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by Ocerge 2y ago
I currently work on a ~10+ year old project that has maybe half of this list, and if you _don't_ start this way, the toothpaste is near impossible to put back in the tube, and you're in for a world of hurt. If the early engineers
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by Ocerge 2y ago
As a fellow divorcee (minus 3 cats I miss dearly as well), it took me a while to realize that what I was feeling _was_ grief, and still is. I am now happily remarried to a woman who is certainly better for me, but even though it was ~5 yea
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by Ocerge 2y ago
Chrome at home, Edge at work. I should probably think more about it, but I really don't. I use 1Password for everything and the only feature I lean on in any browser is bookmarks.
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by Ocerge 2y ago
Writing code is by far the easiest part of the job; working out what to write is probably 95% of what you end up doing. Tying libraries together isn't interesting from a code-level perspective anyway, so try to enjoy the process of ge
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by Ocerge 2y ago
That's a bummer, I hope you're back on your feet. The easy interview process has always bothered me. It hasn't entirely burned me yet, but I always feel uneasy if I don't feel challenged during an interview. Maybe it&#
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by Ocerge 2y ago
The main culprits are explicitly blocked on our VPN. When I WFH I use it on my personal machine for bash/regex/whatever stuff I don't keep in my brain for very long, never anything interesting.
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by Ocerge 2y ago
Working on finishing his CS degree and going into a PhD program after picking himself up out of addiction. He's astoundingly brilliant but has always struggled with...just about everything else that doesn't involve a computer. B
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by Ocerge 2y ago
I _really_ don't want to and have been dragging my feet, but I think I'll finally research AI-based development tools. If they truly are sticking around, I'd rather not be a luddite, but I'm still not so sure.
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by Ocerge 2y ago
This is where I've landed. If my job as a senior engineer is truly automatable, then there isn't much I can do about it other than pull up a lawnchair.
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by Ocerge 2y ago
Anything but blind applications. I know that's not useful information for a lot of people, but if you have experience, you _really_ need to lean on ex-coworkers that you had a good relationship with. Any way to not be a random resume
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by Ocerge 2y ago
I've wavered on whether being a generalist/"full stack" person is good or not 10+ years into my career, but I think at this point I'm convinced 90%+ of work is just tying libraries together across presentation bound
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by Ocerge 2y ago
Graduated with a CS degree in 2012, worked at various small companies until I got referred to Google. Worked there for ~5 years, got promoted, and turned that into a pay raise in a field I actually care about. I also live in a HCOL in the
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by Ocerge 2y ago
I used to (mid-2000s to 2020, basically) live on message boards and listen to sports radio every day; I basically lived and breathed college football. Nowadays it's pretty much just a curated list of sports writers I like on a sports-
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by Ocerge 2y ago
Same, I left in 2014. I left after a couple of years to almost double my pay and not work on a Linux RT USB driver directly out of college for which I had no desire to be a SME, but in hindsight I think the coworkers I had there were smart
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by Ocerge 2y ago
Why?
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by Ocerge 2y ago
“talk a lot and saying little” is a horrible place to start. Acting like you're superior to people who don't speak like a computer is not a good way to endear yourself to neurotypical people.
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by Ocerge 2y ago
I recently left Google and knew it was going to be a step down from Google's build ecosystem, but I wasn't prepared for how far a step down it would be. It's the only thing I miss about the place, it' so awesome.
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by Ocerge 3y ago
Is there a good reason to downvote this? It seems undeniably true, no?
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by Ocerge 3y ago
I spent almost the entire first decade of my career being uncomfortable at how...unenthused? I was to solve business problems. I now have landed on this; technical aspects of a problem aren't enough for me to give a shit about what I
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by Ocerge 3y ago
I also fly commonly out of PDX and SEA. Generally anywhere near mountains is going to be bumpy (Denver is a roller coaster every single time).
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by Ocerge 3y ago
I've grown to appreciate legacy code more than greenfield. It's real code that makes money (hopefully) and solves problems. Code is bad? Well, it's probably for good reason as real-world problems are messy. Also a lot les
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by Ocerge 3y ago
I just started a month-long leave from work for...exactly this reason, to the same year. Grinding it out for over a decade without stopping for even a full week of vacation catches up to you eventually.
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by Ocerge 3y ago
100% this. It has all the symptoms of an old boy's club, combined with smugness of socially inept nerds. It would have cost the maintainer basically nothing to handle this better, but the natural inclination of these types of people
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by Ocerge 3y ago
Electrician. Would be hard on my body I'm sure, but I just don't see that job ever going away.
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by Ocerge 4y ago
My laptop died recently, and I went with an M2 MBP. I went in expecting to pay it in full, but with no interest/fees, why wouldn't I choose this? It beats inflation, even if only minimally. Seems predatory towards people who are
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by Ocerge 4y ago
Clearly you aren't the target audience, it's only for us plebs.
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by Ocerge 4y ago
I don't work anywhere near AI, but the talent is here to do it. Just have to fix the organizational issues that are pretty severe at the moment.
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by Ocerge 4y ago
As a Googler: Not just the past 2 weeks, pretty much every Google-related article on HN is a dogpile. And that's fine, I even agree with like 95% of this article (minus the negative characterization of the No Heroes mantra, that exist
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by Ocerge 4y ago
They were weird the first couple of weeks, but now it's back to how it was. I had spent the last ~4 months or so going through the acceptance phase of being laid off, and now that I haven't, I sort of wish I was? I could have us
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by Ocerge 4y ago
I grew up in a small town just north of Austin, and lived in town after college for a few years. If you aren't a big foodie or into live music, there's really not much reason to live there. Horrible traffic, surface-of-the-sun h

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