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In my experience, most engineers won't even get the chance to work on something so impactful and cross team/org to land a promotion.

Not their fault. Sometime, as everything in life, you are in the right place at the right time. You get to work on a good project and bingo. But most of the time you will end up fixing bugs in some half baked, broken PoC that someone launched in production just to get that promotion, and now you got to make it to work, while the person who got promoted get to move on and draft another broken PoC, launch it etc ...

It depends if you are the one fixing shit and make things work (you rarely will get a promotion) or you are the lucky one who get to write spaghetti code on the next thing, cash out and move on onto the next thing ...

Life is not fair I know ...

I wished people would care more for the real world than virtual land and racing to Mars ... awful times we live in ..

I am not sure about that. Java has been around for some time now, but any Java developer can easily read code written 20y ago.

I find c++ syntax terse and hard to read. A good example is the well know boost library. Even back in the days when I was coding in c++ on day to day basis, I have always found boost code hard to read and reason about.

I agree with the string argument. I felt the same struggle, too many string types. It is hard to remember when to use what.

I wish there were one string type to rule them all.

I worked on few projects in c++ many many years ago, so I don’t define myself as an expert in that language, but c++ nowadays scares me, looks like the language complexity have exploded and code looks like complex to me. All those templates … I have the feeling that languages like Rust have a chance long term to replace c++

I wish an expressive language like Rust, but with a GC, so I don't have to think about borrow/checker and memory manager in general.

I have tried to use Go but did not find appealing or ergonomic. I would choose Java/Kotlin over it, perhaps with GraalVM.

If I had to write system tools, I'd probable go with Rust.

Will Apple finally make up their mind? Most of the big tech are getting more and more work remote friendly. If they want to retain talents ... they must align with them. Otherwise they will continue to bleed engineers to FB, Google, etc ...

Less and less people are using FB .. perhaps IG and Whatsapp yes, although you have to consider that privacy regulations can only get more stringent over time.

Will they go bankrupt ? I don't think so. Will they be able to grow at the rate of the last 10y? I don't think so.

I think they peaked already.

> - Apple’s 2021 opt-in privacy change makes FB/Insta/Messenger/WhatsApp ads less effective permanently for the highest margin demographic (iPhone users)

> This will be worked around - the impact isn't as large as people make it out to be.

And you think Apple will stay put and do nothing? You can expect that as soon as they find a work around, Apple is gonna screw them again. They have no chances.

I suggest you to keep practicing those leetcode ...

I think FAANG should be renamed to MAAG the only companies that will continue to dominate the tech industry at least of the next 2 decades ...

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google

Everything else ... not so sure ...

I suspect/hope that many (socialist) political leaders around the globe are going to be forced by their supporter to re-asses their usage of Twitter.

I am glad I did not join them last year when I had the chance. Went for a FAANG instead. I see pure chaos for the foreseeable future.

If the data is publicly available then it should be legal to scrape it and use it. LinkedIn can decide, if they want, to put all the data behind login. Problem solved.