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by awkward 1y ago
Software engineers hired for custom, in house work are not building a fixed piece of software with the intention of letting it loose unchanged for the next five years. Software engineers hired to build product are not exclusively building a
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by awkward 1y ago
Eastern Massachusetts calls it a bubbler as well.
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by awkward 1y ago
Economic OR status gain is putting a lot of work on the or. We've put into place a context for intellectual achievement at scale. Why shouldn't status be apportioned to someone who is recognized by a panel of peers and teachers to
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by awkward 1y ago
What's the force that you see keeping those days numbered? Many ollama models are runnable on a local laptop, and models like deepseek even more so. Aside from open source interest, there are many large state and corporate actors who w
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by awkward 1y ago
In the 2000s at least, many cubicles had at least one Dilbert up. If you worked there for a while, you probably knew the story and it could get a chuckle out of you. Some people had two. More than four visible Dilberts, however, was a terri
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by awkward 1y ago
The end of ZIRP coincided with some reorganizing of the tax code that wasn't favorable to developers, as well. Both hit after a year or two of windfall profits and massive hiring due to covid. AI is a very convenient way to tell that s
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by awkward 1y ago
Exhilarating on site work often doesn't line up with needing to be a full time caretaker for family, unfortunately.
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by awkward 1y ago
Yup. The trust issues around overemployment or straight up fraudulent candidates have made remote work rare and have lead to companies offering a premium for hybrid or fully in person roles. I don't think WFH only is line you can affor
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by awkward 1y ago
> 7) Do not over-talk. > 72) A positive mental attitude means evaluating circumstances based on their capacity for self-development.
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by awkward 1y ago
Contempt is corrosive, and if you're fixing debt in response to business needs that's putting the turnaround on real business needs at risk. Goldbricking and polishing turds are definitely pitfalls, but the benefit of a low debt c
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by awkward 1y ago
This is solid and necessary. The alternative to an objective measurement of debt is debt expressed in contempt. Even putting things in deep backlog to get commented on every couple months is better than letting these decisions on priority g
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by awkward 1y ago
AI excitement is all supply side. Lots of people are excited to automate their own labor and smooth out production. Very few people want to accept raw AI generated slop. That isn't pure doomerism - there's plenty of room for AI as
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by awkward 1y ago
Chrome exists entirely as a power play. For a while, it aligned pretty well for consumers to get a browser that was produced by their search engine. However, it really only exists because google wanted direct control over their main medium.
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by awkward 1y ago
If you stuff something covered in egg yolk in there it's coming out with egg yolk on it. If you don't scrape whole chunks of potato off the plate, you're rolling the dice with whether you pull it out of a filter or out of the
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by awkward 1y ago
I may just know a much lazier segment of mechanical watch owners.
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by awkward 1y ago
For accuracy? It's probably a little worse than quartz. The escapement will have a longer overall lifespan, and may need servicing every couple decades, as opposed to a new battery every couple years.
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by awkward 1y ago
Oh for sure, they fill huge and consistent gap between most databases and most programming languages. The issue is that they are fundamentally a compromise. That means it's not damning to hear that issues crept in with scale and comple
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by awkward 1y ago
Not to get too off topic, but ORMs are bags of design flaws. They are definitional technical debt, the kind that gets you from proof of concept but needs to be reworked once you get to your target scale. There are a large number of fundamen
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by awkward 2y ago
OpenAI had a publicity cycle around how tuned their image generator is for this particular style in the same week that google released a major rev for Gemini. That kind of social media dominance against a major competitor is incredibly valu
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by awkward 2y ago
It really goes both ways. Attempts to completely supplant all rote math education with exercises to build intuition haven't had good results. Intuitive understanding of math and similar processes gives you access to these bits of symme
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by awkward 2y ago
By the definition of Ponzi Scheme being used here, is there any capitalist country that is not running a Ponzi?
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by awkward 2y ago
I suppose if you're doing one you're not doing the other - the promise of future horizontal scale definitely justifies a lot of arguments about premature optimization. However, they aren't necessarily opposed. Optimization is
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by awkward 2y ago
Of course it's just macroeconomics, but AI is serving as an "optimistic" reason for layoffs and cost cutting. It's not the same old spreadsheets putting out different results, it's a new era.
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by awkward 2y ago
The new form and layout are what the business wants and can easily articulate. What they need is people who understand whether the new form needs to both be stored in the local postgres system or if it should trigger a Kafka event to notify
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by awkward 2y ago
Optimizing what I do to give the team and decision makers optionality has been a big one for me. I don't want to have a fragile plan that minimizes my effort if it forces things to be done in sequence. Multiple independent changesets s
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by awkward 2y ago
In my career I've split time between startups, fintech, and consulting. Last year I've had a few interviews with VC funded startups that went to second and third rounds, where I would be told outright that developers who worked at
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by awkward 2y ago
Wasting it is the same as just keeping it unused forever, the other use for heal spells.
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by awkward 2y ago
There is an exact and correct amount to care. It varies job to job. It's mostly a matter of just turning the big dial inside yourself until you get it in the sweet spot for where you are now.
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by awkward 2y ago
It's definitely possible to do it in a way that's less invasive but still effective. The question is whether that will actually happen.
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by awkward 2y ago
This has been consistent across four organizations including one I participated in setting up. They don't seem to have gone far out of their way.

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