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by ahtihn 2y ago
Why do you want to police language? Is any employer mislead by the responsibilities software engineers actually have because of the title?
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Yes, you hire L1 support staff at scale. You don't hire product developers to handle the scale.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
The "bad" tickets is where you actually bring value though. The "good" tickets can be given to junior dev/low cost contractor/ChatGPT. Whenever I read things like this I feel like a lot of developers don't
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> Can a search company be forced to allow users to choose their as network? Show me whatever results but I want facebook's ads, or bing's ads and so on. > Pretty sure google's going to ask for 30% of what Facebook makes
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> Same reason you wouldn't go all in every time you get a poker hand that's "expected" to win. Because you'll (very probably) be bankrupt in a few hands. You're calling an all-in 100% of the time in a cash g
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by ahtihn 2y ago
How is a mono repo the simple solution compared to one repo per independently releasable component ? All the tooling is much easier to use when each application has its own repo.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
It should be straight up illegal to use the word unlimited in any sort of advertising, marketing materials, job offers etc... if it's not actually unlimited. Unlimited paid vacation is simply not a thing that is offered by any compan
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> Your orders are not sent to the best exchange execution possible Look up NBBO, that would be illegal. You're getting better execution as a retail trader thanks to PFOF.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Why would you care about PFOF as a retail investor? You're benefiting from it.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
He said freelancers. Median compensation for senior engineers in Europe is nowhere near 150k. Even in Switzerland.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
StringValue let's you differentiate empty string vs no value.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
Customers will pay to opt out.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
If Ukraine needs to draft people at all, they should just surrender. If they can't maintain the manpower they need just with volounteers, then clearly the population has "voted" that they'd rather not fight.
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by ahtihn 2y ago
> If learning durations were log-normally distributed, how would people be able to graduate from universities and finish studies, mostly in time? If you took a hundred 5 year olds and set the objective to achieve the same PhD in the same
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by ahtihn 2y ago
I'm bilingual, I prefer apps and websites to be in their original language of if it's one of the languages I speak, because that gets me the best experience. There's nothing worse than apps that are badly translated with no e
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by ahtihn 3y ago
Why should internal software departments be viable? Isn't it a massive waste to have engineers write software to be used by a single company?
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by ahtihn 3y ago
I don't understand people who think high salaries are bad. Who should get the money instead? Should even more of it go to execs and shareholders? Why is that better?
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> I don't care that you feel restricted Yeah well, this is why we don't like security engineers. You absolutely should care that the policies you push for are making workers feel restricted. For your job to even exist, engineer
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> what if speed laws in the US were fully enforced 100% of the time - they would be yanked immediately, because they are dumb and mostly just used to fund the police Or maybe people would adjust their behavior and respect speed limits? L
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by ahtihn 3y ago
A company making an extremely racist tool by trying not to be racist? It's completely intentional, why would you assume it's accidental?
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> If your employer is buying you an office, then that comes right out of your take-home pay. That's not really how this works. At all. If it was the case, big tech wouldn't push for return to office.
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by ahtihn 3y ago
Knowing that a negative article will be published about another company is not insider information?
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> Substitution only matters if you’re using inheritance, but if you’re inheriting, you likely have bigger problems as few real world problems are naturally represented by inheritance. No, it matters when you implement interfaces (in the
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by ahtihn 3y ago
The L part was apparently not so obvious to the authors of the Java standard library since it has violations all over it. Readonly implementations of java.util.List come to mind.
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> Eight 1:1 weekly meetings (4 hrs) > I’m not even a lead or anything This does not compute to me, do you have 8 managers? What's the content of these meetings?
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by ahtihn 3y ago
> Using the tax code to punish or reward behavior is always bad Isn't that pretty much the entire purpose of the tax code and why it's so complicated? It's one of the tools the government has to shape behavior. Actual tax
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by ahtihn 3y ago
Of course pay is about bargaining power. How do you think a salary negotiation works? Why do you think a software engineer gets paid more than a nurse in most places?
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by ahtihn 3y ago
How do you know that no one can measure ? Maybe all the big companies have measured and all concluded that on average WFH is less productive. Individual productivity of office workers is nearly impossible to properly measure but aggregate p
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by ahtihn 3y ago
Why would lethal force be justified to protect packages? That's so excessive. The punishment for theft isn't the death penalty even in the US last I checked.
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by ahtihn 3y ago
Yes, because it's the escape character. It's the reason they didn't chose "${" like many other languages. Because that's a valid sequence in a string literal.

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