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by lesser23 1y ago
I understand the sentiment and agree but the practicality is a different story. Not many people pay in cash (though, for now, it's still possible). 99.9% of people carry a tracking device in their pocket, and it's a junior enginee
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by lesser23 1y ago
Why shouldn’t old art be permitted into the public domain to encourage improvement and innovation? Draconian Mickey Mouse copyright law has likely stifled more innovation that we could possibly imagine. Much like patent law there should be
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by lesser23 1y ago
“AI” can’t use X so we have to dumb it down to the point a next token predictor can figure it out. Every day it seems like we are using spicy autocomplete as a measure of understandability which seems entirely silly to me. My own employer h
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by lesser23 1y ago
The term is helicopter parenting. Studies have shown children born after 1995 are significantly more stunted (they grow up more “slowly”) due to this. There are interesting consequences like, for example, the condition of college campuses a
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by lesser23 1y ago
Maybe I’m just suffering from Stockholm syndrome but I haven’t really had trouble using most libraries in Python. I do agree however that Python makes it harder to write reusable code. To quote Bjarne Stroustrup there are only two kinds of
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by lesser23 1y ago
Having been around for a long time I liken it to PERL. Post-PERL it also looks a lot like Ruby. I remember everything being re-written in Ruby. Yet PERL still stands! Anyway, Python is a nice language for small-ish (< 1000 lines or so) p
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by lesser23 1y ago
> I stopped doing the extra work, no longer respond to questions that are out-of-hours, and have finally realized that the company really isn't my 'friend' or 'family'. But best of all, when I'm at the offic
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by lesser23 1y ago
Many places are quite literally forcing their software engineers to use LLMs. Complete with cursor/copilot is the ability to see usage statistics and surely at these companies these statistics will eventually be used as firing criter
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by lesser23 1y ago
The bullet points and some of the edge definitely smell like LLM assistance. Other than that I take the other side. I’ve read (and subsequently never finished) dozens of programming books because they are so god awfully boring. This writing
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by lesser23 1y ago
What I find interesting is that despite, as you said, FAANG doesn't really have the "genius appeal" it used to have they still demand it. You would sort of expect a company that is in the glacial stages of movement to have mo
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by lesser23 1y ago
I have spoken to a few people in the "recruiting industry". In particular, one CEO of one. Both were rather frank discussions. Both told me that it is a complete waste of time to submit resumes and do follow up calls. Rather shock
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by lesser23 1y ago
Fastmail these days with a custom domain. I was on protonmail for years. But I found the integrations were not compatible with my ideal workflow. Their iPhone app also crashed all the time for me and you can’t use regular mail clients. For
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by lesser23 1y ago
The other form of malicious compliance is my preferred malicious compliance. If the meeting is for 15 minutes I leave at the 15 minute mark after excusing myself. The problem with meetings always falls into one of two camps for me: 1. Some
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by lesser23 1y ago
The post is somewhat strange but I think the point of it is clear. Projects aren’t what land jobs. This is contrary to age-old advice of “build a portfolio to show off” which has been repeated for as long as I remember. At least since 2010