> Banks are a good example. I don't think they are losing much money with their software experience.
> Corporate websites (also mentioned in the article) is another thing that just doesn't matter that much.
The opening point is that these sites are stupid slow. And I agree with the author: there is no reason this far into the 21st century a bank's web page should take several seconds to load. It should load in under a second or two.
"For the purpose
of this report, Hired examined software engineering
candidate interview requests (IVR) and salary data from
January 2021 through December 2022 inclusive.
The data included reflects over 68,500 candidates and
494,000 interview requests between companies and
software engineers on Hired during this time period."
Then, I think, the numbers reflect only candidates and companies that use Hired, as opposed to the industry as a whole. I wonder how many folks land jobs through Hired?
This. I recall most predictions saying 2024 would be the tipping point, but even then I doubt regulations at the local and national level will change that fast.
Ah memories. My first machine was a Classic ii. I think it might be in a friend's garage in Ohio, will have to check with him. Thanks for the great post!
I recall seeing my first PHP/FI page in the middle 90s. PHP was a godsend after you'd suffered with Apache's "server side includes" [0], which is largely what it was used to replace.
Python's origin was as a teaching language (originally ABC I think?), and thus the simplicity of the syntax. It was kinda cool that Python was around for so long before it took off... I had the O'Reilly Python book way back in the 90s.
Perl's influences were awk, sed, bash, C, Fortran, and Lisp.
> I'm also curios to know if it depends on the career, maybe a ML Engineer need more note taking than an electrician who wire cables
I started keeping a “log” back in 1999 just for work (I too am a software engineer). I note what I worked on and/or what problems I was trying to solve and/or what solutions I found. And some personal stuff too.
My inspiration is the idea of the scientist’s lab book where “if you didn’t write it down it didn’t happen.”
Countless times — even this past week - it has proven invaluable when I wanted to look up how I solved something before (“how do we generate those CSP headers on the fly?” “How did I mount that Docker container?”) or when no one knows why something was built a certain way (and I noted the date and time a manager made that decision).
After a few years I wind up with a few novels worth of entries (by volume) so it’s amazing how writing a little each day adds up.
As to format, it started as a .txt file in Emacs but has evolved into a moderately simple org-mode file.
A few years ago I pulled out Higher Order Perl and started playing with some of the advanced features/techniques available in the language. And it was really fun! I think Perl was the first popular multi-paradigm language.
For me it’s any kind of text processing; especially code generation for some one-off task, like churning out SQL or bash scripts/shell commands. Faster than doing it by hand. __END__ is one of my best friends because I can dump the input data right into the script. On the rare occasion I am irked whatever language I’m working in does not have format/write, which comes from the Fortran tradition iirc.
The notion of the inner solar system being converted into computronium sounds less and less far-fetched with each passing month.