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by Mc91 5y ago
> Puritans of the 21st century. Both in extremity For work I run MacOS, because they assigned me a Macbook and pay me to do so. Currently I program Android, which has a free software system somewhere under there, although there are unfr
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by Mc91 5y ago
I agree 100%. It's cyclical, the trend goes one way for a while, then it goes the other way. "We don't need a separate devops department, the programmers can do it" "We don't need a separate QA/QE/SD
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by Mc91 5y ago
If I have a story to complete during a sprint, and I spend an hour looking through the specifications and looking at the existing code and APIs etc., the company would probably be worse off if I immediately began coding a solution. I have
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by Mc91 5y ago
Fortune 1000 company, our mail transfer agent for sending out certain mass mailings were four Macintoshes. Worse, they were never upgraded to MacOS X, because they were so legacy they couldn't be. They were also not officially suppor
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by Mc91 5y ago
> It feels HN has become way more corporatist in the past few years -- everyone wants to work for FAANG, no one wants to do their own thing. You didn't have a situation like FAANG and its cohorts in the past, paying what they do and
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by Mc91 5y ago
I met a Renaissance guy at a party once. His description of data cleaning was "it's like you have a pile of gold bars buried beneath a couple of tons of shit".
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by Mc91 5y ago
Yes. The current p/e ratio of the S&P 500 is 29.59. Prior to November 1998 it never hit that high in the prior century. So what has the S&P 500 history been since then? It kept climbing from November 1998 until the dot-com c
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by Mc91 5y ago
I have been in IT for 25 years. If the gang at work was going to a bar after work, I would go - just to enjoy myself, giving no thought to it furthering my career and so forth. Despite going for purely to enjoy myself and giving no thought
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by Mc91 5y ago
> I could’ve talked about Android and embedded Linux. I didn’t want to, though. But me not talking about them doesn’t mean they also show that the FSF telling half truths when it comes to what GNU is. > If you thought I was going to g
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by Mc91 5y ago
> gives me the time to explore building something on my own. But it will definitely hurt my self respect. In my mind, the time to explore building something of one's own is when one is working at a company. There might be limits du
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by Mc91 5y ago
Yes. If I am doing refactoring work during a sprint, I don't sneak features the business is pushing for into the pull request. I am both held responsible for code being kept maintainable and almost never given any time to keep code m
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by Mc91 5y ago
> have a slow hiring process I was reading advice about job hunting recently, and one person said interview at large companies first, that take a while to hire and have offers that stay good for some days or weeks - then interview at sma
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by Mc91 5y ago
It's not like the architects at Facebook would do something like scrap Android's gradle build system and replace it with their own custom build system...oh yaa, they did do that.
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by Mc91 5y ago
Large companies and startups are both looking for React programmers. Large companies can afford to pay competitive salaries, and the wheels for hiring can move slowly. Many startups can't compete on salary, thus they have to settle f
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by Mc91 5y ago
Even though the metaphor is only touched on lightly here, in Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith says, in a chapter on tariffs - "By restraining, either by high duties, or by absolute prohibitions, the importation of such goods from foreign
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by Mc91 5y ago
> public transportation I have spent some time in the San Francisco bay area and a lot of time in New York City. Looking at BART and Caltrain schedules - the last Caltrain train leaving San Francisco is three minutes after midnight. The
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by Mc91 5y ago
People have been meditating/praying/whatever for thousands of years, so it is probably helping people some how. Most of the day I working, and after that running around getting dinner, doing chores and running errands. Even if I
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by Mc91 5y ago
> set boundaries early If I get a new product manager, for the first few sprints they join I make sure to stop work at 5PM, and not do any work on weekends. This sets the pace at which I will be doing work. I probably should do more in
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by Mc91 5y ago
Control of signing apps has been taken from the programmer and is being seized by Google. As an Android programmer, I see this as being a negative.
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by Mc91 5y ago
2008? Walk through the floors of Fortune 100 investment banks (or other Fortune 100 companies) and you will see systems running REXX jobs on z/OS systems. If you're lucky, the systems will be running AIX. I work at a Fortune 10
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by Mc91 5y ago
When I was looking for work two years ago, I sent around my software engineer resume but was not getting many responses. So I looked at ten job listings for open positions and analyzed them for many things. Most of them said they wanted a
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by Mc91 5y ago
> building something of my own What prevents you from doing this right now? At nights and/or on weekends, building your own thing(s)? IP assignment agreement? Lack of time or energy? My suggestion would be to start now. Start pr
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by Mc91 5y ago
My thoughts as well. Send patches in to FLOSS projects. I sent in a patch to an experienced C programmer a few years ago and in his code review he said about my #ifdef flags - "Typically HAVE_X are about the environment and USE_X are
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by Mc91 5y ago
I have been working in IT for 25 years. In the early days independent recruiters, especially good ones, were very helpful. Nowadays I am not sure what a lot of them do. Almost any job they know about, I already know about, as it is posted
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by Mc91 5y ago
This doesn't really go back in time much. What about Usenet? And why did it die? Last mile was always in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies. In New York, Andrew Cuomo (currently governor) strong-armed the last mile carriers
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by Mc91 5y ago
On the other hand, I have been in positions where I and the team delivered spectacular results year after year, and I am not micro-managed, and then my excellent boss leaves for greener pastures, and suddenly a new much worse boss comes in
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by Mc91 5y ago
In 2020, here are some companies paying $195k-$230k for entry level programmers - https://www.levels.fyi/2020/ FAANG is not on the list, FAANG pays $180k-$190k for entry level (Netflix does not recruit entry level much
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by Mc91 5y ago
I did something like this in the mid-1990s (looking for Unix sysadmin work - or something similar) and then again about four years ago (programming work). Both times it worked, although I had to cast a wide net and wait a little bit. Both
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by Mc91 6y ago
The thread begins "RMS created non-safe spaces at both MIT & the FSF", which is a giveaway in itself. "prior cost of living adjustments were a battle and not annual" - the federal minimum wage has not changed since 2
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Ask HN: Code territoriality – good or bad?
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