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by bdangubic 2mo ago
the only way to deal with a bully is to show strength. if you do, it seldom ends well for the bully
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
so much this. I’ve been in the industry for three decades and absolute thread that connects the best people I’ve ever worked with is that they are lazy at their core. laziness breeds automation, removes duplication and redundancy (and bored
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
README should be written by the author of the code, it this case it is fully LLM written code so let the brother write the README. Also “README is for humans” might have been true awhile ago, these days README’s are being tailored to Agent
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
Once the “biggest crime athlete can commit” became betting on own games / sport (this supercedes all other crimes including rape, domestic violence, mutilating dogs…) the sports as we knew it came to an end. I used to be huge sports fa
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
Why is this a problem?! I actually prefer to see README written by the author of the code
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
he should get his job back around black friday with enough time for another firing round at Christmas time
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
We pull in everyone from the Team who is available at interview time into a room with a big a$$ whiteboard and we talked to the candidate. We work through the problem, either current one we are working on or recent one that we completed or
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
> Man, there are times when I really hate this industry. Or as I'd like to call it - Wednesday :)
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
it does if you are writing the checks, it doesn’t if you cashing the checks
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
> Such test filter out the obvious frauds. if you need garbage like leetcode to filter out "obvious frauds" you got a whole lot of problems in your company/team/...
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
when you have a President that grew up poor and is now practically broke you gotta let this slide
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
very few things bring me more joy than seeing downvotes from Meta bot accounts :)
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
when facebook started out and was actual social network, for a short period of time it was arguably a net-positive for the society though…
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
If we were normal society company like Meta would be shut down and its CEO would be in Hague and prosecuted for crimes against humanity
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
Google sells TPUs already, to competitors :)
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
do not do this please. if you have a good product, people will pay for it. if you don’t, you don’t. don’t optimize for free-loaders
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
it is ok, the climate change will do something about us
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
there is super easy solution here, anyone caught misusing the data goes to prison for life without ability for parole. mandatory sentence, no exception and no pardons.
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
that will happen… exactly never. The empire of the United States will collapse before that happens (which will happen as all empires fall and we are not different)
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
yup! And no SWE in the history of mankind that can code has lost an employment opportunity because of it.
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
understanding is a given and not “wearing other hats” - there is just one hat
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
if those silly “puzzle questions” are important (they are not) they’d be a website where SWEs would be competing/hacking on etc - leetcode style. no one gives a flying fuck about that if you can code - no one
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
true social network - I choose my network - I never see anything (literally) that isn’t a post from someone in my network - full stop - post are chronological that’s it. I have been off all social media platforms since 2017 but would “ret
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
If kids were more aware how much public speaking is tied into their social and especially romantic life later they’d all be majoring in public speaking :)
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
URL please?
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
“understanding requirements” is as much “wearing other hats” as having hands is “wearing other hats” for a carpenter. coding is always the hard part, always. whenever I was on any project and we had more work than resource we never hired “p
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
After 30+ years in the industry the absolute best programmers I know never spoke to any customers, like ever. so bullshit comment all around. I’ve been coding for 30+, have obscene salary and do not wear any “additional hats” or talk to any
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
canada and norway for sure but you probably don’t want to be ethnic minority anywhere unfortunately
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
I would rather have my entire body waxed that be an ethnic minority for a month in the countries you listed (minus Singapore)
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by bdangubic 2mo ago
be a billionaire and you’d get that write-off

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