askonomm

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by askonomm 3y ago
I already have daydreams about doing carpeting, as that would be something I'd actually do with my bare hands, so being a manager is 1 level even further removed from doing something with your hands. Manager building things is like say
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In my opinion you don't have to be a manager to know all these things. In fact, every good senior engineer should be aware of what the leadership is trying to accomplish anyway, as we're not just code monkeys, but rather problem s
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by askonomm 3y ago
Stagnating salary? Every job change comes with around 20-30% raise usually, so I would not call it stagnant. Managers are also being told what to do, by those above them. Since I do not work for FAANG companies, but rather small-to-medium (
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by askonomm 3y ago
And here I am, 12 years into my career as a software engineer, never, ever, wanting to be a manager. I just want to build things, I don't want to manage them. I see what it is like to be a manager as I work closely with them, and I jus
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by askonomm 3y ago
Never said it is a bad thing. It being a good or bad thing wasn't even the discussion.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Yup, this. Most food delivery start-ups (Bolt food, Wolt, in northern Europe) operate at a loss actually, afaik. Few have already gone bankrupt.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Your list sounds more like app related things rather than OS related things to be honest. Also, contrasting your issue list with the issue list of Linux, where Wayland barely works, audio issues are constant, the whole system is so delicate
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by askonomm 3y ago
That's true, modern PHP is eerily similar to Java, though the enterprise-ness of it is just an indication of not-great developers overcomplicating things (both in Java and PHP). As far as salaries go though, there's some very low
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by askonomm 3y ago
Yes it definitely should have types, as is the standard in the community nowadays. Types are definitely not make-belief, as they are checked during runtime, making them actual, real types. I'd say any real project (not a prototype) tha
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by askonomm 3y ago
So you think people should suffer homeless if it comes to it, as long as they make kids? What a horrible view of the world you have.
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by askonomm 3y ago
You seem to have not read what I replied to. It is punishment if I pay MORE taxes than those with children, just because I don't have any, even though those with children benefit more from taxes, taxes that I already pay.
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by askonomm 3y ago
I already pay tax that ends up paying your child support money, builds kindergartens for you, funds schools, even though I have no kids. But no, let's punish me more because I don't fit your view of the world by raising my taxes m
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by askonomm 3y ago
It's actually people like you that have no regard for other people's wishes and desires, a downright hostile attitude towards people who live different lifestyles from you and who force their own lifestyle onto others as the &quot
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by askonomm 3y ago
Ask your parents, did they enjoy raising you without any money? My mom certainly did not enjoy working 2 jobs to bring me up in this world, and while she loves me, I'm pretty sure she would not do it again if she could do it all over.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Unfortunately, as per my experience, this is mostly illegal to do. Every contract I've ever had prohibits me to work for competitors for X amount of years.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Most companies are not Google however. ~10 years ago when I applied for jobs in small-to-medium non-FAANG companies it was really just a 1hr onsite at most.
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by askonomm 3y ago
From an employers perspective, maybe. From an employee perspective? Yeah I'd much rather use my (much more powerful) machine where I have everything set-up exactly how I like instead. Tons more convenient.
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by askonomm 3y ago
And using a company computer somehow prevents me from doing that? Most spyware that they force upon you doesn't seem to, in any way, prevent me from just uploading a zip file to wherever I want.
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by askonomm 3y ago
3000+ PPI, yet here I am, unable to get a decently priced 200+ PPI 27" monitor.
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by askonomm 3y ago
No thanks. Don't like kids.
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by askonomm 3y ago
My "lifestyle" is just having more time for my hobbies and entertainment with a lot less stress, so I figure for you kids are more rewarding than those things, but to me (and a lot of other people like me) they are not.
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by askonomm 3y ago
I don't have nor want/have any desire for kids, yet all the people with kids keep telling me I should, and not having them is selfish (...how? Isn't it the other way around?), and multitude of other reasons why I should defin
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by askonomm 3y ago
I absolutely hate talking to people who are wearing sunglasses. Not seeing peoples eyes is very offputting.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Or maybe if people had more time to enjoy life with their hobbies and loved ones, they'd be more motivated to do good work, and actually more would get done with 4 days than 5 days. From the few experiments[0] done on this topic, that
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by askonomm 3y ago
Big Berlin start-ups probably are fine in English, but from most of the browsing on LinkedIn, I'd say if you venture out of the big start-up scene, you won't find English there, and that's the vast majority of tech jobs.
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by askonomm 3y ago
I once brought up the idea of a 4-day work week to a PM I worked with, and her immediate reaction was very defensive, as she could not understand why would anyone want to work less, and who then would get all the work done. It made me reali
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by askonomm 3y ago
And what excuse do you have for Firefox dropping PWA support? Or is it just Apple that is evil?
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by askonomm 3y ago
I was curious about this so I tried surfing the web and seeing how I click on things. I am literally unable to click on buttons or text inputs without actually looking at them. If I try to only use a corner of my eye, I miss the buttons 90%
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by askonomm 3y ago
I'm actually thinking we will need a lot more (competent) engineers soon when someone needs to start fixing the immeasurable piles of garbage that no-code AI crap produces. This is a good time to really level up on the ability to solve
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by askonomm 3y ago
As a self-learnt (now senior) developer, I'm very happy I got my start when I did, 12 years ago. It wasn't easy back then either, and lots of places wanted a degree, but a few side projects usually did the trick.

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