burntoutfire

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by burntoutfire 4y ago
You get a cubicle? I thought nowadays the norm is just people sitting at a row of desks, as if office furniture and space was made of gold and needed to be extremely optimised for.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I think satisfaction is largely subjective. There are people who can find satisfaction in the worst kind of shit. It's similar to how marathon runners and other endurance athletes "like" pain. That's one of the reasons c
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Just take a remote position, no one knows or cares if you veg out in front of PC for full 8 hours.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I've been in software engineering for 20 years and I don't think I've ever had to speak to an unhappy customer. That sounds like something that happens in small startups only (in larger orgs, devs should be fully insulated fr
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what's your plan for after you get the degree?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I would say that travelling on a super low budget (or no budget at all) can be a transforming experience. It forces you to interact with locals to obtain any kind of food and shelters, and to live their lifestyle (because you can't aff
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I have never yet seen the tickets to be reasonably specced out. Quite often, they just contain a vaguest idea of what should be done (often, just two or three sentences). Everything else is for the engineer to extract via a series of follow
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
How will co-pilot understand the requirements that need to be implemented? What you described sounds like better autocomplete rather than a system that can one day replace us.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> I generally had very good feedback while I worked but I think I solved harder problems when I was doing advanced physics or calculus in University. It's standard feeling among many engineers (even more so among non-software engs.)
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
In Poland, companies can apply for state research grants just as universities. AFAIK there are some small companies which live off those. Of course, as is always the case, client shapes the company, and in this case the client is government
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
The Polish university I went to never even heard of grading on a curve, and yet cheating was rampant. I think it's just human nature - as long as cheating is not heavily penalised, many people will choose to do it. During my studies, t
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Especially in our age it's a life or death skills to have. I'm not so sure. Many critical thinkers end their life with suicide or end up in mental asylum. It's easier to be a sheep for sure. The reason for that is of co
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
These technologies are usually clustered, so if you're say an experienced Data Engineer, you usually know 75%+ of the technologies listed. If you don't, then you're probably still junior in that field, or stayed with a single
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Current standard of living is predicated on 3-4% annual growth. All developed countries incur massive debts, hoping that, thanks to growth, it will not be hard to pay off 10-20 years into the future.One of the biggest component of this are
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> but I have no idea how to create monetary value doing something meaningful and productive. Don't the consumers enjoy the products? You're giving them that enjoyment.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> I don’t know anyone who’s retired from tech, do you? It seems most people burn out and then go and do something else. These two sentences seem contradictory.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> which for Google is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" Those missions statements always make me laugh. What if someone at Google found a great and cheap way to do that (or
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Science is empiricism. That is it. It is the idea that a theory about how the world works must be put to the test through experimentation. It used to be that. Now we have theories such as big bang theory, theory of tectonic plates, cli
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens to YCombinator and other unicorn-focused VC in the era where tons of money is no longer printed and pumped into stocks every year. In the past decade, lots of VC's profits came from faux-unico
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> What happens if I blurt out a racial slur randomly in here? Or what if someone walks in with a gun? What if someone put poison in this batch of coffee? It's fascinating that in American culture, the first one can be viewed as of t
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Yep. The multiple device connectivity issue is a complete misdesign on BT part. I understand that it's hard to add UI for selecting who to connect to on a device with limited human input and output (such as headphones), but this could
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Americans ate more calories in 1909 than in 1960 They also did A LOT more manual labor back then. Heavy construction projects (roads, dams etc.) were still performed by thousands of people literally swinging a pick-axe 10 hours a day,
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Most free, advanced countries say more. I'm not so sure. Europe is pretty conservative, and people tend to play it safe. Japan is obviously even more so. US is probably unique in its pushing the young to follow their dreams. This
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
It's not what I meant. Let me rephrase. Most people will end up with an ordinary life (the "median path") - you simply can't have say a hundred million extraordinary people in a nation of 300m. Unfortunately, with the cu
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Does that mean it's possible to buy a 20-30 year old house for just the price of land? That sounds fantastic.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
That's an interesting take. You're probably right, if we make majority of people feel "beneath" the median path in life, most of them are bound to become depressed. Hardly anyone can be that special snowflake and create
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I'm not really sure it's true for the billion businesses. How many billion+ businesses were cretated in the past 100 years? Maybe 10,000? And how many people played in the NFL during last 100 years? The Internet says it 23,204. An
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Why assume that the replacement wouldn't also be such a multiplier? Maybe it really doesn't matter who does the job (the OP or the replacement)?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
If you're worried about not getting the job, just ask for your local worth. If you don't get that remote job, then no big deal, as you can soon just get a local job that pays that. If you can't, then in means that you're
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
You should always know how much you're "worth" in the market at the moment - that is, given at most a couple months of job search, what is the maximum offer you're likely to get. [1] So, just ask the company for that amo

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