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I do really benefit from finally having a way to use shell scripting. Life is too short to remember hundreds of one letter options with obscure combinations
Back in my day, man pages and --help were enough. The thing about great documentation is that it rarely hallucinates.
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I do really benefit from finally having a way to use shell scripting. Life is too short to remember hundreds of one letter options with obscure combinations
Back in my day, man pages and --help were enough. The thing about great documentation is that it rarely hallucinates.
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Back in my day you needed a PhD in CSS to center a div vertically. We used to pore over the freshest W3C drafts with excitement. You don't see that anymore since jQuery.
I was making good buck being ie6 expert, wish the tech didn't progress that quickly ))
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That's nonsense. Your typical developer had to deal with all those things in the past maybe, but is no more than specialization knowledge. You don't care about how many ticks you need to MOV with indirect addressing when you are developing Django. Feels like complaining because someone that is not a Django developer doesn't know how proxy model inheritance works.
All abstractions leak like a sieve. Being a developer at ANY layer of the stack without knowing what's happening underneath you is default gross incompetence and a recipe for eventual disaster. Are we cool with surgeons not knowing what mitochondria are, or how cells work? All you gotta know is where to put the scalpel, bro. I'm sure it will work out just fine.
I don’t expect my doctor to know the component parts of atoms. Nor do I need them to.
I don’t expect a designer to know how a pixel works.
At some point in the stack we have to draw a line and say this level of detailed knowledge is not generally useful to the majority.
In terms of generic web development today, I would be fine at drawing that line at low level system concerns (memory allocation, cpu cycles, hell even compilation)
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Not arguing over original point of quality of tech workers but... > I've conducted 300+ interviews at FAANG in the last 15 years and haven't seen a meaningful drop in the hiring bar. Are FAANG interviews these days an indicator of anything besides being good at FAANG interviews? Some of the best people I worked with that brought real value would never pass big tech leetcode interview...
> Some of the best people I worked with that brought real value would never pass big tech leetcode interview... FAANGs don't do leetcode. They may ask about data structures knowledge, but even their coding interviews are aimed at evaluating stuff like system design, write readable code, be coachable, and even soft skills.
Google and Netflix had hard questions as well, but they were all novel questions not on leetcode/hackerrank. However, CS algorithms 101 were fundamental to both.
One reason I think not given enough weight is that it is now acceptable to do layoffs. These huge companies accrue a ton of dead weight and dead-end projects that they would love to flush routinely, but 5 years ago their stock prices would halve if they suddenly laid off 10% of their work force because of bad optics. Now it has become acceptable for all the various reasons so any company that wants to clean house is…
Agree, twitter layoff set an example that it's ok to layoff. Then all FAANG followed
This is going to be a controversial opinion. The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years. All these huge companies wanted more products, more marketshare, more money, etc. They needed more people to pull this off. They started lowering hiring standards across the board because there just weren't enough people in tech. Simultaneously, a huge portion of the world saw tech sa…
One reason I think not given enough weight is that it is now acceptable to do layoffs. These huge companies accrue a ton of dead weight and dead-end projects that they would love to flush routinely, but 5 years ago their stock prices would halve if they suddenly laid off 10% of their work force because of bad optics. Now it has become acceptable for all the various reasons so any company that wants to clean house is…
My company is discussing having people show up three days a week in the office. The only justification mentioned was that other companies are doing it. I am quite doubtful they did any sort of analysis to ensure it's a good idea.
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> increase worker productivity by 10x-1000x. Tell me you're not an engineer without telling me you're not an engineer
Tell me you're not using LLMs to code without telling me you're not using LLMs to code ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
The "free money" is going away, now that the Boomers are all retiring and taking their money out of the stock market. Interest rates are about to rise to 8-10% and stay there for a few decades, if all goes well . This will mark the beginning of an immense era of innovation as all of that talent floods the market and is put to far more productive use.