I'm pretty confident though with no solid evidence if you lower the first number by 1 you are describing the vast majority of employed programmers in the world.
lol, he's so reminiscent of Trump. He can't help but make it all about himself. "I was the prime mover behind OpenAI". Everything is always all thanks to him.
A few people have touched on it here, but I'll add my voice. I firmly believe that there are programmers who are better described as a "1 vs. 0" programmer. Some programmers have a creative talent in them that leads them to create elegant solutions that literally a team of 50 average programmers would not.
I completely understand that you need to start with epub books. But do you have longer term plans to partner with the proprietary ebook providers? There are a lot of older Kindle eBooks without audio versions that I would love to listen to during my commute.
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God, HN can be so cynical at times. (I'm not really directing this at just you, scarface74, but the overall tone of responses here). Docker and Kubernetes are not just about padding your resume. Why would I not want to use a solution for orchestration, availability, and elasticity of my services?
Why wouldn’t you? Easy: because you probably don’t have enough “services” to make the costs of kubernetes worthwhile.
If you do, then congratulations, you’re in the top 5% of dev teams, and you presumably also have a well-funded organization of people supporting your complicated deployment.
Otherwise, it’s the common case of bored devs overcomplicating systems that can be deployed more
cheaply and safely with simpler technology.
I’m not saying you wouldn’t. I am saying that you get elasticity, orchestration, and availability by using AWS/Azure/GCP and managed services where appropriate and its a lot simpler. I’m not saying the cloud is always the right answer and if I were to do an on prem/colo, I would probably go for K8s if it were appropriate.
As far as Docker, it is the basis of both Fargate, ECS, and CodeBuild in AWS. I’m definitely not saying that it’s not useful regardless.
But why am I cynical? I consider myself a realist, no job is permanent, salary compression is real and the best way to get a raise is via RDD and job hopping.
How much hiring and interviewing have you done? I've seen countless resumes with 25 years of stated glorious achievements, and they couldn't write a for loop.
I've done quite a bit and have never had any difficulty sniffing out "gloss" with just a few minutes of questions over the phone using the applicant's resume as a starting point for the conversation.
When you're focused on system implementation, delivery and maintenance you can pick one of the past projects listed and start probing. It's not hard to quickly get a picture of what the candidate did and didn't do on the project and whether or not they're blowing smoke.
Exactly. Of course, we do have to be a bit careful how we ask about past projects, to avoid the appearance of being exposed to IP, but it's doable. We can also just talk about hypothetical design problems (and they can learn about us based on the questions we ask, even if we're not doing a collaborative exercise). But no whiteboard CS101 coding negging.
