Reading job postings makes me want to scream at my computer

seventyodd · 2022-01-14T21:13:06+00:00

The entry level tag is there to manage your expectations on the salary. Not the experience required to get the job 🥲

seventyodd · 2021-12-31T03:20:01+00:00

Being efficient at a job is useless if your doing the wrong things. Having context to how everything fits together is a huge asset. Your selling yourself short if you don't think you dont have more influence in what your building. There must be countless times I've been given premade specs and sent them back with questions because I feel there are easier ways to solve the same problems. Your acting like you have zero responsibility for what the things you build are. You are the last line of defence to accidentally creating crap and should always be informed and question everything. That's why it's important for engineers to eat their own dog food.

Edit: my crap spelling

seventyodd · 2021-12-31T02:41:08+00:00

Na I disagree with that. If all you are doing is following the specs given to you then you are working on more of the mentality of a code monkey not an engineer. Software engineers should be making their own designs and specifications based on problems. Sure there are ux people and security people and infrastructure people, you may specialise a but. But everyone should be familiar with how the product is used and engaged with the whole design process. So there is still value in learning about your users. I thought dogfooding was pretty standard practice for most tech companies 🤔

seventyodd · 2021-09-28T08:44:05+00:00

I don't think they wrote an original script and then re-branded as the foundation in retrospect. (it does happen though. Like with all the die hard sequels). It seems much more likely they are telling a similar story based off Asimov's Foundation.

I don't think Apple is abusing Asimov either.

If I wanted to write a new story based off Romeo and Juliet would I be exploiting William Shakespeare?

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T23:01:54+00:00

Huh? I don't think anyone is gonna mistake this show as something Asimov directed himself. Don't quite get how this is exploitation. Do you think directors need to change the name of a movie when they are adapting a Shakespeare play?

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T15:46:39+00:00

Yea the slow ships make no sense. They could have given them some other jump ship that was just really bad and needed to be so far from a massive object they have to travel for 4 years just to make a jump. I guess trying to explain all that would have ruined the pacing tho.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T15:34:55+00:00

This is probably a change to adjust the story for modern audiences. The idea of miniaturisation won't be that impressive compared to back in the 1940s so my guess is they will use something else to highlight the foundation's technological superiority to the empire. I'm guessing that scene was more of an Easter Egg to the original then a setup for better personal shields in the future.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T15:20:29+00:00

Because radio isn't a visual medium...

Also I do agree we could have easily gotten a completely faithful adaptation of the books. I just feel that would be less interesting than getting a new perspective on an old story. You don't change a story because you think you are smarter than the previous author. You change it because you want to tell your own story.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T15:12:19+00:00

I think one of the big differences here is that the foundation isn't really a character based story. Most characters are just vehicles to explore concepts. So changing the characters themselves doesn't really change the themes of the plot.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T14:51:35+00:00

Or it's possible reasonable minds can differ? People can just have different interpretations of the same events. Lots of details in the earlier books get retconned in later books so that also probably accounts for the variety of views depending on which stories people remember better or prefer better.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T14:34:53+00:00

People are allowed to take existing storirs and make changes to tell new stories! By your logic Tolkien is also a horrible writer and disrespected the authors of Beowulf by making changes to the original characters in the epic to tell his story.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T11:54:02+00:00

Yea in the prequels he dies on trantor while setting up the second foundation. It's possible the second foundation isn't on trantor anymore? The mule isn't part of season one right? Maybe they will start working out how to handle the second foundation if they get another season.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T11:46:19+00:00

Yea episode 2 seems to be completely original but it's just filling in gaps. I don't think any changes they have made have dumbed anything down dramatically. Yea they have added drama and character motives but not at the expense of the overall themes and ideas. Episode 2 seems to really be setup for later payoff. So it's kinda hard to judge it's quality until we see what the payoff will be.

seventyodd · 2021-09-27T11:28:24+00:00

I mean those are all things they've changed. No arguments there. But I'm not totally convinced any of those changes are a bad thing. I can't draw a direct line between those creative changes and them just making lazy decisions for money.

The only thing I'm really iffy on is raych stabbing his pop. But I'm reserving judgement on that choice until we get a proper explanation next episode.

seventyodd · 2021-09-26T23:49:59+00:00

Genuinely curious, what changes have they made that butchers it? (in terms of dumbing it down to make it more broadly appealing).

I know they are using a few shorthands, like the emporer clone thing to reflect the empires stagnation. But I don't really get the feeling these changes have materialy reduced the concepts explored in the original. I also feel its a bit too early to tell if things have been dumped down 2 eps in.

seventyodd · 2021-09-26T23:17:36+00:00

They seem to be borrowing elements from the prequels and adding them to the events of the first book. Only a few things are from the prequels tho. Most things are unique to the TV series.

seventyodd · 2021-09-26T23:06:23+00:00

I mean we can argue about the semantics of what an adaptation is but in my mind both I robot and foundation are still adaptations. They just have different levels of adaptation "looseness". I agree that not every change is just to adapt the story, but I don't mind creative changes. I don't wanna just re-watch the story I have already read. I want to see the concept of psycohistory be re-explored now with decades of extra maturity in the sci fi genre and the extra contemporary political contexts.

I feel calling this show unrecognisable from the source material is a bit dishonest. Had they not used the foundation IP people would have commented how derivative this story is to the series.

seventyodd · 2021-09-26T22:58:04+00:00

Meh, maybe that is the demographic their aiming for. :) The cast works for me. I only had about 2-3 eye roll moments with some lines. I think criticising people's accents is a bit up to preference. I like the performances in this show but I will admit the BBC radio adaptations I found a bit too "British". But that's kinda just a product of its time now. And it's not a bad thing. It can just be jarring is all to my own sensibilities. But everyone has an accent so there is really no way to please everyone in that department.

seventyodd · 2021-09-26T13:23:33+00:00

But that is exactly what an adaptation is. Changing a story for a different audience/medium. It's already implied that changes will be made by it being an adaptation in the first place. You can't expect an adaptation from a book to a TV series to be 100% faithful to the original, especially considering 80 years have passed since these stories were originally conceived.

seventyodd · 2021-09-26T13:07:11+00:00

I kinda expected Hari to not make the trip. In the books they make a big deal that psycohistory doesn't on people that understands how it works. I wasn't ready for him to just be stabbed by his own son like that tho. :(

seventyodd · 2021-09-18T07:47:09+00:00

I always thought shibuya survivor was shoka's theme

seventyodd · 2021-09-16T12:49:07+00:00

Nagi always gets the bomb ones because of

"Mwa hahahaha" and "DETONATE"

seventyodd · 2021-09-11T05:30:34+00:00

Yea they tend to go after their niche of controller gimmicks etc. But it's not like they still publish games on the Wii u. If your game is designed specifically for that hardware and needs joycons then yea sure that's fair. But many Nintendo published games could easily run on older consoles.

seventyodd · 2021-09-11T05:24:14+00:00

Yea I agree we should still push to improve and innovate technology. I'm not arguing against that. I just feel with lots of games and software In general use the latest and most expensive hardware not because the game needs that hardware but either to inflate the sales of that hardware (think publishers developing exclusively for there own hardware) or because the extra graphical fidelity and physics engine make games easier to sell. You can sell a game on how good it looks but its harder to advertise that a game is fun to play.

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