BlargMcLarg

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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Unless the market is big, most employers give zero incentive to accumulate domain knowledge. Between learning the new hot framework and accruing domain knowledge, one is clearly better for the average dev's career. The advice is great
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Eh, from a 'different society', school stopped holding my hand going into adulthood and gave me far more freedom than any job has ever done so far. Most jobs had more in common with elementary school, trying to control most aspect
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
A lot of that struggle has to do with what others point out already: the onboarding processes and documentation being of shoddy quality and relying on word-of-mouth to transfer knowledge and repeatedly check in. If you start raising future
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
They've tried and were met with all kinds of retorts. It's more difficult to get an employer to spend an extra 50/month on your equipment, than to piss 10x of it away in inefficient code run on cloud computing. WFH at least g
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
People, as a collective, fail to learn from research or history and like to use their authority and charisma as a stand-in for logic and proof. It isn't just the managers doing this. Anyone who isn't in a position of authority but
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
There is a humongous gap between stars we can't reach and not putting every little detail of your life on the internet for all to see. Keeping information to yourself isn't something locked away behind extensive technical prowess.
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>Gen Z would be better served by building a sustainable career and life they enjoy. Okay.. >Millennials inherited a job market offering unstable employment >Chronic stress, burnout, depression and anxiety are all factors that could
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Fair enough, didn't interpret the second line as also being an alternative universe.
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Americans don't seem to live in sardine cans compared to the world. They mostly seem to transport themselves and work in sardine cans, though. Not very different from the remainder of the developed world, where people do live in sardin
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Pretty sure the burden is on you to prove it is not just a method, but also the only method. Most trivial things can be measured outside time. Many jobs measured on time, we already know why they are measured on time (low activity, pr
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>Why shouldn't the "productivity" of these staff be measured? Because you don't like it? No one is arguing against this. Stop creating strawmen. People are against draconian practices aimed at micromanaging people whe
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
You can already do this in any decent devops system/management software without the surveillance.
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Read my other comment, as your story is a far-too-often-used extreme used by the other extreme party to justify bizarre situations. For every one of those anecdotes is another anecdote of a team of seniors/architects pissing away half
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
That's not an excuse when the same thing happens the other way around: "Let's have discussions until 2 weeks before the deadline for something that needs 2 weeks of development time!" "..wait, why are we having perf
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
That's a binary take if I've ever heard one. The quadruple speed also means products hit the test groups sooner and one can iterate on it faster. Nothing in the story implies the 'star developer' is done once the code hi
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Retirement is baked into the tax system for most countries in Europe. Expenses don't go over 1.5k net for most single people, including rent, utilities and more. That still leaves 1k to use however you want. You want more spending mone
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
So you're using an article from 2014 and grasping at straws to make a point against WFH or what? Just what are you trying to say here?
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Most companies can't even handle truly passionate people. Passionate people generally fight to deliver quality at a decent pace. They care too much about their work to ignore inefficiencies, bureaucracy, poor quality, and more. These c
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Most companies using anything MS on the dev side are neck-deep in it. Most .NET stacks don't go beyond JS and F#. It's a catch-22 where the in-house won't learn outside the Microsoft-approved stuff, so the best new fits are b
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>I think experts get too deep into values that aren't practically valuable This describes the majority of practices today. Individuals pushing their own values, selling it and hoping it sticks despite having zero evidence to back it
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
It's not just entrepreneurship. European countries are notorious for safeguarding people against mistakes at the cost of everything else. Safeguarding not just meaning 'you can't fall deep into poverty', but also 'w
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Those marks are still used in many places to deny would-be renters a place as they are deemed 'insecure' by the landlords. At that point, it is effectively "unaffordable" as the supply is artificially staggered and the m
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
"Having any dedication outside your company is stealing from your company. Now here's an advertisement showing you the excitement of cheating on your partner for some quick fun." May not be causation, but they sure are eager
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>That's not really counterpoint, it's just a occasional problem behavior of some individuals that remote makes more difficult Yet anecdotally, it has occurred in every open office so far. Managers were also eager to applaud thi
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>For example, in work I regularly overhear O(2 minute) conversations in which co-workers talk about edge cases in our system that I didn't realize existed Counterpoint: there are types which really like to insert themselves in eve
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
It is culture in about every form. Education isn't actively made to teach people to be independent. Work culture for the past X decades has been pushing people to be dependent on each other directly. Social culture has pushed people to
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by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
>My complaint should probably be towards the company though and not the parent. Yes, it should. Don't put responsibility on people you know won't fulfill it. The fact people even entertain the idea of not putting the blame on
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by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
Nothing is showcasing it works. We are on the downward path just as much as every other country, being more and more atomized and pulled away from friends and family due to social and economic incentives. Dutch stereotype is to be 'fri
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by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
Cool. Now go on a few forums and ask it in public, to large numbers, and see who responds more favorably and who responds less favorably. Hint: it is almost always women who are far more unaccepting of it than men, with a pretty significant
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by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
>That has indeed changed and has nothing to do with men/women in particular. That's where you are wrong. The cultural expectations are still very similar to 1970, but the means to achieve them have worsened considerably. Someth

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