To fail to do so is a gigantic missed opportunity in my opinion. You never know when you will need it.

> These are not rookies if they reached Principal IC, but the most experienced team members ever, yet the author still feels the need to say this.

At this level the job is qualitatively different from what went before - you do start as a rookie in this role, and if you only try to keep doing what you’ve done before only better then you’re not setting yourself up for success.

> Do we need to move up or out?

Not to this extent, no. If you are still a Junior after 15 years, that’s a problem and questions will be asked. But if you want to stay in a role where you keep doing what you’ve done before only better, then that’s generally completely fine and the right choice for many people.

If you can detect a problematic condition and you want to know what will happen next, a debugger is a great tool.

If you can detect a problematic condition and you need to find out what caused it, it’s printf all the way.

My theory is that different types of programming encounter these two types of problems at different relative rates, and that this explains why many people strongly prefer one over the other but don’t agree on which.

Even trees are not trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastomosis

Evolution is most definitely not a tree.

Nature also tends towards practicality, even more so than programming. Trees aren’t a fundamental truth, they’re a made-up oversimplified abstraction.

I’m not convinced this is the reason. The carrier wave is always off by a little. While you’re transmitting you hear nothing anyway. And when two parties are transmitting simultaneously, any third parties just hear very loud screeching. A 0.001% difference in carrier frequency would be more than enough to cause this effect in a VHF radio. Notably, this exact problem was a major contributing cause to the worst accident in aviation history. Using FM would have prevented it.

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In Australia there are exactly zero heat pumps on the market that you can use an ecobee with. It just isn’t an option. There are no off-the-shelf options.

You don’t have to pay $1700 for this garbage $50 tablet, but it is the default that every installer will offer you without mentioning any other options (and the only options are the manufacturer’s proprietary controllers). In this case his builder procured it for him without even telling him the price. He may not even have been given a choice. You have to be extremely motivated to stay on top of every decision like this along with the thousands of other decisions involved in building.

Only for very simple functions like in the example. Most of the time it’s much worse.

The reason he said ‘giants’ is supposedly that it was a dig at Robert Hooke, who was famously short. Impressively, if true then he both managed to get this dig in and to be remembered for his humility as a result of it.