Swizec

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by Swizec 7mo ago
It gives me more insight than a blank resume with just job titles. The rest we can hash out in interviews, reference checks, and reaching out to mutual network connections at higher levels. Nobody gets hired just off their resume. That is t
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Do you mean literally "Scope: blabla" for each occupation? No I mean > Tell me what you did, for whom, what was the impact. It's really that simple. Just tell me what you did at your job. What was it that you worked o
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by Swizec 7mo ago
Yes. Which is why it's important to put scope on your resume. I can't know you ran a 30 person scale up unless you tell me. It doesn't have to be in those words exactly, usually it's tied to ARR or rounds raised or somet
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Interesting, you've got it absolutely the wrong way around. Maybe. That's why you need to put your scope on the resume :) I had a CTO title 15 years ago. The complexity of what we were building was a joke compared to what I o
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> When hiring, titles are basically ignored As a hiring manager, this is completely accurate. I don't look at your title, I look at your scope . Tell me what you did, for whom, and what was the impact. That's all I care about.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
You have to mess up pretty badly for this to happen. Most people would be a lot less worried what others think of them if they realized how rarely the do. The reality is that most people are too busy thinking about themselves to spend any t
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by Swizec 7mo ago
The risk does not involve lasting consequences. Just don’t make things a big deal and people will mostly follow your lead.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Most people who are "sitting in front of rectangles, moving tiny rectangles" Hey dude these are my emotional support rectangles! Truth is, anything can be meaningful. We make our own meaning and almost anything will do as lon
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by Swizec 8mo ago
Software development jobs are up 10%. Jobs in general are down 6% https://x.com/perborgen/status/2025890393166917857
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by Swizec 8mo ago
Just the current reality in SFBA. People have spilled some 2 trillion dollars onto the area in the past 2 years. A lot of that is going to software engineers as everyone tries to shove AI down consumers' throats.
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by Swizec 8mo ago
> Nice severance; but in this job market, holy shit. I just talked to a bunch of recruiters (we're hiring) and their main piece of advice was: The market is crazy. Move fast . We're seeing people getting jobs within days of st
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by Swizec 8mo ago
> you project it to face to face situations it would be really rude behavior. Like in a chat room when you ask someone something with an explicit mention of their handle The difference is that in person you as the asker are more polite a
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by Swizec 8mo ago
I remember building oauth logins back when “login with your twitter” was a brand new revolutionary idea, before there were libraries to handle the details. Still have scars from building directly based off the blogposts Twitter and Facebook
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by Swizec 8mo ago
>This has always bugged me. $7 million for a 30-second-long ad. What do they get out of it? Super Bowl ads are about brand building. They're not conversion ads. Their direct impact is to reduce CPC (cost per conversion) on other adv
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by Swizec 8mo ago
> At the end of the day, I like the mental model of programming, and I am somewhat uninterested in shaving every millimeter of friction off of every surface I touch on my computer. Does that make me a worse programmer? Maybe? I still del
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by Swizec 8mo ago
> Interest rates have fallen, not to near 0 as they were, but down from highs with no apparent effect. Hey it turns out that going from decades of stability to 1 or 2 years of total fuckaroundery has economic impacts. Who knew? This on t
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by Swizec 8mo ago
> Though I think lawyers will be reduced to being "official human stamping machines" before software engineers are reduced to mere Product Owners GeLLMan Amnesia – AI can fully automate every profession except the ones I’m deep
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by Swizec 8mo ago
We have a similar scheme in Slovenia. Don't know the details but there's the concept of a "free artist". At a minimum you need a registered business, regular exhibitions or performances in your field, you have to registe
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by Swizec 8mo ago
Best way I could find to share 2 links :) The video version landed differently for me than the written testimony (it's the same person authoring both). I felt when speaking he emphasized the impact better than it came through in writin
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by Swizec 8mo ago
C-Span video if you prefer that over the written testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U
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Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance(commerce.senate.gov)
66 points by Swizec 8mo ago|46 comments
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by Swizec 8mo ago
> > put more emphasis on in-person tests and exams. Make it clear that homework assignments are for practice, learning, and feedback. If a person thinks that copy/pasting helps them > Works for high school, not so much for uni
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by Swizec 8mo ago
The main thing to understand about the impact of AI tools: Somehow the more senior you are [in the field of use], the better results you get. You can run faster and get more done! If you're good, you get great results faster. If you&#x
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by Swizec 9mo ago
> If someone meant to engineer a codebase to hide subtle bugs which might be remotely exploitable, leak state, behave unexpectedly at runtime, or all of the above, the code would look like this. I wonder who could possibly be incentivize
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The future of software engineering is SRE(swizec.com)
265 points by Swizec 9mo ago|138 comments
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United States Completes WHO Withdrawal(hhs.gov)
119 points by Swizec 9mo ago|39 comments
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by Swizec 9mo ago
> So you have to carefully scoop precisely the same way every time to even be close to accurate?? Technically you’re supposed to sift your flour before measuring. This removes clumps and also helps you get consistent packing. I think in
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by Swizec 9mo ago
> The US seems to run on volume, rather than weight. Baking is based on proportions. As long as you use the same measuring tool, the details don’t matter. 2 cups of flour works regardless of the size of your cup
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by Swizec 9mo ago
> at 15 engineers, it is very doable for a single person to keep track of everyone's work and ensure alignment. All my past experience disagrees. Sure you have 15 engineers, but you're supporting a business of 150 people. This
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by Swizec 9mo ago
I installed oh-my-zsh back in early college some 15 years ago, before zsh was even the default on macs, and it is so good I’ve never felt compelled to experiment or try any other shells terminals or configs. It’s the first thing I install o

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