birdymcbird

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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> “ Because people are human beings who empathize when bad things happen to people, not with companies that did an 'oops' an over hired and place the consequence of their over hiring on people just trying to live their life.” a
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Someone knowing existing pattern help me understand this. right now when i use these “foundation” apis in swift it is doing c call? so they rewriting now the c code in swift? (dont do ios or mac code so now sure) me dont understand what mak
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
only tried amazon kindles. bought one with a keyboard when me much younger. was gifted a new model last year. it same thing. battery life very good but it so slow. new model has menu screen like android.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
me young when I saw T1 and what memorable to me exactly the horror element of movie. > “Terminator allows viewers to have a legitimate sense of discovery while watching the movie, to learn crucial plot details largely as Sarah learns the
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> “The fact that investment is being driven by pure hype, by data-free narratives rather than actual revenue data or first-principles analysis. The circularity of it all -- hype drives investment which drives hype which drives investment
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> “we believe a concerted effort to reverse the rising tide of bureaucracy offers a more immediate and less speculative route to enhanced economic performance” David sacks was on episode of show “UnHeard”. Hit nail on head. ‘professional
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Any story need have start, middle end. Halo me played maybe back in 2001? It now over twenty year later story should ended long ago. but they focus on make more money even if it no purpose. many company do this. was big fan of avengers and
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> This kind of conspiratorial thinking is just bizarre. You’re really that convinced this is honest reporting? That media isn’t biased? Or is it just bias when the media reports something you don’t like?
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> The popular narrative is that these are just a bunch of bloated tech companies laying off surplus employees that don't do anything useful. Wrong. not only surplus employees but surplus elites. in recent years, big tech paid bloate
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Looks like cool project but would help if landing page details or give example of what this service is or what unique. it is not clear and i don’t want to create account just to figure out purpose
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
worked at two big tech companies. there is perverse incentive to grow your organization. gets you to director or VP. if you engineer it goes to your promotion packet to get you promoted. pattern i saw is teams do not build customer feature
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
>”Trying to claim there is some kind of conspiracy against Musk or Tesla” this is not defense of elon but indictment of media propaganda >”and further claiming that forbidding discussion of wages is no big deal because other companies
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
>”So.. you have no issue with Elon or Tesla for exploiting the ignorance of poor people like you? You desperately defend them not just in spite of what companies like them have done to you, but because of it?” Not my point at all did not
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> Why did you submit to their unlawful attempts at restricting your speech? Was it just ignorance of your rights? don’t come from privilege. For some people easy to virtue signal in a condecending way, as you do here. Was getting paid mi
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> Maybe they're not afraid of anything. Maybe Tesla and Musk are just grubby operators. what it mean grubby operators? there is no major headline in 2022/2023 than daily obsession with musk and every move? there is narrative to
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
>”Lots of companies doing a shitty thing is not some magical excuse for any given company also doing that shitty thing” strawman argument. something is widespread and has been widespread but now has spotlight because “tesla” and “musk”.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
every employer ive had has been clear about this. in mid 90s i worked at a electronics store called circuit city. had coworker get fired after discussing hourly pay. in 2000s i worked gas stations and hotels. same thing. went back to school
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
ios. i use macbook air and iphone. with settings, subscriptions, passwords all saved and synchronized using icloud. the camera on my phone works well. everything just works and i have no complaints. me used samsung phones many years ago and
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Fitness goals regressed later part of year, but overall i in much better shape. stronger now than 1 year ago but did put on body fat too. other big goal was to work less and better balance hobbies and family. always believed in extreme owne
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Always wanted to have something like the crafting interpreters style book but implementing a database from scratch, and bonus points for a distributed system with a leader/replica model, leader election and things like partitioning, re
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
another pe here. i have different opinion. few college new hires already personal trait and past life experiences that give them solid work ethic and ability to focus. some see themselves struggle and have awareness to really see this. many
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
amazon a product manager focused organization in many parts of their business. Person A comes to america to study for masters or mba. A gets hired by amazon. A is under pressure to release features to increase sales or show how their featur
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Very open ended question. Maybe tell us what you tried so far, what depth knowledge or background you has now. pick any of the top results on youtube for react development. course not super necessary but if u really want, check react on cou
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> super competitive FAANG jobs the faang hype is oversold. last 12 years of my career were at two of these. i lucked on the pay. that’s the biggest benefit. alot of work is mundane, little value. both my employers ballooned in size. the
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Interesting bit: > “The bigger concern is to establish some form of international agreement to prevent capable individuals or private corporations from responding independently — before a consensus has formed on whether it is safe to res
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
you don’t need 3K+ employees to keep the site running. i was at google and a service you probably use everyday if you have android was being supported by 3 people. not defending elon but the company was bleeding money on edge of bankruptcy.
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i thought amazon would dominate and conquer books market but they never got beyond just super basic concept of selling a book online. Finding interesting books is awful, everything is an ad. reading on kindle is ok. i have prime and once or
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Question wasnt directed at me but if you like three body problem I also recommend the expanse series.
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What percentage of non macos developers use linux or windows because of apple hardware cost? am aware of hackintosh but not sure how well it works for dev productivity.
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any well built service architecture doesn’t require a massive head count of engineers to keep things running. if code isn’t constantly changing because of new features, it’s behavior should be same. If traffic increases, more hardware will

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