deeptote

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by deeptote 4y ago
The lesson here is to be overemployed, do at least one interview process a quarter, and understand that companies don't give AF about you.
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by deeptote 4y ago
I wanted to get out of my office basement and into something that was close by, I went to a WeWork in my locality and while it was a nice space overall, I was astounded by both how expensive, and how empty, it was. For less I was able to fi
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by deeptote 4y ago
grpcurl and httpie are so good it's ridiculous.
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by deeptote 4y ago
I'd love to move to NY but yeah, I have kids now and moving them from the acreage and amazing school district we have now is just not really an option.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Yeah, same. If you're a specialist and happen to have an in-demand skillset (backend, dist sys, GoLang), the volume of offers has been lower but still getting plenty of interest.
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by deeptote 4y ago
they were literally trying to recruit me last week
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by deeptote 4y ago
"Companies have been pumping and dumping for years, buoyed by cheap labor, and have not been intelligent enough to invest long term. And now, they're sad." FTFY
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by deeptote 4y ago
Okay, George Washington. You sure showed me the error of my ways.
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by deeptote 4y ago
I feel exactly zero sympathy for companies at this point. Y'all have spent years suppressing wages, making candidates jump through all kinds of hoops, and encourage a "fake it 'til you make it" culture among founders. No
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by deeptote 4y ago
> That seems like a pretty whacky theory to me because it assumes that companies only increase prices when forced to do so, and not just because they can. It comes across especially wacky to me as price hikes have outstripped wage hikes.
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by deeptote 4y ago
> The truth is a significant portion of managers, in my experience, are not particularly well suited to the task or are incompetent on some level. Competent managers are few and far between, Steve Jobs said/did a lot of stupid crap
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by deeptote 4y ago
This is biggest crock of shit I've ever read.
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by deeptote 4y ago
So basically every software engineer interview... ever.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Woah get out of here with your nuanced approach, this is the Hackernews comment section.
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by deeptote 4y ago
It's nice to hear someone admit that Google hires a lot of mediocre people. I'm also not shocked, their interview process invites people to gamify.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Yeah true, but this coming from the likes of Facebook and Google, two companies well known for warehousing talent... it mostly just comes across as tone deaf and naive. For years they've literally hired very smart and capable people, a
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by deeptote 4y ago
> Can definitely speak to these cases - especially where you do great work and have a narrative that it was unappreciated - and clearly see lesser performing or less impressive colleagues getting ahead. I did great work for a company and
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by deeptote 4y ago
I turned down my offers from Google at Amazon because I value WLB and being able to continue with my freelance work and content creation. I figured working at a bank would be congruent with this sentiment. You do cool work, btw. Just be car
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by deeptote 4y ago
Given Monzo's hiring practices, I'm not sanguine about the future of this company. I myself went through their interview process not long ago and to say it lived up to the sentiment of the glassdoor reviews is putting it mildly. S
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by deeptote 4y ago
This is why I started my own contracting/consulting company, I hate on call and it always gets abused. I mean, really, what's going to happen if you can't see the score of a baseball game until tomorrow?
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by deeptote 4y ago
This is the main reason that I use Go as my main language, and why many orgs are starting to adopt it: it's easy to read and jump into. I would argue, however, that it's very easy to create antipatterns and just general spaghetti
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by deeptote 4y ago
I remain unconvinced of a major recession, I think there are a lot of elites out there who are just angry that they now just can't borrow money for free, so they throw a tantrum. The fed was consistently raising interest rates from 201
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by deeptote 4y ago
The narrative is the elite are angry that it now actually costs something to borrow money.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Yeah I agree. There's no reason why a front end using TypeScript + React can't use WASM for it's backend connections, but building the entire thing in rust with Yew just seems like a hammer in search of a nail. GopherJS exist
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by deeptote 4y ago
The issue is the complete lack of integrity. Crypto is a fucking scam in the first place, so obviously I don't expect the CEO to have any sort of integrity at all, but deliberately overhiring people when they KNEW what their burn rate
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by deeptote 4y ago
TL;DR - I tried it when the first m1's came out and it was a huge pain, ended up going back to x86 for my primary machine. I got an m1 right when they came out because I started a new gig right around that time, literally happened the
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by deeptote 4y ago
I've had 8 recruiters reach out just this morning on LinkedIn. Granted, most of them are crap gigs but they were mostly crap gigs 6 months ago too. Plenty are interesting though. I'm really glad I specialized early on and found a
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by deeptote 4y ago
Seriously, who actually uses Atom anymore? Before VSCode was a thing, I used it but then I got into Vim, Neovim, and now VSCode with the Vim plugin.
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by deeptote 4y ago
The irony is there's use cases for that waste heat. - Utilities could use the extra boost of heat in winter - producing potable water The coin produced from these processes could then be used as tradable units. "Heat Coin" or
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by deeptote 4y ago
Exactly zero, because I don't gamble.

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