> However, asking questions and improving understanding of the system and architecture is actually faster and easier for them now than it used to be.
One of the things I've built in my current role is tooling to help understand current architecture, and to resolve the differences between things as-documented, as-implemented, and as-actually-behaving. It's used for a few things, including updating documentation, but it's been most impactful when onboarding new engineers. They can simply ask questions about how things work and why, and get explanations and deep dives wherever they need it.
> I'm in third place with 71 votes. I gave the story behind the naming convention, because I like people to know the "how and why".
Stuff like this is basically what drove me away as well. The top-rated answer was frequently not the answer. It was "an" answer to "a" question, but not the "the" answer to "the" question.
That, and I'd ask a variation of a question and it would get flagged as a duplicate of an already-answered question, except the original question and none of the scored answers contained the answer.
> “Humans are far more decent than they believe they are, ..."
Agree. A human being a terrible person makes the news, the dozens of daily acts of kindness and decency never do. I remember a news story about someone breaking into and stealing from a storage container full of donated toys for kids at Christmas. The headline was that a one terrible person stole stuff, not that hundreds of people gave stuff.
On the more personal side, my dad passed away from cancer when he was 46. While he was being treated, the nearest quality treatment center was in a major city over 100 miles away. I remember being amazed at the number of people that just showed up to help out in big and small ways. A neighbor I don't recall every having conversation with in 15 years offered to drive for the bi-weekly appointments. Another person in town who was unemployed also drove a round trip because they had the the time and even refused payment.
Later, when my mom was aging, a neighbor plowed and shoveled, handled some light care maintenance, and other tasks without being asked and without accepting compensation. They actually seemed offended when I said I could pay them or hire someone to handle the plowing so they didn't feel obligated.
None of those things would ever make the news, and only the people involved will ever know.
> but I do know as a user that they appear to be a confusing mess.
I'm a very tech savvy person, and understanding the ins and outs of passkeys has been a time investment, and that's the problem. Technical and security merits notwithstanding, they're a confusing mess. I understand how they work, but what I don't really understand, is how to recover when they don't work.
Selfishly, I end up being tech support for my extended family, and I don't have the stamina to try to explain to them how this works.
I've been involved in successful and unsuccessful platform builds. In the successful ones, I either had absolute authority or I built for the desire paths, even if they weren't the "perfect" ones that I desired. I anchored on the non-negotiables, which I kept to a minimum, and then optimized to get people on board, even if that meant deviating from my perfect vision.
One way to keep myself honest in being on the desire path was to go from win to win (win = someone using platform and being a satisifed "customer") iteratively as part of the full build. It also helps avoid platform fatigue, and ensures that should some priorities change, we've gotten some value out of the effort.
I'm the same. As a student, I could vividly picture the page of the book containing the details of whatever problem I was working on. I have close to zero artistic and design ability, but am very strong in engineering and spatial reasoning.
I've wondered about this: if you can hold an image clearly in your mind - e.g. the Eifel tower - wouldn't you be able to reproduce it well on paper? I know that's not artistic ability in the creative sense, but still..
People often can't reproduce what is right in front of their open eyes well.
Conversely, I have aphantasia but can draw reasonably well from memory (at one point well above average, but I'm about 30 years out of practice).
There are people who can "trace" what they imagine, but it doesn't appear that being skilled at drawing is that closely linked to ability to visualise.
An interesting thing, though, is that if I draw from memory my lines are more precise, while if I draw from something I can see, I will sketch out and refine. I think the two are quite different skill sets - drawing what you see often requires paying attention to spatial relationships and transferring those to the drawing to get proportions right etc.
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FWIW, I worked on map rendering in a past life at another large tech company. General policy was to show "official" names and borders based on the user's country. It wasn't quite that clean, but IIRC there were a surprising number of disputed borders and place names in the world.
Means nothing. Google changed before government data was updated. It was deliberate support of the change. Google is buying what they want by playing ball. It's time to break them up.
I don't know how to tell you this, but... pretty much the only reason why Apple/Google/Microsoft have escaped breakups comes down to their obedience to the feds.
Most countries with a modern bureaucracy actually do maintain an official database of geographic feature names of some sort to ensure consistency in government documents. But their naming is not binding to anyone else, of course.
What was the point you were trying to make by linking the executive order? The actual law simply states that the "Secretary of the Interior shall provide for uniformity in geographic nomenclature and orthography throughout the Federal Government".
Just thinking out loud here but I wonder if there is a case to be made that by renaming Lake Ontario to something that nobody actually uses, the President has violated the law that requires "uniformity in geographic nomenclature and orthography". Not that anyone would have standing to actually get anywhere with that.
I grew up in a house with little to no sugar and never really developed a "craving" for sugar. I'll absolutely eat it if it's there, but really only consume it if it's zero effort, and generally in small amounts since many sweet things taste overly sweet to me.
There is a genetic component to disinterest in sweet food. It quite evidently runs in some families. These are people who never eat any sugary food or often even fruit regardless of availability because they actively dislike things that taste sweet. It isn't a matter of environment or self-control. To them, a donut is about as enticing as a bowl of plain oatmeal.
Anecdotally, people that don't eat any sweet food always seem to gravitate toward salty/bitter flavors instead.
One of the things I've built in my current role is tooling to help understand current architecture, and to resolve the differences between things as-documented, as-implemented, and as-actually-behaving. It's used for a few things, including updating documentation, but it's been most impactful when onboarding new engineers. They can simply ask questions about how things work and why, and get explanations and deep dives wherever they need it.
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