and hypocrisy but the answer can be much more pragmatic: > As a non-US, non-Chinese citizen, is there something that makes TikTok espionage and Facebook not? Or is it just "china scary"?…
> Overcomplicating things leads to overcomplicating things. This would be the most efficient title, subtitle, and entire contents of most posts about programming principles. However, each reader has to have a similar…
It's strange but really cool to zoom out and see various meetings between people in different rooms, or when we bring an outside contact into our space for a meeting you can introduce them to coworkers ad-hoc (like a…
I think it's a good point that there are many more domains within large organizations than one might expect from the outside. However, people are undoubtedly in more specialized roles and teams on the whole. I'm merely…
Are you able to compare the experience of being at a Big Tech company against a very small team with wide responsibilities? I'm in my 11th year as a developer and left a pure tech company 6 years ago where I was…
Love it. I do think there is more activism at play than you might. At a minimum it provides the fear mechanism that prevents employees from challenging the work, particularly if they aren't even on the project (why…
Sincere question: since idioms and metaphors are rooted in history and shared experience, isn't dropping extremely common usages kicking the can (if you will) in the other direction? In other words, by trying to be…
Same age, same boat but I wonder about two independent factors: how my cumulative health decisions have depleted my energy reserves, and if being lower on the Dunning-Kruger curve had some distinct advantages earlier in…