burntoutfire

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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Photoshop?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Then it's more suspicious. Perhaps Google apps with access to localization (such as Maps) could still do the same thing, on an iPhone?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> 4. Forget about your career, rather for your team members, figure out how you will AMP their careers - more Autonomy, more Mastery of their craft, and more Purpose (AMP). Is this good advice? I understand that that's the kind of b
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Happened to me as well. I suspect that your Android phone noticed his Wifi network, mapped it to his Google id, and now yours and his YT accounts are partially sharing recomendations. That's the least pernicious mechanism I can come up
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> And having lived in both wealthy communities and among poor communities in developing countries it amazing the general mood among the poor seems to ve much more positive and less anxious and neurotic. I've noticed that too. Here a
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Yep. The communist countries were more or less one big forced labor camp. You couldn't leave and, while living there, obviously had to work to survive. For the most part, private sector didn't exist, so you had to work in a govern
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Because pretty much everyone knows about it, i.e. it's not a surprise.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
The only thing that worked for me was to spend less effort at the job. Most of us are not superhumans, working full-time in a mentally demanding job and wanting to do more mentally demanding work after hours is just more than typical human
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
It's quite common with a senior engineers who also know the business domain well. Such person can elicit requirements, design and implement the entire feature without much supervision. This is basically good news for you - you can give
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
German economy is famous for being based on small and mid-sized companies (which are often the best in the world at the ultra-specialized thing that they do). My post was on impossiblity of high job satisfaction levels in big organizations,
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Creating a work environment where long-term workers become happy and productive Is there a large (or even mid-sized) tech company that managed to achieve it? I've never heard of one and I don't think it's possible. At sc
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
On the other hand, they could just beat up or kill their disgruntled employees... I think things have improved and not regressed since then.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
A cult takes money from you and doesn't pay you a million a year or whatever these people are making.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
People live in flats with no garden, or don't live near a forest or anything beautiful really, or finish their shift when it's already dark. Or maybe it's just raining or 105 F outside.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
My grandparents had 2 and 4 children respectively in communist Poland in the fifties in sixties, while living in what nowadays would be classified as abject poverty (e.g. a 6-person family living in 400 sq ft flat). Being very, very poor an
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
As far as recruiters go this one isn't that terrible. At least here in Europe, they frequently lie to you, sometimes back down on their offers (I had a verbal offer cancelled a day after, because another guy accepted the position for l
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Same can be said for Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea. That's hundreds of millions of people enjoying great lives thanks to being or having been protected by US from the beasts across their borders. At the same time, is t
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Perhaps I'm biased, because I'm from a country (Poland) that's actually actively protected by the US from a murderous dictator (Putin). Even when Poland was on her knees in the early ninetiess, the US never tried to install t
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Most people don't own land, so rising land prices just make them poorer.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> did the same thing Are you doing both SWE job and farming, as the OP? If so, how do find time for walks etc.? I imagine farming itself is very time-intesive activity.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Same in Poland, 7.9 PLN now vs 3.9 PLN at the beginning of covid.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Some other terrible things are banned in the EU, not only RT. We don't have 100% freedom of speech, and for good measure. For example, child pornography is also illegal. As is glorification of Nazism and (in some countries) Communism.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> for mostly the same reasons that putin is attacking ukraine now for. Did the US want to annex that country into the US? And convert its citizens into obedient Americans? And murder everyone who resisted?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
That post is also full of pre-indieapocalypse charm. It assumes that a decent, finished game will get its author the recognition
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
This, plus sunken cost fallacy - people who had to work hard to get in will be less willing to just leave if they find out that the job itself sucks.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> I want to do what I want, whenever I want, on a whim. In ancient Greece this was basically a definition of a god.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Yeah, it's like saying "we'll fetch your beer... in 15 minutes" to patron at the pub. Entertainment and leisure is about instant gratification and companies don't seem to get that. The people who absolutely get that
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Not a perfect comparison, but Microsoft has higher revenue that entire video games industry across the globe (not perfect, because MS also has some game dev revenue, and is also selling hardware and consulting, so not all of its money come
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
There was a guy who worked same software engineering job as me. Whereas I perceived the job as mostly pointless drudgery (we were grossly mismanaged a lot of the time, and it was questionable if the product we're working on actually ma
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
How can people constanly like like that? I mean, they must constantly cover up the reason why they couldn't join a call or couldn't answer on chat at the moment etc.. Not to mention outright lies during interviews. I guess they al

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