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40yearoldman
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Yes, people still hire goggles, thinking they are getting some sort of awesome person. And yes, sometimes they do, but not because they were a google, because that person was already awesome before google. The market is changing, and startu
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That is sort of what I am Ponting out. It is silly that folks are still trying to hire people from "Google". I do a ton of interviews. The majority of Googlers can't solve any system or build anything without saying "spa
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I think I am saying those with out competence need the extra communication.
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Working and hiring from google in the past 5 maybe 10 years is just silly. You go to google, learn google, and are useless in the real world. I don't care how hard your interviews are, you still will come to every interview and fail be
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But at what point does that communication cost more than just hiring somebody else who needs less hand holding and less "communication" to understand what is going on and figure out what to next. I say this because there always se
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Okay, and is that bad? The entire world has systems which parasitic relationships exist that if they simply did not the entire ecosystem of live could collapse. But here we are with 26 letters complaining on perhaps the most advanced thing
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No. But their systems can point me to all the images it has seen that has a pink Cadillac with a man in a black top hat. And if no image found is suitable you can then select any of the unsuitable images and have it altered to be suitable.
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Ahh! So it is possible, just need a nuclear reaction!
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> My goal is not writing nix programs That is your issue. This is a language to write "operating systems" and "packages" it is not really a "package manager". You use different programs and libraries to work
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> First it's a distribution and a package manager Nope, it's a language, and thinking of it as those things, even more so firstly is probably part of the struggle. It's a language that you use to get your computer to do sp
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I keep reading, this, and keeping being told this. Yet I switched every system over to nix and have found no thing but the best examples documentation and help from nix to do so. Within the span of a afternoon and a bit a reading I went fro
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You can’t do that without also allowing lenders to not give loans. The entire mess is because we passed laws that require lenders to give loans out for school. Pre these laws, they were passed for “equality”, lenders would laugh you out of
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I am over 40, get paid over 700k a year. Just a normal software engineer at a normal company. Unions would mean I get paid less, and the guy sitting next to me who can’t find his way around a computer would get paid more. I know you folks l