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This is my first encounter with negative sentiment around the phrase "full stack engineer" and I would caution newcomers to the industry to take OP's advice with a heavy dose of salt.

My experience has been that if I do not accurately represent my skills in an interview screening as a full stack engineer, I am less likely to make it to the next stage of the interview process.

Most importantly, be honest about your strengths and weaknesses.
Amazing that humans need a license to drive legally, but algorithms don't.
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Depends a lot of European constitutions seem to be based on you plebs have the rights "we as in the king or other ellites" give you not inalienable rights.
Nice. I had fun in some junior high math competitions in part by writing TI BASIC programs on my calculator to brute force hard problems while I did the easy ones. Eventually they stopped allowing calculators altogether and focused on cheap memorized tricks instead of generalized problem solving.
I think you can put together a list, hopefully a long list, of people whose careers would've been very different had they not been exposed to Bret's work.

He introduces you to a vast network of ideas, most of which, if you're like me, you only start to appreciate after you've seen a bit of Bret's work. He makes those ideas accessible, beside furthering them on his own.

From Engelbart's idea of "aligning human systems and tool systems, with workers spending time improving their tools for improving their tools, leading to accelerating rate of progress," to Papert's brilliant work on the nature of learning and play, ideas that focus my direction and give me joy, I can't help but always remind myself that I may have never learned of these ideas had it not been because of Bret's work. Thank you Bret.
If you really

1. consider an attempt at simplification "machismo bullshit",

1.5 don't realize the irony in responding in that fashion

2. consider "doing ones job without creating debt" to contain zero information, and deride my attempt to engage others in discussion

and 3. are taking this aggressive and ad-hominem a response to said discussions, I'm very glad we apparently live in different worlds of software development.

I respect that you'd take the time to tell me why you disagree. I don't respect the way you've conveyed your stance.
This reminds me of a flight I booked about 3/4 a year ago from SF to DC - I had a suboptimal layover in Houston, which was rerouted to be a layover in Chicago after the hurricane triggered changes to my routing. Unfortunately for the airline, it then had to deal with a situation where they overbooked by 10 people.

I was offered a first class seat on a direct flight + $600 to switch, which I happily accepted. In truth, I would’ve been happy with just any seat on that direct flight.
Python 2.6 was 2% of pip downloads and apparently this was the rationale for dropping its support: https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/4343 . This led to some Python libraries to also drop 2.6, as shown by library commits referencing this pull request.
Fossilized bones (plus the occasional feather/tissue), and way to miss the point.
My son is a smartphone and PC addict but he still reads an insane amount. Way more than I did at his age but about the same as his mom. I think a lot of whether you like to read or not is genetic.
> Waymo has worked towards this point for years, reporting every disconnect and minor fender-bender.

Is there a list of scenarios the Waymo car can handle?

I think there is a fundamental limitation with detecting stationary objects right in the path of the car. Did the waymo cars share this issue. If not how did they overcame it?
Armies in general are not good at fighting insurgencies, especially those supported by a 3rd party that can itself not be engaged in full scale war. But your statement in general is incorrect at least as far as the US military, which has literally been engaged in continuous warfare against insurgencies and banana republics for more than 25 years. If they aren't designed for this yet, I don't know how many centuries it would take. The fact of the matter is that the US now has ballooned what it euphemistically designates as Special Operations forces to over 70,000 men - 10x the size of the Foreign Legion.

If they had 700,000 men deployed in SOCOM they would still lose. The Roman Empire showed how you defeat an insurgency militarily - by exterminating/recruiting the population of the target nation. You do this by establishing and expanding colonies along with large military garrisons to protect them. This takes generations, though, and requires either finding enough volunteers to colonize, or forcibly shipping people to these colonies, which tends to not have the desired effect. The Romans accomplished this mostly by giving land in conquered territories to ex-soldiers, along with members of the conquered population as slaves. These strategems are largely taboo now, so the "mowing the grass" strategy of continual armed sweeps is what's left and just like with your lawn, it will never end.
Tell that to a celeb that the press decides to monster - Cliff Richards case vs the BBC is a current example.
That's incorrect. Scientific and neutral ideas that do not fit the mold cannot be safely discussed
Yes, but the point is the 1.7 M number for total crust turnover can't be valid, as none of that tiny portion would still exist.
Ants can also count.
Perhaps the asteroid was just an asteroid mining operation gone horribly wrong, or some form of planet killing warfare?
We'll this is prior to the existence of China, they mean the area now known as China.

Not sure what was going on there 4k-15k years ago?
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> tried to keep North Vietnam from conquering South Vietnam

That is not what US internal diplomatic notes said at the time, not in modern interviews if McNamara, Clark Clifford etc.

The Vichy French colonialists, then the non-Vichy French, then the Americans fought to retain the Vietnamese colony in the south. The fight was against the National Liberation Front in the south - Buddhist monks, Paris educated professionals, peasants etc. The north had little involvement until mid-1968. Also French Indochina was one country until 1954, and the ceasefire lines were supposed to be temporary barring national elections, which the US opposed. There never was a "South Vietnam".

> The South's people would have the same horrific history

US policy during the Korean War was to fire on civilians, as happened at No Gun Ri. South Korea was under a series of dictatorships with a more horrific history than anything happening up north until the late 1970s up until the Gwangju massacre in 1980 in South Korea. The northern economy eclipsed the southern one as well. Things began changing in both countries in the 1980s and 1990s for a variety of internal and external reasons.
There is so much wrong with this analysis. It like somebody literally repeat what he read in propganda of US militarist.

First of, the US did not invade North Vietnam because they were afraid of war with USSR and China. Not for any other reason.

The US absolutly dominated the South, it was a client state. They basically made it possible for the South Vietnam government to exist. When the government there did perform as the US thought it should, the US installed a new government.

The US was the only thing preventing the South from failing. You are suffering from Propaganda if you believe the South Vietnam was much of state without US support. It did not have the support of the majority of people in Vietnam and probebly not even in the South.

The government that the US supported was handing out land to political cronies against the people on the land, who did you think they were fighint? Then the American went in and helped this corrupt regmie to enforce these policies.

The US Army absolutly slaughtered the people of Vietnam in unbelivable numbers. They spread 10% of the country with chemicals that lead to 100000s of deformed children. The numbers are stunnig and I could go on about all the other countires and people the US bombed and how that helped to great the worst genocide in human history (% based).

And all of this for what? The leader of North Vietnam wanted to firendly with the US in the beginning. Even basic geopolitics could tell you that he would much rather have the US as a supporter in order not to be dominated by China. This actually what has now happened, Vietnam is now US new best buddy. Also Vietnam turned capitalist pretty quickly once the US was gone. Most people realize that Communism is a idiotic idiology and most elites don't really like it at all.

Vietnam might not be rich yet, but they are doing much better. This process could have been started 20-30 years earlier but they had to fight a war for survival.

Your simplistic comparison with Korea is just that, stylised to fit your narrative. In reality the two situation were quite different.
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Yes, I would tend to agree with you. Science means "application". The origin of science is philosophy. That's why to be a true scientist, one ought to be familiar with philosophy, first. The problem is, in this day and age, while science and technology have developed greatly, philosophy is ancient, and has disappeared.

The evidence is that if you go to the top philosophers these days then they will be unaware of the right answer to the first question in studying philosophy: what is the definition of philosophy? Without having learned it, people have been going around trying to teach what they are unaware of.
>the West keeps falling for it for some reason

The west acted as if mercantilism basically couldn't work. Ricardian theory of comparative advantage was elevated to near-religion status in the 90s and early 00s.

China not opening up fully was seen as an aberration that would ultimately only harm China rather than a potential long term threat. That was the prevailing attitude among policymaking circles (you can see this attitude reflected by checking old issues of The Economist).

Ultimately the fact that lots of profit could be made out of managed Chinese trade kept western countries from reacting in a sensible, self-interested manner.
SFM does not automatically provide joint locations. Also, a casual 360 video around a subject does not provide enough data for producing a full body mesh.
What do you do if you're driving along and realize you don't know what to do? Do you slam on the brakes for an emergency stop? Probably not. A safer choice is to remove throttle input and consider gently applying the brakes while you figure out what's going on, and check to see if there's enough space behind you to brake harder or to pull off to the side of the road.

I would expect a fully autonomous vehicle to constantly be planning for emergency and graceful stops, and to slow down if it doesn't have a confident plan for both types of stopping and forward progress. It should also have plans for when critical equipment fails, such as sensors or actuators as well as normal car systems like brakes, tires, engine, steering.
Could something like Fort Knox survive as an unusually concentrated deposit of gold?

On a larger scale, would a city like New York leave an area with an anomalous distribution of elements of a similar nature to what we see where there has been an ancient meteorite impact?
> pretty high 100 years ago

irrelevant: there are no hard numbers for that and that's not the timeframe the article is discussing (since the 90s)
Whilst I don't fundamentally disagree with your concerns, I'm not following the logic behind the Holodomor being the root of the Sovet Union's collapse, given that it occured 60 years prior?
> Such as?

Let's try gravity on for size. Where's my gravity car? No, really. It would be incorrect (and indicative of a lack of familiarity with modern physics findings) to suggest such technology is limited by power storage or output.
You got me thinking it over. It's a question (like "what are your three biggest weaknesses?") that you need to have an answer for. In my case, I said that, while I could do sales, I didn't like sales.
Even though my degree certificate says "....Software Engineering", I usually refer to myself as a Software Developer. Mostly to avoid any tedious arguments with mystic folk that have sacred oaths and magic rings.

But it is noticeable that when a commercial lift/elevator or Espresso machine develops a fault, people quite casually say that "an engineer is on the way" and nobody bats an eyelid. Don't most software bugs require a much deeper diagnosis and more elaborate fix?
I should've phrased it better. I meant masquerading fictional scientists as real scientists.

And yes based on my understanding of science, Newton was a scientist and so were the undocumented pioneers who tinkered with what they had available at the time. Be it the wandering ascetics from India who studied the effects of various herbs on humans to compile treatises on medicine like Ayurveda or the priests and traders from Babylonia who arrived at mathematical results based on heuristic principles, in my worldview, they are all scientists.
So, that's the bad-stuff perspective. But transactions in actual DB's show it doesn't have to be that way, and transaction isolation is likely to be easier in a language than a DB because you typically communicate via a fairly narrow, well-defined channel, and not via a morass of side-effects.

Another good-stuff perspective are processes or equivalents (e.g. erlang's internal processes or docker containers). Happy-path code can ignore errors; sufficiently serious errors tear down the "process" and the calling code can decide how to deal with that (ideally without cleanup responsibilities).

As long as indirect effects are well-contained, there's nothing necessarily wrong with ignoring errors. Especially when fine-grained error handling simply isn't interesting, it can be a relief simply to ignore errors. E.g. DB style fine-grained locking is really only possible because you don't need to manually deal with each and every possible failure moment (because there are unbelievably many).
> I would’ve been happy with just any seat on that direct flight.

And, the goal of the Volantio is to collect data on you so that the airline never over-compensates you. That is, all the benefits from the rebooking transaction accrues to the airline.

Imagine every time you went to buy a coffee, the coffee shop charged you exactly how much you value the next cup of coffee.
> The oldest part of the earths crust is something like 1.7 million years.

Wasn't the article more meaning "the oldest part of the earths crust, that's still on the surface"?

eg everything else has been buried, or destroyed, via other geological processes
'The English' were responsible, or 'Protestant Irish Landowners'? Seems like a key detail if you're going to attribute genocide to the English.
You have a point there, in that the Constitution was designed to be changeable. It was not supposed to be easy to change, but possible. But there has been just one new amendment since 1971, and none since 1992.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...
We have LIDAR scans of most of the moon.

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2...

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/clementine.html

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=1994...

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201200...
Google says so at the bottom of the page if results have been removed for your search
War is necessary to fuel the military industrial complex. Without war there is no ultimate purpose in developing weapons, pouring money into r&d, exporting arms and ammunition to the rest of the world.

This is a cynical view but I see America as sticking to it fairly consistently over the last two centuries.
While there is undoubtedly a lot to improve in education, it is worth noting that (if I'm reading the article right) American students haven't gotten any worse at reading either. Considering how much critique education generally receives (as is apparent in this thread), I'd say that this is half-good outcome. I'm not sure even upon what the assumption of ever-improving results is built upon. Maybe we are just reaching the tail end of the S-curve in education, which doesn't sound completely implausible considering that reading is one of the oldest subject matters to be taught generally.
Absolutly Petraeus and his whole crew are total failures but everybody makes him out to be some military genius. Absolutly absurd. The guy failed everywhere they sent him.
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Where will it move to? Tech manufacturing is till pretty labor intensive, at least for the consumer electronics that I believe we are talking about. India probably has better IP laws on paper, but they're hardly ever enforced.

The only real alternative seems to be that we reach such a level of automation that these factories can be viable in the West. Still, China's integration into the supply chain of global manufacturing is breathtaking. Not saying it can't be done, but it would take some amount of determination, deliberation and a lot of Capital and skilled labor force.
I find it hard to believe that there won't be at least some human fossils lying around 60 million years from now.
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You're arguing a tautology - unresponsive democracy by definition is when the will of the people is not responded to. Opinions or desires of the people in that case are not correlated with the actions of the state. The state instead responds primarily to the elites. The elites are the deep state.
Do you have recommended reading for Papert's work on constructionism / learning theory?
To me it sounds like learned helplessness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
People (and animals) who perceive to be systematically unable to avoid or confront sources of stress eventually accept that they have no control over the situation and stop trying.

Except it happens at a nation's scale.

I do think the resulting apathy keeps the problem going. I wonder if apathy looks like the cause because the process starts in early childhood.
apple is the new Microsoft, and people keep throwing money at them...

also, even though the MS anti-sentiment didn't pop up out of nowhere, it's not relevant in the static-vs-dynamic typing discussion...
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The PRICE of the lower bay on Ariane 5 is around $60mm, because of SpaceX. That's not a signal that Arianespace is doing great competing with SpaceX, it's a sign that Arianespace had to lower their price to compete.
Yes, the author is describing constructive interference instead of resonance, although the fact that they said multiplication instead of addition indicates that they aren't really speaking correctly about either one.
But as a consumer it's even easier for me to just buy it somewhere else, which is what I do. I'm not in the business of verifying if everything I buy off Amazon is commingled or not, I just want to buy it.
Its a shame the article was so painfully written because it doesn't do the story justice. There was a lot of nuances in there. I can't believe the NY Times published such rambling drivel.

Let's see if I can capture the most of it:

In the late 60s there was a fire at 3am in a Cornell residence hall where nine people died. The fire may have been arson or may have been an accident, there's not quite enough evidence pointing to arson but very suspicious none-the-less. In the following months there were a series of smaller fires in the dorm, those were probably arson, but that doesn't mean the deadly fire was.

This tragedy should have been prevented or somewhat mitigated - the fire safety of the building was woefully inadequate, even for standards at the time.

It was suspected that the fire was a deliberate attack on students of a Ford Foundation funded pilot fast-track Ph.D. program. The students are colloquially known as the "Phuds" and they lived in the resident hall where the fire happened. The program ultimately failed miserably. There were non-Phuds in the building some of which died, they feel like they have been ignored.

Unsurprisingly many of the survivors developed survivors guilt and PTSD and Cornell didn't provide any services for the survivors nor did they even provide a memorial, the class provided a small plaque on the entranceway.

Some of the Phuds were very maladjusted and some exhibited antisocial and psychopathic behavior, which furthered the arson suspicion.

There was also criticism that Cornell hindered the investigation and/or there was a cover-up by the investigators but internal documents don't really collaborate that.

Some insufferable Cornell alumus in Arizona who had no involvement in the fire launched an amateur investigation a few years ago. He has fingered a Phud who had seemingly disappeared after the fire. He eventually figures out the guy changed his name, possibly (probably) stealing the ID of a dead teenager and is living in New Jersey. He's been pestering the FBI, local police, state police, and the prosecutor's office even though there's no actual evidence. He later admits there's no evidence the fire was even actually arson. A lot of people are annoyed by him but other people appreciate him shining light onto the fire.

A few people, including the "reporter" visit the suspect he doesn't want to talk about the fire and claims he changed his name to avoid family.

I think that's the majority of the details. There was also was a Phud reunion in there.
> Why would they do this ? Why should they do this ?

One answer could be that it would enable multiple languages to interface in a better way, and allow garbage to be collected across language boundaries.
Mindstorms was how I was introduced to it. Can't recommend it enough. (PDF freely available on Bret's site: http://worrydream.com/refs/Papert%20-%20Mindstorms%201st%20e...)
SpaceX has launched a pair of comsats twice, it was organized by Boeing. However, Boeing hasn't succeeded in selling any more of these pairs. Arianespace has had a lot more success in convincing customers to fit into the upper berth/lower berth size/mass limits.