Yep, who cares. You put your 2 cent in and if the business leaders see otherwise, that's their problem. You get paid on a schedule, if the app crashes and burns because the leaders demanded to remove PR reviews, that's not your problem.
Too often I see developers getting personally invested in business outcomes which they don't have a stake in. Getting frustrated when they don't have the final say.
My coworker does this. PRs with random files from other changes left in, console logs everywhere. Blatent issues everywhere.
I find it extremely rude they chuck this stuff at me without even having read it themselves. At least these days I can just chuck the AI reviewer thing on it and throw it back to them.
I think the number is probably a bit skewed by the fact a lot of companies offer unlimited access to udemy and such, so people "start" courses without any commitment or cost, and then predictably drop off fast or don't start at all.
Personally I just found none of them really worth doing. They felt almost not genuine in a way, like they cared more about profiting from courses and gaming the system than actually teaching you something. I switched to learning via Youtube videos and found it much more educational than the paid courses.
12 years ago I certainly did not know why a servers IO would be slow, short of just the physical storage was slow. I think you might just be overestimating how much stuff people knew rather than the whole population forgetting how filesystem and IO internals work.
you hadn’t heard of RAID, readahead, write-back/write-through, stride or even just the concept of fragmentation?
Even if you didn’t, I doubt you didn’t have someone on staff who did know about these things and would help out randomly with troubleshooting and avoiding footguns.
The people who knew about those things back then know modern infrastructure today. I'm sure if you asked the average web dev 12 years ago what write-back io is they wouldn't have any idea.
Perhaps the only trend is more companies not hiring anyone who specialises in infrastructure and just leaving it as a side task for React devs to look at once every few months.
I knew about RAID and fragmentation, but I haven't had to work with it since I went from tech support to backend, it just never came up so it's easy to forget.
I'm struggling to see the benefits. All I see people using this for is generating slop for work presentations, and misleading people on social media. Misleading might be understating it too. It's being used to create straight up propaganda and destruction of the sense of reality.
One of the best things platforms started doing is showing the account country of origin. Telegram started doing this this year using the users phone number country code when they cold DM you. When I see a random DM from my country, I respond. When I see it's from Nigeria, Russia, USA, etc I ignore it.
It's almost 100% effective at highlighting scammers and bots. IMO all social media should show a little flag next to usernames showing where the comment is coming from.
Yes, but as soon as scammers find their current methods ineffective they will swap to VPN and find a way to get "in country" phone numbers.
There is a fundamental problem with large scale anonymous (non-verified) online interaction. Particularly in a system where engagement is valued. Even verified isn't much better if it's large scale and you push for engagement.
There are always outliers in the world. In their community they are well know as outliers and most communities don't have anyone that extreme.
Online every outlier is now your neighbor. And to others that "normalizes" outlier behaviors. It pushes everyone to the poles. Either encouraged by more extreme versions of people like them, or repelled by more extreme versions of people they oppose.
And that's before you get to the intentional propaganda.
In country phone numbers are quite hard to get since they have to be activated with ID. Sure scammers could start using stolen IDs, but that's already a barrier to entry. And you are limited to how many phone numbers you can register this way.
Presumably with further tie ins to government services, one would be able to view all the phone numbers registered in their name to spot fraud and deactivate the numbers they don't own.
Temporarily it's fine. Store it for a few weeks and then destroy. If something happens to the jogger on their jog we can grab the video, if nothing happens, it's deleted.
Too often I see developers getting personally invested in business outcomes which they don't have a stake in. Getting frustrated when they don't have the final say.
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