irateswami

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by irateswami 5y ago
I have 2 KA2's, one for my personal and work rigs, respectively. I've honestly never had a problem with their noise level, they sound pretty much the same as any other modern and commonly available mechanical keyboard. For shits-n
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by irateswami 5y ago
> Simple metrics like LoC, story points and number of commits are lazy ways to evaluate developers. I mean, looking through the git logs means you look at code contributions. If you're a software engineer, that's kind of, ya kn
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by irateswami 5y ago
I can't tell if you're making a joke about do-nothing managers or not, but if so, brava.
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by irateswami 5y ago
Literally the way to "manage" developers is to enable them to do good work, and then get the hell out of their way. The git logs, uptime, and slack messages are all the records you need for evals.
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by irateswami 5y ago
Perl was my first language too! Believe it or not, there's a ton of b*ch work that still needs to be done by interns at legacy tech that involves the language (looking at you Veritas, although this was a long time ago so who knows). I&
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by irateswami 5y ago
> Recruiters are in the way. So much this. I've had many conversations with interesting companies that have good pay and cool products, but recruiters/hr keep coming up with bullshit policies and processes that are just obnoxio
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by irateswami 5y ago
Get while the gettin' is good, people! You now have power over that caviling, micromanaging boss of yours. Or the job that doesn't pay you enough. Or the gig that makes you come in the office when you can work perfectly fine from
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by irateswami 5y ago
I have three young children. My wife understands my introversion and that I need time to myself. We have a sort of agreement, she could be a stay at home mom but she also is going to take the majority of the child-rearing, I make and manage
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by irateswami 5y ago
Honestly, I just prefer being alone. I find that I get all my needs for social interaction through work and family, and even that can be too much. I have to spend large swaths of the day just being by myself, and I typically use that time f
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by irateswami 5y ago
Greetings from Minneapolis, I work and live as a Dev here and it fucking sucks.
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by irateswami 5y ago
> I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline. Good Lord what the hell are you doing on HN then?!?!? Go talk to your therapist/doctor for God&
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by irateswami 5y ago
Whew boy do I have some stories that might shatter your view of trader joe's being a good company. Prime example: my store captain, Jeff, got busted having an affair with a crew member that he was a direct supervisor of. Granted, Jeff
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by irateswami 5y ago
Is this linkedin? Agree?
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by irateswami 5y ago
"If you know the volume of a toilet bowl 1.3 gallons, how many radii of the earth's rotation would fill the visible universe" - Google interviewer
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by irateswami 5y ago
It takes someone with a Michael Scott-level of self-awareness to ever think it would be a good idea.
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by irateswami 5y ago
I would bet any amount of money that it's a private space debris tracking conglomerate that discovers a widowmaker asteroid coming at us... ...and they make us subscribe to a rundle for the rest of our lives to keep it from hitting us.
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by irateswami 5y ago
Or here's my favorite: let someone go through the entire interview process at subcompany (Shipt) only to have your former, embittered, manager (Fuck you, Dave) at the parent company (Target) torpedo your offer. Don't work for Minn
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by irateswami 5y ago
> Of course you already lined up a new job, have no loyalty to your current employer, and will tell anyone who is willing to listen. God. Damn. Right.
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by irateswami 5y ago
the linux community never fails to deliver drama, it's like watching a bunch of nerds have a slap fight.
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by irateswami 5y ago
I fail to see what problem F# solves that is not already done as well or better in Go, Rust, or Python, coupled with the wide acceptance and/or hype among other developers for those languages.
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by irateswami 5y ago
> Sounds like a good deal for Purdue Pharma. It's a damn good deal for the sack-of-shit-Sackler family especially. They took out something to the tune of $10 BILLION from Purdue Pharma and are only on the hook for about $50 mil. Nic
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by irateswami 5y ago
It's about pumping up engagement metrics, pure and simple, regardless of the quality of the user experience. Any and all social media is poison.
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by irateswami 5y ago
The lockdowns quickly became less about actual science, and more about government power.
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by irateswami 5y ago
When thinking about this, I always come back to the scene in "The Office" with Michael's Golden Ticket idea. Long story short; Michael loses the company a bunch of money on a foolish marketing scheme, and gets Dwight to take
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by irateswami 5y ago
I know this all too well. I should've known the day I walked into that interview at Target corp when they said, "we're trying to go from java 8 to 11, but it's been rocky..."
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by irateswami 5y ago
I have never more gleefully told more recruiters with shitty jobs that the jobs they're peddling are, in fact, shitty... and it's amaaaaaaaaazing.
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by irateswami 5y ago
> At least one reason might be backup communication when jammed. Line of sight might allow for direct laser communication (either to the piloted plane or a nearby relay to retain some stealth) in the case of radio spectrum jamming. This
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by irateswami 5y ago
> Why risk a human life when you can just send a robot to the battlefield instead? That's literally the point of the F35: to stealthily penetrate enemy airspace and act as a command and control combat platform for drones. It observe
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by irateswami 5y ago
Homebrew is more transparent and approachable, I can easily customize what is being installed, it's versioning, and control it's dependencies better than apt. Apt, more often than not, acts as a gatekeeper for the latest version o
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by irateswami 5y ago
It is the exact same story for me. I don't know how people are able to stare at code, walking through those complex patterns, for 6 hours a day, let alone the entire 9-5 time or the overwork hours the tech industry seems to love. I lov

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