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Great generalization of an entire country's sector workforce.

I'm sure you'd 100% approve of such a statement of your country when based on one anecdotal recount (even if it true).


It's not about Romania or any other country.

I was making a point that whether you graduate or not has little correlation with your capacity of handling higher abstractions and complexity, because neither bootcampers nor engineering graduates have the experience of building complex systems, let alone under time, tech leadership and management pressure.

It is likely that the original authors may have found themselves in a situation where they were tasked to build a trivial form with technologies they were not accustomed to at the request of some superior and they ended writing a soup.


Next time you give Android a try, you might like Solid Explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplor...


The one major issue is that it doesn’t work inside other apps. If I save something in Word, it pops up the standard File dialog and every storage provider available for my iOS device - Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, local storage, network drives, and locally connected mass storage devices are available.


That game is beautiful, more so on the eink display...


it's not a recipe, but I found this sufficiently interesting, at least for grasping the conceptual differences.

https://youtu.be/eeOANluSqAE


"The hottest new programming language is English" - Karpathy

I call bullshit, mainly because any natural language is ambiguous at best, and incomplete at worst.


I envy your bubble.


I admit it is a nice one.

My base salary has doubled and I enjoy my work a lot more now that I don't have to accept all kinds of MS shenanigans to play a part in how I work.

Having a working search engine shouldn't be underestimated either: living from 2012 to 2022 knowing that search used to be a solved problem but wasn't anymore was really annoying.


I only know C#'s async/await, and know nothing about goroutines / virtual or green threads.

You seem knowledgeable on the matter, care to share some resources that might help me grok the differences?


we're a very short step away from a "hardware" database


And in sw dev, especially the US flavor, individual workers are highly directly incentivized to hit that next earnings target via vesting programs...


Individual developers have very limited impact on earnings targets.


> A very cool technology to produce products that nobody wants.

creative power without control is like a rocket with no navigation—sure, you'll launch, but who knows where you'll crash!


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