Icathian

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by Icathian 5y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I did the hiring manager thing for 2 years before deciding I couldn't stand it, and the average age of my team was 55. I did my bit to not exacerbate this situation. My fervent goal is to stay an IC th
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by Icathian 5y ago
> Not proudly, but often. Be nice. Apologies. I struggle when people I respect seem to miss things that are obvious to me, I should have kept my tone in check better. Fair enough. If the winning move for you is not to play, that's
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by Icathian 5y ago
It should depend on that, and perhaps to some degree it does. But in even the best case scenario, where every few years was brand new knowledge, you've still put the obstacle in your path of convincing new hiring managers of that wh
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by Icathian 5y ago
You're conflating recognizing reality with defending a given hiring practice. I've responded to other comments with more detail.
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by Icathian 5y ago
I said nothing about what is fair, or what should be. I'm describing what is . Programmers jump jobs every 2-4 years (myself included) because it's the best way to reliably get good pay increases, and because staying more than
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by Icathian 5y ago
After a thousand threads on why tech hiring is hard, I don't think I need to re-hash that getting signal from noise is complex and imperfect. Out of the two signals, "this person was successful at 8 different companies" vers
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by Icathian 5y ago
You post this all the time. You did 27 years at one single company, as you point out so proudly and often. After a stint like that, anyone would be unhireable. It isn't your age, as so many others on this chain have pointed out. You
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by Icathian 5y ago
The issue you usually run into is that the alternative isn't breeding for health or happiness, it's breeding for some arbitrary "standard" of aesthetics. It results in substantially less healthy animals (see: bulldog, G
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Breeds have absolutely vanished in the past(1). It takes an awful lot of effort to breed dogs and if there isn't money in it most breeders won't. Without the main financial incentive it's not crazy to think that within a hu
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It's no different than mourning the old 90's internet or music from a certain era. A thing gp loves about the world will diminish drastically because it's no longer viable, and they're going to miss it when it's go
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Just because this one was a lab leak doesn't mean the next one has to be. I think origin would be worth knowing just for the historical record, but ultimately it doesn't matter in the slightest.
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by Icathian 5y ago
I understand the point you meant to make, but to be honest I've always found it horrifying whenever I have to sit in the DMV and see who all they allow to pilot steel missiles around. Our "licensing" for drivers in the US is
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First thing I was gonna ask. I don't think I'm good enough yet to get much value out of the slides without some voiceover.
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This just isn't true. Find me any data that any level of performance results in better compensation than changing jobs every 2-4 years and I'd be willing to at least consider the idea, but it just doesn't exist.
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My experience has been almost identical. What a crying shame that they've fallen this far.
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Gitlens extension in vscode is quite good for this as well
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While I understand and generally agree with your points, I do find the idea of "holding a vendor accountable" to be more of a philosophy than something I've generally witnessed happen in real life. At some point that needs t
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by Icathian 5y ago
That's becoming more common in the US. My spouse teaches middle school STEM and programming is part of the curriculum, beginning with Scratch JR and working up to Python and JavaScript. It's not ubiquitous yet, but it's comi
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by Icathian 5y ago
Joplin is the best FOSS option I know of right now. It's a lifesaver. Sync it up to a bucket or something via webDAV and it's good to go.
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I've said for years the day I can reliably play League of Legends on Linux you'll never see me using anything else at home again. Just frustrating that gaming is still largely a best-effort crapshoot despite all the work by Valve
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by Icathian 5y ago
I like this a lot. People underestimate coming off as a bit memorable and likeable, even in technical interviews. If you don't mind I'll probably use something very similar if I ever wind up in that situation.
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by Icathian 5y ago
Maybe it's "nowhere close" for you. Have you considered that for other people it's perfectly equivalent?
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Much earlier in my life I spent a lot of time hunting and fishing, and the philosophy expressed in this book offered me a calmer perspective that I sorely needed at that age. I haven't thought about it in years, it's surprising an
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I think the implication is that "systemd as designed" cannot do that, and shell scripts are a hacked-in solution. I disagree with this implication because the fact that systemd left that door open is enough for me, but I get wher
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On the one hand I absolutely get wanting to go to where the up and coming talent is. On the other I think a bit more distance between personal and professional platforms is probably in everyone's best interests. I'm curious to se
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"I will lie to manipulate you into fucking me, and also I think I'm smarter than everyone". You charmer, you.
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by Icathian 6y ago
Okay, but the value of gold has basically zero relationship to it's industrial or commercial uses, so that isn't really relevant here.
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by Icathian 6y ago
This is the right answer. I worked in clinical trials for a while, and they're required to submit a Statistical Analysis Plan before the study is even allowed to proceed. After all the data are collected, you just run whatever was or
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by Icathian 6y ago
10 years messing with data across 5 major flavors of sql and this is the format I've settled on and advocated for my team. It seems to flow the best and be easiest for people to get used to.
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by Icathian 6y ago
The article doesn't name any names or provide any evidence whatsoever. Just lots of vague threats, implications, and rhetoric. I would be willing to believe that there are endemic problems in this industry. But you're going to h

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