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Been using Django in production since 2008, and so happy with my choice. Absolutely amazing being able to keep the same knowledge and workflow for my whole career so far, and still have a modern, maintained piece of software as a base. The Django Admin still makes my life better all these years later.

Props to the Fellows who are keeping these releases running on time and getting better every year. Boring software FTW!
Seeing a a lot of very negative responses here, and I'm not sure they're entirely deserved. To steelman the argument, I presume the author means they are using fake deadlines, but critically, telling the team they are fake - in which case I can accept much of the article. If they actually mean lying to their team on purpose, that's pretty clearly not OK to me.
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It was clearly wrong for them to be immediately dismissive of the claim (particularly since there are a number of existing studies that support it).

> I guess a blind study with a control group wouldn't be too hard to conduct.

However, you would be surprised how difficult this is to do. As soon as you are doing any sort of research involving human beings, even if that research is plainly innocuous for the subjects and technically easy to conduct, everything gets very complicated due to regulations meant to prevent misconduct and abuse.
Would be nice to be able to do something like write a function signature and then just say “fill out this function,” with it having the implicit needed context, as though it had been pairing with you all along and is just taking the wheel for a second. Or when you’ve finished writing a function, “test this function with some happy path inputs.” I feel like I’d appreciate that kind of use, which could integrate decently into the flow state I get into when programming. The current suite of tools for me often feels too clunky, with the need to explicitly manage context and queries: it takes me out of my flow state and feels slower than just doing it myself.
> I think you're missing the value of rubber-ducking with the chatbot on a fairly well-defined/well-known problem in a somewhat specific/novel scenario—this is the vast majority of software development being done today.

I actually do use ChatGPT for rubber-ducking, but in that context there is no (or very little) code. In a coding context, I've resigned myself to purely autocomplete-on-steroids.

The thing is, in the vibe-coding context (having the LLM write the code for you), I've had atrocious results across all of the popular LLMs.
You don't have to choose between them, django-ninja gives you the same routing experience but without losing all the batteries included experience of Django.
This should be the opposite. Rather than having fake deadlines, consider shooting for an MVP within the given timeframe. If the MVP is reached, the remaining time can be used for further development of that same feature (extended functionality, nice-to-haves, etc). And if not, the MVP should at least have been delivered
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Wow, this hits close. When I was managing teams, I put a lot of effort into making deadlines clear, measurable, fair, etc. I personally use Deadlines for everything, maybe is the ADHD coping I have the reason I like dates a lot, but is not the same when I work with others in a team

I thought I was helping my team with structure, clarity, direction. But looking back, even though we all wanted to do good work and move forward, and genuinely care about each other, something always felt off. There was this tension around "dates". I felt it. The team felt it. And we quietly resent them

Years later, I stop managing and become part of a team again, and I saw another manager approach deadlines totally differently. She talked about deadlines as "things that happen" you wanted or not, almost like happy accidents. The real focus was on creating an effect. That shift in language unlocked something for me. Deadlines became markers to check if we were moving forward, making the impact we wanted, not pursuing goals. That change made everything feel sane and more honest, and give more room to be ambitious. The day to day was the same but different, we checked whether what we were doing was aligned, and deadlines where just times to "measure" how things were going, so deadlines was something we wait for, and they were easier to negotiate, because if you have the effect or goal in mind, you move deadlines to match the outcomes we wanted, and not just avoid the deadline themselves

It's not directly on the post, but the idea is similar: it's better to use deadlines as measurement tools rather than a time to do judgment. Better to build trust through alignment and purpose.
Thank you! That is helpful, and understandable from that context. I to try to follow the best standards surrounding the language I use for a given project.
"Deadline". I hate it when a word starts to lose the exact meaning it is supposed to have!

I am not sure this is totally true, but it certainly matches the compound word itself: dead + line came from a literal line on the ground where a prisoner would be shot dead if they crossed [0]. In corporate jargon this should mean that if you fail to deliver, the project or company has severe consequences (hopefully no one literally dies). It's really annoying when terms get so watered down that they lose all meaning.

[0]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/deadline
I personally choose Django as often as I can, the tooling is considerably better and the ecosystem is significantly larger. Admin is a killer app until you know exactly what you're developing. It's trivial to setup tests with pytest-django, use with a mypy via django-stubs, with django-ninja you can fastapi like routes and models based on pydantic, etc etc etc.
was this maybe an issue with the cd-writer? maybe at the speeds it was writing with?
swasticar was right there!
It's basically impossible to beat Django's breadth of packages. If you are working with a traditional app, the admin alone can give you 90% of the functionality you'll need.
>Developing the skill and technique to express that imagination is the most important part.

Regardless of the tool used?
Why we cant have nice things.
In the US, copyright is assigned to whoever takes a photograph. Pushing a button on your phone isn’t much work at all and yet the courts think that’s enough effort to allow someone to claim copyright over the work. So I don’t think the claim that the prompting, inpainting etc. required to generate an AI imagine isn’t “enough” work for someone to claim copyright doesn’t really hold water.
Why not just rate limit? IP range based blocking will likely hit far more legitimate users than you think.
> However, that situation occurring typically represents poor application, rather than issues with the methodology.

Isn’t that what they say about communism? And every other -ism?

It’s the “no true Scotsman” fallacy as applied to experimental results. The theory isn’t wrong! The experiment must be faulty!
I think transparency is a good policy and helps provide context and meaning, and actually builds trust.

So "fake deadlines" aren't needed. It is perfectly OK to show the plan to the team and to explain that, for example, the committed plan is that the test team will start overall testing on 1st May so we have to deliver our software to them no later than the week before. And then you can tell the team that you set the target date in advance of that to account for any issues and delays.

Now this is a real deadline and everyone knows why it exists and why it matters.

Now, if that 1st May was a "fake deadline" set above your head at least you are 'clean' and get to keep you leadership status among your team.
I think the pragmatic consensus is: feel guilty about it; then do it anyways.
I don't know if you mean steroids specifically or also testosterone, but exogenous testosterone actually does raise muscle mass.

So it's fundamentally different from the creatine mechanism above.

For example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5989848/

Here's one on steroids with a no exercise group, they saw gains: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8637535/
There are people who will learn from this lesson, and people who love the bullying and could not care less. Regardless, friendly US trade counterparties are making rational decoupling decisions to prevent further weaponization of trade against them, which is just good policy. If it impairs the US economic outlook, well, better choices could've been made. But this is what the unsophisticated voted for, so let them have it.
The five minutes phone call makes this claim dependent of duration. What happens when you allow 10 minutes time?
The pressure to deliver and complete dereliction in giving feedback is what breaks the loop for engineers .. completely demotivating
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Out of business for awhile now.. I'd guess 90% or more CD-Rs made now are CMC. Ritek might still make some. There is also falconrak in UAE making them. At this point I am curious if anyone in Japan is still doing it... Does Memory-Tech in japan make recordable media??
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> Steroids don't magically give you the gains, you still have to put the work in.

That's not an entirely fair description of the situation actually.

Imagine the 4 groups from the cross product of WorksOut?(Yes/No) cross Steroids?(Y/N).

It's intuitive, obvious, and supported by the data that The WorksOut(Y) + Steroids(Y) Group reliably gains more muscle over time than other groups. And similarly that the WorksOut(N) + Steroids(N) group gains the least (including losses too!) .

The interesting groups are WorksOut without Steroids, vs Steroids without WorksOut.

The sad truth is those on steroids, though sedentary, gain more muscle
than those who workout without steroids.

Here's the source of what I'm talking about from Jeff Nippard's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD9p9tEP9RE around 4:05

And it's important we educate folks about who is likely on them and what's realistic naturally. Because many young people are innudated with drug enhanced bodies on social media and think that's possible without steroids (and their negative sideeffects). It's particularly troublesome in the case of sexual selection and competition, for example using the hetero normative pairings, when young women are attracted to the steroidal bodies and when young men are pressured to take damaging gear to compete with peers who are. (There's the equivalent analogues for other sexual pairings/preferences).
I imagine they’re intentionally filtering for candidates desperate enough to put up with that, or naive enough to think that sounds cool.
This is nonsense. You can cache it like anything else. But you probably won’t need to because it’s so fast.
Per the article:

> In its court filing on Monday, the Trump administration said ICE “was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador,” but still deported Abrego Garcia “because of an administrative error.”

He was granted protection from deportation to El Salvador. You seem very concerned about the rule of law except when it's ignored or treated carelessly for immigrants.
He has had sex-selective IVF for all of his children, and all that we know about have been biologically male.

Vivian has pointed this out - Elon feels personally affronted by having a daughter. She was selected to be be male at birth in a VERY LITERAL sense. Her being transgender is an explicit rejection of his wishes, and that triggers him.
> giving the “liberal media a scalp,”

Oh, the conservative media should be even less happy to keep Waltz on. He started working for Dick Cheney, and apparently cannot learn opsec even after all that time. But he can’t be fired, and every day he comes into the building, they can’t say they take national security seriously.
I mean your 1RM for any of those lifts isn't particularly interesting if you're around a young man 180-220lbs or so.

You weren't loading enough. At my max weights (600lbs Deadlift, 400lbs Squat, 340 Bench) , I needed to take 2-3 days off minimum
This is similar concept to taking your kids to a fancy resort to swim in the pool where they would be just as happy at the local Holiday Inn in your town.
>I wonder how Hideo Miyazaki feels about this, the fact that machines are able to recreate his style seems to go against the whimsy he creates in his art.

How much of it is _his_ style and _his_ art?

How many people work on the frames and animation?
I think most crawlers inevitably tend to turn into spaghetti code because of the number of weird corner cases you need to deal with.

Crawlers are also incredibly difficult to test in a comprehensive way. No matter what test scenarios you come up with, there's a hundred more weird cases in the wild. (e.g. there's a world's difference between a server taking a long time to respond to a request, and a server sending headers quickly but taking a long time to send the body)
I have a theory. If most of the heavy lifting in your thesis is done by words like "right", "accurate", "correct planning", "right outlook", then you lack details and proper analysis. I have found this to be issue too many times to count. I am sure many others might have noticed this as well.
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It's like the CDO of science.
Not sure why this got downvoted, management really does not care about your health. They may say things out of social niceties, but they really do not care. Maybe if it causes their cost share of your healthcare plan to go up they might, but not really.
Well he wrote the techno positivist manifesto and is one of the biggest voices in "growth" domain.
Just call them "internal deadlines". That communicates what they are and the consequences for missing then. That's a better way to put it than "fake" - these are real deadlines, but engineers get annoyed when the people creating then don't take responsibility for them.
I regularly see people pointing out that this is a myth. That even with no work being put in, there are serious gains when using steroids. I have absolutely zero sources though (like you).
I don't. That's why I wouldn't place my livelihood on it.
Related video about releasing games on linux, i.e. dlopen() all the things
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I’ll go against the grain and say that fake deadlines are incredibly useful. They highlight unexpected costs, they force the team to bring forward hard decisions and push towards action.

It’s the same as time boxing or pomodoro. You tell yourself it’ll take an hour. An hour later, you ask yourself what did you actually do and whether it makes sense how you spent your time.

I don’t think fake deadlines should be external. Hard deadlines is for external teams depending on you like marketing or sales or a customer.

Fake deadlines are for you to check in with yourself if things still make sense or if new decisions should be made because things didn’t turn out as expected.

> If you think that a prototype might take a month, why not challenge the team to see what they can deliver by the end of the week? You will be surprised, and so will they.

This is a great thought experiment but terrible for maintainability. It’s good to discuss what happens if we need it sooner, or what we could accomplish if we had more time. It’s bad to waste a week and commit to the bad decisions we make to meet a 1-week deadline when we all think 1 month is more reasonable.

Young people have a tough time pushing back. This technique is great for senior people, but juniors are just going to burn out. You have to be super careful with your language and be pretty clear that the pressure here is hypothetical.
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One more N=54 trial makes absolutely no difference to the mountain of evidence in favor of creatine. The news article should reference meta studies, not chasing headlines from the drip drip drip of meaningless small studies
Generally it’s the time it takes for you to get back to physiological baseline.

If you do a lot of activity, the amount of exertion can be measured in EPOC - how much extra oxygen your body needs for the extra metabolism to support repair (this is when any gains happen, growth, endurance, efficiency). When that’s back to baseline your body has done repairing, you’ve “recovered”.

If you aren’t recovered, your body still hasn’t repaired the damage you’ve done to it in the previous round, and you probably won’t be able to repeat the effort, whichever discipline. You’re digging yourself deeper in a hole. If you keep doing this, that’s overtraining, and you can get worse.

If you never experienced this, congratulations, you were operating inside your body’s natural limits! You may have good genes, and having good sleep and nutrition is probably more important than supplements.
It’s because that’s how constants are named in Ruby. The method names match the constant names of the component classes.
I've been developing in Django with Django Rest Framework for 10+ years and just recently built my first FastAPI project, so I may be a little bit biased here.

Django takes care of a lot of common functionality for you. The biggest things for me are:

- Authentication: this includes safely handling sessions, cookies, password hashes as well as integrations with SSO providers via libraries like Social Django.

- ORM: love it or hate it, the ORM just does everything. You mostly don't need to worry or think about migrations or database support.

- Admin panel: the builtin admin panel is a great way to get a quick UI that can, in some cases, handle a pretty big swath of the UI needs for your app.

With that said, there are some things that I LOVED about FastAPI. Using pydantic for serialization is way nicer than the serializers you get from Django Rest Framework. The DRF serializers just feel slow and antiquated after using pydantic. FastAPI is also much lighter weight, and works great if you just need a quick and dirty API server.

I think that my recommendation would be to use FastAPI for microservices and Django for anything that needs to handle more than a few REST API endpoints. All the extra functionality in Django is great if you want to build a production monolith, but all those extra features are unnecessary bloat for microservices.
> "Solve deep product problems like how to collect more money with a voice AI agent."

Next "killer app"...an app you can send a phone call to the moment you realize it's a spammer/collector/etc. The app uses an LLM and voice synth to have the most boring and frustrating conversation ever with the caller. It should frequently ask them to repeat themselves, pretend to misunderstand common words, and for bonus points...speak in a broken accent. I'd pay $20 for that app right now.
You don't have to say anything, but if you don't say where you got it, what's the point of making the post unless it's just to troll?
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This too is oversimplification. For example, due to differences in testosterone levels, a woman would need to put in significantly more effort than a man in order to approach similar strength levels.
I have not read it yet, I must admit, but I like Baffler and planning on subscribing. Thanks for reading and the feedback!
I believe that's what this project aims to do:
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
If you using fake deadlines to stress employees and force them to go the extra mile and do crunch time to meet those deadlines then that's worker exploitation.
I mean far be it from me to extinguish someones hyperbole about literature, but it's simply not that unique or groundbreaking - as for its supposed intellectual insurmountability, it's hardly Finnegan's Wake.

Games like 'What Remains of Edith Finch' handles the literary and primary source based diegetic narrative, with games like Firewatch or similar expanding on the premise as genre-games. Then you have the likes of Journey or To The Moon serving to upturn expectations on concepts of traditional narrative and structure, and things like The Stanley Parable satirically prodding the nature of choice and narrative viz a viz a player's actual agency.

In the ghetto of SCUMMWare point and click games with cartoonish graphics and themes I'm sure Myst was a breath of fresh air. Intellectually, however, any number of games make it look like a remedial student.

Take 'The Fool's Errand'- a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson which presents itself as a point and click meta-puzzle with an overarching narrative extrapolated through various visual and logic puzzles and a cryptic treasure map. The game is structured as a storybook divided into five parts, each containing a large number of different chapters; the storybook can be paged through and read as continuous prose on screen. Starting to sound familiar? No doubt, as both it and Myst lift a lot of their inspiration wholesale from Masquerade by Kit Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool%27s_Errand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)

Jumping back to the soft-core philosophical gum-chewing, we can see the same themes emerge in a far more articulate sense as early as the Gibson/Dick-esque dystopian nightmare of Deus Ex in 2000.

Deus Ex played with any number of interesting literary vehicles including a 'novel within a novel', the agency of man vs AI and its textual interaction with the world, the inversion of symbols and signifiers, and a huge debt owed to both Gravity's Rainbow and Foucalt's Pendulum structurally and thematically. Hell, G.K. Chesterton's metaphysical thriller 'The Man Who Was Thursday' is included in excerpts throughout the game simply for flavour!

Nowadays there's plenty of easy and lazy comparisons to make based on similar mechanics and core gameplay loop - The Talos Principle or Soma for example - but I'd go more recently with Disco Elysium, which owes huge amounts thematically to China Mieville's 'The City and the City' and Émile Zola's 'Germinal'. I would like to go on (for thousands of words) but I would only spoil people's enjoyment of a TRUE creative literary tour de force and game that requires appropriate and actual intellectual rigour to engage with.
I use a delivery service that packages the food and the recipe in a box. The recipe is 1 page long, on thick paper, and I have used it as temporary food storage when the cutting board gets too full.

Works like a champ. Pictures and everything.
I think the flexibility and agility in domain modeling is the magic sauce of ORMs like Django. The Model definition directly drives migrations and form generation (incl Admin GUI).

If you know exactly the product you are making and don't need to iterate much on the domain model, frontend-oriented frameworks like Supabase and FastAPI make sense.
as a 30+y employed systems programmer, when I read a story like this, I get angry at the highly piled brittle system,not at the guy having sl installed. I am aware there exists a third option of not getting angry in the first place, but I hate opaque nonrobust crap. This smells like everything I hate about front-end tooling. ignorance and arrogance in perfect balance.
I’m glad we have this result to confirm what’s obvious to some of us and completely absurd to others, but it’s also worth pointing out that the Turing test was never meant to be a literal test. He invoked the “Imitation Game” to make a philosophical point about intersubjective recognition, not to describe a technical benchmark.

If you haven’t read Turing 1950 yet, I highly, highly recommend it - most of it is skimmable:

https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf
The Turing test is a test for people, not computers.

I am not at all amazed that people are getting fooled by a computer program.