Yes. It’s called “being held to a higher standard”. In the past, we kinda thought we were sending out best and brightest to enforce our laws. The good news is a much larger swath of the country knows better now.
Because so much nuance can be lost in writing, especially if both parties are working in a second language. There is a lot of value in actually talking to someone, especially in a fraught situation like this. Hearing the other person express genuine concern can do a lot to overcome the anger. Otherwise we tend to build up stories in our head about what the other person “really means” and those stories tend to be wildly negative.
Because they’re meeting the patients at their own level. Plus while using PG for everything is a currently popular meme on HN (and I am all for it), it’s not something you see all that often. An app server, a database and a cache is a pretty sensible and simple starting point.
Until you get to 100 test users. Then you need Kafka and k8.
Yes this pilot knows he avoided death. Whereas everyone else may have "got lucky" without realising. Every crash you drive past on the motorway for example!
I know it makes me an old and I am biased because one of the systems in my career I am most proud of I designed around XSLT transformations, but this is some real bullshit and a clear case why a private company should not be the de facto arbiter of web standards. Have a legacy system that depends on XSLT in the browser? Sucks to be you, one of our PMs decided the cost-benefit just wasn't there so we scrapped it. Take comfort in the fact our team's velocity bumped up for a few weeks.
And yes I am sour about the fact as an American I have to hope the EU does something about this because I know full-well it's not happening here in The Land of the Free.
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