I'm Christian, so slightly different context going in, but I also found it profound. I've been to other churches and cathedrals (including the Vatican!) and they feel sterile by comparison. Stepping inside to the sight of a towering forest of stone and dazzling light is truly breathtaking. It made me genuinely emotional.
It's nothing like I've ever seen before so I'm surprised by the comments at the end of the article that make it seem like its originality has waned over the years. You can feel the conviction and passion that have been poured into it for over a century.
Our guide showed us on his phone pictures how the colors change in different months.
I never thought about how I would build a church to exemplify Gods creation, but after that I wondered about cathedrals out of glass or crystal. I must have raved like a mad man about the Sagrada to my friends who had chosen to stay in the hostel!
It made me appreciate cathedrals more. Like now they are are old and ancient, but imagine living in a medieval village and making a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to a big city and being dumb struck about the tallest building you have ever seen and architecture which is familiar but you could have never dreamed up.
As someone who has loved sagrada familia since I went in, I think the experience of Sainte Chapelle is my second favorite (go first thing when it opens to have it to yourself) and is more underrated than sagrada familia^
Related/unrelated, part of my joy in the sagrada familia is that being a tourist feels essentially the same as being a pilgrim. If you get a chance to visit parc guell, you aren't exactly experiencing it as a park, but as a tour through the different ideas in the park. (Compare this with an unguided stroll through Central Park, where you and all of the other visitors are likely experiencing it as a park (the way it was intended)
^ I think! In my experience it's occasionally overlooked in a short trip to Paris, whereas if you're going to just see one Gaudi, make it the cathedral
If you’re not familiar with Gaudi’s life I think you’ll find it equally inspiring. He was extremely successful and heavily communist (He was always Christian for all that some think you need to be atheist to be communist), and ended his life living a functionally monastic life dedicated to this project, literally living in the crypt.
I used ET but it requires a server process also. Some machines are too locked down to allow this. Wish there was a way to kick start the server on demand.
Well yes, but mosh starts its server over an initial SSH connection used for setup, so you only need the binary to exist in PATH of the remote host and you're done. It's more difficult to arrange a service to be running; sometimes more so if you don't have root.
Sure. I guess caveat I haven't used Mosh in a while, so maybe things have changed.
Mosh paints the screen, meaning no native scrollback. You have to use a multiplexer like tmux to get it. But ET has native scrollback. This is the biggest one for me.
Couple years ago I was on a more limited network that constrained usage of UDP which Mosh uses. ET uses TCP.
Mosh buffers inputs locally first which gives it the appearance of low latency but that illusion breaks when there are network issues. I prefer ET, even tho it can appear slower, since network issues are more obvious and I can troubleshoot them. But on a good connection, they're indistinguishable to me.
Those are three. There may be more. Honestly they are probably still more or less interchangeable for most. No reason to switch if you love Mosh.
It's also a privacy leak - the target page would get to know about every thumbnail view (a la tracking pixel). Although it's likely they only care about keeping that data so they can sell it for themselves, rather than actual privacy.
> But the last fucking thing I want to do is delegate all the code writing to someone or something else
I talked about this a few days ago with coworkers and I phrased it almost exactly this way. I want to be an IC. I want to do the work. Becoming a manager-of-one to funnel all my work through would deprive me of genuinely my greatest joy in life.
I'm envious you managed a few good decades. I'm almost eight years into what has been my dream profession and to see indications it's going to morph from writing code into telling a robot to write code is just so demoralizing. I could have done this for decades. I wanted to do this for decades.
The firing is not motivated by the ratio. It's not a handcuff saying you must find x% of the workforce to fire.
It's setting a bar that when evaluated on a curve a certain percentage of your employees wind up being below that bar. You derive the ratio from how aggressive you expect your bar to be.
But no one is saying you need to fire people. They're saying they expect a certain amount of lower performers and if they don't see it, they want to know reason. But it also only manifests at much higher populations than an individual team. Totally possible a small enough team has everyone >= meeting expectations.
I enjoyed this post since this is exactly my approach to improvements: imagine the magic want solution, find the deltas between it and current state, code the deltas.
At work I often get tapped to work with folks who struggle with "Better Engineering" ideas (codebase improvements with an eye towards increased productivity). Usually it's just people being unable to come up with any improvements.
I always prompt them: 1. "Is this the best codebase you've ever worked in?" and 2. "If you were to rewrite this from scratch, would it look exactly like this?".
It's amusing how often those two questions trigger a light bulb moment. I of course follow up to ensure their ideas are actually good and grounded (no "let's convert the monolith to microservices") but it does wonders for inspiration.
Not OP but one that is usually contentions is the ability to act as an SMS client. Facebook's Messenger can or at least used to be able to do this on Android. It cannot on iOS.
It's nothing like I've ever seen before so I'm surprised by the comments at the end of the article that make it seem like its originality has waned over the years. You can feel the conviction and passion that have been poured into it for over a century.
I can't wait to visit it again. I really love it.