Isn’t a cornucopia from Greek myth? That would mean that literally nothing, apart for the wheat and the nuts should be in that picture…

I try not to comment on people’s appearances, but why the hell is Michael Dell pictured with Pennywise the Clown in a dress?

This isn’t digression - it’s pretty accurate to how I feel… Passion is the missing ingredient

I don’t disagree there are talented youth out there. I have another team member who is the equal of any of my best hires. He’s self motivated, and that is the difference I think.

That is partly true; our company should do more especially when it comes to hiring and screening. But you can also only mentor those who wish to be mentored…

I’ve also been in this industry now for over 25 years and I have mentored a lot of junior developers. I feel I have gotten a little better at mentoring, but I do genuinely believe that general skills of graduates have also decreased. I think it may be generational. Devs from a decade or two ago had to find a lot of things out for themselves.

And Yes, I know I sound like an old asshole, but honestly, I think today CS is treated more like a trade than a skill. I wish it were otherwise.

I work at a large company that is not considered one of the tech bros. I doubt we’re hiring graduates ever again.

For the record, we’re NOT all in on AI - far from it - but what we have found is that 98% of graduate hires aren’t productive and over-estimate their skills.

Maybe it’s different elsewhere in the world, but in and around Toronto, we’ve found that most CS grads have gone into the field because they think it will pay well. Most have no “adjacent” skills, such as VCS understanding, PRs, how work is broken down etc, but the biggest red flag though is just how few of them are interested in expanding their horizons. I currently have one junior right now working on an Android app and he seems incapable of moving past the MVP, java based patterns they learned in college.

The way I see it, Colleges are doing a very poor job right now, and the students are paying the price.

True… I personally dislike Java and work mostly in Kotlin these days.

SOLID is generally speaking a good idea. In practice, you have to know when to apply it.

it sounds like your main beef in Java is the need to create interfaces for every class. This is almost certainly over-engineering it, especially if you are not using dependency inversion. IMHO, that is the main point of SOLID. For the most part your inversions need interfaces, and that allows you create simple, performant unit tests.

You also mention OOP - It has it’s place, but I would also suggest you look at functional programming, too. IMHO, OOP should be used sparingly as it creates it’s own form of coupling - especially if you use “Base” classes to share functionality. Such classes should usually be approached using Composition. Put this another way, in a mature project, if you have to add a feature and cannot do this without reusing a large portion of the existing code without modifications you have a code-smell.

To give you an example, I joined a company about a year ago that coded they way you are describing. Since I joined, we’ve been able to move towards a more functional approach. Our code is now significantly smaller, has gone from about 2% to 60% unit testable and our velocity is way faster. I’d also suggest that for most companies, this is what they want not what they currently have. There are far too many legacy projects out there.

So, yes - I very much agree with SOLID but like anything it’s a guideline. My suggestion is learn how to refactor towards more functional patterns.

Empathy

I wouldn’t say a PoS but clearly has a lot to learn - and what sounds like a crisis is not the place to do that. And he sounds like he has a lot to learn.

As a father, I believe that at a minimum you should care for your kids at least ONE day every week on your own, preferably more. And not just the fun stuff, either. Make sure it comprises bed time, bath time, making and eating meals, as well as getting the little tykes out of the house. Either parent needs to be able to cope alone, and more importantly, trust that the other can, too.

My suggestion is that he needs to have a frank conversation with his wife, and commit to the above care routine. He needs to be able to do this in a way that allows him to admit he doesn’t know things and get advice. But he does need to do the work and ensure his wife feels supported.

Did someone else watch John Oliver the other day…?

The trouble with making things idiot-proof is they‘ll just keep making better idiots

I agree that North America is appalling. I grew up in Europe, so that is my main comparison.

The two new lines would be helpful, but as someone that lived in Toronto for 15 years until very recently, I believe they were horribly mismanaged. Like most of the city is…

Public transport policy in Toronto is a disaster. It is a complete disappointment of a city and an ugly blight on the landscape that serves only captialism and vapid mediocrity

Love and welcome the clarifications - Couldn’t agree more

There’s definitely a difference between the people proposing such things (a minority) and their followers:

The minority definitely seem get caught with their pants down more often, usually with a rent-boy and a bag of meth. Totally get that maybe this is about “forbidden fruit”

But the rest? Definitely due lack of education and religion (which usually follows the former).

Now, for the most part, the poor southerners I’ve met really don’t care about homosexuality when you talk to them alone. In bigger groups, it’s definitely a problem. How you fix this, I definitely don’t know, but it is definitely not by victimizing.

Unfortunately, the minority have created other “cognitive barriers” to prevent the poor from realizing what their actual challenges are - Immigrants is another good example.

In short, this is just another form of class warfare.

Don’t forget the press release they can also make saying how nice they are for donating, too…

Have tried it a few times. It is an interesting concept, but yields utter crap that will break and your LLM cannot help you with.

In normal projects, that’s where a junior dev says “Maybe we need to start again” and all the seniors start looking for work elsewhere

As other’s have mentioned, it’s what the Nazi’s did.

It’s the whole cycle of violence thing. The Nazi’s did it to the Jews, who were less powerful than them. And now the Jews are passing it along to a people that are less powerful than they are.

Jews have long been proud of their tradition of questioning and reasoning. What I want to hear is Netanyahu in court explaining why his government did this. And it has to be more than a “they did it first” argument.

Should be the case for literally any interaction with a chatbot.