Running SST with Pulumi and it's been a great experience. Infrastructure and maintenance has been pleasant and SST's pre-fabs really make things easy to spin up resources.
"us versus them", "blue vs red", "liberals vs conservatives"
Texas is the favorite punching bag of the left, and California is the favorite punching bag for the right. When one side is attacked, they defensively jump to the default. Which is kind of ironic, when you consider there's more Democrats in Texas than in many "blue" states, and the inverse is also true for California.
I can find many Republican representatives, Trump, and media personalities insulting New York with sweeping generalizations and hateful rhetoric.
The only negative comments from Democrat representatives and the media on the left I see is are critical of specific laws, for example abortion, but they don't insult the entire state or generalize.
LLMs really make it easy to quickly find documentation for me. Across a huge software project like Mediawiki with so much legacy and caveats, having an LLM parse the docs and give me specific information without me hoping that someone at Stackoverflow did it or if I'm lucky enough to stumble across what I was looking for.
They're not really working in that scenario - they are fund raising for their group which may be considered an exercise in interacting with other people, marketing, selling, and the value of money that helps their organization. This may sound similar to working but one is for fun and the other is more for survival and sustenance.
My years of experience, good work history, and solid interviewing isn't enough! I have to sit down and PROVE I'm worthy to bugfix software by taking my free time and doing homework. But that's not all! If I don't leave and breathe software, why am I even in the field?
I'll resonate your sentiment - software interviewing is such a burden on everyone. Yet I can't think of many other places that do this. Maybe some 'show previous work' which many can do, but what else? Any other careers that require you to do "exercises" and "live exercises" ?
I know and I agree but as an interviewer who is on the front lines (I’m the first interviewer after the HR screening) I have to conduct live coding challenges (but I go out of my way to put the candidate at ease; I mention we are colleagues and that I’m not trying to trip them up but they I think of it more as a pair programming thing and that they can use Google and ask questions or ask for hints etc etc) to weed out those that embellish or exaggerate their skills. I’ve found it has worked: someone that sounded amazing and said all the right things in the screener wasn’t able to do the equivalent of a fizzbuzz for data engineers and we avoided hiring someone who is junior for a senior role. (We do then consider these folks — depending if we think they were lying or just over eager — to come in as junior engineers if they want, though, so that’s something.)
I believe this is the correct approach and I do a similar thing where I work. A pair programming challenge should be enough to identify a good fit candidate - being able to discuss how they are thinking through a problem, answering questions they have to elaborate on the problem, seeing how they debug, and how they search are very useful!
The lack of a physical button to control camera and microphone access is really annoying. At least with a camera, I can cover up with a patch but I can't do anything about my microphone.
I don't see this as saying to put hobbies on a resume. Rather, he was asking about hobbies and considering that someone who had none wasn't going to be a good fit.
Someone can be very good at their job but in a startup situation you need to be flexible--and he's saying someone with no hobbies isn't going to be flexible enough.
Apple TV's touch remote is a travesty. Their UI is equally annoying when you realize they advertise the Apple stuff first, and you have to click Home again to get to your main apps. Compare any of them to Roku, and Roku is a barebones, works as expected, channel choosing device.
> you have to click Home again to get to your main apps
Both of these are changeable via settings (if you’re talking about the current generation remote, if the old one an Apple TV can be trained to use any other remote). I have a bunch of Roku devices and an Apple TV and typically prefer the Apple TV: the apps are of higher quality, Airplay is a great added feature and most importantly: no ads. Roku used to have barely any but they’re adding more and more and it’s getting obnoxious.
Also there's no software configuration to change that terrible touch remote into something usable. Rewinding to catch a missed line is always "I hope it works" moment.
My experience with Apple TV was that Apple advertised their own apps regularly. Also most Roku devices released in the last couple of years including Roku TVs support Airplay.
My experience reflects OP's as well. It's not "ads", but things like searching using the SEARCH button inside a non-Apple app returns results from the Apple store.
If one uses it in a search box inside the app, it works in the local context. Imagine having to teach one's elderly parents what the difference is when the remote only has something like 5 buttons and one of them doesn't work how it's supposed to in a consistent manner. Local context vs. global context in searches is an absurd concept in the purview of the average consumer. Hell - I can't understand it half the time because it's so counterintuitive.
That's shady behavior and prioritizes Apple's own services over EVERY competitor.
Besides its terrible remote (the gen I have, at least), the usability constraints are insulting.
Roku has other severe limitations, but they don't outright manipulate their UI and their user experience in such an underhanded manner.
I'm confused by this too, and prefer Apple TV because it doesn't display ads. In my experience Roku does continue to display "special" ads, even if you turn off all user-controllable options.
I think parent commenters are referring to how the Apple TV app — which is great, but can be avoided by using the Home screen — aggregates all available content, and has a dedicated Apple TV+ tab. In other words, the Apple TV app is also the Apple TV+ app.
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