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I am however having trouble in the human side of it. Ive got a strong resume but I was laid off in Nov 2024 and Im having trouble even getting Elixir interviews (with 9+ years of production Elixir experience!). Hiring people with experience was also hard when I was the hiring manager. It is becoming less niche these days. I love it too much to leave for other ecosystems in the web sphere
What you are saying is true, because coding is the high value work that relies heavily on the individual effort and productivity. The team effect of coding is effectively the sum of each coders productivity.
The business side is the opposite, it can be much lower value individual work, but the team efforts combined is exponential. If you want good software you can't really just throw more developers at something, in fact doing so can often lead to declining returns. But this is the idea behind things like SCRUM, Agile, Stand up etc. It's a way to try and figure out how to scale development by effectively just adding more manpower. It simply isn't a fit for development though.
On the business side however you can scale just by adding more people.
At the end of the day you can have excellent software that makes no money, and you can also have excellent business strategy that makes money and fails to deliver a product.
The UK's global empire existed 100 years ago. Not a knock against the UK, I think they've been by and large doing the right thing, but their policies over the last century has been managing the decline and dissolution of their civilisation in as graceful a way as possible.
They're an inspirational case of a group of people regressing to the mean politely. But I'm doubting the intelligentsia can pull off the "this is really an improvement!" line. There is a lot of anger in the EU on the subject that we see in things like the Brexit vote and I suspect the AfD's polling in Germany is reflective of similar policy choices in Germany. France had the Yellow Vest protests. People don't like it when their energy access gets choked; it does a lot of real-world harm and this intellectual burying of heads in sand is unhelpful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Indiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
A lot current geopolitical issues are consequences of the British empire dissolution and the way it was handled
If you're a company with a $27b valuation releasing an Electron app, then you're just a shite company. How do you have any self respect at that point. I get being a small team without subject experts in native apps and just need to get something going. If you are a $27b valuation small company we might continue the is Electron still the right choice conversation. I'd also be very curios what your app is doing that a small team can operate it and still be valued so highly. Otherwise, you're just a shite company making shite decisions and have no self respect.
- We seldom got imprecise questions.
- When we did get imprecise questions, we would ask a series of follow-up and clarifying questions until the task was correctly scoped.
It was only after leaving the government for the private sector that anyone was treating their superiors like infallible god-emperors. No one seems to think they can question a directive, even when the purpose of that question is to better fulfill the directive. It’s as bewildering as it is sycophantic. And worse, I don’t seem to be able to explain how crazy this is to anyone who has been in the private sector for a long time.