Guys, don't click the link. It's actually not about transformers, but in fact some machine learning BS (which, given the peak hype year of 2019 for ML, is not surprising).
I recently tried to block YouTube ads on an iPad and failed. Equally surprised to see OS updates bring new feature changes that simply cannot be disabled (tab/app groupings). I mean there aren't that many Safari/iOS config options to choose from to begin with! What an insanity.
Samsung still makes cheap tablets that are awesome in terms of hardware, right?
The intentions there are good, but reads bit unrealistic in some places. Being a boomer, author doesn't realise how far financially he is then many people who are younger.
> Stop wasting your time on commuting, boring jobs, meetings, TV. Do only things that you feel are worthwhile, with people you like. If this means a cut in income, so be it.
TV - sure, commuting - thanks to COVID only, the rest - sorry, but I would like a house/pension/family.
Python, like all dynamic languages, works best to bash out a new project into production ASAP, get a bonus and move on, while poor folks maintaining after you are trying to untangle it.
> The model was grounded worldwide but has returned to service this year, with airlines including Ryanair taking deliveries of the aircraft.
I wish COVID lockdowns never finished... Sooner or later life might force me to take one of American-quality death machines - not like airlines will be giving a choice exactly.
I think it's like that statistics about most of purchased Steam games not being played or something like that. You buy an idea that you could have enjoyed this device.
If I had to guess, it's more about some quasi-girlfriend experience or something like that. I think they can even "meet a fan in a hotel" for the right "donation". Though that might have been Twitch. Hard to tell these days, I am not a simpologist!
> I am an engineer with 20+ years of hands on keyboard, I've got projects that are now part of Apache, 1000's of stars on github. I've been CTO at a number of startups that have got significant funding. My point is to establish some credibility. I probably still suck.
More about being in a right place at a right time, but granted.
> Having said that, I have been working with Microsoft PowerAutomate for the past 1.5 years and while it has saved a lot of time and been overall a good experience, there are times when the no code/low code gets in the way and I wish I could just "drop into code" to get something done. Examples are things like data validation. This technology is not going to replace coding, the paradigm shift is really happening for people in the marketing and sales operations parts of the business. For these folks, this tech is life changing. In a lot of ways, this tech felt like when you try a new framework in your language of choice; at first it's super easy and you get hyped, and then you hit a requirement where the nocode/lowcode environment really gets in the way.
I think higher-level languages with a dual code-graphic representation and a possibility to drop into lower level are an interesting option, but even that is not new - Unreal/Unity3D etc.
It's not a movement, more like a mini-trend based on rediscovery of an old idea. At least not a pure investor duping like "metaverse".
> Clearly these apps/platforms enable non-developers to solve a bunch of problems which would otherwise need a software engineer. Is this a paradigm shift?
If it is, it happened in the last century and many times since then already. You could still hype it up for a new domain to grab some investor money, I guess.
Mostly general consensus/sentiment, that start-ups are not worth working for anymore due to investor/founder greed in terms of stock options allocation.