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by Clubber 2y ago
>I think there's diminishing returns. This is definitely true. I think pre-graduate college is pretty eye opening, at least when I went. In most high schools, they just cover the top layer of knowledge; in college they go quite a bi
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Why are you assuming they would fair any better in trade school? Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but if they find themselves in service work, they should do anything they can to not be in that position. Some people just don't
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by Clubber 2y ago
>What about lost opportunity cost though? Or the cost of failure? Well for a high school grad today, most likely the opportunity cost is minimum wage service sector jobs. Those "temporary" jobs are also really easy to get stuck
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by Clubber 2y ago
>If your job told you that you had to pay 10k to study French poetry for 6 months without pay, would you happy for the opportunity to a more well rounded thinker? That's unrealistic. 1. That's just one subject. 2. Semeste
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by Clubber 2y ago
I think an undervalued aspect of college over self learning for most is that college requires you to learn a broader array of things. If I was allowed just pick the classes I wanted to take for four years, they would have all been computer
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by Clubber 2y ago
>what is the differentiator now? Not now necessarily, but if Google gets any traction in this, I can see Google inserting subtle ads in the AI results, which would be a net negative.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>I don't think he did it out of the goodness of his heart Not sure why that matters. Enjoy your 40 hour work week 100 years later.
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by Clubber 2y ago
Henry Ford was largely responsible for the popularization of the 40 hour work week and paid his factory employees nearly double of what they would ordinarily get. 1926: Henry Ford popularized the 40-hour work week after he discovered throu
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by Clubber 2y ago
I agree. I think it's pretty absurd that the manager was all set to fire him just based on metrics. There's a quote that I'm going to horribly paraphrase that goes like, "when you can measure something, that ends up bein
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by Clubber 2y ago
You're absolutely right, but some people just refuse to play silly games. It's odd that the manager isn't ever in the room with the team and doesn't understand his team's dynamics. Giving the benefit of the doubt, h
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Outsourcing QA is stupid, but even more stupid and short-sighted is not having QA in the first place, and that unfortunately is becoming a norm. Yes, they were moving in that direction. They centralized the QA team over a suite of proba
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by Clubber 2y ago
The company I worked for 15 years ago outsourced QA to save money. It was sold as paying $15 for a 4080 video card. When they opened the package, instead of a 4080, it was a brick. The salt in the wound was when they realized they overpaid
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by Clubber 2y ago
It's a data point. It's similar to the ridiculous titles given to ICs in the last 20 years. What does Senior Developer vs Senior Engineer mean? Do Architects code or not? I'm sure you have an answer, but someone else with dif
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by Clubber 2y ago
I had one in college in the 90s that still works to this day.
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by Clubber 2y ago
Well, say you inherited 185 acres in the middle of nowhere that is valued at $500K. You make $150K a year. You can't really do anything with the land, it's all scrub brush by now and the government wants 30% in wealth tax to tune
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Don't hate the player, hate the game. Oh, I can hate both. :) The (possibly) good news is now the free money train is gone, companies will actually have to pay attention to how their teams are working. The bad news is they might ju
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by Clubber 2y ago
In all fairness, a bad programmer can do a lot of damage. They can create attack vectors, destroy data and cause production outages. None of that is good. There are things in place to prevent that, but if those also fail, it'll be a bu
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by Clubber 2y ago
When you tax wealth, like say land or stocks, if the person is illiquid, they have to sell their assets to pay the tax. I would imagine that markets would crash every tax cycle due to people trying to pay their tax obligation.
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by Clubber 2y ago
I've had mostly bad managers. Most of them maybe wrote code for a year or two and think they understand team dynamics and how to build software. They then burden a good running team with whatever cult processes of the day is without ta
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by Clubber 2y ago
>The 1:1 is to help you figure out why you’re an average dev and aren’t getting fives. >It’s unfortunate you haven’t quite grokked that and instead just spend your time imagining how everyone around you is incompetent and out to do yo
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by Clubber 2y ago
You don't know anything about me. How can you even make that assessment? See, this is another example of modern manager bullshit. I certainly hope you don't lackadaisically asses your team in the same flippant, emotional manner. H
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by Clubber 2y ago
Thanks for making HN, the best forum since the old slashdot. Thanks for moderating it for us, dang.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>So what I'm hearing, it's not actually for me, it's for you. It's totally for the manager, they gotta fill their calendars to look like they're doing stuff. I hate when they want me to rank myself from 1-5 on va
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by Clubber 2y ago
Back in the BBS days, SysOps without a second phone line would only have their BBS accept calls at night, after hours. They did this because they used their primary (only) phone line during the day to take and make voice calls. Those BBSes
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by Clubber 2y ago
It was really good during Cronkite and pretty much died with "Fake but accurate," from Dan Rather, who was ironically Cronkite's successor. Back then, they tried really hard, but today, they just don't have the integrity
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by Clubber 2y ago
Pavlov rang his bell to the comment section. :)
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by Clubber 2y ago
>does breaking up the search monopoly help America or up and comers? Big companies tend to calcify. We can see that in FAMANG's products. Big companies can also remove any direct competition in multiple ways that smaller companies c
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by Clubber 2y ago
>This is essentially just forcing Google to fire the Chrome developers. To be fair, Google could reassign them to something else. Firing everybody will be Google's decision that wasn't forced on them.
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by Clubber 2y ago
Pessimistically but realistically, it doesn't matter if AI will perform better, it just matters if it's cheaper. A historical example is all the offshoring of mission critical code starting in the late 90s, early 00s. The code tha
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by Clubber 2y ago
>At this point, 'natural', just means made from atoms, yes atoms are naturally occurring. That pretty much covers everything in the universe. I've always thought it was natural vs synthesized.

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