ericmcer

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by ericmcer 3y ago
Try coding in a language/style you are not familiar with. It is not revolutionary for areas you specialize in, but if I try using it for something like setting up a web scraper with python (something I understand conceptually but have
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The tech job market is brutal right now, employers aren’t going to flex on their employees unless they can, and they totally can right now.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Yeah no problem, I think every 'how to resume' article has a similar issue. I have tried writing before and it is a huge pain so props for putting this together and getting it out there. Your style is fun and your writing is clear
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Several points are things that have nothing to do with writing a resume: 'Name Recognition' - You should have worked at FAANG or large companies. 'Short stints' - You should have worked for 1.5+ years at each job. '
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Yeah seriously, normally the argument is: 'it will require N engineers to run our own and they cost N * 250k/yr...' but for 65million you could fund 5 Datadog competitors and still come out ahead.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Yeah healthcare is the one thing I want financial security for. Big house, nice car, expensive food is all whatever, but I have some weird paranoia that in the next 30-40 years some longevity treatment will start rolling out or I will devel
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Philosophy is boring so it doesn't really play well in political discussions. I agree though, when we argue about something like AI without any kind of philosophical underpinning the argument is hollow. AI is "good" in the se
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I applied and got a rejection letter saying they do not hire juniors/interns. I have 8 YOE. Maybe check your automated filters haha.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I refuse to believe you can't tell the difference between TikTok and HN. Just take your argument all the way and say that reading a book is the same thing as using TikTok. Hard Disagree.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Sounds terrible, swiping through memes rapid fire until I find something that hooks me is textbook addictive behavior and I know it will lead me to have poor focus and anxiety in other parts of life. The videos where you "learn" s
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Chinas drug laws are way harsher than US ones. Do their citizens not partake in drug use? It is actually a pretty interesting question, did the war on drugs work in China? They have harsh drug laws but do not have mass incarceration of drug
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Sorry that sucks and is doubly frustrating when you are doing everything right. Sort of the inverse of Richard Overton who would chain smoke cigars and drink Irish coffee well into his 100s.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Threats like this seem less real to me because the government has been so technologically inept lately. Garbage government websites, failed rollouts of huge programs (like healthcare, the CA highspeed rail), SpaceX taking the reigns away fr
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It would be difficult to search because that is a weird question. If you asked a more practical question like "merge two arrays and remove duplicate values" you would find tons of exact results.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It isn’t a crazy hypothesis to say products will require AI to perform specific tasks repeatedly. How many products that can be improved by AI today need a generalist chatbot trained on the entire internet. Almost none, they all have a spec
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It isn’t disgusting but just noticeably grassy to me. Try melting some in a pan vs cheap American butter it smells almost like tallow to me.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Kerrygold is great for strong savory foods, but I am too American to enjoy itin some cases. Frying eggs, grilled cheese, some cookies all suffer from the grassy taste overriding weaker flavors. American butter doesn't really taste like
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by ericmcer 4y ago
These posts are stupid because they are predicated on the idea that corporations have finite tasks they want to perform and will hire the optimum number of employees to do those tasks and then stop. Corporations are made up of managers and
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Bare minimum? An accounting of how money is spent and who is interacted with. Homeless people aren't faceless people, most have SSNs, names and histories. If small tech companies have measures around their arbitrary software goals sure
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah mostly agree, why do government programs always result in so much misuse and fraud? I don't really agree with how you portray the Govt. as a helpless participant that is just responding to peoples complaints. It is a failure of th
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by ericmcer 4y ago
We need to bring back the 80s action movie dynamic where a giant bodybuilder physique meant being an expert at gunplay, vehicles and all physical activities.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Have other companies been blaming the potentials of AI as a reason for the layoffs? GPT is impressive but it seems pretty early to cut 15% of your workforce because of it.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Just try stuff out, you have your whole life to figure out what works for you diet wise. You won't die if you cut out carbs or meat or only eat hard boiled eggs for a week or something. It may feel like a huge sacrifice eating a hyper-
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It is crazy how Blizzard was a few hundred employees when they released Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo over a couple years. Now with 50X as many employees and 23 years of effort they have done nothing but coast off their original hits. I do
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by ericmcer 4y ago
So an independent studio would produce a show, put it on all the platforms and the platforms would pay based on views? Sounds like youtube. The current model works because producing a television show is way more complex than making an album
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by ericmcer 4y ago
protein !== protein. Besides eggs those are all terrible sources of protein from an amino acid perspective. I never said it was unhealthy to forego meat, just that I have never found a non-meat source that can compete. I was vegetarian for
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I think it is a valid point. We can only indulge in such a guilt free way because we don't see how the sausage is made. My friend will eat burgers and chicken nuggets all day, but a chicken drumstick with it's tendons and cartilag
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I 100% agree with you in most regards (including being able to kill what you eat), but I don't think meat is bad for individual health. I recently did just 3 weeks of a carnivore diet as an experiment and it was boggling how much it af
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Another front page thread is about how in demand electricians are. Maybe there is some way you can make get money out of it?
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I think we will be fine because corporations tend to scale based on their profits more than their actual needs. I think this phenomenon is caused by tiers of management getting budgets and quotas. AI will make industries more profitable but

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