mtberatwork

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by mtberatwork 4y ago
What about "Three Days of the Condor"?
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
There are all kinds of people in tech who are self taught without CS degrees though. I don't think it's that beholden to the universities...at least not like other professions. I think it's simply that people took notice that
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
In the US, "right on red" should be abolished. It's abused way too much at this point.
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
What headwinds? The Western world is a consumption driven society (with the US being an extreme version I would say), so I don't think advertising/PR spending will be reduced, just transferred from one focus to another. The busine
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
This is a gray area too as unnecessary testing can be costly and lead to worse care: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/13/1104141...
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
> and other laws, like those protecting unions, that defeat at-will employment This is backwards. Union membership is at its all time low and at-will employment has mostly taken over. A union would be the best tool to curb "boss-war
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
You certainly do not need to build out an entire SPA or use React to reload part of a page just to swap in some HTML or load something asynchronously in the background.
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
> Google News refuses to permit socially conservative viewpoints (Fox News doesn’t make that list for me) to make up a user’s personalized feed. This isn't true. I just looked up a few conservative publications, from the center-righ
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
"Various pockets" seems to imply the problem is not that wide spread. But it is: [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap... [2] https://www.publichealth.colu
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
Software engineers can buy worker rights, overtime limits, etc? That's news to me. Also, goes without saying, not every engineer is making FAANG-level salaries.
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
> I think we probably at some point will realize that food like we ate in the past are way better than it is today and the type of heavily processed food we eat today is unhealthy. That point is here, right now. Michael Pollan and much o
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted...you aren't wrong. > Except the Buddha and his stories explicitly advised against asceticism... Yup, the Middle Path.
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
Who ever mentioned anything about repressing thoughts? Quieting the mind does not mean repressing feelings. Observe the thoughts when they arise, but do not judge. This is nothing new.
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
> At the best of times these routines of habit are just an escape from the stress... No, not an escape. Amongst the many benefits, exercise, meditation, etc are a means (but not the only means) to quiet the mind and give a pause to thoug
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
> Society, economics have changed to keep up. I think that is debatable, at least from the Western standpoint. Much of Western society and its economics produce tremendous amounts of depression and anxiety (rooted mostly in fear).
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
Be careful for what you wish. As OP alludes, much of your income is taken up by housing, childcare, healthcare, retirement funding, etc. Just about everything is "out of pocket". In terms of safety nets or other societal benefits
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
A note on burnout: once you have had one burnout, the next one comes on faster and with less triggers needed.
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
> My autoimmune disease is likely caused by modern technical advances I'm absolutely certain that my autoimmune disease manifested itself later in life due to chronic stress at work (a modern advancement so to speak). While not the
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by mtberatwork 4y ago
This is odd because the web version is almost always the first experience for a new user of the platform.
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> If managing a server becomes just another bullet point in a developer job, this is exactly what we get. Yup...the same management are the ones that laid off the DBAs, system admins, network engineers, etc because "the cloud"
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
I generally agree with you, but for me I'm not necessarily trying to optimize for an ultra long life span but instead am trying to optimize for going out peacefully. I don't want my end years to be in some miserable, decrepit stat
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Ha! But in all fairness, multiple references, with references coming from verified previous employers. A quick phone call to the candidates prior employers to verify employment/listed reference will flush things out quickly. Also, most
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> It's much easier for an unscrupulous person to find a friend who's willing to inflate their achievements on the phone than to provide on-the-spot solutions to programming problems they lack the skill to solve themselves. A go
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> Surely that’s a better signal than a 60 minute coding test. It is! Where I work we have a min of three references required for non-entry level jobs and it reveals quite a bit at higher levels. It does require more effort on the part of
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
First off, take a step back and do about 2 - 5 minutes of deep breathing ("Box Breathing" [0] is a popular technique.) Second, know that you are not alone here. You've got a team working on solving the problem and you aren&#x
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Compounding interest...if you start early enough and take advantage of employer contribution matching, etc. But most people in the US won't retire as millionaires, let alone even retire. Unforeseen life events often cause people to dip
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Social Security is not a pension plan in the normal sense. It is structured and taxed differently than a pension that a company would provide.
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> a hybrid private/public pension model like the US I'm not sure pensions exist in the US beyond a few public sector ones. The US model is entirely private at this point for all intents and purposes. Also keep in mind that only
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
If you hit a bug with a popular, open-source framework, the odds are great that others have as well and it will get escalated and solved quickly. The same can't be said for closed-source, proprietary frameworks. Also, writing it entire
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> Downside JVM is a Resource hog I have to disagree. The JVM is one of the biggest pluses and might be one of the most battle-tested pieces of software out there. > The web frameworks are in my opinion not as full featured. Again, hav

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