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My concern about this state of affairs in software engineering is that it may be producing generations of engineers who couldn't actually build/conceive things better (eg. Building a rendering engine or a mobile OS) if they wanted to concentrating that power in a few corporations. That's a bit terrifying.

Same here. Unless all parties use the same encrypted email service, this made no sense to me actually.

I think one should write the code that's most suitable for a specific scenario. Senior vs junior has nothing to do with this (at least not in a categorical way). I have met many who call themselves seniors who really just aren't as good as they think they are.

The best engineer I've worked with sometimes wrote simpler code and sometimes wrote highly sophisticated code. If there's someone on the team who can't understand a particular piece of code, he should just ask and learn. There's no reason to weigh someone down just to make an inexperienced, incompetent programmer or unwilling to learn something happy.

Good code isn't junior code. Good code isn't senior code. Good code is just what works best in a specific scenario. And it takes experience and details of a problem to decide what that is exactly. Dogmatic, rigid views just don't work well in this line of work.

I can't see how these accidents point to cheap incompetent labour unless you are saying that the product managers, chief engineers, principal engineers are being outsourced.

Are you saying that a plane that tends to tilt up dangerously under certain conditions that is designed to be pushed down nose first by a software with no limit to how much it'll push down depending on a single sensor would have been an acceptable solution if the workers were different? This is a problem with the design and definition of a large system rather than the implementation.

So, I think in this case, whoever had any knowledge of this at any level and let it go through are absolutely responsible. While outsourcing to cheap labour elsewhere can and often does become a problem,these crashes can't be attributed to that. This was a very specific failure with very specific people in the wrong.

"We just lined up electeons" :)

Inspiring! Looks awesome. Hope this will go on to become a huge success. All the best!

Didn't you guys get fined for reporting bs recently? I'm gonna just give it a few more weeks before taking this seriously :p

Well, it's not like the professional journalists don't lie at all for profit and self-preservation. Lol.

Facebook does a lot of disageeable things but making everyone a journalist isn't one of them. This just decentralised journalism and actually empowered freespeech. There are issues with it, but that's a better problem we can work on to mitigate than giving a few channels a monopoly over truth.

That's an excellent point!

I studied that book for my literature course in high school. That book is a joke. It tried to imitate the story of the buddha but twisted it to fit a western narrative. Author did himself a great disservice writing it. Would have been better off if he tried to just create something original instead.

The issue I had with the original article is the way it starts by shedding what the author considers as myths.

As I mentioned, to understand Buddha's story, it should be done in the context of the most important teachings of Buddhism which I'm not going to go into here. Its almost like axioms in Mathematics. You don't pick the results you understand, and she'd the axioms that don't make sense to you. You can do it, but you are going to run into contradictions.

Buddhism is highly internally consistent despite the story being so old and informal in the sense of western philosophies. The danger of what she is trying to do here is that after you shed all the "myths", what you are going to end up with is mindful exercises for corporate events.

Wasn't beating about the bush. I just forgot her name. Either way, her name wasn't important enough for me to look it up. The point was, someone who has no credentials about gender equality, video games or psychology were raising millions to fix a "problem" outside her expertise.

There's a whole lot of people who have studied fields that are irrelevant to today's industry needs and have ended up with no real marketable skill. Various forms of activist movements have money in it.

Modern developed societies have solved most of the serious, basic problems making it easier for a group of people to capitalise on solving more lofty problems. I have seen someone who did a degree in communication studies or something like that going after video games for sexism and raise millions for the cause.

This trend will probably continue until we have more serious things to worry about. This is very eloquently described in "Fate of empires" by Sir John Glubbs.

I use Duck Duck Go and I actually find it better than Google Search (better in the sense that there's something refreshing about the results I get as opposed to the stuff I see on Google Search, I can't comment on accuracy). I never read any documentation or a blog on how to use it. Just downloaded it and started typing