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Welcome to the Google experience. Apparently the bigger the product you offer, be it AdSense or AWS, the more obstacles you need to throw at the users. Maybe it's so in order to justify the existence of "professional" platform users.
Most "full stack" frameworks in the node ecosystem consider themselves "full stack" just because you can run code on the server. See the Fresh (deno) discussion here in HN from a few weeks ago.

To me a framework which doesn't come with a clear way to do translations, background jobs, query builder, ORM, migrations, asset bundling, validations, error handling, etc it is not full stack. It is just "server code compatible" at best.
> Fertilizers aren't made from hydrocarbons, they extract hydrogen from hydrocarbons

Granted, I’m not a native English speaker, but this looks like a plain contradiction to me.

Again, and to re-iterate, fertilizers is not “my” thing, is not anyone’s in particular thing, in a political manner, because you keep mentioning politics, it’s our 8-billion people thing, without fertilizers we cannot feed us, without fertilizers many more of us will die.

You’re putting words into my mouth when it comes to externalities, I did acknowledge them, I was just saying that the externalities that you mentioned (presumably higher CO2 concentrations from using fossil fuels, granted, you didn’t get into much details) are different than the externalities that I explicitly mentioned, i.e. that putting taxes on things like natural gas will lead to increased mass poverty and hence to increased (mass) deaths.

And to end on a positive note, glad the getting fertilizers out of hydrogen is getting cheaper, that means we won’t need taxes on natural gas, the simple law of supply and demand will do its thing.
Interesting. I have this exact same problem. I gave up applying for regular jobs eventually as it was so demoralizing. Only work contracts through contacts now. It pays the bills, so I can’t really complain I suppose
'That's still a subsidy, just by another name. So I don't know if they are cheaper.'

yeah, but fossil fuels get subsidies of all sorts, not just polluting for free, but even things like leaving the british taxpayer to pickup the bill for cleaning up old infrastructure they no longer need

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/25/british-tax...
Yep, we have moved to google workspace chat for the time being. Panic :)
The case I heard for buying into ETH from people when it was starting had nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with having already missed the BTC rocketship
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Is that the AI singularity when robots learn to be bad losers?
Maybe possible in the US. Have not experienced this in any other place.
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Many were disappointed, but they understood.

It was my first product I ever charged for after two years. I had a few grand in pre-sales to incentivize me to do it too. But on reflection, I felt like I was almost "stealing" from these people who needed it more than I did. They were just getting started on their learning journeys to get into tech. I already have a Big Tech salary, I should probably be the last person who needs someone's money. While one of my goals is to work for myself as a one-person product / business, this was not it.
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From an interviewee perspective, it's even worse when you don't hear anything; they just ghost you. That's the norm in my experience, though it's been a long time since I've done the cold interview thing.

From an interviewer perspective, I suspect it's mostly a time/volume thing. Last time I did it, I put out a req for a position, I'll get 10-20 resumes trickle in over the next week or four. I pick the ones that are the best of the lot and schedule interviews until I find someone that I think has the best chance of being successful. Some of it is the way the resume reads, some of it is how well the skills match what we need, some of it is just gut. I certainly don't have the time to go through all the ones that I didn't pick and give a detailed (re: useful) explanation on why. Most of them I could't really offer much advice other than there were better matching resumes. It's usually someone has more years experience, or were better able to articulate their experience, or had more skills that matched what we need, or had more experience in my particular industry.

Also, for most smaller shops, it's the devs that are doing the interviewing and filtering. Typically, we should have hired someone months ago, but companies usually hire later than they should, so I'm buried in work and I have the additional task of filtering resumes and interviewing on top of my already overburdened workload.
And if I realize those opinions don't align with my own, I am now faced with the choice between failing at the game or succeeding by doing things that I think should fail.

No thanks. I'll take my strategy abstract, please
If we can't automate it, fuck you.
they both sound exactly the same to me, let sounding like an alias for var.

also programs aren’t proofs so we certainly shouldn’t name keywords after them
I think it's going to become increasingly obvious that the fairy-tale low prices of the likes of Amazon Prime and Uber are unsustainable. The factor everyone is overlooking is that actual people are involved. So far Amazon has been working on a policy of disposable labour but that can't continue forever.
But then if you are in a queue already the most efficient response is to leave and rejoin at the front. Quite soon you don't have a queue, you have a brawl.

Perhaps I'm missing something.
Highly arrogant American pov. The rest of us deal with kilograms. Cope with it.
It is a tool, just like nuclear weapons are a weapon.

I'm definitely not on the "ban all crypto" side, but I see why the governments are in support of that, and for the longest time, strong crypto was (and still is?) classified as a munition; it's very powerful.
That's what I'm wondering. Can he? (Not a rhetorical question)
I think the key on this comment is "90s". Modern PHP is very different. As you say, Laravel makes trivial and a joy to use things that in 90s PHP are like today's node.
Megacities and a brutal legal system are not inexorably paired.

Saudi Arabia and a brutal legal system, however.
They have done sone damage, but you cannot lay the entire problem at their feet.

Do you think lobby from fossil fuel companies just sat on their hands all this time?
Or a level increase. Easy to boomerang and come back at a level higher. Can be more certain than going through an internal promotion process!
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My account was banned after I messed up the payments. I could never figure out how to fix it, and so have never succeeded in advertising on Google.
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Imposing a rate limit on an application is a sure fire way to limit how many users an app can have in the app store. What's the point of having a third-party email app, if you are not allowed to connect to Gmail?

As the FairEmail author points out, this is plain out anticompetitive behaviour from Google, since their own Gmail app doesn't suffer from any limits.

Some other company I would give the benefit of the doubt, but in Google's case I assume a pure malice. Are they jealous that one opens source developer was able to provide a better app than Gmail, although they have practically unlimited resources?
I just set-up an automatic status page tracking Slack, in case you're looking for confirmation in the future: https://slack.onlineornot.com/

(no incidents listed atm because I set it up after they came back online)

Uses an uptime check against their API and website to independently check that they're still up.
What I don't get about these lay-offs, is that these companies usually start hiring again soon after
>> They could all be built without tokens or a blockchain if they wanted to

Sure, and all web2.0 tech can be built without AWS or docker. But in many cases, they give you a powerful advantage.

Same with blockchain. What now is happening in web3.0 is not that different from the dot com bubble. But it busted, and then a ton of new profitable companies appeared.

Blockchain tech will for sure have many legit use cases, same with tokens and tokenomics.

Will most of the current crypto companies go bust? Probably.

Does this mean that blockchain and tokens are crap? No.
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Afaik multiple countries with "food culture" have higher divorce rates then USA. It is no only factor how you measure "breakdown of family" of course, but it strongly suggest the reason will be different.

If I had to guess, I would relate it more to "culture of working long hours or multiple jobs and culture of traveling a far away for work every day" might be more of the cause.
> It was not proving anything - it was listing things in the literature, of which it listed a significant amount of studies that did conclude significant adverse long term effects.

Which of those studies did conclude "significant adverse long term effects"?

> A literature review doesn't get to the end and say "Eureka! We proved it!" It gets to the end and says "we have listed current research, and we recommend further stuff for the following reasons".

A literature review summarizes the scientific knowledge - it is not merely an index. And as I wrote in my first comment, this summary does not include a link between road dust and long-term adverse health effects.
Larger cultural issues:

Bad engineering - product relationship

Inability to set priorities

Zero roadmaps

No annual/quarterly objectives

The only thing that mattered was the thing someone was screaming about right that minute

Manager walked rather than deal with it anymore as well..
that’s just a choice by the language designer. nothing prohibits initialization at runtime.
Pretty good feedback here. Learned a thing or two myself.
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Can you put the red-triangle on the back? Works to bring other farm equipment onto state roads (for short distance)
We actually walk in, just my observations. No need to sermonize at me, and the goings on in Nicaragua are not remotely germane to the discussion of using shameless actions to advantage.
In the general case, maybe you're right. In my specific case, "struggling" and "out of your expertise" doesn't describe it. It doesn't matter whether your question deals with my expertise or not; if it's technical and it requires me to actually think about it, I will be unable to answer in an interview setting. My mind will be completely blank.

Now, that's just me. Maybe I'm completely unique. Maybe there aren't any other programmers like me, and maybe nobody has to care about my individual quirks.

I don't have to care about them, either, because there seem to be enough people in the world who want to hire me. The only attention I need to pay to it is avoiding technical interviews to the extent that I can.
I find that most support you receive these days (whether its from the public or the private sector) feels like it is coming from a bot. Even if it is another human on the other end. Google in particular feels like they create inflexible non-robust policies that do not have an escape valve for when things go wrong on Google's side. If I had more options I wouldn't put up with it.
GP is talking monthly salary.
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This is very common in the Balkans. The Hague was full of lawyers, doctors, poets, playwrights, psychiatrists and historians accused of vicious war crimes
BMW is a classic from my time at USAFA. It's a great book and ideal for those beginning in Astrodynamics.

I bought it from an upperclassman for 25 cents.

Still on my shelf and I used it to design my own astrodynamics course to teach during grad school.
Googles needs a support department that charges customers a seemingly outlandish rate to handle issues like this... and internally bills the ultimately-responsible team the same rate.

Amazon of old understood from the beginning that the only enterprise flywheel that scales is tying customer experience directly to internal costs (e.g. generous returns for screw ups, providing realtime feedback and pain on supply chain issues).
Honestly it would be amazing if schools started using Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux for students, but the MS monopoly is entrenched.
Generational GC might make heap-allocating your activation records a viable option, even if you're not satisfied with CPython levels of performance. I mean in a sense that's what Chicken does, right?
> If someone is to be ostracized, to be banned so to speak from whatever activity that is, they deserve to know why.

Shadowbanning could go away if people were actually ostracized, which means expelling from community. Currently if you ban someone, you only ban a single account and they can create another one. Some people are banned not because they don't know what they do, they are banned because they are intentional on destruction of society. They won't learn anything from banning them. That's where shadowbanning comes in, they can shitpost all they want, but rest of us doesn't have to listen to them.
I suspect that Google's reputation as "the best of the best" leads people who work there to think they're important, and important people don't waste their time on trivial work like developing user sign up forms. To get this sort of thing right you actually need 'average' devs to take on the boring, every day things, and to care about how the code works for users more than shaving another tenth of a millisecond off of the FCP time.
Having a support department cost money, not only staff costs but infrastructure and software to manage/solve the issues.

I'm sure they have calculated on it, and found it's not worth it unless you bring in some serious dough in advertising for them.
It feels like every month or so there is another story like this about Google's customer support. For me it is one of the reasons I will *never* build on Google Cloud.

Combine this with their propensity to randomly shut down services and also jack up the prices of things by some wild amount overnight with no warning or justification. (Google Maps API and Kubernetes control plane.)

I would never consider risking all of my work on Google's reputation which is a shame because I'm sure the services themselves work relatively well. It feels like everyone outside of google is widely aware of these issues but everyone inside is completely blind to them.

Side Note: has anyone ever "won" an appeal with Google or does the system deny 100% of appeals?
They meant per month. In NL we tend to discuss salaries per month. This excludes the mandatory "vacantion bonus", which is about a months salary. 2500 * 13 makes 32500 a year. So not far off from your figures.
I think the main problem with Google is that they apparently treat Human Customer Support as the worst possible Evil.

Of course, it is not feasible to provide it to all users, but in case of Google even if you spend in the range of XX thousands - Y million $ per year with them, you have a very hard time speaking with a human being, even if SHTF.

From my basic business understanding, it wouldn't cost them that much to provide better support considering their $75 billion profit in 2021 [1]

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings...
In my experience, most single person only interviews are done by someone who is probably not capable of giving a good enough explanation. And multi round interviews with several current employees would require a lot of extra work they simply don't have time for.
edit: Re-read the thread somehow missed that it was specific to engineering. Comment makes sense - engineering typically last to go for obvious reasons.

I'll counter though that I don't think its about pricey severances but more related to keep core products operating and being built for the future. Lutke comes from software engineering.
I do worry about this, but I also have two counterpoints when I think about it:

1. There are things which I write which are private, but if they were forcibly revealed then I would stand by my truth, including mistakes and things I'm ashamed of.

2. It's better to act as though you are in a free and decent society than to become your own policeman!
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a86[1] was definitely one that did.

It was sold under a shareware model, and if you used it commercially you were supposed to buy the licence. I guess they randomly sampled other people's software to see if it looked like it was built with a86 or not, but honestly I'd never actually heard of them doing that and suspected that it was just enough of a threat to know it was possible that they hoped people would pay up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A86_(software)
Completely untrue. The amount of money miners spend on bitcoin mining per unit time will never be higher than the value of bitcoin block rewards per unit time.

The block reward gets cut in half every couple years. Right now it’s $18M/day, and at its peak it was $60 million per day. Assuming the price of btc doesn’t shoot back up, that puts an upper limit on the amount of money spent by miners on electricity at $60M/day. To put that number in perspective, the US alone spends $3B/day on energy.

And as a typical cryptocurrency advocate, I always find it amusing when HN programmers, probably in the richest 1% of the world globally, talk about how the line going up even more just isn’t really that important. It already went up for you, maybe we should ask people in brazil or in the philippines or in subsaharan africa if they want their line to go up.
It's nice to know that I'm not the only one.
The actual schools are run by the states, but as with other nominally state/local domains (e.g. roads) the federal government offers supplemental funding via various programs and can apply requirements/restrictions to that funding.
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Often these 10% layoffs are an excuse to get rid of people that are overpaid, aren't performing or dont fit very well in the organization. Some companies do it every year.
It's not about the cost. Ability to reason with a blackbox can give insights into how it operates which translates into knowledge on how to bypass restrictions.
How did they lose $1.47B on $1.2B revenue last quarter? Wow.

Personally, I haven't bought a single item from a Shopify store. I prefer Amazon because of prime shipping, reviews, and the ability to compare similar products with one single search.
With an express train from the easternmost stop to the westernmost stop, zero in-between stops... possible, but not very practicable.
Big fan of all the fuzzy matching algorithms:

* Levenshtein

* Jaccard

* Cosine

* Jaro–Winkler

* Soundex

and many many more!
When you are applying for a job you are trying to sell something (your time). When someone is trying to sell me something and I don’t want it, I’ve learned the best approach is to say, “no, thanks” and not to give reasons, especially if they ask for reasons. Every reason is an opening for a conversation that I’m not interested in having.
Well there is the "love hotel" https://emojipedia.org/love-hotel/

But otherwise I agree.
Cheap (and even not so cheap) "Mexican" food in particular is a great opportunity for the restaurant to bulk up a little protein with lots of cheap filler like rice and beans. With a burger, you have a floor set by a certain weight of ground beef. And, yes, while I very rarely go into a McDonald's or Burger King, my sense is that they're not a particularly cheap meal. And the better "fast casual" burger chains certainly are not.
A train system wouldn't have to stop at every neighborhood linearly. They could optimize for connections.
Presumably they didn't want to spend programmer time writing their own macro assembler when they knew others are working on a commercial product. The DG version of WordPerfect was shipping already, so they probably rather spent the time on improving that and waited for the PC-DOS ecosystem to evolve a bit.
Perhaps not 7x, but even in the US after jumping a few times from the first junior role one can probably double or maybe even triple the salary.
I guess I'm not working in the real world, because I get to use whatever I want as long as I deliver... And so I use VIM.
What's the replacement?
They have way to many online ads for a reputable service. Like that fake adblocker (which must be fake, because why would an Adblocker advertise on the very medium it's working against?) and all those VPNs.
Unified Memory Architecture, basically the normal integrated graphics using system RAM and VRAM.

It was really amusing to see Apple hype that term (which has been around in the PC industry for decades and synonymous with low cost and performance) so heavily around the release of the M1.

The contrasting term is "DIS", i.e. discrete graphics.
What don’t you understand about that? People leave all the time, before and after layoff events. You need to replace those key roles.

Layoffs are not always about reducing the size of the workforce, but can also be to remove the low performers.
> What are the safest industries in tech right now? Feel like it’s gonna get worse

The ones that make the most money with little head count in a short amount of time and those who are selling shovels and offering services for financial institutions or in trading systems.
Don't knock it till you've tried it! It makes me feel great about my life and requires no additional work on my part.
Behavioural economics is a bitch.

“Neoclassical” economists might say you made an irrational choice.

Human beings know that how you feel is as important as how much you’re getting.
They are also doing a lot of reintegration work which is very often copied by other associations or the private sector if it seems profitable.
As part of their computer refurbishment activity, they have been promoting their own Debian-based distribution for years. https://emmabuntus.org/

France is a very socialized country, but with the specificity of having transferred a lot of initiatives to associative actors.
I think that what Emmaus is doing is very good, but sometimes I wonder if the French way of doing things has not frozen everything in a bit of mediocrity. A majority of the people supported by Emmaus would be better off in a country that doesn't destroy its industries and its professional education.
What a pity, another site that wants ads to be blocked by me
I wonder if that growth includes minimum-wage workers for their warehouses.[0]
I am not sure how many they've hired as part of this effort.

0. https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2022/shopify-makes-1b-bet...
It's probably not a very efficient use of capital, but it's better than the Saudis spending it on their military.
Also called "Bulldog clips" in the UK.
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Indeed. For some companies it’s par for the course.
Presumably, HN will turn into reddit, but nobody will believe it's happening because people have been predicting it's turning into reddit for over a decade.
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Highly recommend ’Touch the Sound’ on Netflix on this topic. Evelyn Glennie is a spectacularly talented concert percussionist - she’s unable to hear at all in any conventional sense yet experiences music in ways that blew my mind…
Three, actually. There’s two just in Anchorage.