Smartphone should not be compared to a calculator. The closer analogy would be kids bringing in their friends, cousins, music, games, photo albums, films etc into a class and interacting with them.
Glossy magazines, handy-dandy mobbing tools, porn, a kiddie slot machine, a big stack of totally random niche zines that include yes the icky ones, a kiddie panopticon, their anxious parents, a gaggle of marketers and influencers grooming their income streams (this is a fun game) and interacting with them.
I always thought watching films that steam in the dark streets was some cool 80s aesthetics. As in 'You are in this dark corner of the city where nobody can hear you' scary or edgy.
I grew up in a city without steam and the sewers would still smoke like that when it got cool out, like early morning; its still fairly warm down there
I thought that too (but more New York Christmas Eve movie impressions) until I saw steam coming from manholes in Denver. Blew my mind that it was a real thing haha.
In addition to the heating/cooling uses, the mint in Denver uses it to clean coins!
Steam rising out of manholes is definitely commonplace in NYC: [1]
There's a stretch of sidewalk in the Financial District that gets so hot that you can feel it walking past on some days. And apparently, sometimes these things explode... [2]
As far as I've heard it's not (all) actual leaks, though, but rather water dripping on the exterior of the hot pipes carrying the steam itself being evaporated.
It's often not the steam pipes leaking. The sewers are very humid and warmer than the air above. As the air convects up it hits the cold air and the humidity condenses. The same thing happens in lots of other cities when the weather is right.
Maybe the steam pipes keeps the sewers warmer in places with steam but they should be well insulated in the end.
you can see it pretty often in NYC, coming up from vents/pipes in the road
i don't think it's steam leaking. it's drainage/sewer water being heated by the steam system (and other heat sources down there) enough that it evaporates and rises up to the street, and then condenses into vapor/fog because the street level is cooler
What stops management from committing Feature A to be delivered after 250 tasks are completed? Yes the fact and the reasons that the Feature A expands to 500 will be documented, but who will care about it? This will still be a "delay" from the management point of view.
> If you look like an employee, regardless of the legal layout, you'll be remunerated like one.
This just isn’t true. I’m currently with a FTSE100 financial institution and inside IR35 contractors make way more than perms at the same level of experience. They just don’t want headcount on their books, and still have work that needs doing, and they will pay to get it done.
The problem is job security at the moment.
If you don’t look like an employee, you’ll not get treated like one…
> Be a business. They make more money.
Completely agree, but most business owners make money by exploiting someone else’s labour.
I’m currently with a FTSE100 financial institution and inside IR35 contractors make way more than perms at the same level of experience.
That may be true but it's partly because financial services companies are infamous for not paying their PAYE developers very well and having very bad working conditions. Most people who can get £750+ assignment rates via an umbrella company in the financial sector weren't going to be making sub-£100k on salary in an open market either.
Absolutely agree. If you’re willing to maximise your pension savings, inside IR35 work with a higher day rate is usually more lucrative overall, even though you have to pay tax the normal way (gasp!).
Also, being on PAYE through an umbrella is less admin, no worries about HMRC, and lower overheads compared to Ltd - no accountants, business bank account, xero/sage (if you’re a DIYer), insurances, etc.
lobbying == bribing == crime. Unfortunately this equality doesn't hold in reality and on a macro economic scale is a fundamental source of corruption accelerating climate heating, sanctions impact, arms trade, human trafficking, ecosystem collapse, unemployment, etc. Nothing will ever change if we keep tolerating lobbying.
Troll farms are flourishing on Youtube. Especially this week when lots of bad news from Avdiivka started coming. Most of comments by @user-... are from trolls. They will share similar amounts of likes too.
Probably in North Korea. They have the best real-world tested security teams so they can be trusted with your money. Being from North Korea means you don't have to worry about all those western nanny-state regulations and oversight. Just buy their coins and become rich with zero risk...
In case this is an earnest question: the Lindy effect is your friend. Don't chase shiny new things. Stay away from new projects until they have a track record of 10 years or more. This simple rule would have saved people from Mt Gox, Luna, FTX, and every other fly-by-night disaster.
The relationship between you and your job is very personal. What works in your situation does not necessarily apply to others.
I find it similar to having kids. Most of adults have them, but the impact they have on their lives is so different. It all depends on financial situation, support from the rest of the family, friends, health situation..
In many cases this is not a different league, but an entirely different game with different rules and goals.
The article calls the lack of pro-activeness a CBF, but that is a symptom and not a cause. The fact that you CBF might not necessarily be a problem with you. It could be that you are in a different frame of reference compared to some other people who "do things perfectly".
Maybe moving maximum amount of Jiras into a done state is valued more than delivering this excellent refactoring. Maybe skipping unit tests and dropping feature branch to testers is perceived as a more pragmatic approach. Maybe your perfect commit will be unrecognizable a couple months later, because company is "moving fast".
People with great jobs in great companies will not understand this and call it laziness, procrastination or any other thing that will put you at blame. Just like people with great families will not understand what it means to have abusive parents.
Software development is about processes, but often developers have no say in setting up those processes, there is no feedback loop. Some naive manager will push to maximize some theoretical metric. In some cases you can adapt, circumvent certain obstacles, but sometimes you just CBF.
