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Ah, yeah, I can totally see that. I grew up in the South Miami / Coral Gables / Coconut Grove areas...divorced parents so I was all over the place. I did always consider Homestead to be a sweltering swamp with desert heat. Going out there in the summer was always a nice way to get dripping with sweat. :P

> But I guess you're right -- I've had friends heat stroke after 2-3 hrs of unshaded exposure when it hits ~92+ i.e. soccer pickup games. Shade will carry you a long way, even without AC though -- I have extended family in La Guajira that still lives like this.

Oof...yep, same experience, especially when the sun isn't occluded by clouds. It's gnarly.
My advice for you... lie and say you have one. (Or just get one from a diploma mill)
I did this during the Covid lock down for about 7 months. My target environment was the western USA. Optimizing the uncertainties and necessities led to the mode of a single hotel m-f and moving on during the weekends. It was simplest, lowest capital investment, highest flexibility.

The big downside was overall loneliness and lack of connection - but it is hard to tease out how much of that was Covid. It was no more or less isolating than the first months of covid when I stayed put.

The planned plus was seeing places I always wanted to see. That worked out fine. It was the unplanned sights that make up most of my stories - sunset over the Sangre de Cristo while gloom rises out of the plains, freezing fog, driving into a white out in Santa Fe and many more.

The final result was the most surprising. I moved back to my hometown that I left decades ago. Having followed my whims I like now a reestablished home base, from which I can depart again for any period at any time.
Why do I need an entire different programming language to do this?
Thank you :) You can check my articles in English here https://fibery.io/blog/
This is very common. I work as a contractor, and recruiters (for permanent and contracting work) very often contact me to work in projects I am already in. I mean it makes sense, living close by is one of the major bonuses when I decide to take a project; the farther away the less likely I'll take it - especially since the companies usually have a fixed hourly rate in mind, and the farther I live away the less likely I would be able to compete with local contractors that can offer lower rates - so I don't even waste time to go through the application process.
Like many here, I've been working on one of these apps for years, off and on. Although I've been thinking deeply about it for some time, OP did such a great job describing the problems and conceptual space I'd have a hard time not just linking to it from my app's "why" page, should it ever exist. Really exciting to see so many others chasing this space, I honestly believe we'll see some really stellar contenders in the near future. And probably a few in parallel that suit different personality types better, which is great.

I agree w/ most of OP, a few things I think should work differently. One to call out -- images. When I build prototypes without drag and drop image support, I find I quickly stop using it until I add support for them. It's just too useful on a computer to grab a screenshot of something or make a little diagram. This is especially true when I am in "thought dump" mode.

I also played with append only and while its _usually_ sufficient, it is very annoying when not. I compromised by making it append by default, but easy enough to right click -> edit.
You have no idea how much money they make. Some of them have payment plans for commissions.
Certainly learning about TDD and trying to practice it has some benefits, it can really help you suss out some edge cases of your API designs. But at this point I've professionally done some level of work with around 200 developers and never once seen actual TDD practiced.
I would interpret it as HR excluding him due to something else, possibly for random reason and then making rationalization/excuse.
I should have clarified that I mean large self enclosed ecosystems, as in bigger than a jar. Something that can sustain multiple larger animals is to put it lightly - a major challenge. The mess that was Biosphere 2 should be a testemant to that.
Thank you for reading and yes I can do that. If you want to contact me [1] I will let you know when it's up and running.

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/contact
Google and Amazon are both in Madison.
It is not like that: it is not about how long you look at it, it is about "one in a century" events are happening once in ten years, or even once a year now.
These things really make me afraid of the Clathrate Gun going off
Also, how would you know if your code was included in the training or not?

Then, let’s say the AI generates some new code for someone, and it is nearly identical to some bit of code that you wrote in your project.

If they didn’t use your code in the model, then the generated code is clearly not a copyright violation, since it was effectively a “clean room” recreation.

If your code was included in the model, is it therefore a violation?

But then again, it comes down to how can someone prove their code was included or not?

What if the creators don’t even know? If you wrote your model to say, randomly grab 50% of all public repos to use in the model, then no one would know if a specific repo was used in the training.
> Once people stopped making potato gun websites, the internet really stopped blossoming into an amazingly vibrant space.

Have they or have you stopped looking? I'd say the former.
uhhhh... I think the editor was in the wrong here.
I had a similar experience years ago. I was bootstrapping a startup and using consulting to pay the bills in lean months. Eventually I decided that I wasn't going to reach my market without massive investment to keep up with the PR of the 800lb gorillas, and I didn't want to go that route.

One of the engineering managers I had been working with as a consultant had tried to recruit me more than once, so I decided to accept. But shortly after a mandatory HR screening call, I got an apologetic rejection email from the engineering manager.
That's surprising to me! I always thought Tampa was more temperature than the east coast.
No one said "should worry about" they said "should think about".

"shouldn't worry about about 'lowering them.'" -> don't think there is a problem with lowering them.

"probably SHOULD think about 'lowering them.'" -> should think about lowering them.
Government has to make noise to what the people that vote for them want.

As such several government has made noise about doing something about global warming. No government has done anything that actually do move the needle. It is all about promises that won't be fulfiled and things like banning non-ice cars 10-15 years out (so that it can keep getting pushed out).

You have the same issue with boycots etc. Companies will make noise and do cheap things like fire an employee or post something to company social media, or change a supplier. They won't do anything major.

And you don't have any influence on people on areas they care about. I can influence my mum on what phone she should buy, only because she does not greatly care and she thinks I know about things. We disagree politically, on lifestyle, etc.
I tried that, and it was almost (but not quite) invariably held to be the lowest of the range, and still construed as a deadline. "3-5 months" becomes "3 months or we have to reschedule other stuff".
Same applies to certain Linux distributions, like Android and ChromeOS, or are they Linux for promoting desktop and non-Linux for when it isn't convenient?
If you want the business to set effective priorities, you've got to provide estimates. You can't figure out cost-benefit without some idea of cost.
That sucks, I'm sorry. It sounds like what you really need is a network. You get interviews from ex-colleagues and friends when you don't have a reputation that speaks for itself.
> Hiring managers aren’t dumb. Companies paying high six figures or more for engineers aren’t dumb.

Are you looking at the same Facebook job advert as me?
Distributed systems are anything but deterministic.
It only says that about the various ML/AI requirements, which is a single bullet point. That doesn't help the intersection between bullet points, which is the issue.
I truly don't understand what your point is. If, in your parlance, we have been rolling 3 dice all along then this means our previous 1000 years of climate data is truly extraordinary since this is the first time seeing a number greater than 12. So extraordinary that it is not plausible to think that we have been rolling 3 dice all along. Of course this is possible in a similar way that it is possible that an unseen intelligence has been controlling things all along.

The point about seeing 13 is that the set of outcomes have changed. We are beyond the realm of thinking that nothing has changed. It's not the we have always been rolling 3 dice; it's that we are now rolling 3 dice.
Ask HN: Can I have successful career in software engineering starting at 40?
There are many questions about getting started with software development at a mature age, but I want to give a new twist to this subject. Can one realistically expect to become really successful in their software engineering career if they start late (35-40+)?

I am ambitious in a pretty shallow way and just can't switch off this part of my personality. I will turn 40 this year. I had a relatively successful career in management consulting in my 20s, have an MBA from a top school, but my business career somewhat stagnated over the last decade. At the same time, writing code is one of the activities that I really enjoy. I don't have a CS degree, but I attended a coding bootcamp, took two online courses from Stanford MSc CS program, wrote a lot of code for my startup, tried some competitive programming, so I am not completely new to the field. I can get a junior developer job at a top tech company (in my home country, outside the US), which would result in a very significant pay cut but hopefully much more enjoyment every day. Common sense tells me that I should stick to my business/management career, but on the other hand maybe I will achieve more if I actually love what I do. So my question is: what are likely career trajectories in software engineering for someone who starts late but is willing to work hard?
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> I'm guessing it's highly effective at selecting for the kind of candidates these companies want.

Bingo!!!
I have hired someone to work on my home's electrical who did not have a license. A lot of people let unlicensed tradesmen, family members, or themselves do work on their home. Frankly, like programming, most of it isn't really that hard.
Many comments in this thread are speculation/conjecture, I was honest enough to label mine as such. We're not running studies or experiments here, this is a place to converse. My comment allows others to provide additional evidence for or against my theory.
Our HR just checks if they completed the application correctly, i.e, included a CV and (if requested a covering letter). If they fail this bit they don't get to the sift. The sift of CVs/resumes (to whittle down for interview) is done by developers and so are the interviews.
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Just re-read this and realized that I'm using the term catalyst in a way that would make a chemist eyes weep. These would be used up in the reaction so it's not a true catalyst but the term has been kind of co-opted to mean anything that can speed up the reaction of something.
Another thing I haven't seen any reasonable explanation for is how the towers collapsed perfectly in their footprint. It's hard enough to get smaller buildings to collapse perfectly in controlled demolition. Yet 2 towers that were among the tallest in the world both collapsed perfectly. With such tall towers they should have buckled unevenly at least a little bit, especially since the damage was off center.
I am very curious why you would want your house to look exactly like ( or coordinated) with your neighbor? One of the things I felt odd in US is that every house in a sub-division looks like they were made from cookie-cutter. Isn't expressing individuality and having the freedom to make use of your own land in way that suits you more important, as long as it does not impact the living conditions of your surroundings?
You mean you don't just test everything in prod?
I think of it this way. All problems that become sticky problems, got that way by being sticky. Re-writes encounter the sticky problem one way. When the spec is real, the spec is vast. "Do everything GMail does" is a lot of things.

In internal business app teams, the sticky issue is that no one actually understands the business problems well enough to articulate sufficiently. There's usually very little incentive to be the spec person, on either the technical or business side.

It might often be the same underlying issue. The difference with rewrites is that the "conversation" happens within tech teams, no outside player.
WARC can record and replay single-page apps, but it struggles with knowing where a "page" begins and ends.

There was a time when I was furious with the web going to hell and I investigated the possibility of "web without browsers" that started with making a WARC capture of page and putting pages through extensive filtering and classification before the user sees anything.

With interactive capturing you can push a button to indicate that a page is done "loading" but with automated capturing you can't really know that the page is done or that you got a good capture. That ended the project right there.
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> my specific geographic location is probably a factor

A substantial one too, here's a very very rough map (which only measures one aspect, and has terrible resolution)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_effects_of_climate_ch...
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Can't hire... failed the leetcode test
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In practice, devs are still writing code on PI days.
Cities near the coast are usually more moderate. New Orleans is a counter example that I've been to though. But, look at cities like Columbia, SC or Atlanta, GA. Very high humidity and very high day time temps in July and August.
You may well think so, but I was asking an honest question. I don’t think it’s distasteful to doubt any allegations, esp. when missing some context, in this case, 10 years old judgement against B&H.
I had never heard about this, but my first reaction is that I feel bad for this guy, because if you consider that he was self taught he really was very talented. Checkout the gameplay videos. He wrote all of that himself in C++ and did the graphics with seemingly no training. I'm not saying it would've been a great game, because I don't know that, just that he as an individual could've been successful.

I read the book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels [0] last year and it includes the story of the guy who created Stardew Valley. He also spent five years on it, working alone. He also was self taught and did the graphics himself. It was even kind of a similar type of game. I actually think Bob could've made Stardew Valley. It sounds like mental illness got in the way. One question we have to ask ourselves is what came first—the mental illness or the game development. Did the whole experience of the isolated game development actually lead to the mental illness?

By the way, I don't recommend Blood, Sweat, and Pixels as a whole, but I do recommend the chapter on Stardew Valley. It's inspirational (or fatiguing because that guy worked so hard with no clear reward coming) for indie developers.

[0]: https://amzn.to/3ya9Y6A

Edit Addition: I feel bad for writing about the developer in the past tense. There is no reason he couldn't still be successful in life.
No. People grow by being in positions that gives them the ability to learn.

> you also have to teach to people how to be ambitious

This is a jobspec, not a carrer coaching session.

Filtering out people who feel self-conscious or experience impostor syndrome ends up disproportionally hurting minorities.
Those sound like good things to you — some people prefer a world where they are free to do as they wish with the property they own, so long as it doesn’t cause a problem for neighbors (I.E. basic maintenance to avoid pests, overgrowth, etc.). I have the opposite take on the neighborhood you described: uniformity is boring, uninspiring, and depressing.
Well it is easier when your income doesn't depend on the bug bointies. Some companies won't pay if you disclose without their consent.

Same as any job really if I don't care whether I get paid , I can work under different rules.
Ivy League schools already have pretty generous financial aid policies. Most students are not paying full tuition.
Your last line is the part most people overlook. Offshoring and outsourcing have typically come with quality trade offs, not because Indians are somehow inferior engineers, but because companies have used in person offices to paper over a lot of process and communication issues.
Most open licences work by manipulating copyright. If you entirely relinquish the rights (a la CC0 or other "public domain" declaration), you can't enforce attribution or share-alike, which OSM wants to do.
It is about who assumes rules will be bend for them. If you apply for role where you dont fit requirements, it can be interpreted as ambitions or arrogant or stupid.
I watch the Ulillillia video whenever I feel depressed about the world. It's excellent and bizarrely kind of inspiring to me.
Suing will not go anywhere because Microsoft has billions at their disposal to defend any case.
Ha, i remember having a parallel port printer cable with an integrated DCF77 receiver (connected on one side to my 486DX33 and on the other to my Epson LQ-850)...

What i can't recall tho is if it really worked to set the date/time on my computer :)
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I'm not in those groups but I also don't apply, because applying to jobs sucks ass, and I want to minimize the number of times I do it. So I make a judgment call every time - "How likely is it that this will be a waste of my time?" I screen them harder than they screen me. If I don't meet the stated requirements I don't waste time on it. I don't allow for the "real" requirements being different from what's stated, because I'm not going to waste time on guesswork, deciphering, or dealing with incompetence, lies or mere bullshit. Move on, move on. Responding to postings is a low-yield activity anyway. Jobs come from knowing people.
Thank you, this is important context I was not aware of, although to be fair, these events happened 10 years prior to the new case.
I've interviewed people before and thought "I'm going to reject you, and you should thank me".

To be clear, not all of the jobs I've hired for sucked. But there was one project that was designed to chew up your soul (mine included), and we had very specific requirements- and people that had "extra" skills weren't qualified. I learned A LOT from that project.
"e-ink is so insanely expensive"

What do you mean? What specific type of display, what size of display, what volume and what is the price? I keep hearing this claim about "insanely expensive" , "patent troll" and every time I've asked simple questions like which patent, what lawsuits, what prices, I've never gotten a satisfactory reply. Please have a look at my comment history, I believe the prices of electrophoretic displays are directly linked to their volumes. The displays in use in high volume products are cheap while those hand kerfed large panels are a couple of orders of magnitude higher cost since their volumes a couple of orders of magnitude lower.

I also already asked in that thread for any form of substantiation and never got a reply. It is weird to see that exact specific comment linked to again and again. Boing boing linked to that comment, multiple blog posts linked to that comment and used it as a citation claiming E Ink is evil. Well, I don't know if they are or not, but something more concrete than a throwaway comment and a self-referential insane infinite loop of comments would be necessary for me to form an opinion.
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There's a good but slightly hard to read comparison between them here: http://www.adeptus-mechanicus.com/codex/jtrhcmkv/jtrhcmkv.ph...
I like a lot of these principles but there is a crucial element missing from this presentation and that is time.

As a company grows the importance of each of these principles changes. As a project within an established company grows a similar maturation happens.

If you tried to adhere to all 'best practices' (principles or not) from day 1 of a project you'd be carrying a lot of weight that could crush otherwise good ideas.

Some principles, when presented without a timeline, seem contradictory and that can lead to fights on teams where developers are well meaning but less experienced.

I'm encouraged that this presentation includes dimensions along which you can slice the principles, but I encourage the authors to adopt a "stage" dimension as well that helps focus devs/learners on principles appropriate for 1. The stage they are in and 2. The immediate next stage.
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What about being Indian makes someone 1/3 as good?
Hey all -- Author here. This was a reflection on building Elder.js.[0]

Happy to answer any questions. I'll be going through and adding context to the questions I see.

[0]: https://elderguide.com/tech/elderjs/
Demoing every day only works if your work is easily visible, but that's beside the point. Micromanagement to this level is not conducive to a healthy development environment.
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…or well-read.
Yale's endowment (presumably) already covers the tuition of every student, just not the full tuition. At most private universities, student tuition only covers something like a third the cost of attending.
Local records are normal. There is variation in weather, and there are many "local" spots on earth. There are also coldness records every year, but there is less reporting on it.
If GitHub Copilot can sign my CLA, stating that it is the author of work, that it transfers the IP to me in exchange for the service subscription price and holds responsibility for copyright infringement, that would be acceptable. Otherwise it's a gray area I don't want to go.
Did you get the promotion?
IMO the best use of "agile"-style planning is to replace the estimation process with development. After 6-12 weeks you'll have some amount of working (if minimal) software, and a decent (by software planning standards) idea of how long at least the first major set of features will take. If you like what you see so far, and the estimate doesn't seem like it'll wreck your budget or timeline, you keep going. If not, you reconsider things or stop.

...Or you can spend that 6-12 weeks just estimating, involving more time by more people, have only a somewhat-better idea of how long the first set of features will take, and no working software to show for it.

In practice, however, I find few businesses willing to either have a 1.5-3 month estimation window, or to start development with none but a wildly vague estimate, amounting to a guess, waiting 1.5-3 months to find out what a somewhat-accurate estimate may look like.
Probably makes over a half a million a year and can do pretty much whatever he wants.
Never in five years living there did I have any need for air conditioning. This is truly unusual.
Some of these are available here for those in the EU.

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Warehouse goals!