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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
What long term goal is slaving away at McDonalds or Wal-Mart accomplishing? All the people advancing society are being paid pittances compared to the true leeches (landlords and shareholders). People should not be required to work to surviv
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
There is nothing inherent in "basic economics" that postulates that fulfilling or fun jobs pay less. I also find the idea of "basic economics" laughable given how impossible economics is in the first place. I mean, yes,
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
> While there are exceptions (eg tmux), I find most man pages are written for someone who already knows how the command works but forgot a particular detail. Isn't that a function of how much work is put into man pages vs. the GUI?
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
> The people who worry that remote work will be a disaster are the ones who never believed SV engineers were more talented in the first place. Or that technical talent does not really contribute to success as much as the prevailing theor
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
It is only worth it for companies beyond a certain size. Smaller companies will always opt for visas vs. figuring out remote taxes.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
There are plenty of bootcamp grads across the companies I've worked and they all make 100k+ (and some are established senior engineers). Like you are implying: status signaling from degree mills is pretty useless compared to actual com
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
Hence my question of whether the OP is prescriptive or descriptive.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
A lot to unpack here. > The common man isn't expected to understand tariffs, international banking, military theory, computer engineering, social justice issues, and food scarcity. What better use is there of the common man's t
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
Echo use of the Mox library! I found testing in Elixir to be by far my favourite experience (outside of Scheme, I guess, but I haven't done production Scheme). The REPL is really nice as well for exploratory development.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
helping your company save costs (at scale) is almost always stupid compared to selling that knowledge to other companies.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
I've seen well over 20% improvement in developer velocity which is far more important than performance in most businesses
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
Is your answer: "try being rich"? People with what you have are rarely sitting in cubicles or open offices any way.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
Is it awesome? It raises the cost of everything everywhere else (because for the majority of young, educated people there aren't _that_ many desirable cities). We are already seeing that in places like Austin or Colorado.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
switching jobs is a promise of productivity. giving an individual company more productivity for free is bullshit -- get your comp adjusted as frequently as possible.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
#1 is a non-starter for many managers in companies of all sizes. Unfortunately the personality-type that lends itself to accumulating power is not one that thrives off trust.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
There is some irony in being a big fan of capitalism and then advocating for your own exploitation.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
it's the difference between explicit and invisible force. people in favour of capitalism (in all its forms) consider the invisible forces "the way the world works".
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
I would argue significantly better than our current system. It would allow more diversity as well as bring knowledge about government back into communities.
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
In a sense if we can collectively agree that the future will be better... we're all fine. We are in a crisis but there is really no reason that if the world stopped improving _today_ we would not be fine as a species. Good, even, if we
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
> Capitalism is about weeding out the better companies from the worse -- not ones that are arbitrarily more or less hit by an unpredictable global catastrophe. For the definition of better or worse implied by your above statements that i
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
I agree with criticism of governments in these instances but in order to be more thoughtful we should be critical of _how_ the governments ended up in this state. In other words: I do not think that the government (as a concept) is the issu
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by cvlasdkv 6y ago
Incorrect. A free-market globalized world (I shudder at calling such a world "perfect") would see cars manufactured at wherever gives maximal marginal gains. Which is what we've been seeing... Resources are finite no matter h
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
A lot of "education" is just branding and prestige. For that, they will need a lot of money. And before techies get up in arms about how much of a meritocracy their field is -- survey your FAANG/elite startup coworkers. See w
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
I'm curious as to why you think China is to blame for American politicians ignoring precautions and prioritizing their own wealth over the well-being of their citizens?
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
Workers depending on their employers are wage slaves. It is particularly bad when in countries like America, a worker's _health_ is dependent on their employer. But in general being "dependent" on the government is 100x bette
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
I also had harder internship questions, and a harder time passing, when interviewing at places like Yelp than I did full-time at most FAANG-tier companies (disclaimer: I did not interview at Netflix).
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
Extremely common. Interviewing is a tiring and arduous process and companies have all the power. They make the bet that the majority of people are not willing to leave (esp. once they have families).
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
Privatization and "efficiency" on all things of national interest do that. It is why deficit hawks are misleading their constituents with every sentence.
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
We should not pretend like we understand the "economic fallout", and that operating under the current "rules" is the only mode of existence. Economics and capitalism are social constructs after all. _Nobody_ understands
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by cvlasdkv 7y ago
> People who are not neoliberals often agree that efficiency and innovation are important (though perhaps not of as paramount importance as neoliberals tend to portray them), but often disagree with neoliberals as to the optimality of ne

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