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by alecbz 5y ago
That subreddit's a mixed bag from what I remember. I think there's a core of "true" antiworkers that are genuinely against the idea of working (categorically? within capitalism?) in some deep philosophical sense, but I t
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by alecbz 5y ago
True that compilers, tests, and QAing are nice protections that we get with code but not books (well sorta... books can still be alpha/beta-tested in the sense of having some people read them and share their thoughts). So yeah, not lit
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by alecbz 5y ago
Yeah, IMO this is like a publisher saying "we don't have editors: we trust our authors". The intended ethos of editors and code review is that mistakes and imperfections are the norm, and you need a second pair of eyes to iro
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by alecbz 5y ago
What do you mean by "pretend to monetize"?
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by alecbz 5y ago
I admit I'm somewhat pre-inclined to defend Google here a bit. That said: I wonder how much of this is an issue of the incentives for producing different kinds of content, as opposed to just an issue of what Google chooses to optimize
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by alecbz 5y ago
I mean I also wouldn't say I hate people though. Just because something requires energy from me doesn't mean I hate it.
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by alecbz 5y ago
Existing in a more tangible sense, not existing as a concept.
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by alecbz 5y ago
> the median remote work is probably better than the median in person work What makes you say that?
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by alecbz 5y ago
edit: Sorry, meant "work to live".
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think at a certain size though a large enough company starts to approximate a conglomerate of smaller companies. Sure, maybe you can't change the entire company, but you could change your smaller org.
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by alecbz 5y ago
> I find the work itself much better when I can meet my coworkers in person Yeah I think this is an important point. I would still kinda call this "socializing" I think, but there's a huge difference between "just hav
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by alecbz 5y ago
Not denying this but 0.02: after working for Google and another "big" company (>5k employees) and two small (<50) companies, I was much happier at the big companies.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think the parent means that they work in the service industry?
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by alecbz 5y ago
Is there a particular place you recommend moving to for being in-office? Or you just mean your options open up a lot in general when you're willing to move?
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by alecbz 5y ago
Naively, this actually really surprises me. My sense of French working culture is that it's very much "live to work", very strong WLB. What's driving France to be more pro-office than more "work-focused" countr
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by alecbz 5y ago
I've never been too interested in working for HFT/traditional finance, but depending on how office trends continue I might change my mind (especially living in NYC, though I'm also considering moving).
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by alecbz 5y ago
In NYC: until recently we didn't need masks in my office and you were allowed to eat lunch together normally (you were required to be vaccinated, though enforcement was just an attestation). With omicron my company (not the city) has d
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by alecbz 5y ago
Tangent: I guess this is maybe just the term "introvert" being overloaded, but I don't see the introversion => likes being alone connection. I'm absolutely an introvert in the sense of finding that social interaction
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by alecbz 5y ago
> I think I wouldn’t get the same connection with people who don’t work for the same company as I do. Mentioned this in another comment, but I'm working from my company's local office while my team is mostly elsewhere/remo
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Are there places out there for weirdos like me? I think the discourse is heavily biased towards pro-remote. We've been working from offices for years, so the pro-remote crowd has been vocal for a while, whereas most pro-office p
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by alecbz 5y ago
Not knocking what works for anyone else, but for me this really doesn't at all address the "working remotely" issue. Working around a bunch of strangers is better than being alone in my apartment all day, a bit better still i
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by alecbz 5y ago
> I was just answering the question. But you misinterpreted what "exists" means in this context.
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by alecbz 5y ago
> In this case god-hating atheists confirm the existence of god in the form of 'concept' you may say. C'mon, no atheist is remotely claiming that God doesn't exist even as a concept. You can't possibly think this
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by alecbz 5y ago
Not exactly an answer but I think I've definitely been in a kind of spiritual crisis for a lot of my late-twenties, maybe longer, ever since I stopped being Christian, and am struggling to find some kind of spiritual anchor. To the ext
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by alecbz 5y ago
For many formerly religious people God was very "real" as a force they thought existed and had an effect on them, and I think it's quite possible to feel hate towards that God and what he represents, even if you no longer thi
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by alecbz 5y ago
> He knew he would end up on the cross before he even took on human form. He could have left at any time. He can return any time he wants. Is any of this actually a part of Christian canon? It's not clear to me that by describing Je
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by alecbz 5y ago
That only helps if you actually use different passwords for all those different email addresses.
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by alecbz 5y ago
For most accounts your email password is already a single point of failure (password reset flow). Even where that's not true, the tradeoff with a password manager is in strengthening defenses broadly in exchange for a more central poin
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by alecbz 5y ago
Not really at all the lesson IMO? You could replace the call to `mkdir` with a `psql` call and have the same security hole. The primary issue is with using a shell/subprocess. Maybe you could make the case that "there tend to be b
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by alecbz 5y ago
Lines of code != difficulty. There's tons and tons of different possible <20 line implementations for creating a directory + parents, many of which likely have subtle (or not-so-subtle) bugs.

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