coolbreezetft22

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by coolbreezetft22 3y ago
My best guess is he's just an idiot and doesn't really think things through, just saying/doing whatever dumb idea pops into his head at the moment
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by coolbreezetft22 3y ago
eyeroll I read the economist on a weekly basis and can confidently say that that form of curated professional journalism is much better than random partisans on twitter loudly shouting about everything
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by coolbreezetft22 3y ago
It's now riddled with bugs and every other "reply" is an ad for a product completely unrelated to whatever tweet it's replying to. No one outside of twitter was predicting it would just suddenly collapse, but instead a s
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by coolbreezetft22 3y ago
This article is still about the 2nd layoff, just confirming the concrete time looks like where as previously just known to be sometime around end of april / early may
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I follow the market for Seattle East side pretty closely and prices have definitely dropped compared to a year ago. A ton of houses that were listed with ridiculous early 2022 prices have been re-listed multiple times to lower prices, in ma
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Yep, metaverse was the stupidest idea ever. I said it at the time back in October/November 2021 when the stock was at its peak and then proceeded to interview realizing I was on a sinking ship. Sadly since I suck at interviews I could
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I've become so disillusioned with the tech industry over the past several years...just so much hubris and smugness and obnoxious "tech bros" who publicly pontificate on all sorts of unrelated topics with absolute certainty. N
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Same thing happened to me. Since becoming a parent I've gotten back into video games like I was when I was a kid/teenager. Before I had my first kid we didn't even have a TV now there are 3 in my house. I also read a lot more
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
The balloons seemed to get the most coverage and hype on social media / twitter. And now the same social media / twitter is complaining about how the news spent too much time talk about the balloons. Reading the economist on a wee
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
This is my fear too but does this apply to programming jobs at "non-tech" companies? Past few years it was very difficult for these businesses to hire software engineers because they couldn't compete with faang and hot tech s
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
What a weird comment Erdogan has for past the decade regularly arrested critical journalists and opposition politicians on very flimsy trumped up charges. In America there is a massive and lucrative media industry dedicated to attacking whi
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Aren't Product Managers & TPMs considered ICs? They don't have direct reports but aren't writing code either. I imagine this will be a more common option for these Engineering Managers who are managing other managers
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Yeah, maybe this will have the same impact as well and we see a decline in people getting CS degrees and going into other (much-needed) professions. I know some older people who started off in software and after the dotcom bust switched to
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
How quickly times can change. A few years ago a CS degree and software job seemed like the most secure and easy way to a guaranteed high paying job while everything else was harder. Now it seems every software company is laying people off w
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Personally, I read The Economist on a weekly basis and feel that is very good quality. Not that I think it's 100% accurate or always right (though they admit when they are wrong and put in corrections), but the writing is also good and
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I'll take real professional journalism over amateur internet commentary any day. Anytime I hear people generically blaming "The Media" for everything I just roll my eyes.
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
In Seattle where so many people have been earning so much this doesn't really work out unless you're a dual-income couple or don't have kids and don't need much space. The house prices here have been driven up so much ev
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Yeah, everyone sitting comfortably in their big house in a nice neighborhood close to work that they got when it was reasonable to do so can now sit back and lecture others: "why do you need such an expensive house and less than two ho
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Yeah that's the point - new families now have to either: a) rent b) downsize significantly c) stretch their budget. While 6-10 years ago a house in Sammammish or Issaquah was easily attainable
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I didn't say I think those careers are amazing or better (I don't want to be in them over my current job) but I definitely think they are more resistant to economic downturns and more location-agnostic
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Mostly agree but houses are really expensive around here, significantly more expensive than 10 years ago. If you have a family and need a decent amount of space then your options are either buy > $1million house (at minimum) or live very
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Not just young but older as well.. My mother-in-law (who is not in tech) really steered my brother-in-law hard towards job in tech as software engineer thinking it's the greatest job ever - "working in IT is the best job!" Lu
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
Why did you drive it for a whole ten years if it was such a disaster? Seems like an excessively long time to tolerate something that's causing you such headache.
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I interviewed for a software engineering position here literally just yesterday.
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I hope you screenshot comments like this so you can look back on them when you're older and cringe at yourself.
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I consider myself an okay software developer and leetcoder but interviews are just way too hard for me. I usually pass initial coding screens easily and then fail the full loop. My overall of offers to rejections is like 2-7 in the past 8 y
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
He pushed for Ukrainian territory to be formally ceded to Russia after they occupied it by force and violence. His "peace plan" was then enthusiastically praised by Kremlin propaganda. It seems his push for peace is always one sid
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
It reads to me more like jesting between pals...this isn't the first time he's retweeted and conversed with Medvedev in a light-hearted fashion like this. There is a reason the Kremlin and their propaganda is supportive of Musk. M
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
lmao, how much longer can this guy be defended on the basis of making The Libs mad. Must be nice having cult-immunity.
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by coolbreezetft22 4y ago
I've thought about this too, but it's one thing to go on twitter and post some memes for free (or 8$/month lol) and another to shell out $50k for a car just to own the libs.

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