casralad

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by casralad 4y ago
>their primary audience seems to seek comfort in their stories about how they are in the right and how the opposition are the bad guys. Jesus fucking Christ. What would the opposition have to do for you to believe they are the bad guys?
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by casralad 4y ago
>cross platform frameworks improved No serious mobile application is built with a cross platform framework. It's a development strategy that relies on the product being "good enough". Please prove me wrong. I would love to
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by casralad 4y ago
It's a little like AOL in the 1990s. A great business model, but one that won't outlast reliable internet access from service providers. Businesses like webcam studios bridge the gap until internet access catches up. There are uns
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by casralad 4y ago
No. "Netflix / Disney etc seem to have copped onto one idea that works and just release the same tv show / movie over and over again with a slight tweak as it brings the money in without any worries." This is the golden
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by casralad 4y ago
It's not usable as a currency except in the most dire circumstances and no one is working to fix this. Transactional currency has been abandoned as a goal by every major crypto project, and it doesn't make a sensible replacement f
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by casralad 4y ago
Pets.com and WebVan were exemplary of the dotcom bubble. They had insane valuations and a problematic business model, but investors poured money in because of hype. But both those services are legitimate, profitable through other companies
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by casralad 5y ago
I support this. Overtime is free labor and the market should be regulated by the government to prohibit this. That said, I've been a software engineer for over twenty years and most of those years I've worked under 40 hours a week
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by casralad 5y ago
Software Engineering at Google [ https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book ]
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by casralad 5y ago
Abolition is the only path forward. You can't reform this.
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by casralad 5y ago
Twitter.
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by casralad 5y ago
Early investors almost always require a friends and family round.
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by casralad 5y ago
I went down a rabbit-hole last year trying out different MUAs and configurations, searching for that perfect setup. I like CLI interfaces and I wanted something where search was not as painful. It was a nice distraction, then I realized tha
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by casralad 5y ago
In my city, Covid infections are still higher than they were at the peak last winter, so there has not been much discussion about returning to the office, though our offices are open and anyone can go in and work there if they choose. We we
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by casralad 5y ago
Google used to be a pretty respected brand in tech spaces, didn't it?
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by casralad 5y ago
I started at $50k, never made more than $200k in a year. My net worth will be a million well before I'm 65. A million isn't what it used to be.
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by casralad 5y ago
>Any details on how that happened? buy food cook the food you eat generational wealth don't throw out food
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by casralad 5y ago
>be as creative as you wish I don't think this is an area where creativity expands the existing options. If you have a stable job you will likely be approved for a mortgage. It might not be enough of a mortgage to afford a home in t
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by casralad 5y ago
I worked at a very large corporation that had a pay freeze for years. I didn't leave because of money, I just worked less each year. After more than five years of being underpaid, I was working only a few hours a week. Eventually I got
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by casralad 5y ago
Yes. I would like to learn more about your union experience.
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by casralad 5y ago
Similarly-sized software companies are also overpaying their executives at the expense of worker wages, so Mozilla is right on track.
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by casralad 5y ago
iOS developer. I work from the spare bedroom in my house. Kitchen chair, Purple seat pad, 3' x 2' desk from World Market, M1 MacBook Pro, clip on ring light for meetings, Magic Mouse. I use the built-in microphone and webcam on my
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by casralad 5y ago
Check out "The Four Tendencies" by Gretchen Rubin. It describes almost this exact scenario and provides tools that may help you overcome it.
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by casralad 5y ago
Yes. Fully remote, good separation of work and life, the technical problems are interesting enough (for me), and management is mostly sane. I'm a software developer in the US.
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by casralad 5y ago
Marketing is more important than the product because without good marketing, you'll have no customers. Logistics and supply chain is more important than marketing because without product to ship, you'll go broke before you can bil
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by casralad 5y ago
No one has asked for my college GPA (2.4) since my first job out of school.
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by casralad 5y ago
Years ago, I was a J2ME developer. There were very few candidates with my skill set and not many jobs either. I don't remember the company I was interviewing for, but they were really excited to find me because I had the experience and
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by casralad 5y ago
I've been a software developer for thirty years and every pay increase has been less than 3% unless I switch companies. It's their rules. I'm just playing the game.
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by casralad 5y ago
>30 is more commonly a point where people in our society start to get a sense of their actual career path and shift from "consumers" of the current culture to "architects" of the next culture An insightful and eloquen