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by 3minus1 3y ago
This seems incredibly naive considering companies where engineers are pushing literally thousands of commits a day. Things will break, period.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Windows has 68% desktop market share vs. 3% Linux[1] Hackernews User: Windows is dead [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-has-over-3-of-the-deskto...
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by 3minus1 3y ago
> Companies lay off people because they can, simple as that Pretty cynical and unfair IMO. Meta layoffs were the first time the company did layoffs in its entire history. Layoffs are super unpopular with employees. It's not like the
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Yeah, the article comparing this to Great Depression is super misleading. This bugs me so much.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Wow, the article provides 3 datapoints and the metric is not even that good. I wish articles could go better when talking about trends. How about an actual timeseries of number of homeless people per capita alongside another one of homeless
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Right. I got a master's in CS with out a bachelors. I had to take 4 pre-reqs classes before I could start taking the graduate level classes. Anyway it was worth it.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Despite the naysayers, college is still probably the single greatest ROI you can get. Be practical when picking what to study; balance pursuing passions and interests with the need for marketable skills.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_Play
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Can you code? Did you add value at your previous jobs? If so, I think there is a place for you if you keep grinding. Good luck.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Something about this is very funny. Such a well-meaning act completely oblivious to how it's creepiness.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
My brother got a job in the industry with only a degree in math. My advice is simply to trust in yourself and don't give up applying for jobs. It sounds like you enjoy and are good at coding. I guarantee you that is enough to be succes
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Your unbacked assertion is disputed by the facts cited in the article. In the year after Oregon got rid of criminal penalities, drug overdoses increased significantly more compared to the US average and nearby states. So yes laws do in fact
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by 3minus1 3y ago
I loved reading Expecting Better and its sequel The Crib Sheet. The books are written by an economist who was annoyed when doctors could not explain why there was a certain guidance (e.g. no caffeine during pregnancy) so she researched all
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by 3minus1 3y ago
stock is not a total crapshoot when you get issued more stock at regular intervals. At least where I work, if the stock price goes down it means you will simply be issued more stock.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Thanks for linking this. I wish the article included actual stats like the scientists expected about 1500 admissions per day, but Sun/Mon had over 1600, while the other days were between 1400 and 1500.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
The nice thing about pickleball is that it's often drop in play, so you can show up whenever is convenient for you and play with random people. This is indeed a light social interaction, but the people who regular eventually get to kno
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by 3minus1 3y ago
I think by ""efficiency" OP means that WPM is typically faster when typing vs. handwriting. That's certainly true for me.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
> the other companies where I worked all fired me many months after I had been working there.. I am only giving my side of the story (I don’t know their side) I'm surprised you don't know their side. Getting fired (not laid off
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by 3minus1 3y ago
The podcast episode "Googling Strangers and Kentucky Bluegrass" from the Anthropocene Reviewed. Short but powerful episode that made me cry.
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by 3minus1 3y ago
> he might actually believe his own story now I was wondering this but this section from the article is fairly damning > One photograph, posted to Instagram in October 2019 but now deleted, shows four pieces of lined notebook paper, l
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by 3minus1 3y ago
> My position -- stated elsewhere -- is we can't really know for sure and it's not worth my time to try to figure it out. The article provides lots of convincing evidence. Montañez timeline is completely off. There is proof (ph
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by 3minus1 3y ago
Sometimes when I watch an old movie for the first time, I enjoy looking up Ebert's review. I always appreciate his thoughts, and it's somehow comforting reading his words fresh after experiencing the movie.
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by 3minus1 4y ago
is there a guide for this?
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by 3minus1 4y ago
* Google search * My xfinity remote control when I tell it to "open netflix" * Similar when I use Google Voice assistant * Digital Ads which are shown to me when on my phone or browser * Google lens to identify birds and plants
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by 3minus1 4y ago
The Selfish Gene by Dawkins is a fascinating (to me mind-blowing) look at biology and evolution. There are some subtle popular misunderstandings about evolution that he thoroughly debunks. Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman is basically a s
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by 3minus1 4y ago
I've noticed this too, but unlike smaller companies I've worked at, there is real money on the line with Meta's performance review cycle. Good reviews can lead to tens of thousands more in bonuses and stock easily. In that co
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by 3minus1 4y ago
I'll add this since I don't see it here, see if you can find someone with industry experience to mentor you. I have 12 years of experience and mentored a family member who has successfully moved over from an unrelated field to tec
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by 3minus1 4y ago
> "I think the evidence is pretty good that there is an increased risk," Reznik said, but the association does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship. The article basically acknowledges this. They have a ton of data - over a
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by 3minus1 4y ago
For us n00bs, how do you see this being applied? And in what time frame?
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by 3minus1 4y ago
Yeah, maybe this will happen. Where I work (FAANG), I know that DEs get lower compensation than SWEs and SREs.

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