Scrum is really like communism.
Everyone keeps saying “read the agile manifesto “ but the people who practice scrum (communism) most likely never read it. They just “get the idea”.
Same applies to the works of Marx and Engels: they are designed for completely different set of people compared to the ones that quote them and tend to say “they get the ideas”.
Have you ever thought that some software engineers enroll not by their natural calling but for pure economic factors?
For a lot of people in Europe, the paycheck immediately turns you into a middle class person with stable income, benefits and you get to work with kind of smart people around more or less.
Plus, it’s all over the media, how the hi-tech sector always lacks talents and that there’s no formal admission process to these kind of jobs except for FAANG.
Where I’m going with this, is that you’re actually right. I’ve worked with people who are born into this job without a degree but also, I’ve worked with those who enrolled into this career for purely economical reasons.
The economical no degree guys, especially in their late 20s, early 30s may have a tendency of producing a result, but it would be of lower quality than that of a CS grad.
With a CS grad, we can speak the same language about data structures, patterns and we do generally get each other. But with the off-the street guys — you never know if they get you. And this is a big problem once you build software at scale.
Adding to that, I’ve encountered situations, where the SSEs just discovered design patterns and for no good reason decided to practice what they learned right in the production codebase. This practice later came down to code rot, decreased portability and generally waste of engineering time (which is money too). When you at the company at a later stage, you can see that a self-trained SSE was just juggling with new shiny things (that could’ve been learned at school as when to apply them etc) and it’s a train wreck to work with such people.
Also, once you question what was the engineering justification for it, they may immediately take offense and become hostile rather than engage in what is expected to be a basic engineering discussion.
So I would say, that the overall quality of working software engineers is decreasing across the board, yes. My own experience proves this.
Biggest improvement in sleep quality happened to me, when I returned to intermittent fasting.
For more than a year, I stopped doing it (along with the diet) and indulged myself in junk food, tasty things like ice creams, bakery et cetera.
All that carbs and sugar overload made me stay awake overnight with no added value really. Eventually, I calculated the sleep stats — around 5,5 hours of sleep per night. Needless to say, I felt lousy and self-loathing a lot of mornings. Neither coffees, nor cold showers helped me to really wake up properly.
Once, I cut off junk food again, returned back to 18/6 fasting cycle, I sleep like a baby. I shut down by 10.30 PM and awake by 7 AM or little bit earlier. Before the alarm goes off!
Garmin watch reports, that I have good to excellent sleep quality with no wake ups: at least 2 hrs of deep sleep and 2+ hrs of REM.
I drink around 2 regular mugs of coffee per day (around 20oz) and at least 1 liter of green tea. The rest is still water, so 2,6 quarts each day.
>Kazakhstani (born in Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union) ethnic Russian stops mentioning “Russia” in his biography during a period of increased Russophobia.
He is jewish.
Just like the rest of the "yandex talents" that moved to work at Israeli office.
They all get to be jewish when if suits them.
UPD.
Also, yandex news was (and still is) the pinnacle of russian putin propaganda. And the person in question was complicit with it. Even, given the fact he wasn't living in russia since 2014.
He tries to whitewash himself because he is a sanctioned individual. And the protocol to get desanctioned is to publicly state he disapproves the war.
If this whole infrastructure is built just to render a static page, I can guarantee that from the point of view of someone reaching it out from Indonesia, then the PageSpeed wouldn't matter. It would be super slow.
I host my blog on CF Pages, and my front pages loads is subsecond time (around ~725 ms actually).
This incurs no electricity bills or any additional costs to me. And it's aggressively cached, compressed and also distributed on Edge Cache. Which is literally impossible with RPI at home.
As a white european dude, who's ancestors never oppressed anyone, rather were oppressed by other white dudes through history. Can you ELI5 why the DEI exists and what problems does it solve, from but from a perspective of someone of my position?
Not a troll-bait question, but I sincerely try to comprehend this as to me the mere term people of color is the uttermost racist label imaginable. Also, that presumes I'm from people of no-color...
In the US discrimination based on skin color is widespread and goes back to before the country's founding, and access to opportunities is very uneven based on wealth. The PoC term is a reflection of the general pattern of discrimination as practiced here. This situation both has strong inertia (easier to get access to opportunity if you have relatively wealthy parents and/or blend in with wealthier people who tend to be white) and is also reinforced by vested interests (demonizing Latinos and Asian immigration for taking jobs helps keep immigration regulations tight and labor costs down). DEI initiatives are one take on how to get the system to correct towards giving everyone a fair shot.
There are both, and they are related. For example family wealth and wealth accumulation in the US is weighted heavily to home ownership and appreciation, the GI bill that powered a great deal of home purchases was structured to exclude blacks, and the combination of those facts shapes the distribution of wealth today. Expensive neighborhoods tend to have better public schools, the quality of that schooling is a lifelong advantage, yet redlining was only banned around 50 years ago. This directly affected the cohort of people in their 60s who are still part of the work force. Overall social mobility in the US is pretty poor compared to other wealthy countries but I'm not sure if there is any rigorous work to attribute causes.
There's also trailer parks, Appalachia and dying mid-western towns. I'm guessing a majority of them don't have access to better public schools. Sounds more of a problem of how public schools are funded than structural racism, which benefits richer districts. This is a good example of a class issue, since there's no shortage of poorer white folks as well. Yes, there's a smaller percentage of them, but also a larger overall number (5.3 million non-Hispanic white children in 2019 compared to 4.1 million black).
>Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.
Allow me to second this!I have a not-so-small bookrmark collection (~600). When I discovered FF tags, I was ecstatic: assigning multiple tags to a single bookmark makes navigating the pile really good.
But, as soon as I discovered that neither iOS nor Android version of Firefox supports tags, I felt betrayed. Add to it the inability to export full FF profile (such peculiarities as about:config overrides, extension lists etc) and you end up with a very disgruntled user. So I ended up with trusting desktop Safari. Turns out it has _similar_ feature called bookmark description.
I still resent Chromium-based products, because UX is wrong to me. But FF is certainly mismanaged if not sabotaged and the upper level management will bury it. Or the time will make FF almost irrelevant.
Those of you implementing DPI, assisting CCP with logging, cryptocurrency daredevils, tracking enablers and even a slave helmet guy. Do know that you have changed the world. For worse. And you'll never git amend or git revert what you've done. Most likely you will never find rest for what you've done as the confessions are very indicative.
Funny, how Hollywood different the notion of an evil computer guy in movies (asian/western european/nerd) to an average american family guy Mikey Mike doing all this real damage.
But, I bet all those mortgages ain't gonna pay themselves, right?
Given Lyft have (had?) an office in semi-fascist state of Republic of Belarus, there's no wonder they are laying off someone.
I double checked, the evidence of Minsk office is washed from their career portal. Yet, the old listings are there[0].
Issue is that most of those people have been likely opposing the government. Now they are out of their only source of income and wont be able to finance change.
Same applies to the works of Marx and Engels: they are designed for completely different set of people compared to the ones that quote them and tend to say “they get the ideas”.