deeptote

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by deeptote 4y ago
CRYPTO IS A FUCKING SCAM There are so many proper applications of blockchain that could improve humanity and provide value to customers and instead these shitheads create NFTs. "But the US dollar is fiat" they will say, "what
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by deeptote 4y ago
Google is well known for hoarding/warehousing talent, and this is exactly how they find compliant employees, not competent ones.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Now if we could only get rid of linkedin...
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by deeptote 4y ago
Yeah they hit me up about a month ago. I've been a crypto-skeptic for a while so I chose to not step up to that slot machine. The pay was usually really good, and the work is interesting, but I can't sleep at night knowing that I
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by deeptote 4y ago
I don't know anyone under 50 who actively uses Facebook.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Basically, "why technological innovation creates and transforms jobs, instead of causing unemployment".
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by deeptote 4y ago
Crypto is a fucking scam and I will die on this hill.
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by deeptote 4y ago
This is a return to business fundamentals; you no longer get to burn money and not deliver value. Cheap money has been a plague on tech. Even bucket shop crypto shitheads like Parcl were getting 10's of millions of dollars. The party i
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by deeptote 4y ago
That's about as close as you can get. Americans are too earnest to be into absurdist humor.
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by deeptote 4y ago
I do okay, thanks
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by deeptote 4y ago
It's not about being talented, that's for sure :)
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by deeptote 4y ago
How much of AWS is paid for by those crappy startups? Not much. AWS doesn't give a fuck about any company paying less than a few million in a year in cloud expenses.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Mine are still off charts. I had 15 reach out today, alone. Currently have interviews at Github, Google, Stripe, and Reddit.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Considering how much AWS recruiters message me constantly, an apocalyptic scenario where even the big players are having to lay off substantial amount of engineers is pretty low on the probability curve. Especially given the crunch to hire
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by deeptote 4y ago
Don't forget the "location adjusted salaries" that pay 40% less for the exact same work.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Every single one of these recent layoffs, I haven't seen a single engineer. It's all seemed to be recruiters or "talent managers".
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by deeptote 4y ago
Again, just one engineer's opinion, but that's because most use cases for engineers are CRUD. If you don't have a CRUD problem, which is probably less than 10% of modern software engineering, Go falls on it's face.
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by deeptote 4y ago
Go is my main language but it keeps disappointing me in it's lack of implementation tuning detail. Generics are just a code generator that, given it's poor performance for things like functional programming, makes it surprisingly
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by deeptote 4y ago
Reason calling the government bad is like Uncle Leo in Seinfeld calling everyone an anti-semite.
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by deeptote 4y ago
It's not preachy at all! You're more eloquent than I am and yes, I'm a tad bitter about some of my recent work experience. I'm grateful to report that I'm in an awesome situation now and my manager and I get along s
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by deeptote 4y ago
This is typical, MBA armchair psychology. Here's the real Principals of Engineering Management, according to pretty much every middle manager, director, and vp I've ever worked with: 1. Be caviling and pedantic, so you can reinfor
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by deeptote 5y ago
Agreed, consumption taxes overwhelmingly favor the rich.