myth2018

I see. Yeah it's a bit annoying. In my mother tongue, Portuguese, I feel a visceral pain when I read what I classify as bad style. But I never developed such esthetic sense with the other languages in which I can communicate in any level

As a non-native, I see how susceptible I am to absorbing such style. There's no way at all for me to perceive anything wrong with the examples you present

Also: run experiments to find an "optimal" budget with the right size for your target audience. If you, e.g., set a too restrictive geographic rule, but also set a budget higher than what they manage to burn showing your ads at the area you defined, they will override the rules you set up to guarantee 100% of your money will be burnt.

This.

For a certain class of professionals, slowness is a kind of superpower able to restrain their damage. LLMs have turned off those guardrails.

On one hand, I'm not fully surprised -- LLMs are powerful tools, but of course they can be misused. On the other hand, I'm impressed by how fast things are deteriorating in some shops. At my job they got encouraged, over-confident even, to finally do some long-awaited major overhaul in the code base. I'm genuinely concerned about our ability to continue maintaining this mess in the mid and long-term.

What a nice surprise. Two days ago I glanced a book about Clipper Summer in my bookshelf and thought that it would be nice to have an environment like that for the web. Glad that someone has built it!

By the way, I'm not nostalgic about the tech of those years, but I definitely think that we unlearned a few things along the way

No, you're not. Same here.

I was skeptical too, but decided to give it a try. It worked quite well for me.

> I know banking apps are the typical example, but I've always wondered why

My bank uses the app for 2FA, and that became a sort of a standard in Brazil, AFAIK. Mine at least gave me the option of using an RSA SecurID or sth alike when I asked, but I don't know how much it would cost me.

My stock broker on the other hand does 2FA exclusively on mobile (and only Android and iOS). The same for the health insurer.

My car insurer didn't force me to so far, which I find strange, given their interest in tracking my location and speed.

These were some of the major factors leading me to give up on using a feature phone when I tried, a few years ago. It was a good experience, especially at those times of pandemics and political instability, but the inconveniences were many.

I worked for a somewhat large bank that used to do this "system analysis" job at its beginnings. Don't recall how they called this process step, but the idea was the same. Besides the internal analysts, they used to hire consultancies full of experienced ladies and gentlemen to design larger projects before coding started.

Sometimes they were hired only to deliver specifications, sometimes the entire system. The software they delivered was quite stable, but that's beyond the point. There sure were software issues there, but I was impressed by how those problems were usually contained in their respective originating systems, rarely breaking other software. The entire process was clear enough and the interfaces between the fleet of windows/linux/mainframe programs were extremely well documented. Even the most disorganized and unprofessional third-party suppliers had an easier time writing software for us. It wasn't a joy, but it was rational, there was order. I'm not trying to romanticize the past, but, man, we sure un-learned a few things about how to build software systems

What a coincidence, I've just read this paper while I prepare my proposal for a PhD. I feel that the difficulties reported by the novice users were related to the peculiarities of the mainframe interfaces + the 3270 emulator. Not exactly to the fact that they were using a TUI.

Nowadays mostly:

- Java, Python - React, Angular - Postgresql - Docker, Kubernetes

Senior dev, 22 years of experience. Almost exactly two years unemployed right now. I've done some technical leadership before but I'm not looking into it anymore, not really my thing.

In general, I get very few replies, even fewer interviews and 100% eventually "freeze the position" or simply ghost me. I've heard that too many companies are currently spending their HR budgets in market research and have no intention of fulfilling most of the positions they advertise. Not sure if that's true, and maybe there are other reasons for that, market-related and/or related to my resume, but applying to jobs is feeling just a huge waste of my time currently and I'm tending to apply only when I see a great fit.

How I cope: I could save a fair amount of money during the startup frenzy in the course of the pandemics and am living off it right now. But it doesn't generate enough passive income, not even close, so I'll have to find a job eventually. I'm seriously considering another profession. Maybe trying to ingress in the education field with my masters. Despite tech job market being at the rock-bottom, the unemployment rates in Brazil are at a historic low.

Now, despite this gloomy report, if you ask me, I'm feeling optimistic, happy even. I'm really seizing the opportunity to study a lot and spending time with my family, so I feel all this is doing me well overall.

Thank you for the clarification, that one caught me