brianmcc

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by brianmcc 4y ago
>> UK has a political crisis, based on an identity crisis, for which there is no foreseeable solution on the horizon. We had Tory govts from 1979 to 1997. Current situation feels similar, we're just desperate for change as a na
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by brianmcc 4y ago
You're right - I'd add a decade of austerity too mind you.
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I'm UK based. Pretty much stopped buying anything of importance from Amazon these days. Argos fills most of my online shopping needs now and often I can even just drive 10 mins to collect my stuff! Occasionally I do pause to consider j
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It's a shame job ads are so focused on bullet points of technology, I'd much rather see info such as "really friendly and helpful team who are smart and effective but not in an insufferable way, working on generally interesti
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Do we really need to rehash this every couple of months? I mostly tend to enjoy the back and forth on it but even I am finding it something of a pantomime now :-(
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Replying to myself to point out: "fluctuations" and "stability" are not mutually exclusive. Largely stable ecosystems do see occasional volatility but remain mostly stable. UK for example did indeed see a few weeks of hi
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>> you are in a very small minority of the world population Really? So EU, UK, USA, China, Australia, with stable currencies, are a small minority..? Sorry but countries with wild instability are the minority and frankly gold would se
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Sales maybe tank, share prices - less so
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A handful of examples don't prove anything. If a Widget Lookup Service is used to lookup widgets for its entire lifespan, calling it Frodo isn't doing anyone any favours. And it's not like "oops some gadget polishing cod
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>> The challenge for us is it'd likely take an engineer a week or two to optimize our test suites. That's enough time for them to ship meaningful features. That does seem like a possibly worthwhile choice though? A "st
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True but it's a factor unique to the UK adding even further to the economic woes that energy costs bring, hence it belongs in responding to "why panic in the UK?". Covid lagging impacts plus Brexit plus energy prices is all
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by brianmcc 4y ago
You'd think. But UK is less well governed: among other things Brexit has brought its own special brand of GDP inhibition. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/19/energy/energy-prices-uk-e... As wholesal
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>> We're in a weird not often seen situation where we are seemingly heading into a recession with full employment and high inflation and already high interest rates(by recent memory) while also having high debt levels for both in
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>> Quiet quitting is the realization that if you work hard and push yourself in an employee role you're a sucker. Not entirely , there are bosses and orgs which genuinely reward effort, and where the cost/benefits of extra
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I really enjoyed this rant/vent, and IMO occasionally just a gush of frustration about A Thing is entirely healthy :-) I think we do value surface traits too highly - "magnetic, fascinating, stunning, attractive, glowing, domina
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Agree SQL has a number of different dialects and quirks. But I think comparing it to JS and its Cambrian Explosion of frameworks and trends does it a disservice. I started working with SQL in about 1997 and in my experience I've seen a
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by brianmcc 4y ago
This is an amazing list, and really highlights how much we take on trust in this industry: do X for good/better/best outcomes. Taking a step back I wonder: if there did emerge clear, incontrovertible evidence that doing X led to b
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by brianmcc 4y ago
There's a committee! Kidding. But with a little research one finds a fairly widespread consensus about professions such as doctors, nurses, utilities engineers (energy/water), teachers, waste disposal, that sort of thing. That lit
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Totally. You could imagine even a tiny handful of trusted users who consistently give valuable, reliable, feedback. Microsoft seems a company just oblivious to user feedback - Beta users howling about disastrous Windows changes mooted,
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by brianmcc 4y ago
+1 for "let's run this big UI change using our TEST platform past some physical rooms full of typical users to see if they hate it" rather than just firing it into prod with some buzzwords to justify traumatising millions of
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by brianmcc 4y ago
There's a good argument to the contrary. People are struggling to fund essentials, 100% yes and need help. But higher interest rates won't help them and here's some thinking as to why: https://www.prospectmagazine
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Good. Now we can look forward to interest rate cuts to deal with the recession...
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Ha fair enough a strong term. Forgive me I am just venting a bit about a wider pattern of these sort of headlines: "Why YOU aren't saving enough for retirement", "Why YOU need to eat fewer avocados", etc. It's
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I hate headlines like this pieces's full one - omitted here on HN so far - which is "Why Intuitive Troubleshooting Has Stopped Working For You". For me? Excuse me no, because I design systems to be supportable in production.
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Wait till it suggests something Disney can argue they own rights to...
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That's an interesting perspective actually, thanks. Being UK based it's not really a thing here. Or maybe it is and I'm oblivious! In which case, point taken re the difference between simply 'well paid' and that ver
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Does it need a definition? "A salary in the upper quartile per sector, location and experience level"?
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There are certainly thousands that pay very well. "Very well" is way broader than just Amazon-level rates. I don't think OP suggested specifically "same or better"?
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So - I can pay with a drawing of a spider...?
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That's a fair point. The challenge is to decide what you want from life - to be a Top 1% Career Winner or someone who spreads their resources more evenly, with the compromises that really does force. You can crush it and give your all

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