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by cupofpython 4y ago
tired enough of it to make your own?
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by cupofpython 4y ago
If you give someone your email instead of your AIM then there isnt more to remember. You would email each other instead of using an always on messenger service. AIM was a place you logged in and logged out of, and all conversations were c
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>one more username and protocol to remember maybe i am old, but the messenger service is the "one more username" to remember. i would drop messenger services before i drop email. messenger services tend to be linked to email
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by cupofpython 4y ago
An open door policy with a bouncer for anything frivolous
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>If you were offline, there was no away message, and no way to send you a message at all. This was a feature. email already existed. phone calls already existed. AIM provided new information about a persons availability in that they
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by cupofpython 4y ago
and then google happened
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by cupofpython 4y ago
"I used to lay bricks and now im a general contractor"
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>____ are in those roles not because they cannot do other roles, but because someone needs to _______ Honestly, this applies to a whole lot of jobs and can be reversed for SWE too. I am a business analyst and have a few stories of workin
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by cupofpython 4y ago
for mobile, i find it easier to have 2 calculators. One bare bones for "i just need to add a bunch of numbers" and one for "i need to use parenthesis and division" for the latter i use maple calculator on android
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>engaged staff/high touch verification process this does not scale well either
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by cupofpython 4y ago
> Are they working for stock options that are going to make them millionaires? Maybe, maybe not. But now they are working for a well known company that looks good on a resume, and I have no reason to believe they are not being paid fairl
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by cupofpython 4y ago
I cant name them directly but some quick math suggests Elon has indeed made many millionaires. Tesla IPO'd in 2010 with 13.3 million shares Tesla had a bit under 1000 employees in 2010 Tesla stock price was $17 in 2010 Tesla had a 5-fo
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by cupofpython 4y ago
we have AI based dancing robots now, maybe they can figure something out for this
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by cupofpython 4y ago
alternatively, given his obsession with conspiracy - maybe he was unable to establish deep connections with anyone in his life
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by cupofpython 4y ago
I think you're right about the state of leveraging over seas labor today, but the gap is so large between life over seas and life for SWE in USA that I have no doubt that a middle ground can be found to put SWE in USA out of a job once
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by cupofpython 4y ago
i dont think that is cynicism. ideas need to be commodified for corporate use or else HR / recruiting does not know what to do with it.
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Why wouldnt an overseas employee have all the exact same incentives and challenges to maintain their code as a more local remote worker? I think you are assuming I was implying overseas work to be all short-term contract work but I am not s
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>I believe your vision is to replace all satisfying work with soul-crushing work. If all your work is done by people who don't want to work there I am hesitant to believe what I think you are implying here. Do you think everyone in
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by cupofpython 4y ago
i like that bet, I was ignoring AI in my observations. The server running the AI will probably be cheaper overseas all the same though
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by cupofpython 4y ago
yes today. overseas is still behind on raw skill. they will catch up, and SWE does not promote complicated work - it does the opposite. it promotes the simplest code that works, because that makes it easiest to maintain.
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Yes there would be logistical issues if we tried to actualize this future today, rather than allowing it to naturally progress over time as I stated. Foreign culture is irrelevant, as you can bring people in to train them on-site and then
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>but mortgage principal is not an expense. this isn't entirely true either. You need to live somewhere. Yes you own the equity, but it's always going to be locked away as "home equity". It has an advantage of givin
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by cupofpython 4y ago
this is a feature, not a bug, of globalization. Work that can be done in cheaper countries is allocated there. On a related note (and I get negative feedback whenever i say this, but) this is the future of all software developers as i see
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>It quickly leads to creators sanitising feedback to prefer only positive feedback I dont see this as a big issue. It seems to be a place for podcast community members to gather and discuss instead of making yet another discord. If you
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by cupofpython 4y ago
fair enough, but pooling them assumes all orders are created equal - which could be a tight game-design constraint. but i agree what i am saying is in the same spirit as that
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by cupofpython 4y ago
I agree 100% with this and havent found the right game for it. not exactly RTS, but friends and I play Civ5 with 1-2 minute turn timer and it's a pretty good balance.
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by cupofpython 4y ago
what made you choose IDE as the medium for solving this?
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by cupofpython 4y ago
I think there might be enough of a market for something in-between. There is an itch to be scratched by people who want to fight with a balance of quick and strategic decisions. Where "quick" is fluid. For example, when your 1 s
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Make actions have cost, and / or put cooldowns on orders. Still allow the ability to burst out a high APM for a short period of time, but design it so overdoing it is suicide. Give the kids a fighting chance, ya know?
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by cupofpython 4y ago
I've whiteboarded some very similar ideas to this! If multiple people are coming to similar conclusions, there might be something here. In my thoughts, my hesitation is that I think I might have a bias for unit management, which is a

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