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I follow most of what you're saying, but not so much the increase in the popularity of far-right ideology. Surely Russia explicitly positioning themselves as a common enemy of Europe (rather than the current cold war status) would galvanise Europe? Most of the far-right personalities across Europe are very soft on Russia, to say the least.

I love this article and the pluralist worldview harking back to 2015/16. I'd love to tell my team "Hey we're going to build this small separate use case in Svelte". But the evaluation checklist, which is pretty accurate, is in direct opposition to the point being made.

Assess Performance Needs: 99% of apps are not going to notice the difference, so you choose React

Team Skills and Learning Curve: Everyone knows React, nobody knows Qwik, you choose React

Scaling and Cost of Ownership: Immaterial

Ecosystem Fit: React has the more full and stable ecosystem, you choose React

On top of all this, all the AI tools have good capability with React - defaulting to it themselves - and engineers are increasingly expected to make significant use of AI tooling.

Nothing soured my (already negative) opinion of Crypto as much as regular conversations with a Crypto VC. Every time we spoke they were either sceptical or very excited about something that, to me, was obviously a trivial example of 1 or more classic scams. Whether or not they were excited about it didn't seem to track with the scamminess.

I would suggest because the sentiment is a trite misrepresentation of people's experiences across multiple facets. Throughout the summer you'll smell weed constantly if you're out and about and never see anyone so much as approached by any nearby police, regardless of who they are.

Edit: UK, I can't speak for the US

We drive on the left, which means we walk on the right (to see traffic coming), so I guess it stems from the latter

Depends what you mean by "the remainder of the world". Most mid-tier companies I've worked at or know people who work at in London started moving on from microservices some time ago. So I guess, unsurprisingly, no.

Leaving them in the room to complete the tasks was an early red flag here. If you have no insight into how people think about and complete tasks then you are testing the product of their time, not their approach to problem solving. You then shouldn’t be surprised by the lack of what you didn’t test for after the fact.

This is great, I would upvote it more if I could. Also very accurate on the lack of required empathy.

The combination of your last points and "hard work does not pay off" are something that it took me until 32 (and arguably then only because of lockdowns) to learn. Working hard on your employer's problems is unlikely to be fulfilling, they will never give you the influence or credit you want (or maybe deserve?) because of "hard work". Working hard on your own things or with people you care about is where you can earn fulfillment. And I don't mean a $10,000/month side hustle, I mean tiny incremental improvements on things you enjoy but may suck at. For me it's been attempting to learn another spoken language, which I'm still comically bad at 3 years later, and some other hobbies which I'm also lower-end-of-the-curve bad at but get a lot of enjoyment from.

I feel a bit of this every time there are pushes to get everyone to code, it's very weird. Sort of related is the expectation that you should just be able to switch into a programming career in a few weeks. You can't do that with almost any other meaningful career but for some reason you "should" be able to for programming and there are very profitable businesses selling the lie that you can.

Consdering the state of learning materials for the remainder of my educational (and professional, I'm looking at you compliance courses) life, it really is mindblowing what they achieved with Encarta in the '90s.

My experience of two games going free to play, PUBG and Rocket League, is that in the former 100% of games now have cheaters in and in the latter ~25-40% games have people playing on fresh accounts to keep their rank artificially low.

For me the biggest negative to F2P is in competitive games, so especially Rocket League in this case, because being F2P means that the competitive element and matchmaking system is 100% worthless.

It feels like some of the more agile publishers reacted to this sentiment some years ago, in that they started publishing 5,000 word articles about EVERYTHING and subsequently even long reads are self-indulgent garbage.

I personally would extend this article in today's world to be more like "scan the headlines every 2-3 days and go read books instead". That way you know "what" is largely happening, e.g. geopolitics, floods, murder trial, but you don't waste time consuming a few thousand words of garbage from somebody who knows no more than you do.

A friend of mine started doing this way before me and a take of his was that any sufficiently big news will make its way through to you via social circles anyway, use people who don't value their time as your filter.

It's so satisfying to see these streams getting massive attention and loving it when they must go through insane peaks of traffic but mostly trundle on with a smaller dedicated core. The raw passion is refreshing