AStellersSeaCow

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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
FTA: "One possibility is that we have a shortage of programmers. If that’s the case, you’d expect more programmers to enter the field, bringing down compensation." This is imo a big part of why high-end salaries have skyrocketed,
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
I agree that the shine has worn off startups, but don't agree with the reasoning. Startups were great in the 90s because VCs and investors were desperately hurling money at businesses that they didn't even remotely understand. W
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
Like I said, anecdotally. And I'm not talking about company policy, I'm talking about the behavior of individual engineers/managers during and after interviews. Even if a company has a policy that it WANTS to hire more wome
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
I think there's a fair amount of reporting bias in this issue, personally. I'd totally non-scientifically split older (over age 35) engineers into three rough categories. This is not meant to be comprehensive or empirical, it&#x
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
Yeah, this. There is ageism out there, and it happens younger in tech than in other industries, but it's far less of an issue than all other forms of hiring discrimination I can think of. I've been a part of hundreds of interview
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
Mostly thinking the "so noxiously but unusually bad it's briefly popular" type of creative output by people clearly lacking in much grounding or practice in their fields. 'Singers' like William Hung, 'writers&
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
This is akin to saying that stepping on a nail is just as bad as walking into an industrial meat grinder, since they will both hurt your foot. I don't think anyone is arguing that dams are zero impact. They can and do negatively impac
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
You seem to be mixing and matching hardworking vs. curious, incremental improvement vs. innovation, and results-oriented vs. process-oriented, all of which are completely different topics. Saying hard work is ego driven while curiosity has
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
Haha, no way. I've worked with or met a half dozen MacArthur fellows, and none of them were shy about bringing up that fact. You could argue that MacArthur selects for self-promoting geniuses, but such creatures clearly do exist.
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
>Hard work is overrated. What you really want is curiosity. This is BS, and the kind of BS that results in lazy entitled adults expecting the world to be their oyster because they have kept their dreamer curiosity intact. Out of the peop
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
>What's frustrating to me is that there's this sort of all-or-nothing attitude about testing, where tests are seen as useless, or as a perfect indicator of skill or ability. The truth is in-between. Yes. This is a major point
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
There was this super weird club in my high school who went out to hospitals and gave long-term patients (mostly vegetables who were on indefinite life support) ghoulishly gaudy makeovers. They seemed to have no motivation in doing this &qu
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
There's a simpler and broader point: don't use Big O as the sole means of analysis of a high level language's data structures. The theoretical time/space complexity of a data structure may or may not accurately reflect
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
"I don't think that the solution is to medicate children with a very serious life changing drug that alters the core aspects of a child's personality and behavior. ... Instead of forcing children to think one way, we should l
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
Exactly. My parents shied away from looking into ADD/ADHD treatment for me because of the blowback about overdiagnosing, instead ascribing to the more regressive and I daresay petulant "kids will be kids" outlook of my behav
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
Sorry, I only using functional programming for nefarious reason.
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
Nah, it's just thousand-island dressing.
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
As an aside, I think this sort of upbringing is a significant contributing factor to the personality type that shows up frequently in the most toxic online groups (MRAs, gamergaters, PUAs, etc). In my glimpses, it's been abundantly cl
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by AStellersSeaCow 10y ago
I get what you're saying - kids aren't code to be optimized with objective best practices. But on the other hand, it's very head-in-the-sand to think that parenting with the best intentions and love will always have a positi