Absolutely. Its absurd that the system works like this, but it does. Candidates understanding this evens the field somewhat, or, at least, expands the opportunities.

Yes, I agree it’s ridiculous, but it’s the way it is. Remember that the company is basically shopping for a new employee though. I you’re looking to buy a new T.V., for instance, you probably start out with a list of things you really want it to have. Then you start looking for T.V.s and find that while that one has all the inputs you hoped for, it’s twice the price of that one, which is just missing one, that you can probably get by without. Companies have to make a value judgement on every candidate, weighing thingsvlike length of experience against breadth of knowledge or how they’ll fit in.

It would be better if the hours and pay were as stated, but they’re part of the negotiation too. The harder the job is to fill, the stronger the candidate’s position is in those negotiations, and visa versa.

I really wish more people understood this. Assuming you manage to get past the automated screening (which, to be fair, can be hard if you’re missing something obvious from their list), what matters is whether you appear competant and a good fit. Of course, if two candidates are similar, but one has more experience, they’re more likely to get the job, but it’s not a hard cut off.

Don’t let it grind you down, it’s just a twist on the usual pieces.

Only the most seasoned players use them properly.

Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I’ve got it wrong.

From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m³ at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m³, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m³ per m³ released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?

Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three.

“Gelatinous tuna mold concoction” is a concept I don’t want to have to think about ever again, and I ate similar things when I was a young’un.

It’s not about the ideas spreading genetically, it’s about sending a clear and unambiguous message that if you act in a particular way you will be met with particular consequences.

The problem is ensuring the consequences actually occur. If that was an easy problem to solve we wouldn’t have anything like the crime rates we do.

Fastration?

I think the author is just sick of the bloat and pointless garbage that so many sites now include. I was all ready to argue with them from the title because, to me, an SPA is a Single Page APPLICATION, which can run without communicating with the server. There’s places where those are useful, but the pointless, annoying trend of loading bits of pages via javascript that the author is calling out needs to stop.

If you’re making an ecom system, don’t, for example, make the product page load a page frame work, then load the description, price, stock levels and whatever else with javascript initiated requests. Instead render the whole thing server side and return it in one request. It’ll massively reduce the load on your servers, perform better for your users, and make your pages more indexable. Feel free to use the fancy CSS animations the author suggests, at least they degrade sensibly, with no loss of functionality.

It’s been two hours and I don’t see a PugJesus explaination post. This has me worried. Have they been “saved” by Vikings?

It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn’t identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.

Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.

Thanks for a well rounded write up. I always enjoy reading your posts.

I was hoping they’d back down because it’s a stupid idea, but at least we have longer to convince them of that now.

Sure, but there had to be a reason it was seen as a bear rather than, say, a horse. In either case, three stars “following” it could be interpreted in a variety of ways; a tail, three young, hunters, or something else entirely. I’m suggesting the the stars above give the bear a more bearlike than equine appearance and might have been involved originally.

Your point about the Greeks convincing themselves the trailing stars are a tail speaks to the point I was making about the descriptions being passed diwn mostly orally, so there’s no reliable source anymore. Ultimately we’ll probably never know for certain what the first humans to pick out constellations thought they looked like, or exactly how those ideas changed over time, but it is fascinating to think about.

How does that benefit the community? Unless you manage to cut off a significant chunk of their trade they’ll survive and have even more reason to oppose pedestrianisation. You’re not giving them a way out, or a chance to change their position, so they can only harden their opposition to it.

Let them experience the benefits of pedestrianisation and you’re likely to see their attitude change, and see them become a proponent of it instead.

Revenge is sometimes an enjoyable fantasy, but it rarely ever brings positive changes to people’s opinions.

I once had the “pleasure” of having to deal with a hosted mailing list manager for a client. The client was using it sensibly, requiring double opt-in and such, and we’d been asked to integrate it into their backend systems.

I poked the supplier’s API and realised there was a glaring DoS flaw in the fundamental design of it. We had a meeting with them where I asked them about fixing that, and their guy memorably said “Security? No one’s ever asked about that before…”, and then suggested we phone them whenever their system wasn’t working and they’d restart it.

LLM seeks a match for the phrase “take care of” and lands on a mafia connection. The backups now “sleep with the fishes”.

Without a production DB we don’t need to pay software engineers anymore! It’s brilliant, the LLM has managed to reduce the company’s outgoings to zero. That’s bound to delight the shareholders!