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by danjac 4y ago
Meta's problems are due to a lack of direction and very poor decision making from the very top. The Metaverse was a huge expensive failure, their core demographics are old people and their Instagram demographic is being eaten up by Tik
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How would they be in a position to judge programmer competence? It might well be the person was hired based on being cheaper and/or a personal relationship (boss' nephew or manager's room-mate) but that is not necessarily an
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The sigma-male/get-rich-quick types (and their female equivalents in the MLM spaces) are parasites, but as with any parasite, they thrive in an unhealthy environment. Since the 1970s, the path to even modest generational wealth has bee
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Sweet summer child. Who do you think determines whether you are "productive"? Your manager. If you don't play the political game and get on their side, you get fired, no matter how "productive" you think you are. Or
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A lot of people think they're a wolf in sheep's clothing, when in fact it's the other way around.
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Morally? Unless you uncover something fraudulent in the candidate's application, it's downright amoral, not grey at all.
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If a politician believes a course of action is beneficial, and public opinion disagrees with them, then they should persuade the public to change their opinion. That's kind of how democracy has worked since ancient Greece.
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Living in a country where marijuana consumption is still illegal (as in, you go to jail or at least get a criminal record, not even decriminalized) the frustrating thing is that when medical evidence is up against public prejudice and ignor
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I think it might be more instructive to have a side by side comparison: why did startup A in fail and startup B succeed, assuming they are in the same space? For example, why did Facebook take over the world and not MySpace? Why did DOS bea
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SVB offered a perk of free AWS and Google Cloud credits to new startup clients, so even more "free money" to entrench the startup ecosystem in the cloud. https://www.svb.com/account/startup-banking-offers
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Do you own capital or work for it? If the latter, congrats, you're a worker. And again, HN people living in their little US coastal bubble thinking that the rest of the tech world is as privileged as them. When I started I earned less
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Sure of course some may be entitled spoiled kids. But do you know who is even more entitled and spoiled? The VC investor and C-Suite class, who are driving these layoffs. We saw a bit of this entitlement over the weekend as these armchair l
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A lot of exaggeration going on here. Most developers don't live in the Valley, most of us didn't earn astronomical salaries during the past decade, most of us didn't have to run code reviews past a "diversity committee&q
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The reality for most of us I suspect was sitting at home on our couch fixing an obscure bug in a CI pipeline while half-listening along to an all-hands meeting.
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I subscribe to a couple RSS feeds for some remote job sites. A very large % of jobs are for crypto (ok "fintech" but look closely it's crypto) in March 2023. I wonder how these companies are still going, or maybe the listings
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Thinking of the Reddit redesign: depends what you mean by "works". Does it work for end users? As long as too many don't leave or are replaced by new users who didn't know any better, who cares? If it encourages people t
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I've been in that position once early on in my career - single developer bearing the load of a project that should have been the work of 3-4 people. It didn't end well - I got the thing done but performance, quality etc were way b
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Sure, but that means there is opportunity for other companies to pick up that talent.
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AI is the perfect job for asteroid mining, or any other job outside of Earth orbit, whether for research or commerce. Space is incredibly hostile to humans and, short of some miracle technology, is likely to always remain so: at best we&#x2
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Duolingo has as much connection with real-world language learning as Minecraft has with the real-world construction industry.
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It's interesting to compare the backgrounds of MPs in the British Parliament today with a few decades ago. If you look at the MPs from the 1970s or 80s, many of them were still veterans (i.e. old enough to have served in WW2 or done na
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There is a problem in the tech industry where people's pattern matching isn't terribly good. They will have worked for a big company, or have read literature produced by people working for big companies, and concluded that "m
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I mean sure, in principle I'd agree with the 50-60% for the average team as a decent metric (and as a caveat, targeting the most business critical or complex parts of the software). As a single developer (and time and needs allowing, o
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As a sole dev you are also pushed towards simplicity, because your time and scope is so limited. So a larger team might build some intricate DDD-microservices architecture with a services bus and a complex SPA frontend because, why not? Th
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If you're a sole developer you can do quite a few things short of bringing in other developers: good test coverage, linters and formatters (in git pre-commit hooks or CI) etc. For example, I try to aim for 100% test coverage in solo pr
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Compared to what? German is a rich language with a wealth of literature from novels to philosophy and science/technology, utilizing a much smaller set of root words. English is a very bloated language compared to its European neighbour
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This is what put me off even trying them out. In 2023 managed DBs should be table stakes for a PAAS.
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My concern (for non-paying or low-paying side projects) is not so much the difference between $5 and $10 for monthly hosting - that's like the difference between one or two cups of coffee - but what safeguards are in place to prevent m
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Hard to say whether Adams is suffering from online radicalisation and cognitive decline, or whether he was always of this opinion and online radicalisation and cognitive decline have just meant he no longer has the self-control to hide it.
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Having grown up in, and subsequently emigrated from the UK, I would say that Britain is a weird place when looked at from a distance. The class system has led to a society where the middle classes consider themselves the moral guardians of

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