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by sigfubar 11mo ago
Is it all vibe coded? Looks and feels like LLM slop.
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by sigfubar 1y ago
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by sigfubar 1y ago
I’ve learned so much, and it took only a few minutes. What a treat. I had no idea about masking, even though I’ve been doing it for as long as I remember being alive. Aaaah, it’s so draining. When I was younger (in my 20s) I used to think t
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by sigfubar 1y ago
> In the US, we can learn a lot too. Alas, American exceptionality as part of its premise precludes any act of learning from anywhere other than itself. Culturally, this is what inbreeding looks like.
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by sigfubar 1y ago
I get a good chuckle out of these articles. “Here’s another thing I lack that was supposed to make me live longer!” Speaking of living longer: I’ve had my fill of fast cars already, but how about an airplane? I watched some guys fly Piper C
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by sigfubar 1y ago
The repo is 100% AI slop. Advice to OP: lay off the Claude Code if your goal is to become an “independent researcher”. Claude doesn’t know what it’s doing, but it’s happy to lead you into a false sense of achievement because it’ll never tel
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by sigfubar 6y ago
LinkedIn is for those who don’t have a GitHub. My work speaks for itself; if it’s somehow not enough, the company isn’t worth my time anyway.
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by sigfubar 6y ago
We just got back from watching the launch in person from Cocoa, FL. It seemed as if ten thousand people have come out to watch the rocket climb up. Everyone cheered hard, and spirits were unbelievably high despite traffic and rain.
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by sigfubar 6y ago
> fly literally every employee out once a quarter and throw a giant party Please don't! I love working remotely; but I don't want to travel for work. I don't need a party. I don't need a fancy offsite. I don't wa
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by sigfubar 6y ago
It's the parents' job to teach kids how to tell junk food from healthy food; predatory apps from apps which add value; "you're the product" from "you're consuming the product". I do this with my kid,
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by sigfubar 6y ago
For me the daily standup is a chance to be debriefed by the project manager so that they can convert my updates to actions in JIRA. It's what liberates me from having to personally interact with JIRA. In that sense the standup is worth
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by sigfubar 6y ago
Such folks normally designate one property as their "primary residence", commonly defined as a place where one sleeps 183 nights out of the year. That's where one pays local taxes.
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by sigfubar 6y ago
You'll end up paying New York income tax too, which is quite hefty.
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by sigfubar 6y ago
There are plenty of people who moved out of NYC/SF and continued making their NYC/SF salary while working remotely from Nowhere, USA. Companies who cut pay based on locale will soon see their workforces dwindle to nothing.
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by sigfubar 6y ago
Start looking for that new job before the previous one has ended. This is just a slightly next-level variation of simple networking, where you don't merely make friends all over the place, but make it clear that you'd take a bette
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by sigfubar 8y ago
We call ourselves trapped.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
I've worked for a certain IoT startup that at one point paid $850k/month (eight hundred and fifty thousand USD per month) for AWS usage. After about a year of full time work by a team of SREs and programmers, the bill was made to
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by sigfubar 8y ago
> Recruiting new engineers was sometimes a challenge because candidates had to accept that they were joining an organization with a homegrown programming language and build system. I got an offer from NYT in 2009, but rejected it because
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by sigfubar 8y ago
We wanted platforms that connect the world - now we’ve got them. We’ve given everyone a voice: the pedophiles, the self-harm fetishists, the terrorists. Now we’re reaping what we’d sown.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
How developed can the US be considering that we have destroyed our manufacturing base and cannot even provide clean water and healthcare for our own citizens?
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by sigfubar 8y ago
You failed your Triplebyte interview because you neglected an extremely important aspect of the job: communication. You made assumptions about the ask which turned out to be grossly out of tune with those of the interviewer. In the real wor
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Good riddance! A project is undertaken to achieve some specified result, not to advance a career or learn some new tool. Don’t get me wrong: those lofty things are welcome when they occur as a byproduct of developing commercial software, bu
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by sigfubar 8y ago
> The message is build with what accomplishes your goals and works with your team's skills. Unfortunately most teams cannot be trusted to pick the right tool for each job without overcomplicating the planned implementation. Ego and
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by sigfubar 8y ago
If you ever find yourself thinking "If only there were a product that solves my problem XYZ? I'd pay money for that!", then you already know what to build. If you haven't had such thoughts yet, I'm sure others aroun
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Good riddance! NYC is already overcrowded. Let's build some subways to non-hipster neighborhoods first, then we can talk about adding more office space.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
It’s not free. See what I did there?
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by sigfubar 8y ago
I pay for Spotify. I pay for concert tickets. As far as I'm concerned, this fulfills my obligation to support my favorite artists. Digitally downloaded music is thus already inherently "paid for" and can be downloaded from an
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by sigfubar 8y ago
> Pino is an open source web app built on Drupal closes tab I do love me a hint of scandal, but the whole "thou shalt not BDSM in your spare time" thing is a major turnoff.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Save the Wikipedia links: surely you remember the time when database selection boiled down to "Oracle or bust". I'm not implying that S3 was first & dominant early on: I'm stating it as a flat fact. Yes, many RDBMS o
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by sigfubar 8y ago
S3 API compatibility is there because creators of open source "data engineering" tools have in the early days rushed to develop their tools around the S3 API. I can make the case that the need for a properly abstracted storage lay

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