>> If your entities are modelled mostly correctly you really don't have to worry about migrations that much
I'm gonna take a wild guess here that you have never worked in unfamiliar domains (like lets say deep cargo shiping or subpremium loans) where your so called subject matter experts provided by client werent the sharpest people you could hope for and actually did not understand what they where doing for most of the time?
Because I on the other hand am very familiar with such projects and doing schema overhaul third time in a row for production system is bread and butter for me.
Schemaless systems is the only reason I'm still developer and not lumberjack.
>> At the age of 40+, I'm a bit ashamed that I'm not as persistent as them, when they were at their 20s and 30s back then.
Don't be and be careful what you wish for.
From my perspective their behavior is borderline unhealthy and almost like a type of OCD but by sheer luck directed towards stuff that pays good. Especially Carmac and Romero are bad role models - their life is really good story to tell (both books reads very well) but not to live.
Thanks. I'm mostly concerned by my lack of persistence. I did read both of the books, and yeah, I don't want to live their childhoods, although my own childhood is not particularly interesting and inspiring.
The real question is "is it good enough for the job"?
The broken english of original was clearly not enough, but a bit cringy alas correct may do the job fine and just like that another whole category of work is gone and same number of editors have to compete in ever shrinking market.
I do not understand how anyone can be so categoric about this - it should not depend on peer pressure but also it should not be dictated by some ideologies. Phones (instant communication actually) is part of modern world and is here to stay and children should learn it as fast as they are able to handle it. Otherwise there is a danger of being left out for them. And at their age there is few other equal things that can make or break their future as being accepted by their peers.
And of course not all children are the same so you need to know yours and decide on case by case basis (my dauther got her first phone when she was 9, my son on the other hand will have to wait)
> And at their age there is few other equal things that can make or break their future as being accepted by their peers.
Hard disagree to this idea as justification for purchasing something for a kid.
The most useful gift that my parents gave me is a cultivated disregard for what is popular. It's not that I go out of my way to alienate my peers—I try to get along well with everyone and it mostly works—but the habit of wanting to participate with the crowd is one that I've watched hamper many a life, and the lack of that habit has allowed me to get a lot further in my career and in my personal and social life than most of my peers.
I'm guessing you are in software dev or something auxiliary to it? And probably you were passable in STEM topics at school?
Then maybe, just maybe, your whole career is just happy accident of right time (software eating world) and right predispositions (STEM).
I know mine is.
And if I would not have that I would be earning what 85% of my peers here in Poland do (barely enough to pay bills).
The only ones that are doing ok without this are the ones that invested everything in social skills (by happy accident of not having socially akward parents or by themselfs intuitively knowing that your group is everything).
So this is just implementation of my deepest believe that the best what we can do for our children is to make them as socially sklled as possibile. And limiting channels of communication does not look like a good way to this.
Of course Im not advocating unlimited access to everything for everyone - it depends on emotional development and predispositions.
>> But let’s not kid ourselves that the stuff we’re writing is even intended to last a long time.
Not my experience at all.
I am literally at this moment releasing new version of private app framework that was created by few people (including me) about 18 year ago for few clients on long forgotten platform because some client (who is still paying support fees!) found some obscure bug building new application using this framework.
The previous version was released about 8 years ago.
I partially understand sporting events if people does not know each other, but birthdays?
Which country is this and what kind of people do you meet in this events? I ask because here in Poland behaving like this still would be seen as major insult and such people would be marked as outsiders. And this label comes with social stigma that can be transferred to child (you can forget about ever being invited to other people homes for children meetups).
Any specific reason for hating roblox? I'm especially interested in game developer perspective (parent perspective is familiar to me being father of two and aware that most of roblox content is of rather poor quality)
It seemed unusually addictive with a lot of stupid games that were nonetheless oddly captivating. Reminded me a lot of addictive (to kids) shit YouTube content. Roblox also had poor parental controls.
Anything that serves up dumb or toxic content that is extremely “engaging” gets banned. YouTube was the worst by far but TikTok and Roblox also meet this criteria.
I forgot to mention Instagram. Kids haven’t seen it but it’s been preemptively banned because it’s full of toxic influencers and other trash. Could say the same about Facebook but kids have zero interest in that so no need to bother. Facebook is where older people go to get their brains sucked out by conspiritainment and political echo chamber groups.
>> And market dynamics sure aren't fully solving it with the "invisible hand" that it offers.
If I take my ideological glasses off for a second its kinda obvious why - invisible hand is just and "observation" dressed in lots of wishful thinking from economists.
In reality it is just useful model that almost always fails if you look close enough
>> The market incentives for me to find a job aren't strong enough and the market incentives for companies to find me and use my talents aren't strong enough either.
But on the other hand - you seems somehow not to notice that todays world is all about team work and the only way most people can test you on this is by using their intuition -so if you feel off to them they will write you off as not a cultural fit and by all means they may be right - the harsh truth is that there is not many people that want to work with people that are true to themselfs (which usually means they have all barriers and filters discarded and are at best annoying and at worst offensive)
> the harsh truth is that there is not many people that want to work with people that are true to themselfs (which usually means they have all barriers and filters discarded and are at best annoying and at worst offensive)
That's what I was trying to depict with coffee/barista example. The example highlights the problem: the customer simply wants coffee brought to him, not to meet a new person - perhaps for a small quick back 'n forth chat but that's it. In the work force, people see other people mostly for the services they provide first and foremost and they want it to be a pleasant interaction. They don't care about you, they care about (1) the service and (2) it being pleasant/positive. I get it, I also find it dehumanizing, but I get it.
And it is a harsh truth. I've tested to put my morals/ethics away and just mask my behavior. Suddenly I jive much better in the work force. The only thing I don't jive well with when I do that is my own conscience.
> so if you feel off to them they will write you off as not a cultural fit and by all means they may be right
What I was trying to depict in my previous comment: the harsh truth is that not everyone is enculturated to fit in. Some people never got a real chance to get the memo. That's how talent is wasted. It's an unequal playing field. This is especially true for people in economical disadvantaged positions.
For example, a friend of mine is a teacher and he teaches some economical disadvantaged boys. Those boys believe that being able to beat someone up is actual strength and what it means to be a man. They care about all the stereotype things that a person cares about when living the "thug life". Some will grow up like that in their adulthood, in my experience. For them, it's tough to integrate into any working lifestyle simply because they've had a traumatic past where no one had the culture of trying to solve conflicts with words rather than with violence (speaking from enough experience). Schools try to correct for this and are failing, and I'm speaking from experience in the Netherlands. I can't even imagine what the US is like.
It's an unequal playing field. I've made my peace with that a long time ago since being born in NL is also unequal. But given that, it bares to be repeated. How you grow up determines a lot of how you're encultured into the work force.
It's the assholes who say "I am being me, deal with it" as an excuse to get away with bad/rude behaviour without actually knowing what their true self is
You're currently labeling a group of people as assholes that seem to say something similar to what I wrote. Please assume that I'm commenting in good faith [1]. I can mask my behavior as well and I have done at places, it sucks. HN is not a place where I want to do this.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
>> purpose of certain parts of public services is to give people employment
That does not sound right. This could be partially true in old days (here in Poland during communists rule) but nowadays all public service has stated purpose that has nothing to do with employment.
The purpose can be total b*s of course but almost always has nothing to do with just providing jobs.
I'm gonna take a wild guess here that you have never worked in unfamiliar domains (like lets say deep cargo shiping or subpremium loans) where your so called subject matter experts provided by client werent the sharpest people you could hope for and actually did not understand what they where doing for most of the time?
Because I on the other hand am very familiar with such projects and doing schema overhaul third time in a row for production system is bread and butter for me.
Schemaless systems is the only reason I'm still developer and not lumberjack.