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> You should realize that saving people lives is more important than being "right" or "wrong".

We've seen how Russians castrate those who surrender, cut heads and hands and put them on pikes, rape women and children. There's literally no reason to surrender. It's better to fight and die than to surrender and die.
If your platform champions people's subjective experience, and Indians at Google feel that Soundararajan is discriminatory herself, then they have a right to oppose her talk without being labelled as caste bigots.
Sure, shrimp and "land bugs" look similar if you squint at them. There is an obvious, massive difference though: crustaceans have meat.

Most people don't just eat a crustacean whole like you would have to with "land bugs". They harvest the meat from the shrimp / crab / lobster and eat the meat.
And apparently you don't know anything about history either.
They are not a west european country. They don't surrender and accept the shame of defeat to avoid mass casualty. Their plan was to sacrifice as many civilians as possible to prevent an invsion of the mainland. So long as it meant they could resist invasion in a meaningful way they would resist. Millions more would habe died and Japan would be split in two like korea.
The graph makes for a good laugh.

Also, I want to agree, but algorithm code can look ridiculous in any language, graphical or not.

I think graphical coding and "real" coding will merge from both ends. An advanced IDE today is already sort of beginning to look graphical.
Well... for no/low code to take over everything, we'd need 10x the developers to create it all and then probably 20x the developers, in perpetuity, to handle the integrations.

"Code" isn't an end to itself. Many developers spend their hours, days and careers trying to think of the simplest, clearest way to specify solutions to the problems they work on. Code (and data) is the best general thing we've been able to come up with.

There can certainly be complexity arising from the code itself (more generally -- are you spending your time solving problems in the solution space or problem space?) but you need some way to deal with the complexity inherent to the problem. If there's a better way to do it than code, I'd be more than happy to jump on it.

There are some good no/low code systems -- like spread sheets and some of the forms systems -- where they've found a powerful, flexible, yet simple enough abstraction. But these tend to form silos, and you need a ready escape hatch where the complexity of the underly problem exceeds the capability of the system (which is very common for anything useful).
They aren't charging you sales tax. The governement is, and they force the store into being their tax collector too.

It is a very important distinction.
> Sedans are gonna be gone in a few years.

Maybe for Ford/GM/etc.

But it looks like Kia/Hyundai/Honda/Toyota are still pumping them out with vigor. And Tesla basically _only_ makes sedans.

> Trusks are also way more profitable than cars and thats another reason there are so many of them.

Maybe that explains the supply side, but it doesn't explain the demand side.
If someone wants some more background information.

A few decades ago during the Cold War, there were several large scale anti-caste movements, and this caused a lot of the moneyed upper caste (note that many of the upper caste are poor) to flee to the US where money often open doors. The immigration to the UK and the other English speaking countries tended to be more varied and more middle class based on skills (doctors, engineers, etc...).

It's widely known within India that a notable portion of the upper caste are based in the US, but in India the IT industry is one of the most caste-blind industries in India, along with how the majority of the IT industry is based in South India where casteism is traditionally less.
It's abundantly clear that any discrimination against non-favored groups is ignored and in cases promoted/celebrated. Heck, I live in a country with anti-white and pro-black laws/regulations. Minorities here plainly get denied jobs due to the color of their skin and no one bats an eye.

I'm all for fairness for all, no matter their race, but seeing what I've seen in person is very eye opening. I no longer have sympathy for DEI and other such initiatives because they will always be targeted against white people and males, no matter the state of equity/fairness in the world.
I do have a copy of the 1983 book, and this story is present. Like the online copy linked to here, it also begins with "Some years ago ..."
I almost put in my original comment that no-code/low-code becomes more useful as it gets more specific to a domain. Game dev is a perfect example - building complex shaders becomes much easier with a visual editing tool. I think of Google Sheets as a highly useful tool in this space. Same for Google Data Studio.
I've seen this line before, are there numbers to back it up?
> They're just increasing the price for a car by $1500 and including more functionality

From TFA, they're advertising the vehicle's MSRP without the extra $1500 cost, and that extra $1500 is not optional when you go to actually buy one.
Are you advocating requiring user registration with an address and login just to view products on an e-commerce site? I would dislike that far more than just knowing my sales tax rate is X% and to factor that in my head. I’d probably do significantly less online shopping if I had to register to see products.
> Your questions instead sound like you are doubting him.

Respectfully, I disagree: _to you_, the "questions instead sound like you are doubting him".

Maybe it even sounds that way to most people. It doesn't to me.

I have been in very similar situations, and having experienced the frustration of communications failure, I've tried to take other approaches.

A few times I've prefaced my questions with something along the lines of: "In order to answer your question I'm going to have to ask some questions; a few of them may not make sense to you, but it's just the way I function".

It has not helped. One time it was met with a kind of "gee, here you go again, giving a lecture on how special you are."

The crux of the matter is that I _need_ to do that if I am going to give a helpful answer to the question that I was asked. Either the manager's question is important and warrants a thoughtful reply, or it's unimportant, in which case almost any kind of reply is ok.

I think the problem, in a nutshell, is neurotypical people's absolute refusal to acknowledge when they're wrong -- for example about what a normal way for an employee to respond to the question: "should we switch to React?" is.

There _is_ no normal way. But neurotypical people, stereotypically, labor under the incorrect assupmtion that there is one. And the discussion in this thread has, in my opionion, made that extremely evident.
You can use ACLs for this.
They already cleared out Russians from the north.
Better wording, thank you. This includes all workers as not all workers are citizens.
I use them to great advantage as an engineering manager. If you have programming skills, you can use these tools to whip stuff up significantly faster than people without programming skills. It’s an organizational super power.

I just replaced an internal web app used for planning with a data visualization tool dashboard that can spit out a spreadsheet for further analysis. Took a week to build something that solves the business problem better than several months of effort put into the web app did. I didn’t have to deal with auth, security and privacy reviews, building a custom UI that people would have to learn, learning data source API’s, or build/deployment.
Not as in a huge majority of black population in jail.

As in, a huge majority of blacks in jails (jail population being disproportionally black).

Blacks are about 40% of the jail population and 14% of the general population.

Even if this is because blacks indeed commit more crimes, this points to the conditions blacks are forced to live (discrimination, poorly funded school districts, redlining, trouble getting loans, etc.) that force them to do so. But we also know that traditionally courts treat blacks harsher (to the point of there being special laws against blacks for most of the 20th century, from Jim Crow to seggregation laws, and of course, seemingly neutral laws used covertly with much more force against blacks, like drug laws, three strikes, and so on).
It's not very tangible like "oh that's just like a skewer tactic in chess!", it's more a general ability to think ahead and enumerate various likely scenarios, and ways of deciding what to do. Chess is not just pure pattern recognition. It's also a game of decisions, understanding what your opponent is trying to do, swallowing your own pride, etc.

You can play chess in an almost poker type way, playing risky lines betting that your opponent won't find a tricky refutation. It seems like the board state(and clock) is all there is, but that is far from the truth.
One of the biggest challenges for learning chess players is to learn to consider your opponent's plans and factoring it into your own. This sounds obvious, but from my experience tutoring kids it's very much not the natural state of things. The natural thing is to only consider what you want to do. Which doesn't work if the opponent's plan is quicker. Then you need to find a new idea. Even if you're just a few moves away from completing yours. There's a mental discipline to avoiding the sunk cost fallacy there that can easily be worth a few hundred rating points.

Now, most of the research on transfer of chess skills has focused on things like IQ and working memory, and found no meaningful transfer. But there's a lot more to chess(or any other skill) than that. I'm not convinced this is adequately expored by the field of psychology at all.

I regularly beat people at simpler strategy games even though they're the ones teaching me the rules of the game.

You could argue I'm just naturally good at strategy games, and that's why I play chess. And that must be at least partially the reason. But it's my intuition that some of these more abstract game decision making, opponent modelling, etc skills do transfer(I am biased though, obviously). But that's a lot harder to research than doing an IQ test and a short term recall test.
Thank you for expressing exactly what I’ve felt. In my experience something like Retool lets you spin up an incredible amount of functionality very quickly, and it also does a great job of helping you find the boundary where you should do something elsewhere.

Honestly the hardest part of my work with Retool has been convincing other devs that they should use it for internal use cases. While they’re still waiting on designs to be done in Figma I’ve got multiple users trying out a solution in Retool that I can update in near real-time to see what works best.
When you eliminate all "archive nodes" (i.e. actual full nodes), it becomes impossible to trustlessly determine the longest PoW chain.
> And why is it the current trend in automotive (specifically, truck) fashion?

Because European pedestrian safety requirements all but demand big bulbous front ends, it's uneconomical to design that much of a car or SUV twice and a fugly grill is the solution OEMs have deemed most effective at prettying that up. The trucks are all but forced to copy the same rough shapes because "brand identity" and "design language".

Aggressive styling and goes over the decades. You can make these cars look however you want with a little bit of black plastic and fake chrome with no impact on safety. The actual underlying shapes and dimensions that you are muddying the waters by conflating with aggression are driven by technical requirements.
They should say "tier with more ads" because I'm pretty sure they already have embedded ads in the form of product placement and other paid content.
I can't speak for Google or what goes on there, but one thing that I've learned over my career in this industry is that minority groups, especially those that speak non-English languages, very often have things going on that are not at all visible to non-speakers and those not part of their community.

I've had fellow team members subject to extreme verbal abuse by managers who would stop by their desk and say absolutely horrible things to them in their native language while maintaining otherwise perfect composure. Threatening their visa status, threatening their family reputation, or just threatening to fire them. I've also learned of the out-of-work social pressure they can face because their communities are smaller and insular and so they interact with these folks outside of work, and there can be power dynamics extending to those places that are just not at all visible to other employees or leadership within the organization.

Those peers have had to suffer quietly some of the most abusive workplace relationships I've ever been adjacent to.

Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Another thing that I've learned, is that companies very often talk to the most about the things they suck at the most. For example, one firm that I worked for touted how everything was based on Teamwork. There were teams for everything. Every employee was expected to be on at least 5 teams. 3 "position related" and 2 "organizational" (e.g. The Birthday Part Team). Your annual evaluation wasn't based on your direct manager at all, it was entirely based on feedback from your "teams".

Needless to say, I've never seen a less team-oriented culture in my life. Every single team was entirely dysfunctional. Nothing got done. Epic levels of in-fighting over every little thing.

Anyhow, people usually talk the most about their insecurities. So, just because it's being talked about, with tons of posters and "trainings", doesn't mean anything truly effective is being done. Probably just the opposite.

ps. As a fellow fan of "edgy" humor, you just gotta learn that work isn't where your edgy sense of humor belongs. Even in the "edgy humor" industry, you'll find that people don't like it mixing with "the job". It's how you get fired or have your career ruined. Regardless of Google's internal HR policies, you're gonna need professional references at some point, and if you've annoyed or creeped everyone out, it's going to be a self-limiting behavior. It doesn't matter if you work at Google, or a truck stop, or a comedy club. Be professional, be inclusive, be friendly. I know a lot of people are going to disagree, but the simple fact of the matter is that you aren't as funny as you think you are, and you probably don't have the ability to "read a room" the way a world-famous entertainer does. Even they get it wrong.
What role did Google hire you for? PR?

If something bad is occurring inside Google, then of course it is Google's problem.

Whether or not it's ocurring I don't know, but to think that just because they have training materials saying something is bad and absolutely not to be tolerated means that it's necessarily in practice not tolerated is very naive!
> It means one satellite gets your signal, not all in sight.

So it would seem an easy way to scale out is by adding satellites. I don't think they're anywhere near capacity on that, yet.

Also, each current-gen satellite is 20 Gbps of bandwidth. v2 is claimed to be "almost an order of magnitude more capable than v1.0" in terms of communications bandwidth.
I didn't get that property sadly.
Well you lost one customer
Sorry, let me clarify.

In your GP comment, you say "But even aside from that, if you can complete your work in 6 hours, but can't leave the office for another 2-4 hours because of the office culture, then you'll spend those 2-4 hours doing random stuff in the office. If you're at home, you can leave Slack on and go do something useful."

I think I agree with your second paragraph entirely.

To me, two issues are being conflated here: the location of the work (wfh vs office) and the length of the work day. The benefits of wfh you are describing sound like they could more or less also come from a 6 hour work day. Ignoring commute time (it's an issue, but just for simplicity's sake). You'd be able to do useful things around your house just the same if you were in an office for 6 hours and able to go home.

Some would describe what you're saying as "slacking" for those hours outside the six, but I don't see it that way. Instead, wfh has become a socially acceptable vehicle for a shorter work day. It allows workers to achieve a shorter work day while bypassing those arguments. I think productive discussion around the issue is impossible until these issues are disentangled.
That would be a point in favor of the Japanese's attitude today, not against it.

(And Ainu had it better, despite the strong discrimination against them, than native americans and blacks in the US).
Legit question: who, exactly, classifies as “the insane” in this statement?
Sometimes you just need some IFFT-like actions triggered on some kind of event. In Azure stuff like Logic Apps / Power Automate is particularly geared to running actions based on events or recurrence schedules with minimal code.
Fair enough. I probably could have chosen a better example like an Asian speaker speaking out against affirmative action.
Low code allows "less" sunken cost when the inevitable misalignment of requirements happen.

It's same reason why design starts on napkins, then wireframes, and then low def, high def and eventually a fully interactive prototype.

In software we dive into code way to eagerly and way too early in the product process.

Equating no/low code tools to full on dev is impossible. Just as you wouldn't/shouldn't equate a design prototype to napkin scribbles.
No code tools give people with no idea what they are doing a chance to prove it.
You can get some pretty cheap fridges https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-10-cu-ft-top-freezer-r... - but as you suspect it's post-facto justification of a purchase someone wanted to make anyway.

Once you account for manufacturing and disposal, running the older is probably almost always better.
You can, though, kinda.

In your mailman example, it would be like the FBI announcing exactly what the envelope looks like, uniquely identifiable, and if you encounter this letter to report it immediately or else your complicit. Or at least, that's the fear.

Yes, if it's encrypted you have no idea, but if anyone ever found out what was in it you can know who ever transmitted it. Unless everyone re-encrypts it repeatedly.. which then makes content address-ability awkward.
Yep I remember Subaru specifically moving the outback to a light truck platform for this reason, years before Obama. I suppose bill Clinton was being blamed back then
Nepotism is a failure, and working against it is definitely a worthwhile effort. But I have also seen non Indian nephews/nieces get hired into internships because their relative knows someone in the decision making process, etc.

We very openly have universities in the US that favor admitting children and relatives of alumni. Hell, we just had a US President that installed his own kids and son in law in various government capacities, and then pardoned his son in law’s dad.

I guess my comment is to question whether Indians are doing something that different to what non Indians are doing.

It seems like a very gray area. Of course, Indians could be doing it to a shade of gray closer to nepotism than others.
Basically this space is deliver multiples on what engineer team would bring at multiple discounts. It's not really a sustainable model because they are constantly viewing it as a cost center even with the productivity no-code tools. So the moment some open source version is released or they see a cheaper solution they will flock to it especially if you allow easy migration. I've had requests from companies who were doing well with the no-code SaaS but felt they were being held hostage/realize they want an internal tool they own because their requireents always devolves past what no-code tool can do.

This might not be an issue for SaaS who already publish their source code but for the vast majority of no-code/low code, it seems to cater to small to medium enterprises who are constantly looking to reduce their cost centers, even after achieving it an optimal setup.
Current VW's website in the US is doing the same thing. Click Build leads you to find inventory. The German VW website car configurator crashes for me, but it is prompting me to look at what is already available.
Once again, your assertions are yours to make. The policy of the company, as evidenced by their actions, points the other way.
While I'm a fan of nuclear power myself, I don't think this is true. Nuclear is only good for base loads, current high prices are mostly driven by peak demand.
It's not just Google. As a non-Tech non-Indian that previously worked at AmEx, I was shocked to see how many indians there were at AmEx. I was even more shocked to learn that they discriminate based on caste.
This is interesting. I believe vegetarianism is higher caste but dessert is a tricky one.
Automobile engines are also very complex, but no one talks about no-mechanic cars. In highschool where I grew up, the bottom academic 50% of boys ended up being mechanics of one type or another. At one point in time, being an auto mechanic was an elite, rare profession, and that complexity was encapsulated as something that low-performing academic students could bank on for a career.

I see the exact same thing with code: the complexity is eventually abstracted away until it becomes a vocation that doesn't require a college degree (think mechanical engineer vs mechanic, computer scientist vs programmer).
I work out of a co-working space. A few months ago I walked past some people fidgeting with Zapier. Some (former) employee had built this crazy complex system of integrations, with connections going back and forth everywhere. It looked very much like this diagram, and I couldn't help but laugh, because it's the same kind of problem that coders face on a daily basis.
"...and proving one of them wrong is pretty much the dream of a scientist."

What an odd and somewhat alarming statement!
Also Disney was aggressive with good pricing and package with ESPN+, it was known from the beginning the price would change.
It's morally right to pirate Disney properties.
Good point. Not too different to the application surface of AI where nocode is similiar to general AI but instead of aiming for that we're now learning to scope down to expert systems to see real gains.