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by brettgriffin 1y ago
We won't see anything on the scale of the dot com bust again, but certainly the market will correct. All markets on a long enough time line are going to weed out the failures and leave you with the 'best and brightest' - that
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I worked both front and back of house in restaurants in high school and college. It is true that the work is cognitively simple, but there is nothing relaxing about the work. Even if you could do the work tax-free, I assure you, you don&#x2
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
That's for experienced bartenders to find new gigs. A lot service industry jobs have similar networks to help match a supply/demand mismatch. The parent comment was asking why someone with a 'desk job', often making >
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
Strawman. Nobody ever said anyone was being forced to work there and nobody would claim that was the case.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> Linux is fundamentally appealing to those who want to tinker with OS I respect that and truly admire what dhh has done and tweeted about over the last year or so. But for a business to mandate an operating system for their developers (
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I love dhh and I applaud his manic obsession with Linux over the 18 months or so that I've seen on my twitter feed. I still don't exactly understand what the purpose of all of this is. I'm sure it is very configurable, but ev
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> They needed to be able to keep them separate, and hence, they separated them by the numbers and letters That's the how and when, but that doesn't actually explain why they had to use letters, does it? Even before computers an
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
Maybe it wasn't clear, but 'show me the bodies' implies the onus to demonstrate mass fatalities, not dozens after billions of Autopilot miles. The bodies just don't exist. To be clear, I don't think either of us are
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I once heard a comedian say 'show me the bodies' in response to the safety of nuclear energy. I just love the pragmatic and blunt way of looking at a perceived threat. So: show me the bodies.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
Almost never. The biggest issue is how conservative it is when accelerating after a stop sign or red light. I'm prone to get honked at if I don't press the gas manually. NYC (like most major US cities) treat stop signs as yield si
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
How is it going? I use it every day in NYC and I think it's incredible.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
ah, you are correct. thanks for pointing that out.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
edit: kam corrected me below.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
It's all relative. Those areas have significantly lower costs of living.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I was making $35/hr (~$70k) a year as a department manager in a grocery store while I still in college. And that was 20 years ago. I just helped a friend's wife (late 20s) apply and interview for a general administration position
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
You should be focusing on working your ass off at your job and increasing your earning potential there. You don't say what you do or where you are, but you're earning $20 an hour. In virtually any industry you should be able to wo
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
M&A deals are analyzed pretty closely and there (usually) has to be a convincing argument that it is economically or strategically accretive to the acquirer. It's easy to call them all morons from afar, but I think it just highligh
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
More important than just getting answer, do you understand _why_ every employee isn't granted the same amount equity?
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I agree with this post. I think you've already been terminated, and I don't think it was your fault. I would stress #3: If you cannot financially afford to just tender your resignation and move on, take the high road and handle th
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
A little OT, but tangental: when I discovered uBlock didn't work on Chrome last week I downloaded Arc for the first time, and am completely blown away. Its weird how you sort of assume the standard is good enough for something and forg
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I'll concede that most CS curricula are so far removed from practical development (intentionally) that it is not an immediate indicator of performance, but to suggest that 85% of CS grads can't figure out a problem in unfamiliar t
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
If an internet outage is the impetus as you've described, are you sure the next step here is building a local LLM stack, or is it securing a more stable internet connection, given you're the technical leader of a company?
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I'm not going to dive into the specifics of my thoughts on this question. I think a lot of comments here address this. But does anyone else get embarrassed of their career choice when you read things like this? I've loved software
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
Can anyone point to the abuse that was happening? I've tried searching but the hits are (rightfully) focused on her passing. I've scrolled the comments of several of her videos going back years and not seeing any negativity. I&#x2
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
You don't think rote learning is a desirable skill of candidates that employers look for? Can you think of anything we do for, say, the first two decades of our life, that could send this signal?
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
Leet Code style questions are a shorthand assessment for two things: 1. Raw mental horsepower 2. The ability to just repeatedly do focused learning, aka just grinding And sure, it probably does favor #2 these days - but that is a critically
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
the ACV for a data warehouse is orders of magnitude beyond $200. Snowflake's ACV is something like $300k/yr
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
As much as I hate that answer I think it is better than a pen and and a notebook.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
They are examples, the exactness is not what is important here. Choosing something that is not connected to electricity, an OS, or the internet to be a software developer's _most important_ tool is, in fact, the strange position here.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> Those are tools that if I lost them, it surely would slow me down and be annoying. Yes, but the post above is pointing out that you would be significantly slower without an IDE, compiler or debugger than you would be without a pen&#x2F

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