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Depends on what the books are, and how a person reads, but the point is to set intention and reminders like this art. So, keep reading! And try your hand at some pictographs to help you stay the course you choose.
None of the above?

You know how peoples used to have folklores and stories that got passed down? Well, we still do, but the culturally transmitted information is now stuff like "Oh, yeah, those requirement lists are bullshit".
Rewrites only really have a perfect specification if the original team does the rewrite. Otherwise there are likely all sorts of behaviours that the rewriting team is not aware of.
> But don't let this convince you that all static site generators must be complex.

Indeed! For example, https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite is a simple and lightweight static site generator written in Python. It can be customized easily by modifying the Python source code and adapting it to one's needs. I like that when I need a new feature, I can add it quite easily by writing a few Python functions. It is meant to be programmer-friendly.

Disclosure: My wife wrote this project. I am just a happy user of the project.
We got these posters printed by a local printer about 5 years ago and then framed them.
They're huge, they look great and have not faded at all. Just go to a local print shop and they'll do it. It was under 100 for 3.
I went to Amazon.com, searched for a Acme Klien Bottle and got a "Cradle and Dew" brand bottle "collab with Mr Cliff Stoll."

Not a "blackhead" remover. I'm confused. Is that not Cliff's bottle?

EDIT: Apparently it has been fixed. Still, WTF, Amazon?
This is the only option left, in the last 40 years we've decided as a society that funding higher education through taxes is bad.
Maybe the person who wrote the requirements doesn’t actually want people to apply so they can forward it to their buddy.
What design can chew up your soul? Never heard that before.
I know the Chinese government has caught a few escaping by boat, and others have made it. It seems they are against even individual migration.

I would love to give those people a home. People seeking freedom are the ones I want in my country, much more than the powerful people trying to seize more power for themselves.
Is it somehow secret knowledge reserved to "privileged" people that minimum requirements on job ads should be interpreted as a wish list more than a list of hard requirements?

It's commonly talked about in a lot of places online, including here.

It's also something you very quickly learn when searching for your 1st job. If you take minimum requirements at face value, there's almost no jobs anyone straight out of school would qualify for.
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Curious you mention bash! I did exactly that some time ago when I thought about starting blogging... And then never started blogging!

https://blog.frabert.me/posts/2018/11/11/blash.html
I mean, your examples of organizations are homogeneous in their nature, and borderline cult level communal. Unless you're in management or one of those workers who's an over zealous corporate kool-aid drinking yes-man who screams about company culture and has substituted any outside social life with the office and coworkers, these examples might be extreme and irrelevant.

We're all slowly dying, and personally, I value having more control over what little time I have left alive while getting done what needs to get done to make a living, and do it right without being tied down, more or less against my will, to any office.
I thought that reading Gergely Orosz's book review for EMPOWERED would make you buy the book and read it (or listen to it). Worth your time.
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Of course not. There are even certain minorities which are known to extremely exagerrate their abilities and accomplishments (even when they wouldn't last a day on actual job).

I really think it's as simple as having friends/peers in the know-how or not. Some people have family members, classmates, maybe even majority of their social circle working in IT which obviously exposes them to inner workings including this issue with job requirements. And then there are people whose social circle is far from IT so they just don't have confidence to (pretty much) lie on resume.
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The one thing pretty much every school of thought from carnivore to vegan agree on. Too much sugar is bad.
Your link is already 404ing a minute after you posted it. Is it possible Bob is reading this thread and already removed it?
He probably needs to grind on LeetCode for a few months before trying to crack FAANG
Extrapolating on this further, if it’s _proven_ that certain demographics won’t apply given this “mechanism”, a company could likely open themselves up to a very tenable lawsuit if they post a position with requirements they don’t really follow. It would be quite easy to make the argument the company is doing so to filter in white males.
Interestingly enough, I bet the idea of staying in a room with a shower, and food delivery for 100 days doesn't seem like that big of deal to most people anymore.
Code is not the same as a recipe. Recipes are more like specifications. They leave out the implementation. Code has structural and algorithmic details that just have no comparable concept in recipes.
This is exactly the type of thinking that allows people to deny the reality of climate change. Dismissing "one data point", but doing it to all the thousands of data points. At some point, you have to look at all the data points and acknowledge that there is a distinct trend.
> Good estimates are critical to plan dependent activities and setting customer expectations.

One of the things I dislike when I hear this is that it says nothing about the difficulty or cost of getting the estimates. Yes, good estimates are extremely valuable, but solving the halting problem would also be very valuable. That doesn't mean it's going to happen.

A big issue is that to get good estimates, often we need to solve most of the hard parts of the problem. How do we account for the time needed to get the estimates?

> If we don’t estimate then we are saying that software engineering is not an engineering discipline.

I'm not sure I believe this. There are plenty of non-software engineering projects that are late and go over budget. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the norm. Certainly with construction projects it happens all the time.

I'm actually curious about which engineering disciplines actually come up with good estimates. When developing a new type of airplane, or a new engine, are estimates typically accurate? It seems unlikely to me.
I would counter that by saying anyone ascribing that mindset automatically to all humans is cynical ;-)
They can. It happens more frequently than you would think, particularly where a recession hits and construction can't be completed because creditors called in loans and the workers can't be paid.

They will figure out some kind of concession behind the scenes. They might offer up access to their ports or something like that.
Sure, in the sense that my car isn't literally powered by hundreds of horses either.
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If a trained surgeon is out of the question and my options are a daylight-fearing nephew and you, well, I'd pick you!
Ask HN: How to divide time between sales-marketing, finance and development?
As a solo-founder how do you divide your time between sales-marketing, finance and development?
Events like this always make me think of scale. This thing is going to cruise in we get a look at it, and that's it as it goes on about it super long like longer than human history type orbit. Crazy to think about the number of things out there floating around like that that we don't know about. So much we don't know about.

The upside is, we live in really interesting times
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Can't think of anything worse than making it free at this point, putting the tax payer on the hook for a disgusting and bloated system that has gotten fat from signing young people up for predatory loans at a vulnerable point in their life.

Only way I'd agree to free higher education would be if it could only be staffed by people who have actually held the jobs they're claiming to be educating you for. Nothing seems more absurd to me than paying someone thousands to prepare you for a job when that person themselves has never had a real job outside of the academia clique which is far removed from the real world.
I worked at a job for nearly 20 years. Good job, good people, really hard to leave. The folks at the company who hired me at the time (dot.com era) "Just wanted people who could think about second order effects". They didn't care about resume much. They wanted "thinkers".

I worked in tech support and had a great relationship with engineering and etc. They'd ask tickets get assigned to me because they knew I was honest and thorough when it came to documentation and etc. It was a good gig.

Eventually we were acquired and before selling the company off as pieces they laid a huge % of people off, including myself (it was ok, I was ready to move on / and would eventually change careers).

The company that got a bunch of the engineers eventually needed support people and the engineers reached out to me to apply. I applied.

But the job requirements had changed, masters degree required. I no longer qualified (I didn't / don't even have a degree). I applied, but didn't make it past new company's filters. The engineers were told that if I didn't make it through the filter they wouldn't consider me.

20 years doing that job in one form or another, and there's maybe a handful of people who know the proprietary side of their equipment... but no masters = not even considered for job.

This was a technical job to be sure but it was largely IP (and some proprietary stuff) networking troubleshooting. You could take capable high school students and they could do it with some good guidance.

The hiring people industrial complex is insane.
Your question had already been preempted in the OP. Specifically:

> "but eevee, humans also learn by reading open source code, so isn't that the same thing"

> - no

> - humans are capable of abstract understanding and have a breadth of other knowledge to draw from

> - statistical models do not

> - you have fallen for marketing

-- https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410049195067674625
A lot of the times its hard to tell when they quote weather records whether "hottest since X" means it was hotter on date X, or that's just as far back as records go.
It's not a wide enough margin. The Scrips 2006 poll suggested around 16% think it's "very likely" someone in the US government either assisted or took no action (as frame of reference, Pew Research suggests between 4 and 7% of respondent input is "bogus"... Not just random, but intentionally biased towards the most unlikely answer to troll the pollsters [https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2020/02/18/assessing-the...]).
The real takeaway is how underfunded higher Ed is.

I’m no Marxist but my intuition is that the the total payoff of a system where every high school graduate who maintains halfway decent grades can attend State U Springfield, tuition and room and board covered, would exceed the costs?
I've always hated estimating. Then a few years ago I realized that if I'm going to work on a project with a team of six for a year (at a San Francisco tech company) that's in the order of a million dollar investment (likely more).

If the organization is spending a million dollars it's reasonable for them to ask for an idea of what they'll get and when!
There are many more record highs recorded since the 1980's than record lows. That's climate change.
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Please read the entirety of my comment before teeing off on just the first clause.
I'm not a climate change denier at all, but you've correlated unrelated problems.

Most infrastructure issues are not coming from climate change. They're coming from poorly maintained 50+ year old structures that were engineered to only last for 50 years. What people dont understand, structures have to be checked and lightly repaired every 5 to 10 years. That is normal. Most are not because the last and current gen of politicians are absolute career politicians who thought diverting funds from repair was a good idea.

Crop failure... eh, we haven't seen abnormal crop failures yet. Technically, 2012 and 2013 was far far worse compared to the last 5 years. A few other issues. Crop failure is tracked by insurance claims. Insurance pays out best due to "weather/climate related failure" not so much do to "I fucked up". Claiming weather caused failure, especially in this political climate, is super easy. When it comes to futures and current spot prices, we haven't seen significant crop failures. If you did, food staples would be a lot higher.

That being said, the western states is going to experience a long time of water issues. However, there is good research, that's popped up on HN often, that the west is going back to normal in climate regards. It's less greenhouse gas caused climate change is drying the western states. The last 200 years have been abnormally wet. It going back to normal, which is dry. Just because it doesn't benefit us, doesnt mean we can claim something bad is happening to the climate. Those states are supposed to be drier than they have been.

Hotter days in cities... yea... but New Yorkers die every year due to heat waves. They always have. City folk are typically stupid when it comes to how nature and weather can kill them. I remember as a kid in the 90s, if it's summer, New Yorkers are going to steal window AC units and die en masse. Clockwork. Every single year. Nothing has changed there. A lot of other cities see the same stats, but no one has cared to wide report on it. Now they do because of the clickbait bump in ratings for "climate change caused heat deaths".

Yes, we need to drop greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, the climate is changing and for the worse. No, you shouldn't blame stubbing your toe on climate change. No, the shadow you cant explain wasn't climate change. Blaming everything on climate change gives deniers fodder.
If it's trained with GPL licensed code, doesn't that mean the network they use includes it somewhat? Then, someone could sue that their networks must be GPL licensed too, right?
Give it some time and it will end up being "The 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework" or something similar.

Someone already mentioned that "time" is absent here. Hence you cannot generalize. Each company should probably write their own principles and make it part of their identity.
They don't do that it seems. In the footnotes of https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio... they mention two repositories from the training set none of which specify a license.
Depends a lot. WFH when most companies won't allow it is a perk that will keep people around. However once WFH is a common thing it is much easier to switch. If you WFH you can work anywhere in the country (in theory world, but there are tricky issues there that I don't know much about) which means you can switch from a job in the Bay to NYC with no problem, then jump to the one job in some tiny village in Montana - all without leaving your family.

Family is the key above. I moved to a different state from my family and I often feel the loss. It is now a big deal to go visit. I can't "call in a few favors" when I need my house painted (I'm also not called upon to help). Once you don't live near friends/family moving is just about the relocation package. Once you have friends and family around it is personally hard to move as you throw all of that away. By WFH you can ignore all that and live where it works best for your life.

Now yes FAANG can give me a bit extra money if they want. However I've reached the point where money isn't my only motivation. I want interesting/fulfilling work, which if I decide they don't offer they can't really change the offer to give me.
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Locked modules only works if all of your modules are pulled in through the registry. that isn't an option at some places.

Testing environment recreation is impossible at a certain scale. Try it when you have hundreds of people adding terraform code most of who only know how to copy and paste.
Is there one page where all principles and information about them are collected as one page so it can be downloaded and read in ereader?
The rich get richer, it seems.

It's to be hoped that what's happening in the drama school is less dramatic than what's happening in the law school: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/what-is-g...
> customer expectations

My favorite moments from events like WWDC are when you are introduced to some really cool feature or app for the first time, and then the speaker goes "available today". The fans love it, the news sites love it, whenever you can immediately try out something the hype for that product goes up 10x.

When you only show the product when it's finished, you no longer need to estimate anything.

> dependent activities

This is where I think the real problem is. If you have a feature that no one else depends on, if you have a story that nothing else depends on, don't estimate it. It doesn't matter. That is a nice to have. It'll arrive in some sprint eventually.

If you have a feature that other things depend on, before estimating it, you should ask if it is possible to create that feature without any dependencies. Could the other team that you are working with code such that they work with your current product, and when they update and you update, the new feature turns on? Can you do the same for their product? Great, we don't need to depend on each-others updates.

If we had a mature engineering system, I don't think we would ever have any dependencies.

Perhaps you aren't perfect, and there is no way to rid the dependency. Go ahead, estimate it. Then double that estimation. Then convert that estimation into one larger unit. 1 day becomes 2 weeks. 2 weeks becomes 4 months. There, now you can build schedules around it.
Reddit would be my guess.
It's mostly best for rote memorisation imo, though it is really excellent for that.

Mindfulness meditation most likely would be your best bet for improving short term memory, permanently: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_mindfulnes...
This happened a lot at the university I went to. Most jobs were civil service and applicants got extra points for veteran status, disability status, etc such that they were always the first in line for a position. To counteract this hiring managers would construct job requirements such as X years of experience in a combination of Y homegrown or highly customized applications and workflows so that basically only one person in the world (the person they wanted to hire) was qualified to fill the position. I'm not sure this was illegal but it seemed very unethical.
So hot then? I’m not sure. There will be outlier weather conditions. However, the difference between 90 degrees F (32C) and 118 F (48C) is extreme,IMHO. Are they really comparable?
The temporal nature of principles - It's a good suggestion. It's always hard to slice reality.

Teams should come up with their own list of principles which reflect the team and adopt organizational ones that make sense. As organization ones will tend to be wider in scope and less prescriptive, it should be less of a problem to adopt them.

Basically teams should decide what's right for them based on their backgrounds and the organisation should provide general direction.

The principles become more useful when they are context sensitive, so principles lists are the next big feature (i.e one for your team, another for your organization)

This feedback is really useful and will inform the design of the app. If you have a good idea Ian of what you think is useful, please let me know how I can help. I think I've grokked the basics of what you're saying, but it would be good to lock it down.
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What do you mean debunked? Who debunked it? Do you have a citation? Are you suggesting the HQ of the most powerful military in the world had no security cameras?

This has the statement of the FBI agent saying that they had 85 videos, only one of which was released:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/A_20...
It common knowledge for some people, that's why these positions still get filled. It's also been observed that for people who are less confident they belong in a position that they will self-exclude themselves from these jobs, which includes all the groups of people who are already underrepresented in the field.
I hate to suggest this, but this a very naive question to come from a 40-year old. A job is a job. Most software jobs are just jobs. Even if you love it, it has all the pangs of any other job.

It’s a hyper competitive, saturated field, like everything else. Keep whatever advantage you have now, and ride it out. Life sucks, don’t try this.
Not a single interview? That’s got to be a incredible amount bad luck because it’s a pretty hot market right now for SWE.

Like I’m a high school dropout who also doesn’t have an active online portfolio and I currently work as a SWE at a tech company but I’m on a search for a new remote role in the last month or so and have done multiple interviews for remote roles. Even FAANG recruiters have reached out for interviews. A lot of job postings don’t even list a degree as a requirement or nice-to-have.

Are you only missing a degree when you look at job postings? Because while I do think there are companies who filter out candidates who don’t have degrees, I don’t believe that it’s a hard barrier nowadays to not even get a single interview.

If you’re missing all of the requirements how do you know you can do better than most of the folks who have the role? Seems odd to bring down the folks who have the roles you’re trying to get
It doesnt really matter. Temperature and weather variance exist, there will always be extreme weather events on record, but wildly temporally disparately. A million locations, a million draws from a random distributuon, a few of them are going to have far tail events.

What we're seeing today is breaking records everywhere, at the same time.
It's funny. I found only one post that reflected agility in their process as per AM. Yet, "Agile" is recognized as industry standard, while the required maturity is lacking, in both devs and product side. Achieving that level of coherency is fiercely hard, or you're just lucky the circumstances allow it.

In some scenarios you need projects and full-on estimates though, ie. for planning of hard deadlines. But the reason you want to avoid it has to do with the discovery process during development. Everyone conventiently "forgets" this while focusing on their own ends (local optimization).

Quick feedback-loop with A/B tests are maybe easiest way to achieve understanding on how AM recommends people develop together. Such setups may end up costing alot though, unless truly done in the spirit of AM and recognizing the costs of shortcuts.
Examples here:

https://www.emptywheel.net/

Well researched, endless detail, often leading to no resolution.
Unsurprising a nice dark pattern on cookies at the job site:

"Some cookies are required to use our services. To continue to Facebook, review the available cookie controls and make any optional changes you'd like before selecting accept below."

There is only Accept Cookies button.
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As a human programmer, I've also been trained on thousands of lines of other people's code. Is there anything new here, from a code copying perspective? Aren't I liable if segments of my own code exactly match someone else's code, even if I didn't knowingly copy/paste it?
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