Highly recommend watching the video explanation linked in the article.
https://twitter.com/tartanllama/status/1410959645238308866
Lost it at “if you come from a functional programming background…”
New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
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#52Also, the Jabberwocky project, Better off Ted.
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#53Look, I've been working on infinidash PRFAQ for over 6 months and now a jokester means I need to do another renaming exercise. Product naming is no trivial business.
The video didn't even mention a dinglearm, and I watched it 7 times.
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#54People in tech are constantly chasing the next big thing, but honestly I feel like most of the major software paradigms have been discovered , things like website UX, AI etc are already at the state of maximum effectiveness and "innovation" is basically just a way of locking in devs who want to learn something that's "industry standard." Look at all the pointless wheel spinning created by having multiple large JS fra…
The path of discovery of new software development paradigms is far from linear but over the long term the improvements are impressive and ongoing. One of my favorite recent examples is declarative (Flutter, SwiftUI) vs imperative UI. The gains to efficiency and clarity are significant.
> The path of discovery of new software development paradigms is far from linear but over the long term the improvements are impressive and ongoing. One of my favorite recent examples is declarative (Flutter, SwiftUI) vs imperative UI. The gains to efficiency and clarity are significant.
Wasn't Delphi declarative enough?
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they not worried about people seeing the joke requirement in the job spec, just not being aware of the current Twitter joke of the day, and discounting themselves?
No, it's selecting candidates who are aware of the current Twitter joke of the day. They're either unaware of how small that bubble is or accepting of the monoculture this promotes.
I'm sure people who are not aware will just search for it in their favorite search engine and find out it's a joke.
What it might filter out are people who don't find this joke funny, and might decide not to apply (and on the countrary it will catch the attention of people finding this funny and concluding Signal must be a cool place to work).
Getting devs attention on a job offer is hard these days, so I guess spicing it a bit is fair.
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#57This reminds me of a practical joke a co-worker and I pulled some years back, we made up a new project called the LMNOP project (just letters out of the alphabet). We used a program i wrote based on the old foggy where whenever we would see a good BS line from an email or document we put it in the BS generator DB. We had the program spit out several pages of total BS and some fake but impressive looking diagrams made…
Reminds me of how a few places I’ve worked momentarily embraced Tableu with open arms after seeing a US revenue heat map built by dragging and dropping (carefully groomed data).
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#58People in tech are constantly chasing the next big thing, but honestly I feel like most of the major software paradigms have been discovered , things like website UX, AI etc are already at the state of maximum effectiveness and "innovation" is basically just a way of locking in devs who want to learn something that's "industry standard." Look at all the pointless wheel spinning created by having multiple large JS fra…
Software ux is generally terrible. Reliability is part of that.
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#59This reminds me of a practical joke a co-worker and I pulled some years back, we made up a new project called the LMNOP project (just letters out of the alphabet). We used a program i wrote based on the old foggy where whenever we would see a good BS line from an email or document we put it in the BS generator DB. We had the program spit out several pages of total BS and some fake but impressive looking diagrams made…
Reminds me of how a few places I’ve worked momentarily embraced Tableu with open arms after seeing a US revenue heat map built by dragging and dropping (carefully groomed data).
The perfect demo.
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#60I saw this as it was happening and my imposter syndrome kicked in and I just stayed quiet, but was totally confused.