azemetre

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by azemetre 4y ago
I still think about the final line from banksy often, paraphrasing here: “I use to encourage everyone to make art. I don’t do that much anymore.”
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by azemetre 4y ago
Because collective bargaining against multinational corporations is the only leverage you have. Unless you happen to be one of the 15 or so people on earth that are literal programming gods... then yes you do have exquisite leverage.
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by azemetre 4y ago
I don't think it started with warehouse workers, there was a famous NYT article talking about office workers at Amazon where entire teams would leave a meeting in tears: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16&#x2F
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by azemetre 4y ago
The idea is if they fired 2,000 devs (for example), suddenly you have to compete with 2,000 people (who are all likely good devs) all immediately looking for a job. This may not have been a problem in 2018, but it's definitely a proble
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by azemetre 4y ago
Rich Harris did a lot of data viz work (IIRC) during his tenure at the NYT. I don't know if you have experience working with D3 and other template/view libraries but it's always been painful. D3 can also append the dom, so it
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by azemetre 4y ago
This still happens under agile too. It’s not like a process magically fixes things. Most of the issues I read from SWE in regards to agile is that they are often neglected in both decision making and the ability to hold leadership accountab
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by azemetre 4y ago
I mean they initially raised ~$5 billion in multiple rounds when first started in 2011. [1] I doubt they could raised an equivalent amount if they started in say 2018 in the current environment. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com&#x2
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by azemetre 4y ago
Have you looked at Alacritty[1]? Once I adopted tmux, I really enjoyed using Alacritty. [1] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
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by azemetre 4y ago
I think it may just be taking advantage of the lose monetary policy of the last decade plus. It's easier to justify one-shots, experiments, or new product searches when loans are cheap and aplenty. The money spigot has dried up and you
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by azemetre 4y ago
This is some massive hyperbole and really makes me consider if online advertising should be abolished or massively kneecapped. Maybe we should ask users for money because the alternative has become some kafkaesque hellscape where people thi
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by azemetre 4y ago
Would you mind sharing some things that juniors have forced that you think are bad? I’ve recently switched jobs and my team doesn’t write integration tests for our services but rather manually test them with postman. It’s definitely odd and
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by azemetre 4y ago
I’m slowly trying to make ansible playbook that pulls in my dot files and installs everything I need (node, rust, go, all my CLTs, etc).
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by azemetre 4y ago
Your comment reminds me how asinine some Designs orgs have become at companies. Basically chasing fashion statements and demanding Engineers “just do it” with little consideration to the development, maintenance, and testing costs. Modern d
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by azemetre 4y ago
I grew up in a rural town (originally zoned for agriculture) where slowly over the next three decades became a town where rich doctors, lawyers, and accountants live now. I always get a kick seeing a certain individual sell a plot of farm l
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by azemetre 4y ago
Boston has recently closed down major roads for pedestrians to great success. Most businesses ended up selling out entire inventories on those days during the weekend because their walk in traffic literally increased exponentially. https:&
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by azemetre 4y ago
Thanks for reaching out I’ll email you later today.
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by azemetre 4y ago
Yeah, a company that routinely posts gives a “referral” link but it just leads to their normal career page and there’s nothing I can tell that actually makes your application a referral. It’s disappointing because this is a company I’ve bee
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by azemetre 4y ago
Why should the court care about Tesla share holders? I’m genuinely curious. Seems asinine that you can’t enforce contracts because a CEO signed a very poor one. Businesses are allowed to fail after all…
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by azemetre 4y ago
Sometimes we all need to be slapped with a fish in the face in order to see how credulous we are with our biases.
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by azemetre 4y ago
I never got the “if you don’t pay..” arguments, it seems like you pay and still become a product. What connected devices honestly don’t collect everything possible if you pay for it? I bought a kindle and listen to audible on my phone, now
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by azemetre 4y ago
You shouldn't feel bad but it's more of a matter that your lifestyle is likely heavily subsidized because your town doesn't have the tax base (nor will they raise your taxes) to support the infrastructure that's required
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by azemetre 4y ago
Sometimes you have to live where you can afford. If you are a public teacher in San Francisco you likely have a very long commute. Sadly this isn't as uncommon as you think, we're basically pricing out whole classes of people from
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by azemetre 4y ago
This is an odd comment because Fox News Polling is actually one of the better ones in the industry (grade A): https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/ Can’t directly link it but in the site you can filter
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by azemetre 4y ago
Not the same issue but my Spotify experience has seriously degraded where I'll be leaving next month. Songs constantly stop, freeze, and refuse to play. Clearing the cache kinda works, for about 2 hours then the issue persists. IDK if
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by azemetre 4y ago
Do you have examples of freight becoming unstable due to military actions and not supply constraints? The de globalization thesis makes sense but I don’t see examples of regional powers flexing their muscles causing supply chain problems, a
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by azemetre 4y ago
Huh interesting to note that iRobot has a large Massachusetts presence. Another robotics acquisition from Amazon was also HQ’ed in Mass (Kiva). Interesting to see how far Amazon has expanded into the state (lots of AWS teams are based aroun
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by azemetre 4y ago
I don’t think this will actually be his legacy, many of the world’s famous scientists and engineers worked for companies, empires, and a variety of unsavory groups. I mean Charles Darwin was part of a scientific expedition for the British m
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by azemetre 4y ago
I really enjoyed your post and glad you’re in a better state.
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by azemetre 4y ago
There's a lot of "gotchas" when it comes to tree shaking in the JS ecosystem (not using the correct export style, having to do commonjs vs esm, what browser target you want like es3 vs es5 vs es2018 vs esnext), it also depend
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by azemetre 4y ago
Children literally don't have the developed cognitive capabilities to critically think, nor should they be making their own decisions every time. This is an absolutely inane suggestion. I don't know when it started happening, but

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