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by Mc91 3y ago
This is (part of) the correct answer, yet it is way down the list of upvoted answers. The story is: 1) There were a number of independent ISPs, but oligarchic forces, in addition to the Verizon/AT&T last mile monopoly consolidated
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by Mc91 3y ago
I got a consulting gig a few years ago, which is what I wanted.
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by Mc91 3y ago
> Like, the people who say that they can’t work for a manager unless the manager could do their job! I've worked in IT for over 25 years. Other than a CTO or senior tech executive reporting to CEO, I have seen problems with technic
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by Mc91 4y ago
> Ask HN: Was tech always so scammy? Yes
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by Mc91 4y ago
I have been programming for a Fortune 500 company for four years. Not long ago, I applied for a job at another Fortune 500 company. HR really had only question for me, they saw on my resume I did not have a college degree listed, and did
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by Mc91 4y ago
> One theory of mine is that we assign senior-sounding roles in this industry too readily. Some large companies, particularly non-technical companies have to pay a certain amount of money to get people of a certain skill level, say a lev
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by Mc91 4y ago
I always see them hiring Android programmers on Linkedin, including right now https://careers.tiktok.com/position?keywords=android&categor... Wonder if Android people will be laid off.
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by Mc91 4y ago
It is not team dependent in our division. I know it is happening in another division too, since late January they've been required to be back in the office for some days during the week.
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by Mc91 4y ago
I am a SWE at another Fortune 100 retailer...we have been told to start reporting to the office this month, after about three years of WFH. Two days a week to start with.
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by Mc91 4y ago
I think this is the answer. I started using vi 33 years ago and initially learned just what I needed to know. As time went on I learned more commands. If I wanted to erase a word in a sentence, which had seven letters, initially I might t
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by Mc91 4y ago
>> Crypto, ML, Data, Quantum Computing > I think the key is to focus and prioritize I think prioritizing is the key. Part of that is figuring out What is past its prime (Cobol on punch cards), or never really had its day in the su
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by Mc91 4y ago
Chomsky is saying what he has basically been saying for a while - deep learning neural networks are "strong" (as he called it) in engineering, but "weak" in being scientific.
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by Mc91 4y ago
I might know I have to look at some code or something for a few hours, but looking at my day I know it will be interrupted by meetings and lunch, and that I will probably get Teams messages during the day as well. Even if I have a block of
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by Mc91 4y ago
> My hope for Usenet back in the day was a fully decentralized implementation that would allow each Usenet client to act as a client as well as a mini-server to cut the middleman out. Gnutella started as this, but for a lot of reasons it
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by Mc91 4y ago
I work at a Fortune 100 company. More than one contract programmer who came in were under these agreements. Most of them were placed by an agency. Furthermore, most of them were billed by the agency as "senior programmers", eve
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by Mc91 4y ago
Actually I've told some people "don't struggle on something all day and then at 4:45PM tell me you haven't made any progress and ask for help" many times, and I still get the 4:45PM messages from them. It's no
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by Mc91 4y ago
> Is there anything you would like me to do differently when asking questions? Don't jump on me at 9 AM with a list of questions you have from the night before - I am going through e-mails and instant messages at that time. Wait ha
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by Mc91 4y ago
I work for a Fortune 50 company, more than one software programmer consultant who worked for us had one of these agreements. Of course, they never got any real training. All the ones I knew didn't have their contracts with us re-uppe
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by Mc91 4y ago
> I'm pretty confident that there are very few engineers at FAANG that can't be replaced. I'd also expect there are very few engineers at Epic, Activision, Blizzard, Naughty Dog, Sony, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Valve, etc... that
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by Mc91 4y ago
> a market dominated by web dev and java enterprise Which also means there are a ton of web devs and java enterprise programmers. If a technology is ubiquitous, the number of people doing it is also ubiquitous. A technology being too n
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by Mc91 4y ago
It may be useful to think of companies as categories - Fortune 1000 companies, startups, and consulting companies, although categories these can overlap. From what I've seen a lot of startups seem to need "full stack" program
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by Mc91 4y ago
> One peculiarity about HN culture I found is that commenters will often comment something tangental to the subject of the post, so I often find myself reading really insightful comments on threads I otherwise have zero interest in. Four
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by Mc91 4y ago
Sometimes your interview was the same as the past three interviews. You did as well as them so I can't point to what your weakness was where you were rejected. Maybe you did good compared to a dud four interviews back. Then after yo
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by Mc91 4y ago
> As your kids get older, it is harder and harder to give them a proper education. By the time your kids are in middle-school, subjects get harder for a parent (or pairs of parents) to cover in a way that does each subject justice. I agr
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by Mc91 4y ago
More than once I've been asked to demo features that are not completed. Once was by someone who told me to do this verbally. He was not formally my manager but some nepotism was happening at the company. I wasn't able to push ba
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by Mc91 4y ago
< using any number of 3rd party libraries (vs the developers desire to build from scratch) HN is strewn with stories of people with dependencies on log4j, left-pad, and who knows what else. A programmer wanting to move off log4j and bui
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by Mc91 4y ago
The first thing I'd look for is someone who was themselves a technical co-founder. For someone who is not that technical, that would be a big drawback. I would say in that case that they be an adult. Even if they're in their mid
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by Mc91 4y ago
The same with me. I gave a little money each month to four different organizations on Patreon, about six months ago I saw LineageOS was on Patreon and started giving a little to them each month too. It makes it easier to get recurring don
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by Mc91 4y ago
> Even if it was “you were great, but we are going with someone else at this time” This is how it is with two out of three people. By the time they pass the filter of their resume and whatnot, two or three people are OK. They can answe
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by Mc91 4y ago
Western Europeans seem to have figured out how to get a good, affordable college education without this sort of thing. Some Europeans I talked to said the government even gives them a per diem for spending money or what have you while the

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