She's right about everything, but nothing is going to change.
The elephant in the room is that the industry (made up of mostly men) sees a talk or blog post with this exact information every year or two, and chooses again and again to completely ignore it. I have to therefore conclude that the reason leetcode is still popular is because there's more truth to that joke answer "D" than we'd like to admit. Gatekeeping in this industry is real. It's a male dominated industry, and what you see across SPECIES on this Earth, is that the males of a society are constantly in competition with one another- for better or worse.
I've had a surprising number of interviewers (all men) who seemed higher ranked than they should have been- and they always, ALWAYS knew it (think "Architect" with only 8 YoE at a large company). You could tell they knew they were frauds by how they interviewed and what kinds of questions they asked. These engineers are incredibly dangerous because they will prevent the best talent from joining your organization by giving their thumbs down on candidates who they perceive to be threats... Of course if this person made it to Architect, that means someone even higher green-lit their promotion so it's probably an indicator of rot (e.g., cronyism and nepotism) that reaches the highest levels of leadership and you wouldn't want to work there anyway. Our industry is broken, our hiring is broken.. but it's willful ignorance at this point.
Fuck this place. Absolutely nothing wrong with my [flagged] comment. I’m giving my experience as someone who has attended a few protests over the last few months and linking to a USA Today article.
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle."
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Social media cracking down on leftist ideology is something that needs to be studied. They are very slick about it, and will usually find some way to make it appear legit (eg: deliberately interpreting obvious sarcasm as literally as possible and then hitting you with the content policy) but at the end of the day anybody can see that reactionaries can get away with calls to violence and war crime apologia while the rest of us have to be on their absolute best behaviour.
It really goes to show you that capital has no ideology and will adopt whatever shape it needs to as the political climate changes. The United States government is now fascist, and therefore the investor class is also fascist.
There's a lot of regressives here actively abusing the flagging functionality for censorship - ironically the same kind of people that'll tell you how much they care about freedom of speech (the unspoken part: but only if its speech they agree with)
In my experience everyone thinks “we’ve got a good thing here, let’s not ruin it.”
Indeed the bar is so low that even with all the bullshit in the tech industry, we seem to have it better than most- on salary alone. Throw in “full remote” (although that’s disappearing) and it really can’t be beat, even when your boss yells obscenities at you every day.
I think I agree. Objectively we do have it better than most and tech is generally an extremely cushy job.
Even here in Europe salaries can match Doctors and Lawyers but the barrier to entry is much lower and in my experience employment is still based on merit more than anything.
Perhaps there's some element of "don't rock the boat" but maybe some guilt too. We really have lucked out.
Not sure how comfortable I'd feel taking union action over my job that requires me to leave the house once a week but pays 3x a teachers salary.
As far as I can see, nobody said anything that could conceivably be interpreted to imply otherwise, so sure?
I am really unsure what your argument even is, gymbeaux - and how it relates to verisimi's previous point. You're not trying to argue that it was Google's masterplan all along to get the anti-trust ruling, right?
This has to be true in any country with anything approaching a free market? Even if it's not blatant and closer to Inversion of Control you see it reflected in national economic policy all the time.
Do you know how it compares to Dolphin for interacting with very large (100k+ files) directories? Dolphin is the only file manager I’ve found that keeps up with the large directories- GNOME (Nautilus) and Windows Explorer are dogshit slow, even after the file list populates. macOS Finder is somewhere in the middle but still very slow.
Lightroom 5 is miles better than what they offer today. Lightroom Creative Cloud is steaming dog shit. Adobe seriously gets to extort over $120 a year out of me simply for the privilege of reading raw files from a new camera. They provide zero positive contribution these days. All of these incumbent tech companies extract rents on algorithms written decades ago. This needs to end. I am very excited for AI to get advanced enough to whip up replacement programs for everything these companies maintain monopolies over.
> I am very excited for AI to get advanced enough to whip up replacement programs for everything these companies maintain monopolies over.
You are wildly off base. The algorithms aren't difficult or special. They were written by people reading text books for the most part.
They are able to sit on an on old algorithm for decades because the DMCA made interoperability and selling cheaper tools like that basically illegal.
Because of the DMCA, the work that was done to make IBM PC clones would have been close enough to illegal to kill all the businesses that tried it. They still tried with the liberal IP laws at the time.
Well that's a bit disappointing but i am aware that their are gaps in my knowledge. I had assumed it was the feasibility of competing with an entrenched firm, not lack of access to research texts. I will chat with Chat to learn more about how DMCA applies, thank you.
Back in those days it took 15 minutes for Windows to “finish” booting. You’d hit the desktop but the HDD was still going ham loading a dozen programs, each with their own splash screen to remind you of their existence.
If you've had the priviledge of running Windows 10 on a spinning drive, it never gets to disk idle. Who knows what it's doing, but by that metric it never finishes. It probably never gets to disk idle on an SSD either, but SSDs have so much more io capacity it isn't noticed.
> The thing is, all of these bad features were probably justified by some manager somewhere because it’s the only way their feature would get noticed. They have to justify their salary by pushing all these stupid ideas in the user’s faces. “Hey, look at me! I’m so cool!” After all, when the boss asks, “So, what did you accomplish in the past six months,” a manager can’t say, “Um, a bunch of stuff you can’t see. It just works better.” They have to say, “Oh, check out this feature, and that icon, and this dialog box.” Even if it’s a stupid feature.
On the other hand, I very much enjoyed going to Excel 97 cell X97:L97, pressing tab, holding Ctrl+Shift and clicking on the chart icon, because then you could play Excel's built in flight simulator
Underrated comment. People don’t understand global trade and logistics (understandably so- it’s all very complicated and there are multiple middlemen involved between the factory in China and the company in the U.S. buying the goods to resell - they of course being yet another middleman).
The elephant in the room is that the industry (made up of mostly men) sees a talk or blog post with this exact information every year or two, and chooses again and again to completely ignore it. I have to therefore conclude that the reason leetcode is still popular is because there's more truth to that joke answer "D" than we'd like to admit. Gatekeeping in this industry is real. It's a male dominated industry, and what you see across SPECIES on this Earth, is that the males of a society are constantly in competition with one another- for better or worse.
I've had a surprising number of interviewers (all men) who seemed higher ranked than they should have been- and they always, ALWAYS knew it (think "Architect" with only 8 YoE at a large company). You could tell they knew they were frauds by how they interviewed and what kinds of questions they asked. These engineers are incredibly dangerous because they will prevent the best talent from joining your organization by giving their thumbs down on candidates who they perceive to be threats... Of course if this person made it to Architect, that means someone even higher green-lit their promotion so it's probably an indicator of rot (e.g., cronyism and nepotism) that reaches the highest levels of leadership and you wouldn't want to work there anyway. Our industry is broken, our hiring is broken.. but it's willful ignorance at this point.