APS protects against ATGM, not cannon fire.

Well that is the big question, is it worth trying to protect from kinetic penetrator or not.

> Not being a native speaker sure feels like a major disadvantage. Attempting to articulate your thoughts in a foreign language takes substantially more effort, which could have been spent doing actual work instead.

Does it? I just switch thinking to another language, it's not a big deal (as long as you have reasonable fluency). I thought it was reasonably common (all the people I spoke with about it seem to do the same)

When I'm reading HN I think in English, when I talk with my team I think in English, when I talk with my girlfriend or go grocery shopping I think in my native language. It's difficult to use both languages at the same time, but it's rarely the case (e.g. I might continue speaking English and not notice when I started a conversation in a multinational group but then I talk to someone I can speak a more suited common language with) . In terms of work I do, I think I'd struggle with my native language more, as there is no equivalent terminology and I'd have to use English anyway.

We just treat them as any other artifact, a plantuml job builds it and it gets published under a certain URL.

Not necessarily. Some dark stores near me (city center) have about the same layout as physical stores, but more cramped - delivery people need to pick the items from shelves.

It's much more fun when internal promos get axed on the last approval. Learned the hard way never to say anything about promo processing until after paperwork is ready.

How? The larger the workforce is available, the cheaper it is to fill a role. Nobody outside of prisons, a tiny part of the economy, has it in their best interest to reduce the workforce.

The point is not to be productive, the point is to shamelessly do the bare minimum you need to in order to get more money.

Right, sure. Just as there's no ethics in capitalism I don't think there's any room for shame in capitalism either.

Personally, when I was consulting I really wanted to want multiple clients at once but I actually found myself most happy with just one.

Similar but with an app, Amazon had a store like that and I've seen some experimental non-Amazon stores set up across europe over the past few years.

And you travel from city center to city center, no security bullshit.

Hard to hit two skyscrapers with a train.

When it comes to railway terrorism, there are more effective infrastructure threats than some guy boarding a passenger train with an explosive.

Trains were bombed to pieces in Madrid in 2004[1], and since then there were multiple cases of terrorism in european trains. There were incidents galore already, so let's be optimistic that travel by train will stay free of airport-like security. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

And in Spain you have to enter your ID card # and other personal info for the ticket, and occasional security checks, for all the long distance trains. So the difference to Germany is noticeable due to this history!

You would get slightly more controls than airlines actually, due to the fact that trains are simply physically bound to rails.

I don't get your comment on junior developers.

We have no issue whatsoever hiring juniors (we hire about as many as mid-levels), but we don't have to settle for someone who doesn't have internships or projects and the openings can be closed in 2 weeks so it seems like nobody is hiring, but actually the bar has risen (and there are plenty of candidates who clear the bar).

That incredible dearth of junior positions is stranding a lot of new grads and juniors, as seen in discussions like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31537711