epicgiga

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by epicgiga 7y ago
Very illustrative warning to other devs. Just because you're coding and building things, doesn't mean you're doing work, or that you're going to make any money. Most devs are salarymen because that's the best role t
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Seems fair. All those guys who caused the 2008 crash, which actually hurt hundreds of millions of people, got sentenced too, so equality before the law and all that. Oh wait, actually they were "punished" by being bailed out with
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This is why I think dev needs way stronger hierarchy. The typical flat hierarchies are trash for maintaining long term quality code and thus productivity. All juniors should have to PR everything through seniors. All mids should have to PR
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by epicgiga 7y ago
BASIC, then C and C++ with some ASM (embedded systems), then Java (android apps), then Python, then node & PHP & js/html/css, as proficiencies. Smattering of other things as "have useds", inc. clojure, R. Interes
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by epicgiga 7y ago
JetBrains IDEs are great. Each update seems to be a windfall of "wow that's really useful" and "yeah I've always wanted that". But man I wish they'd improve the indexing. Pretty much the only thing that ca
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Out of who's line? His and those employees line? They're temporary servants, not property.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Not really, I clearly stated "in some ways". As usual, people are hostile to thinking, and are far more concerned with getting their pearl clutching emotional blurts out. This thread is a classic case of that.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Precisely, people should refrain from informing on topics outside their area of expertise. Pretty rife in western companies, "too many cooks" etc, must be the democratic mindset that every voice counts equally.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
A lot of companies are actively factoring this into their HR model. Their model is to hire fresh people and burn them out. Increasingly this is the direction western corporations are moving. Their ideal model is: place performance quotas ab
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Pardon me, but how would you know as a non-dev?
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by epicgiga 7y ago
PHP is a fantastic language, and my personal favourite. It was the first language written with web serving in mind. It is packed with features due to all the adding to it over the years, meaning you can write code how you want, no how they
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Analogies and metaphors are pointless. Whenever you use them, they'll just respond with their own counter metaphors they pull equally efficiently from their own rear ends, with a tone of indignation, implying you're trying to tric
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Fair, but calmly worded reason hasn't budged these bunch or their regime for decades, so "repeating the experiment" etc
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Maybe they're just not as into it? Does anyone ever stop to consider that? Maybe women are doing what's best for themselves, sticking to things they like, and screw your arrogant western leftist ideas of what YOU think they should
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by epicgiga 7y ago
The problem is treating this stuff in an "inheritance" rather than "composition" manner. Which is precisely how most managers think, AKA management fads. Instead of absorbing the concepts behind PP into the mamagement, t
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by epicgiga 7y ago
You're right that abdication of responsibility by parents is the root cause of all of this. There's no criminal punishment for destroying your child's life as long as you don't use outright violence. But if parents took
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Lion: "we'd like to practice using this plane so we don't crash it". Boeing: "no". Lion: crashes it. Hundreds die. Boeing: "not our fault, their pilots were untrained". How is no one is prison again?
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This is an overly simplistic view of power. The man in the blue uniform with the gun is at the end of a very long chain of people. What happens, historically, when one group wields superior technology to another group? Who has the power? Do
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by epicgiga 7y ago
People like that are precisely the best example. They're not going to start by banning a kid for calling someone the f word. They're going to pick nutters like him, because they can say to the free speech advocates "oh so you
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by epicgiga 7y ago
You're wrong. Look up noncompetes in the US. The American rule of costs means it doesn't matter if it's not enforceable (which actually it often is). They still have a cause of action to destroy you by the mere act of draggin
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Problem is that states usually have constitutional safeguards that keep a safe balance of power between citizen and state. Not so with these companies. Step out of line and they can unperson you like that, and you can't vote on their l
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Lol, and then a downvote, prob by OP. How dare I call you out and hurt your revenue by doing so, right? It's all about you, screw the masses of people who've been annoyed and distracted by you with nothing in return, right? The i
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or a criminal
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Just remember, if one lowly employee does it, it's negligent homicide, and they go to prison. And if they blame everyone but themselves, the judge adds a few more years to the sentence. But if a big bunch of nameless managers and execu
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Comes down to incentives. Why would the agency or SME dev care about the end user? Will they get rewarded if they do? Nope. Dev salarymen are concerned, rightly, with their careers. This is why they do stuff like make a brochureware website