dekleinewolf

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by dekleinewolf 2mo ago
My job did a 'lunch concert'. A violinist and pianist were invited to play during our lunch hour. Great initiative. And then they notified us by means of an ai-generated poster involving a photorealistic image of a violinist and p
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by dekleinewolf 3mo ago
And everyone knows how well-received clippy was :D
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by dekleinewolf 6mo ago
Hiya, I'm 39 and divorced 3 years ago. For me, my saviour was my 'third place'. I have frequented a spot since I was 18 where I can basically go any evening and there will be friends I know that I can chat with any time I nee
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by dekleinewolf 1y ago
Agree. As a programmer that likes to sew in her free time; I do think it is significantly easier to pick 10 random people of the street and make them into excellent sewists within a year than to make them into good programmers. Programming
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by dekleinewolf 2y ago
It's way easier to make a good programmer out of a researcher than a researcher out of a programmer. I have always had programming jobs (job title: software engineer) that required the 'researcher' mindset. We didn't min
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by dekleinewolf 2y ago
And that's not the only one :). The company I work at worked on this one: https://inovo.nl/
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
But you can solve this systematically by just having that medium sized company pay for it. They don't have to do it; but they have to pay for it; meaning the cost will be transferred along to the end user.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
Can you name me 3 tech companies in the Randstad that aren't consultancy that pay more than that? I don't think these numbers are exceptionally high but they're not low either. Source: Former SWE, current PM in the Randstad.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
ASML is well known for it's exceptionally high pay compared to other Dutch tech companies.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
The point is that the labor is moved to the customer (and is now unpaid labor). So it's not 'less labor' but it is definitely 'less labor costs'. Think 'serverless' technology - there is still a server, it
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
I... completely didn't get that it was a metaphor. I also still very much agree with Joe. Everyone derives pleasure from other avenues. For me it's playing an actual musical instrument with other people. Not writing blogs.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
Completely agree. I sew clothes. The vast majority of projects I start get finished. Sometimes I'm happy with the result, sometimes I'm not. I wear them regardless. My kids wear them. After a while they grow out of them. Goal achi
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
> Who would argue without the implicit desire to convince/convert? Me? I'm an engineer, when I 'argue' with my co-workers, it is with the goal of finding the best solution. I don't care whose solution it is. I wa
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
Hackernews: Working remotely is so much better! Why would they ever want us to work from to office! Also Hackernews: Ever since Corona started, I hate my job. I wonder what changed?
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
If I find that kind of shit in my free library, it immediately goes to the (properly recycled) trash. Nobody will take it, it's just taking up space and bringing down the attractiveness of my library.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
> If I was running one, I'd have maybe 10x what will fit in it, and constantly rotate them. The ones that don't move within a couple months go to the thrift store. That's how I run mine. About twice a week I rotate ~10 boo
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
Yes, that is probably true indeed. That's why there are so many bullshit jobs. I could never work in a zero-sum environment.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
> More like “extremely tedious and mind numbing” To me it seems clear that that is not what this book is about. It's about the purpose, not the contents.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
> 43% of companies will use artificial intelligence (AI) to run their hiring interviews by 2024 Bullshit. I can imagine 43% (or more) involving some sort of AI tooling in their hiring process. Almost half of all companies 'running t
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
I'm a manager and when I ask my engineers for an estimate, I always, always increase it for my own purposes.
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by dekleinewolf 3y ago
Awww, unfortunately nothing in my country! I love going to weirdo museums. My favorites so far are the sardine can and the dredging museums.
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
I think you're looking for 'major'.
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
Same. In our team of 10 there was one guy that did about half the work. Making him literally the 10x (okay, 9x) programmer.
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
My master thesis, which is supposed to take 8 months, took me 2 years and 4 months. Every morning I would wake up and think 'today is the day I will do good work!'. And every night I would go to bed and feel terrible and like a fa
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
Shit, I'm binging it right at the moment. I guess I'll mentally prepare for a horrible ending!
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
Oh my god the hair tugging. I fucking hate her braid. (I never could finish the series).
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
No one is debating that. The question is what do you do with them after the wrong has been done. Which is exactly why the marbles were referred to in this article.
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
Completely agree. A managers task isn't so much to make sure 'more work gets done'. They are there to make sure 'the right work gets done'. And that the right people are there (and stay there), that the right tools
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
> The only worse option is asking female candidates if they’re planning a pregnancy This happened to me in my very first grown-up job interview.
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by dekleinewolf 4y ago
I think that's a little one sided. My job is project management. I hate remote working. And that's because by the time something is big enough that someone feels like they need to notify me, my first options of mitigation have alr

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