jaaames

Can't agree enough.

Declarative programming makes sense for lots of things, React is a great example.

With such a big dependency graph for infra, adding loops and variables and templating to be able to achieve the same thing as Pulumi in a "declarative" way is ultimately just harder and worse than using a familiar powerful language with an SDK.

It's not. Australia calculates fully loaded car costs at $0.72AUD/km. If you add up depreciation, registration, insurance, servicing, fuel, repairs and amortize it the numbers check out.

Very few, and I don't think it's a reasonable parallel.

I don't think 8 hours of cognitively demanding, yet physically sedentary work, is part of our human nature.

If you frame it in the sense that we are just monkeys in shoes, it wouldn't be at all reasonable to expect someone to crouch in the grass and be highly alert for hours at a time.

The corollary would be a job that's physically engaging (read, not demanding) but cognitively basic, e.g. moving boxes in a warehouse, gardening.

The difference is one form of labor has leveraged output (writing code), vs linear output (moving boxes).

I guess I'm going outside today.

Whatever role you're in, don't underestimate the value of relationships, communication, and soft skills in being able to influence the impact and value of the work you can deliver.

If you can persuade a product manager to drop a bad feature you might be able to ship a more valuable feature at a higher quality.

If you can persuade a procurement office to change a supplier you might be able to ship a better design faster.

If you can get involved in the hiring process you might be able to pick the team you work with.

Always make friends with the admin person, accounting that pays you, and stay on the right side of HR.

I had 3 days of tired/weakness from 7-10 Jan, and a severe dry cough for about two weeks after that.

I strongly suspect I caught it from a friend that had travelled all over Europe and back the previous weekend and we were in close contact.

Unfortunately no way to rule out if I indeed had it or not. Would be super interested when an antibody test comes out to see though.

I am extremely bearish on this whole global situation, but given the gravity of the situation, we're going to see the world's best institutions and minds working on vaccines and treatments with essentially unlimited funding and top priority.

Even during our darkest times, we're going to see the most remarkable science and engineering capabilities exposed in the coming weeks and months, for the sake of humanity.

Pushbullet (Chrome extension) might work for copy/paste to/from your phone.

Yeah - I use this workflow and love it. cmd + esp (with caps lock remapped to escape) to toggle a full screen terminal from any application. Means don't have to cmd + tab and hunt for it, it's always one shortcut away.