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by n_time 3y ago
I hear you. It's definitely important to be careful; less prestigious jobs can also just mean getting treated with less prestige AKA like shit.
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by n_time 3y ago
I think this is more of an organisational thing, as well as likely your team within the organisation
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by n_time 3y ago
There's a lot of programming gigs in the public sector or in larger boring organisations. They pay less but are also have lower expectations and more structure which are both great No PTSD but dealing with burn out I needed to find som
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by n_time 3y ago
I will but only if it's motivated by some moral/ethical calculus. If it's just a product I kind of like then I'm out of there
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by n_time 3y ago
Could it be people are choosing over-engineered solutions because AWS has bad documentation and that's what the solutions architects tell them to do? Could it be because microservices and so-called "server-less" have been sol
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by n_time 3y ago
You sound like a very competitive person. You might want to consider that a lot of software development is actually the navigation of socio-technical systems. Heavy emphasis on the socio. Your competitive drive isn't bad, but it might
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by n_time 3y ago
I stopped using Firefox because it was killing my battery life. Also because I noticed more and more websites stopped supporting it and I just kind of gave up. I'm using Safari these days and it's fine.
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by n_time 4y ago
A large portion of this is due to the corporate enclosure of deep learning and machine learning that has occurred over the past 10 years. This, combined with the scale required for a lot of deep learning research, means that neither the cod
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by n_time 4y ago
You're being exploited. You've been worked to your limit. You probably share some blame in this but you're certainly not the one profiting from it so the key thing is you need to stop for a minute . You need a break to re-ev
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by n_time 4y ago
Rationality is a tool not a state of being.
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by n_time 4y ago
Have you switched jobs on a while? It sounds a little like you’re also describing being deeply embedded in your organization and having social capital there. I’d suggest switching jobs. You’ll lose the social capital and have new tech to le
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by n_time 4y ago
I think it's actually [Euro English]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English )
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by n_time 4y ago
1. I am cranky on Wednesdays. I'm sorry. I'll try to do better – but Thursday or Tuesday are probably better.
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by n_time 5y ago
It's worth considering that the number of programmers/technologists working in an organisation serves a signal for the organisation as an financial instrument. An organisation wants to show growth in terms of revenue but also in t
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by n_time 5y ago
Free markets and network effects leads to the accumulation of wealth and power by the few. Piketty did the hard work of documenting this. Getting away from theory and into business strategy, network effects are an often discussed strategy i
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by n_time 5y ago
Thank goodness it's decentralized and there are no single points of failure.
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by n_time 5y ago
If you don't have a system that enforces private ownership then who cares what a blockchain says? Screenshots NFT
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by n_time 5y ago
Wish there was more philosophy of science and exploration into what "technology" means in CS programs. Maybe get undergrads to read Crime and Punishment by Foucault. Not saying he's the be-all end-all but just that perspectiv
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by n_time 5y ago
They should probably talk to someone who knows something about ergonomics–the way his neck was craning to look at those vertical "screens" looked painful
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by n_time 5y ago
Do American corporations even pay taxes?
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by n_time 5y ago
Also it's jarring reading early 00s Adbusters-style Gen-X prose after all these years
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by n_time 5y ago
I love his web design
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by n_time 5y ago
That Vigilante ad gives me serious Jennifer Government vibes
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by n_time 5y ago
this is correct
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by n_time 6y ago
The console for Google Cloud Platform is also down.
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by n_time 7y ago
> If they have to worry about what latest moral crusade will try to get you kicked off the cloud platform, they will be a lot more reticent about migrating to cloud. Equating climate change activism with all other forms of social justice
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by n_time 9y ago
My point was that these services are using technical terminology to soften and obscure the stratifying of spaces based on power/money. You've responded by softening the terminology again. I see others pointing out in sub-threads t
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by n_time 9y ago
These policies of "harassment complaint", reputation, and recourse systems seem to me a bit like "you will be safe from the unwashed masses". Paid service apartheid?
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by n_time 9y ago
Facebook has over 2 billion users. If they want to stay relevant in the global scheme would be taking a risk by giving preferential treatment to American authorities. Especially given Germany's power in the EU and the rising European h
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by n_time 10y ago
> The success of many companies, and probably all of the unicorns, has nothing to do with technology Have you considered broadening your personal definition of technology past computing and engineering? From Wikipedia: > Technology ca

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