grumpy_coder

All of that still reads as a non-professional messing about at ten different things.

If we want to use a pixel art generator commercially we need 'practical guide' to making a small change to one animation, two months after creating the original character.

We need images generated in psd layers, with actual text using a font.

Sticking to the brand palette religiously.

Code review was pretty rare until Github launched in 2008 and made it very easy to add to your process.

I honestly didn't see as much improvement in code quality as people assume. Friends approve their friends PRs. Most coding cultures really push back on refusing a PR.

Automated testing in CI was the much bigger improvement, at least the code compiles now.

How many other people have hit the pain of injecting ssh keys for gitlab into a docker container building your code in CI?

Compiling code shouldn't hit network by default.

Cities have started to fix it, but it was mostly a zoning loophole. Protected industrial zoning typically allowed building 'mini warehouses' with limited public comment, no parking, on land that was fairly cheap.

Made self storage plentiful and cheap in areas where housing lot sqft was limited.

You have to have access to far more than $250k to be willing to blow that creating a startup. I may give my kids $250k for a house to live in. I do not have enough for them to yolo it on a dot com startup.

Unfortunately were I live...

The sports clubs were bought out by private equity and charge large fees. The local park is rented to the same private sports teams 7 days a week. The local elementary closed it's playground. (been open for 40 years, installed gates 5 years ago) Only scouts at the church remains, and it has become oddly focussed on getting fairly rich kids into college.

The cuts include workers in senior director and vice president roles, as well as managers, product developers, product managers, program managers, software developers, site reliability developers, technical analysts, user experience developers and others.

They are in no-way laying off call center employees, they are laying off tens of thousands of the most highly paid US workers.

And yes the numbers of H1Bs granted in 2025 is relevant. You don't layoff 20% of your 100,000+ people workforce all of a sudden 'cos March went badly.

The schools studied in that paper are free, or close to free. Not $50,000 per anum And I don't think OP was suggesting it's the quality of education that affects outcomes in attendees of expensive private high schools.

Yeah, I think the first mistake is thinking 'large software project' is specific enough to have any good advice at all.

Large software projects could include AAA console videogame, or banking mobile app, or embedded vehicle entertainment system, or airport baggage handling system, or hundreds of other totally different domains.

The only good advice I can think of is given a large software project try to hire someone (or a whole team) that have built something pretty similar before.

A fine time to cancel Larabee properly and get serious about specialized GPU hardware five years earlier.

The grocery bagger on a zero hour contract needs to be able to survive when not given 40 hours. Also the 5% unemployed people in a 'full employment' economy need to be able to survive when sacrificed to control inflation.

Have you seen how much money we are shoveling into 'AI'

Boeing has consistently underperformed the market massively since the MD merger. Making maybe 3% after inflation

Monorepo very often means bazel for tooling (rbe and caching tests) and that means one WORKSPACE with common versions of libs.

Monorepo also means a team 'vetting' new thirdparty libs, and a team telling you your CI takes too long, and a team telling you to upgrade your lib within 23 minutes because theres a security issue in the korean language support...