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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Microsoft was founded in 1975. 1981 was the first DOS release. 1985 was the first release of Windows. 40 years working on windows is a long time, I would be surprised if anyone for the original team is left at this point. Even someone joini
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
In the US you direct apply typically, or you can work with a recruiter who will connect you with jobs. I don't know about being discovered by a talent team, that's never happened to me, maybe for some people.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
In the US I have noticed that the tier 2/3 tech cities SWE salaries seemed to raise a bit with covid and level off. The Tier 1 tech cities they seem to (outside of AI) have dropped a bit after the covid boom amid massive layoffs. Remot
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Beggars can't be choosers. If you are having the worst career winter of your life shouldn't you be taking whatever you can get? Whether its 5 days a week in office or full remote or anything in between?
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
IMO I think that the industry will start to move away from React and Angular. These apps take too much developer time for basic functionality, are too slow, and too much of a maintenance burden. The Future^TM is HTMX like functionality, whi
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
My daughters are younger than that, but A lot of the neighbor girls in who are in that age range got apple watches before phones. Which kind of makes sense, because it allows them to text, but keeps them off of apps and such.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Java startup time shouldn't really be an issue with a terminal program. I have written some pretty complex Java and Rust and C++ terminal programs, they are basically indistinguishable on run time. The reason Java starts up slow for mo
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Odin is more similar to Zig or C, very similar to Zig I think, but less boiler plate and more similar to Go syntactically. I have also found Odin to be a bit more friendly than Zig to get compiling and running, less required safety. There i
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
I am using Odin to write a video game.... why would I want tn HTTPS stack, SQL Drivers, Websockets or any of that? Maybe eventually I might need some websockets if I want multiplayer. But I can also just make bindings to a C library so no
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Rosalind Franklins contrabutions are vastly overestimated in an effort to “correct the record”. Her data was very valuable, but she didnt make the insights.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
This is a perfect place for a prolog program.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
So as opposed to the old twitter method which was a vague “you know someone at twitter”, which led to random “journalists” and nobodies being verified. Paying money is just as arbitrary. Money at least means a credit card transaction happen
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Lets steel man this: 1. If the output is solid, does it matter? 2. The author could simply have done the research, created the plan, and then gave an LLM the bullet list points of research and told it to "make this into a presentable p
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Ruby isn't necessarily for web devs. Ruby is popular for all sorts of business line applications. In Japan is popular for lower level programming. You can do game programming via something like Dragon Ruby. Sure its very popular for Ra
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Thats a bit of a strawman. Will religion pay your rent? Probably not. But focusing on a simple life around family and charity and not chasing material possessions or luxury might. Changing priorities from hip neighborhoods to family frien
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
The happiest Gen Z I see are the ones that go to Church. Being religious is a bulwark against nihilism. And Church youth / under 30 groups are basically marriage express lanes, which takes the App /hookup culture hell out of the e
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Wouldn't the comparison be more like the 1920s for computing. We had useful working computers in the 1940s working on real problems doing what was not possible before hand. By the 1950s we had computers doing Nuclear bomb simulations a
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
DHH is the lead developer of the most popular ruby web framework, Sandy is the author of a mildly popular book. Not knocking her work, but DHH is magnitudes more influential.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Ive been told my multiple High Energy Physicists that String Theory was suspect because it makes no predictions. Being able to make predictions that are testable is a foundation of theoretical science. Not everything is because of influence
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Are these internal servers full of M-series chips running a server max osx build then as well?
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
If you watch some of the real life detective / crime shows. The people who murder people and get caught be cops, basically shoot people in broad daylight on camera, tell people about it, then immediately fold in interrogation.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Yes. The active passive citizen distinction is an important aspect of representative democracy. This was foundational per the federalist papers and the enlightenment at large. Kant enunerates the active vs passive distinction in “Doctrine o
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
If you don't vote, you forfeit your vote. So yes, over half of the country voted for him, only those who are active enough citizens to get off of the couch count. 34% Trump, 35% FORFEIT, 31% Harris, we don't care about the forfeit
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
That depends. I have donated to Religious missionary work publicly, that could be seen by an extremist of any other religion who sees this as a zero sum game as anti their religion. But I don't bring this up in work because that is unc
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
No, those are all completely separate things.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Ive worked with Catholics and my views on sola scriptura and the authority of the Pope never came up once. Ive worked with Muslims, and it was never an issue. Ive worked with Hindus. Ive worked with Chinese, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshi
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
And people don't have to all agree on the same things. People can get together to work towards cause X and then individually believe in mutually exclusive causes alpha, beta, gamma.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
It looks like they chose a Product Manager and MBA. Why can't we get a software engineer or computer scientist?
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Ford announced the Maverick, it got so much excitement that it sold out and dealerships sold for over MSRP. So in their infinite wisdom they... didn't make more mid range trucks. Ill never understand these guys.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Theres a spectrum too it. Helping design fighter jets and missiles? Yes that has to be done with the idea that the weapons you are designing for national security can and most likely will be used in such a way that will cause harm. However

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