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It's great how they get to blame Congress... instead hospitals and academic institutions could just you know fund residencies themselves. It's not like they can't afford it.
Ask HN: Do I have “imposters syndrome” or am I just bad?
Hey all, apologies in advance for any typos or grammar mistakes, im writing this on my phone. I'm a pretty Jr. developer with about 1YOE all things considered. Im entirely self-taught. I did a few months at an agency mainly writing JS and Python, I did a few months of contract work writing Elixir, and I've been in my current position for about 6 months, mainly writing TS.

I left the agency due to getting a better offer (my current job) and chose not to renew my contract at the Elixir shop for the same reason, I didn't want to overstretch and decided to focus fully on my new role. I've never been reprimanded or spoken to about my performance in any of these roles.

At the agency, the code I wrote was typically standalone. Small client apps in React or simple Python servers. Small, one-off tasks that didn't need to be maintained or integrate with any existing systems. This is where I feel I shine.

My current role, however, is the complete opposite. Our product is massive, and spread out over dozens of repositories and interconnected dependencies. The client, a gargantuan react app, in particular, has been a struggle for me to understand and be productive in. This has been a theme in my personal projects as well. I can write a simple react app and a server for it to talk to. Perform basic CRUD ops and the like, etc. But as soon as I wanted to do anything more complex or integrate with external dependencies I would begin to get bogged down.

I'm beginning to feel like I'm just fundamentally incapable of fully grasping and working within large interconnected systems. And the unfortunate reality is that most dev jobs I'm aware of necessitate it.

I know "imposters syndrome" gets thrown around a lot for developers who feel like they have no clue what they're doing, but are actually quite talented. I'd love to apply that label to my current situation, but I just don't know if it'd be accurate. I know that I can do some things really well. I know that, in some ways at least, I'm an excellent developer. I just feel that in one of the most important and fundamental ways (understanding complex systems), I'm very much lacking.

Any input or advice would be welcomed and appreciated. I'm not sure what, if anything, I can do to improve my proficiency in this area but I'm willing to try what I can.
Simple, build this new city next to a water resource, not a desert and build it from the ground up to be low water usage. Manage runoff and limit single family home zoning with large yards. I bet you could make it several times more efficient than the average water usage of just about any other US city and every new resident would take pressure off the water resources of existing cities. How can the answer to “the west is running out of water” possibly be “more suburbs please”?
Maybe, but I had friends making all-cash, over-asking-price offers last summer but getting outbid. Interest rates never factored into their thoughts at all . . .

They simply noped out on shopping because the market seemed so irrational to them personally. I wonder if other similarly wealthy buyers looked around and just did the same . . .
So the one I was in had these massive rooms full of lead-acid batteries, and 3 or 4 multi-megawatt "generators" outside (located at various sides of the building, not all in one place).

They announced it over the PA because it was a planned transfer - and then all the "normal" lighting went off (think overhead fluorescents) at the same time the emergency lighting came on - the power to the servers and anything plugged into the racks didn't even flicker, of course.

There was a huge thunking sound from somewhere (I assume something disconnecting from grid power) and the muted roar of the generators starting. A few moments later, the main lights came back on.

It was an entirely different experience than a normal power failure, where everything goes quiet - you knew something happened, but other than that it all worked smoothly.
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What is most interesting to me is the number of exhausted votes. Did those folks not pick a second candidate because they did not want to support either choice as a second, or did they not know how the voting system worked?

It sounds like the real problem here is education, which will be a challenge with any different voting system, and some a lot more so.

It will probably be better the next time around.
Archetypes sharkitypes whatever…who cares! Identify a need in your organization and step up to meet/exceed that need. Done. Don’t need fancy titles, archetypes.
This companies can burn cash like crazy. If they hire some smart consultants they can build a situation where the narrative would be current homeowners VS everyone else.

I don't have much experience but even I can do. I don't think the US is short of this people nor this companies short of cash to burn.

And they would do something good for once.

Edit: I remember watching documentaries about SV engineers living in vans ffs. I could get my life almost settled with a couple of years of such salaries.
It’s the last bit that’s causing the problem. A lot of desalination plants dump highly concentrated saline solutions back into the ocean. Pump those out to salt pans and you’re also producing salt.
I write PHP and being able to give the arguments a type is such a nice thing, especially for self-documentation - hopefully this brings similar things to elixir, I really want to work with the language.

Besides that I wish for a really good LSP or other way to integrate to IDEs, especially to be able to jump to functions and see how they work exactly.
In casual unrated games right?
I had to take 1 semester of Accountancy. The problem sets were like - "Acme Corp had revenue of 23,000,000$, profit of 2,000,000$, cost of materials 5,000,000,$ cost of labor 12,000,000$, cost of inventory...."

Ultimately the problem boiled down to plain arithmetic. Just addition, subtraction. Hard problems involved multiplication.

After like the tenth problem I lost my patience & raised my hand - why don't you just do these problems with small numbers ? Like 23-(5+12+4) = 2 ? Why are you making us do 23,000,000 - (5,000,000 + 12,000,000 + 4,000,000) = 2,000,000 ?

The Professor said - Accountancy is arithmetic. With Big numbers. That's money for you.
> Anyone who calls themselves these things is weird, and will be hard to rely on.

Providing technical leadership is weird and makes people hard to rely on?
>He took an innovative company and destroyed it with finance shenanigans.

How many times have we seen this exact thing play out?

Xerox, Kodak, IBM, HP, etc.

Some of it is due to technological change, but even that isn't necessarily the problem but rather the company's response to it (failing to invest, focusing on financial engineering rather than innovation, asset stripping, enriching executives at the expense of everyone else, etc.) is.
Like the students, I haven't attended the classes or watched the videos so I would have no reason to think that they aren't worth watching. I'd guess it'd probably be worth a shot if you were struggling with the material and wanted a good grade though.
I'm calling it copypasta because your response wasn't specifically about Celsius, it was looking for a reason to write your pre-existing beliefs about the entire asset class in a place where it wasn't relevant. A lot of people do this, but one of the bigger problems is that it lets poorly run companies get a free pass on bad business practices. "Our unscrupulous behavior won't matter because people will conflate it with crypto. They won't apply scrutiny to us, they'll just try to reduce access"
I'd like that too, but can you give me a working example that is not based around using a VPN, or editing documents on the browser?

(which are both viable, but there is a different number of drawbacks to each)
It’s about time.

Interesting articles if you search for https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cannabis+poses+quandary
Don't worry, I'm sure that will all be folded into microsoft teams soon :)

More seriously, I'm reminded of something a friend always said.

You need to have a response time of 1/10 of a second or less for something to be interactive. I remember that but I wonder if the brain fixes it like it ignores your blind spot.
Thanks for the tips (will check them out, don't know how they turn out yet)
Charles Babbage may be a more fitting example:

In the first room I saw the parts of the original Calculating Machine, which had been shown in an incomplete state many years before and had even been put to some use. I asked him about its present form. “I have not finished it because in working at it I came on the idea of my Analytical Engine, which would do all that it was capable of doing and much more. Indeed the idea was so much simpler that it would have taken more work to complete the calculating machine than to design and construct the other in its entirety, so I turned my attention to the Analytical Machine.” After a few minutes’ talk we went into the next workroom where he showed and explained to me the working of the elements of the Analytical Machine. I asked if I could see it. “I have never completed it,” he said, “because I hit upon the idea of doing the same thing by a different and far more effective method, and this rendered it useless to proceed on the old lines.” Then we went into the third room. There lay scattered bits of mechanism but I saw no trace of any working machine. Very cautiously I approached the subject, and received the dreaded answer, “It is not constructed yet, but I am working at it, and will take less time to construct it altogether than it would have taken to complete the Analytical Machine from the stage in which I left it.” I took leave of the old man with a heavy heart.

— John Fletcher Moulton, 1914
Monitoring My Asus RT-AX86U Router with Prometheus and Grafana
Well, you see, that's kinda the thing about "education". Every step should be beyond your current capability, but not so far beyond it that you cannot expand your capability to take the step. With the assistance of an educator and the assorted educational materials, of course.

In fact, that is the difference between a good educator and a bad one: a bad one will just say, "it is what it is", and describe their failure to teach as laziness or stupidity on the part of the student.
Wow thanks, I will check that out!
> and the new grey of my beard

if I ever write my novel, I'm going to include the line "I studied my face in the mirror before starting to scrape last night's hoar from my chin"
> It's strange to see this idea come up and become taken seriously, seemingly out of nowhere.

Nonsense it's as old as the tech industry, and the defence industry it grew out of.

The name comes from the military, where it's even older.
Unit tests, CI, docs this overhead, I want move fast and break things.
I have so many CP/M programs my grandfather wrote in my garage. Never got to see them run but it’s cool to see people are still messing around with the OS in some capacity.
I don’t see how you can draw that conclusion. If ⅔ of people replaced a subscription by 2 other, more expensive ones and the other ⅓ took their first subscription, the market grew by 150%.

I’m more than fairly sure that didn’t happen, but the data they provide doesn’t exclude it (even knowing that Netflix lost subscribers doesn’t rule out that scenario)

> they worked to keep costs flat, rather than allocate more budget.

If they did, I wouldn’t call that “subscription fatigue”.
> It boggles my mind that in MBA circles Welch is still considered "one of the greats".

Why? It’s the MBA dream to make out like a bandit and leave a trail of despair and destruction in your trail: any joy left over is value you failed to extract.
I'm sure they are eager to report problems in what they deem progressive areas of the country?
Are these terms and names all about "marketing"? Yes of course, people have doing the tasks described without being asked for it, but being able to have a salary run above "senior", as well as terms allowing you as a develop to play the bigger game of corporate environments, is tremendously helpful.

As a senior engineer, or just "software engineer", you can be a brilliant architect, but if noone sees that outside your immediate team, and the only way for you to get bigger impact is to become a manager, with no time for actual code, then your impact will be minimal.

Positioning yourself as staff engineer, and selling yourself as "architect oriented staff engineer" to the different managers and leads whose buy-in you need to do cross-team architecture, is a force decoupler for you as a technical person.

I'm a fundamentally technical/code monkey person, I love writing and shipping code. But I'm in a position right now where, in order to get my technical goals accomplished, most of my work is managerial. Once I was able to frame things that way (I could write code all day long, and never would I be able to achieve X, but if I play the game of calling myself principal engineer and leveraging that "marketing brand", then I actually can), all the remnants of apprehension I had kind of fell away.
Some bands on their site cost upwards of $1000. I don't find it suspicious at all that someone would take the band off if the device appears to be entering the lithium battery death spiral.

The article writes: "There was no solution or advice provided after this call, just instructions to not touch the watch until he heard back from the company."

I'm honestly surprised that after the Samsung Note fiasco that Apple support is this bad on the topic. I would have expected a dedicated flow for "flagged as high battery combustion risk" from someone like them. I understand that this is a risk with these types of lithium batteries, but if a user calls support for a premium product and support doesn't immediately recognize the situation I entirely blame the company.
For homes, you store solar in it and discharge at night to reduce bills. For commercial, you do peak shaving and load shifting to reduce bills. Also, you can sell your battery capacity to some companies and they can aggregate it with other homes in your area to sell the capacity to the grid during peaks, to eek out a bit more value.
I think it's who does the tax go to. Fine if FurnitureWorld.com pays its 500 bucks to google and NYT, but at the moment a chuck of that goes to organised crime - frankly the same people taking a slice of credit card fraud that banks see as a cost of business.

Crime and corruption play a huge part in our societies and relatively simple measures can starve them of the cash flow - from decriminalisation to de-anonymising the net. Or something
Bizarre. Most VPNs used in a workplace would take care of name-based host resolution (ie DNS) for you. This is not a new thing unique to Tailscale.
As much as I love Deno, I think this is the wrong way to frame it. For a number of reasons.

1) Sure, big web apps for a global audience would benefit from a distributed application and distributed data. But, honestly, most web apps I've worked in my 20+ years in web dev have been for an audience in a single country or even city.

2) It's easy for Deno to say "get a distributed app running at the edge!" when the hard part is having distributed data which they don't solve. If you don't need distributed consistent data then you're probably more than fine with a monolith with a CDN.

3) Those latency numbers don't seem right to me. My production server in AMS returns a response in 200ms to here (central Mexico).

4) Performance evangelists and salesmen will try to convince everyone they need to get a response in 50ms, but for most use cases that's just ridiculous. Most people are fine getting a response in under a second. Just use a CDN for your static assets and your monolith will be fine.

The edge is cool, but it's not "the future". It's just another tool with pros and cons.
> Please don’t, unless you’re willing to confront your own contribution to the situation you’re fleeing.

What do you mean? I've lived in Colorado and now live in California. Sure, it has serious problems but I'd say some of them are from population density. Millions of people living in small area causes issues. Housing prices? I'd want housing prices to go up if I owned. Taxes? That's a financial question, and the bay area offers world class comp in tech. Traffic? Also bad, but that's from attracting so many people. Crime and homelessness is a serious issue. But I don't think there are easy answers. I live in a safe area, and I would run into other political issues in different states.
I'm yet to come across a non-trivial website or web app that runs on the edge in the way they have described. While it may or may not be the future, as it is commonly touted as, who exactly is testing edge computing in the real world today? What database are they using? How are they synchronizing application state across all these regions?

From practical industry experience I can say that deploying to 1-3 data centers is still the way to go, and that isn't going to change for the ~50-100ms of latency this approach will save.
It should be easy to mitigate any environmental impact. A long, leaky pipe for effluent, and extracting only a fraction of the water pumped in before exhausting it, would eliminate any problem.

Probably they planned to cheap out and just dump the brine at the shore.
Yes, I thought I had an early memory of 2.5 year old me sad because my tricycle broke, but it turned out that my father took an 8mm film that included this (the solid rubber tire split and came off), that we watched a number of times when I was slightly older. It felt like a real memory, but it must have been implanted.
Yeah, but especially not Oracle.
You know what the best thing about the internet is? Connecting people. You know what the worst thing about the internet is. It's allowed all the stupid people to connect and you cannot underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people. Hitler only had the support of 33% of the German population. I fear that American Liberalism is nearing that saturation point. Fortunately for sanity, they're not the half of the country that likes guns.
Being forced to divulge your trade secrets to a competitor company’s legal team + cover the cost of travel to court in a far away state + denial of income- under circumstances in which you’ve done nothing wrong -might be “normal legal process” but it’s highly unethical in my opinion. Just one of many ways in which a small business in USA can get wreaked by the legal system over the most frivolous of things.
because of empathy.
serverless is when you save the state but don't keep a machine sitting around when there are no requests, so you'd keep your calendar state in a hosted db and when someone asks for the calendar, a thread spins up and creates the calendar from the state and then disappears until there is another request. This is basically the exact opposite of serverless
At $3700, that's about 25% of someone's before tax income at $150K/yr, But your after tax take home in Boston would be something like $104K/yr. So you could do this and be left at $59,600 for all other expenses and savings. This is very doable with no children, debt, or other financial obligations, but you never know what someone's life circumstances are.
For that one D gets one point, even though Circle C++ might be able to do it, it isn't ISO C++.

So what if D wins at code golf against C++?

What matters is being good enough for most compile time use cases, while enjoying the large ecosystem and IDE tooling, perfect is the enemy of good.
I agree that code is what matters, but whats your take on writing code vs influencing people who write code? Seems to be a trade off, but it seems to me that eventually you can't write code as fast as you can influence other people who write code...
Exactly. He can subpoena records, can have a third party get access to e.g. Gmail or whatever he uses, etc.
I did it around 2 years ago: the web solutions were not very mature and it was poorly supported (but that's my subjective experience)
> My intent by this proclamation is to pardon only the offense of simple possession of marijuana in violation of Federal law or in violation of D.C. Code 48–904.01(d)(1), and not any other offenses related to marijuana or other controlled substances.
The term seems to be quite new, but the concept itself is quite well worn
I think, based on statements I actually heard him make and my Bayesian priors towards corporate journalists, that articles like this one grossly misrepresent the substance of whatever he was actually saying.
That’s a lot of judgement to individuals without a lot of facts to back it up.

If California is broken, it’s not from the people that live there or leave because they can’t stand it the way it is. If another place becomes that way, it isn’t the people coming there that causes it (other than from the population shift).

Everything is crowded nowadays anyway, ant least in the cities. That’s an issue with there being more people in general.
Authoritarian regimes across the Pacific Ocean have consequences on American property demand too. So does migration across the southern border. In fact I think you would be hard pressed to name a thing that happens anywhere in the world that doesn’t downstream from it have an effect on the American property market.

Clearly the solution is for US to annex the Earth like we annexed the Moon and then nationalize housing policy. /s

Our local housing policy does suck, but this is not a constructive direction. You’re simply replacing one power structure with a different one in the hopes that maybe it’ll be better, when what you want to make are specific policy arguments.
It doesn't appear to be the course. There are other professors teaching this same course yet they don't have the abysmal professor reviews. Sometimes professors need to be shown the door.
An organization that prefers ecosystem knowledge to deep knowledge and ecosystem familiarity hints at poor planning and needing someone to "hit the ground running" to fix their mistakes.

I'd pass on such a position.

Also you talk about only having experience in a less popular language as a death sentence.

I've been only writing Haskell professionally for a decade, but I get endless amounts of interview invites for prior experience.

Out of curiosity I went through some of the better invitations interview process and had no issue getting offers either.

If anything mentioning my professional Haskell experience gets me an offer faster no matter the positions requirements.
Furthermore the detection method used (x-rays) cause cancer in and of themselves.
At the edge, so your app is at the edge but the DB is 80ms away. Too much focus on latency, trying to fix a non existing problem.
I agree most of them (90+ percent?) are milking one small thing for ad money.

The exception to the rule: Huberman Labs. He has 2.5 hour pods that are so dense I have to consume them over days.
I'm looking for a blog post the combines the best elements of the future of the web with the future of work.
Californians are, perhaps unfairly, notorious for being shallow. This is reflected in, for instance, the story of the California homeowner who wanted his expensive solar panels installed on the side of his roof that faced the street so that they could be seen, rather than having them installed on the more efficient side that faced the sun, but was hidden from the street.

Politically, this manifests as fervent support for causes that seem good on the surface but have dire unintended consequences.

To be fair to Californians, the California constitution is a mess, and incentivizes a kind of aggressive crazy politics.

If you really want to know details (you don't want to know details), here are some articles by locals.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221006202807/https://www.press...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180113084809/https://www.ocreg...

Even more https://duckduckgo.com/?q=california+politics+is+a+mess&ia=e...