@aeva I'll often leave that sort of comment as *explicitly nonblocking* commentary, "I would consider doing this like this because blah blah blah, see what you think" sort of thing. I like this for three reasons: (a) I'm not holding up anyone's work; and (b) hopefully I get to teach somebody something, which is great; and (c) hopefully people will take my example and do the same thing for me so I'll get to learn something, which is also great.

Code review as a toxic reflection of bad culture is unfortunately prevalent, though, and I will fully grant that trying to introduce this style of commentary into such an environment may not go well. =(

@tarkasteve @Tubemeister @ingram "Staff" is by far the funniest to me, because "staff engineer" is… uh, pretty poorly-defined, actually (I've never worked a place with "staff" in the standard engineer title hierarchy, but it typically slots in either in place of or above "principal" in the "extremely senior engineer" range), but always a prestigious title, while the term "staff" in *every* other context is dismissive. Your staff is, like, your janitors.

(To be clear, in case it's not, I think this attitude falls somewhere between "ill-advised" and "psychopathic". Your office will stop functioning just as quickly with no janitors as with no white-collar denizens.)

@Tubemeister @ingram @tarkasteve "Principal". Other completely meaningless terms I've seen sprinkled into job titles like unbelievably pretentious confetti are "staff" and "distinguished".

Personally, if anyone foolishly gives me authority over job titles, I'm making "extremely senior engineer"s.

@glyph The way I think of it is: markets are an emergent phenomenon. Any time one person has something and someone else wants it? That's a market. You don't have to accept the exploitative morass that unregulated markets inevitably decay into, nor try to regulate it into an economics-theoretically-perfect free market, spherical-cow-in-a-vacuum style; but if you try to *pretend it's not there*, with all its attendant baggage like supply/demand curves and whatnot, you're going to have a bad time.

I have not found the word "capitalism" to be productive in these sorts of discussions, because what people mean by it stretches from "well-regulated liberal market economy" though "capital ownership of the means of production" all the way to "literally anything I don't like".

@emily Let they who have *not* tried to debug a prod issue from dev logs cast the first stone.

(Throwing literally all your logs into a single massive logging instance, typically via a SaaS thingy, definitely makes this sort of thing *easier*. But from my own embarrassing experience, it's still surprisingly possible in other contexts.)

@foone That era was far better than the one I remember, where you did nothing and they mailed you FREE CD-ROMs.

(We used them to make scarecrows.)