lWaterboardCats

Social science isn’t some beacon of hope for humanity; the current state of it is a mess. It’ll be refreshing to see a shift away from the convention.

In theory what you say sounds great, unfortunately in practice, many fields have become far from objective and “peer reviews” seem to be more of “peer support”.

Would love to read an MLOps lessons learned or approach you had or if you recommend any particular books that really hit the nail on the head

You can still take pride in the quality of work without being competitive or ambitious

Where I live, the culture has lost that sense of pride and it’s awful. Things are expensive and the quality of service/product I get in return is awful.

My point being, competition and ambition aren’t correlated to the quality of work delivered.

At this point in this industry and in my experience, the further up the chain you go, the more “SWE” becomes a tool in your belt rather than your career.

The problems you solve for the business are using your tool belt. Even within software, there are sales roles, people management, subject matter expertise, vendor management etc…

For those who have said similar things in my area, most of the time, the better question they ultimately had to ask themselves was “what kind of problems do I want to solve, regardless of the tools? Who do I want to help? What VERY SPECIFIC part of my job don’t haye? Are there parts of my day or events in my career that I genuinely loved?” The last couple of questions are there to help you focus on areas you want to focus less and more on, respectively. No matter the job, you’re gonna have parts you dislike and parts your like, the key is to maximize the things you like.

I don’t mean to undermine the SWE industry standards and practices as a whole, but peeling this onion away, I assure you that you’re using a hammer that can be taken to any industry and will benefit you in general knowing how to use it.

I taught myself Python as my first language and now I’m starting feel that there are core coding concepts that Python abstracts away from the user that are probably important to know for good code hygiene.

That being said, for personal projects that don’t really see the light of day, Python is a perfect multi-tool type language

Happy to answer your question but “How so?” To what aspect?

Create an environment where everyone, including you, is forced to teach each other and and offer different patterns or approaches or pose the question on other ways to approach those and the pros and cons of it.

Hold your horses there, these are sweeping claims that seems like the author boiled it down to “Well millennials bought cheap houses before 2020, so they got cheap houses too, like their parents”

Just because folks got a cheap rate on houses doesn’t mean they can afford the risk over a lifetime.

Boomers could work relatively simple jobs and pay off a house. Right now a house is a much much much larger liability than it has ever been

How to use ChatGPT and Copilot to write emails

I’m sure there are many out there like me, but I used to prefer smaller phones until I used a larger phone for one generation; after trying to move back to a smaller phone, I just missed the real estate of a larger screen.

I’ve been curious myself to the economics of construction. Wondering if there’s a cool place where this type of stuff I broken down, otherwise I’m having a hard time believing some of these estimates.

Who will win when the automated developer says “sorry bro that’s your job”

To be honest, I’ve done strawberry picking at local farms, and I haven’t noticed a substantial difference from a taste standpoint. I think the earlier comment about the “variety” of strawberries likely plays a big factor.

Setting the tired debate of communism vs capitalism aside, Cuba has a government that puts itself above its own constitution.

I understand the argument of “what’s the practical impact”

Practical impact is important to recognize but the concept of potential impact, otherwise known as risk, is most certainly valid; having the most intimate details of your identity stored outside of your own control can have profound risks for any bad actor especially when our methods of securing our identities haven’t kept up with the pace of it being collected.

Tin foil hat says commercial real estate overlords need warm bodies in their empty buildings to provide foot traffic for lease signs go down.

The weird thing is, I’m sure many people here would likely take a pay cut over RTO.

If only we used this monumental opportunity to rethink how we need to collaborate and design cities to support or even embrace remote work models.

Instead, back to concrete jungles and mind numbingly sitting in traffic or being herded from one stop to the next.

True, my WFH option has allowed me to spend weeks at a time with my parents and siblings, who live far from me, at very important times in their lives.

Previously I’d see them during holidays only, and now I see them once a month and actually am able to spend quality time with them.

And while I respect the idea and value of non-remote, I don’t think any amount of “in-person whiteboarding sessions and relationship building” would be worth sacrificing for the flexibility of spending quality time with my family and seeing them more often.

Hah!

I respectfully disagree with your initial point regarding "can" versus "what they do."

Even if a company provides assurances and pledges never to mishandle your data or use it for nefarious purposes, there remains a risk that your data could still end up in the wrong hands.

Harder to turns vehicles as a SaaS product with physical override features

The issue still is that there objectively could be better headphones released after 2014.

If I saw a photograph of all the cellphones from 2004, I can pick out the best cellphone, this doesn’t mean that the best cellphone from 2004 is still the best cellphone.

It’s implied that “best” usually means what is “best” for what people need today as those needs evolve drastically over time and especially with tech products.