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by corrral 4y ago
OK, but... some places think a "senior software developer" should make $70,000, and other think they should make $250,000 or more. And everything in between. I don't care how nice the a place it is to work, I'm not apply
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by corrral 4y ago
Yeah, I know a couple agencies like that and they have the good sense to politely point tiny-budget projects to other—usually fledgeling—agencies. Mid-five-figures minimum or you'll be gently redirected to another company or a freelanc
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by corrral 4y ago
"Managed $XX,XXX site redesign that resulted in [cherry-picked numbers to make it look like it improved things when it didn't at all]" looks good on a résumé. Your managers may not understand much, but they can understand (by
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by corrral 4y ago
> Every single time I've hired a general-- I've had to fight scope creep; fight to get them to actually complete work; fight to get the actual quoted materials; fight to fix problematic subcontractor work; fight to avoid price
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by corrral 4y ago
It has not been my experience that for at least 95% of developers their needing to exhibit "spontaneous creativity and improvisation" to a degree greater than what a contractor might do while planning how to run a water line, is a
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by corrral 4y ago
Don't overlook all of wal-mart's vendors and service providers then, I guess? Those aren't one organization, but thousands.
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by corrral 4y ago
Tons and tons of organizations. It's extremely common. It makes more sense when you consider that companies mostly don't experience market effects internally, but operate much more like the Soviet Union, and that, especially for v
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by corrral 4y ago
Companies are, internally, command economies. Of course they're full of inefficiency and crazy shit like people hired to do nothing. Competition curbs it somewhat, but economies of scale and various moats and probably some under-the-ta
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by corrral 4y ago
1) This effective backlash/education-campaign has not already happened despite there already being significant problems with this kind of thing, and most of it not being that hard to spot, even, and 2) I think the more likely effec
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by corrral 4y ago
It hinges entirely on who the military and police decide to listen to. Hanging Pence wasn't the only, or first, option that day—getting him to maybe, kinda, technically, if you tilt your head and squint legally overturn the election
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by corrral 4y ago
That's a very expensive solution, most likely, in terms of harm to the economy & international competitiveness. And we already have a huge problem with race-to-the-bottom dynamics when states or cities race to see who can bend over
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by corrral 4y ago
Our kinda-bad system of government relying heavily on social norms & personal restraint that are no longer present and without which it's extremely vulnerable to malicious game-thinking methods and crass populist manipulation to br
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by corrral 4y ago
Right-leaning majority of the land , not the people, is closer to true.
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by corrral 4y ago
Rural areas also tend to be at least as dependent on domestic shipping as cities, and not a lot of rural dwellers are growing enough of their own food to avoid starvation if that's disrupted. Not like back when a really high percenta
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by corrral 4y ago
> Violence just makes people go against you and is wrong, full stop. That's... quite a bold assertion.
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by corrral 4y ago
> 7.1% of respondents said they'd be willing to kill someone over politics. I can only assume it's that low because people tend not to think very hard about poll questions, so are considering only some narrower-than-the-actual-
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by corrral 4y ago
This is an instance in which the call for references is ridiculous enough that I think this is a sufficient response: gestures broadly at the entire history section of the library
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by corrral 4y ago
I don't think most civil wars involve a high percentage of the population as combatants. Victims, maybe, but not combatants. So I don't think it's necessary that anywhere near half the population engage in fighting, for us to
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by corrral 4y ago
Oh, absolutely. I've even come around to thinking that's likely . But one can hope. [EDIT] One thing I no longer think has any realistic future is the open, semi-anonymous Internet. We're either losing it because despots tak
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by corrral 4y ago
> You can put letters in any order you want and make them say any damn lie. You can run a web server by responding to every request by hand-typing the response, too. But you couldn't realistically run one-one-millionth the modern We
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by corrral 4y ago
This is already barely holding together with mostly human actors doing the astroturfing and creating bullshit "news organizations" expressly to spread propaganda. Automation is going to overwhelm a system that's already teete
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by corrral 4y ago
> Photoshop has existed for years and humans have been manipulating photos for longer, what's the difference, really? Scale, cost, and reach.
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by corrral 4y ago
There seems to me a huge difference between a few organizations being able to produce & distribute a total of X amount of self-serving bullshit with some limited reach, and anyone with a bit of money being able to produce 100,000 • X am
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by corrral 4y ago
Sure, but being able to do the same thing at 100,000x the scale for the same price seems like a pretty big difference. Throw in the ability to target narrow constituencies with custom messages via modern ad networks, automation-assisted ast
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by corrral 4y ago
Thinking bigger: I'm pretty sure the combo of a relatively free global Internet, liberal democracy on large (much bigger than city-state) scales, and cheap, customized, on-demand generation of totally fake text + photo + video propagan
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by corrral 4y ago
> or the pay being that unfair. What's "fair" got to do with it? If they can get more, they should. Companies don't stop at "fair". CEOs don't stop at "fair".
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by corrral 4y ago
On the one hand, yeah, sure, on the other, that concern does nothing but hurt me. It's entirely pointless. You don't need to maintain a constant state of concern/anxiety to remember to work toward solutions to those sorts of
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by corrral 4y ago
Almost everything in the news is either gonna trigger anxiety or nothing. Outrage, maybe. That's about it. Farther away from local news, the more true that is. Luckily, keeping up with that stuff day-to-day or even week-to-week is pret
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by corrral 4y ago
I frankly feel kinda great in a crisis. The more serious, the better. All the dumbest parts of my brain shut down and I do what has to be done. Squeamishness, fear, anxiety, second-guessing, rumination—all shoved in a closet and the door
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by corrral 4y ago
I... have not found that to be the case at all (my van's certainly not made by Apple, nor is its stock entertainment system—my BT headphones aren't Apple, my BT keyboards and mice aren't Apple, my monitor and electric piano a

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