seahawks78

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by seahawks78 22d ago
what happens to labor markets in places like India if robots are able to accomplish that would have ordinarily required 5 manual labors at a fraction of the cost say (1/100th)? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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by seahawks78 24d ago
2022-30 will be known as the lost generation in tech. I think the situation will improve in 2030s and AI/coding will become hot again. Or may be perhaps as soon as Feds start to open their purse to print money again aka QE.
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by seahawks78 3mo ago
Great article by PG! Too bad he did not specify the play book, i.e. to enter the public market at highly unrealistic inflated valuations so that VCs and founders can make bank while the general public become bag holders for next 5-10 years.
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by seahawks78 2y ago
Cant upvote this comment enough. This comment should be at the top of this thread!
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by seahawks78 3y ago
I have some very good opinion of this. I work in big tech and I might be a canonical example of some users who no longer find Quora interesting. From 2012 to about 2014 I was absolutely hooked to Quora spending anywhere between 2 to 4 hours
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by seahawks78 3y ago
> Personally, I’d rather protect the employees at the risk of the shareholders. Sorry, but thats not how capitalism operates. Modern corporations are created for the benefit of share holders and they operate for only one reason and one r
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by seahawks78 3y ago
> As a side question, is your objective to ‘win’ the argument, or be correct? To me, it sounds like the former. My objective here is to get to the truth - nothing more and nothing less. Unions can be "every bit harmful" since t
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by seahawks78 3y ago
So you have basically decided not to answer the relevant question but to parrot an idiotic left wing garbage narrative. Okay! in that case, I rest my case that unions can actually be very harmful due to it being a power structure and part
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by seahawks78 3y ago
No I am asking for a situation when the unions have an agenda of extracting maximum benefits out of the company while actively encouraging its members to put in the absolute bare minimum of effort. This will in a few years time will make th
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by seahawks78 3y ago
This is all good in theory so here is my question: since unions are essentially a power structure at its core what happens when they try to abuse their positions? What is the check/balance or counter to that?
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by seahawks78 3y ago
Why do so few CS majors end up being professional Software Engineers even including the ones that graduate from top schools like MIT/Stanford/Harvard etc.? Even bigger question - among the few CS majors who do end up being Softwar
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by seahawks78 3y ago
RIP Bob Lee! I was highly inpired by some of your Java talks in Youtube and other places. Aside from that alas! what have things come down to in San Francisco? It has become an utter lawless city.
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by seahawks78 4y ago
In the article that has been cited in the link the abstract says "Science says". I wonder if the writer even knows what Science is or means? No wonder our mass media today and public discourses are filled with utter quality garbag
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by seahawks78 4y ago
No, that is what I am talking about. As one of the points below have mentioned more succintly- utility of a degree in terms of monetary renumaration is already determined by free market forces. For degrees that are determined as less useful
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by seahawks78 4y ago
Colleges and universities as institutions were never meant for commoners. Most people forget that barely a few centuries colleges and universities were places that primarily catered to two distinct classes of people: first, sons/daught
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by seahawks78 4y ago
I hope metaverse does not go the same way as Libra/Novi. If that happens somehow I think Meta will face an existential threat. I think Zuck understands this.
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by seahawks78 4y ago
What happened to the Libra project? Anyone has any idea?
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by seahawks78 5y ago
> "This is just one of the ways an unprincipled "builder culture" can backfire, particularly if you have people running the show who have no problem putting their own gains ahead of the company. They'll push all kinds
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by seahawks78 5y ago
This is mostly accurate and true. A PhD degree is basically "knowing absolutely everything about practically nothing".
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by seahawks78 5y ago
Don't do a PhD in either US/Canada unless you were in top 1% of the class and practically slept through all advanced Math courses (e.g. Convex Optimization, Linear Programming, Karush-Kuhn-Tucker etc.) and still ended up with an A
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by seahawks78 5y ago
For me personally, I am still mystified by how subjective interviews like System Design/Behavioral are graded. E.g. if asked to design a large scale distributed system like Uber what would be the pass/fail criteria when calibratio
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by seahawks78 5y ago
"Instead, I'm on a team that has and horrendous turnover and is staffed with below-average IQ people." "This company builds EVERYTHING in house, and the toolset is like going backwards in my career 10 years." I am g
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by seahawks78 5y ago
> I wish we as a culture/society, acknowledged the luck and timing factor more as a factor in career development. I would argue that this would be too cruel for the "unwashed masses" to digest/fathom. The myth of meri
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by seahawks78 5y ago
No I didn't mean blanket 5k to everyone. It could very well be dependent on the place you live. 1k - 5k might be an acceptable range. If you live in NYC you get more, rural Alabama may be not so much. But you get the idea. Assuming tha
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by seahawks78 5y ago
I don't think it is especially if you are living in one of metro regions/tech hubs i.e. SF Bay area, Seattle, NYC etc.
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by seahawks78 5y ago
We need universal basic income (UBI)! Period. I believe that in a country like US every working adult (18 - 64) should get a minimum of 5k a month for paying basic expenses. Furthermore, Payflow should be integrated with the government UBI
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by seahawks78 5y ago
Really!!! I am surprised to hear this. I always thought that Google is akin to "Chocolate factory" for programmers where programmer is the king and each and every decision is made by programmers. In my circle, Google is considere
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by seahawks78 6y ago
Hopefully, there will be a day/release in the Java world when we will be able to write 10x - 20x shorter programs (in terms of LOC) with most mundane stuffs disappearing under the hood. Sighs!! It will be interesting to see the reactio
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by seahawks78 6y ago
I am curious where does it leave libraries like Lombok that basically ports a non-record type Java class to make it more record type-e by adding things like @Value, @Data annotations. Are those libraries/frameworks going to become obso
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by seahawks78 6y ago
And they call themselves "Robinhood"! Nauseating.

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