nickstefan12

This describes a lot of people with young kids pretty accurately

Seriously laughed out loud when the ending brings it back to the junior engineer and the engineering processes. Well done!

AOE2 (Age of Empires 2) is _still_ going strong some twenty years later. Active reddit, youtube, and twitch communities. Still releasing new civ expansions on Steam. I think it's success is due to just how balanced the game is. It's like a really fast moving chess game.

I like factorio as well, but honestly it started to feel like work after I got the hang of it (needing to refactor etc).

Same! Another industry they could play monopoly with

GPS spoofing is a big part of the Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”. Funny that in a movie it seemed totally fake, something invented for the plot, and yet here I see it’s a real thing.

Interesting how truth can be too much for fiction sometimes.

Nothing is particularly “bad”. I’ve used them in python a number of times.

I’m more just commenting that it’s a strange / interesting code based worth sight seeing. It was written in a style that seemed like from another language.

I will never forget what I found when hacking the internals of Handsontable many years ago...

JavaScript For loops with

- :label (eg go to)

- continue

- break

It was definitely an interesting sperlunk!

My cynical answer is that engineers often work with “yes”/“no” about feasibility.

Leaders usually keep the conversation above that level and think in terms of which problem needs solving rather than yes/no’ing specific implementations.

> What full stack means in the market is front end with a little back end

So much this. I believe in full stack development skills, that someone can have them, but I don’t believe in the job role of full stack developer.

At small medium scale, there’s just so much more front end work on a lot of apps. Let’s say 70%. My experience with full stack as a job role is that it turns into “what backend change can I quickly make in order to get back to the front end work which is most of the work.” Which then means no ones manning the ship / design / scope creep / perf risks etc of the backend. I think separate roles lead to more even evaluation of best feature implementations.

> alternative computing reality

This such the perfect description. I was working on a Django feature last year that had to work on all DBs and testing the oracle stuff was like entering a new reality lol.

This is important. I agree that taxing / mandating one house per person / family is probably the only way to reign in rent seeking.

You may argue that the solution either way is to build more, but I think its important to take problems on at their source. The debate about supply and demand just seems to be the wrong level of abstraction when there's a more sociological root cause for pulling up the ladder.

> "Or rather, the fewer poor people around tends to mean rich people find it even more desirable."

If we don't address this, it will be impossible to convince people to build more, no matter how blue in the face people get about supply and demand charts.

Your analogy is logically sound, but it doesnt match what I've seen in reality. I think the extra factor is that rich people seem to attract more rich people. That is the number that I think can't be out built. The rise in prices attracts more of them. Or rather, the fewer poor people around tends to mean rich people find it even more desirable. In practice, no government or real estate boom can out build this network effect of rich people attracting more rich people who eventually decide they like things the way they are. Not just real estate, but everything about the place. And they now own it, so its not that crazy to imagine they get to decide this. Im not morally in support of it, just stating history.

Rich people are especially into "knowing the best", whether its vacations, cars, and yes, places to live. Thats what I meant about them wanting to come buy stuff in your town even if they don't currently live there. And the data kind of shows this. California has an outflow of poor and and inflow of richer.

Basically, desirability is inelastic. California has better weather than a lot of places. The only people who can pay up the vertical inelastic curve are rich people. There are a bunch of them who want to move to your town from elsewhere.