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by fhd2 2y ago
I can think of two positive achievements: Pushing electric cars to the main stream (Tesla, he didn't found it, but I do believe he impacted its success dramatically) and pushing for space exploration (Space X). I find both important. D
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by fhd2 2y ago
Oh we don't appear to have that level of protections in Germany. If you accept, for example, a demotion (that one could argue is still in line with the job title and description in your contract) via email, it's difficult to conte
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by fhd2 2y ago
That's where I suppose the US and EU truly differ. The US generally goes for the "the market will solve it" approach. If you're a bad employer, nobody wants to work there, the company goes down and the competition wins.
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's even worse, he can get out of paying that in a number of ways. If he simply refuses to pay, the employee needs to sue. He can play for time and later declare bankruptcy in the European subsidiaries that have too many legal costs r
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by fhd2 2y ago
The problem is that you can still get fooled or bullied into accepting a bad deal. I suggest everyone working in the EU to learn their rights and to consult a lawyer when something doesn't feel right, doesn't cost much here, initi
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by fhd2 2y ago
Fair, conversions are the ultimate goal. What I meant by conversion-oriented (possibly not the correct term) is ads where you measure their success based on sales, signups etc, as opposed to focusing on the number of impressions (views).
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by fhd2 2y ago
From my ad industry insights, that's only partly true. What you mentioned last is called brand advertising IIRC, which is not conversion oriented, but aimed at exposing you to a brand (like, a car manufacturer) so that at some point _l
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by fhd2 2y ago
I agree, and it's probably what the article is about. These terms have meaning for a little while, then they get abused (see your "digital" example), than they become meaningless and even sound antiquated. I agree with a lot
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by fhd2 2y ago
Same here. I know a number of sales and marketing people that just _won't_ shut up about ChatGPT, trying to get me to use it more the way it's useful to them. I know for a fact that there's nothing in it for them promoting it
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by fhd2 2y ago
True, though in my mind I put these things into my "lots of interesting novelties" category. Everything in games (including the physics engine!) is typically fine-tuned to provide fun, more than realism. The same is currently true
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by fhd2 2y ago
Didn't downvote you (and not sure why anyone would), but I still disagree: Aren't games ultimately all about interacting with other people? It's already possible to play with actual other people, and quite popular too. Sure,
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by fhd2 2y ago
Not an insider, but I can try: 1. I don't know if Rust is being used in Firefox today (edit: turns out it is, see my sibling comment), but I can imagine why they wouldn't: Mixing C++ and Rust is probably non-trivial with the kind
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by fhd2 2y ago
If the point is to clean beaches and that's it, I think my points hold. Sure, there are stairs on some beaches, but it's not really any significant percentage of the space to be cleaned up, thus not really worth optimising for IMH
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by fhd2 2y ago
The article mentions stair climbing as a requirement, not sure I buy that. Even wheeled robots can climb stairs with the right platform, I think that's still cheaper, less complex and error prone. But from a pragmatic perspective, it s
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by fhd2 2y ago
Seems like it's not built on top of LaTex, so you presumably can't drop into LaTex when Typst can't do what you need, or did I just miss that? LaTex is positively arcane, but I still use it for all my writing since it's
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by fhd2 2y ago
I haven't seen good teams do that - there's reliable options even in the pretty crazy JS/web ecosystem. What it does have is a ton of junior devs and a lot of people pushing their open core startups or celebrity status with n
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by fhd2 2y ago
That's a concern I have: The pain of writing boilerplate used to make people improve their architecture and frameworks. If the Java ecosystem hadn't been so painful in the early 2000s, would better languages and frameworks have ga
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by fhd2 2y ago
Uh, that's scary! I had this happen on one flight, they asked someone to take the next flight for some kind of bonus and someone volunteered. Pretty insane that this can happen in the first place, but I guess with something like Ryanai
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by fhd2 2y ago
Yeah that makes sense I guess. Though that hasn't happened to me yet (couple of hundred flights in total I'd guess). I would probably have been nervous about this kind of stuff before my days as a relatively frequent flyer.
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by fhd2 2y ago
I never understood why you'd want to be on the plane early. I don't really find it more comfortable on the plane than at the gate, and it's not like you're gonna take off faster than the last people to board. Almost feel
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by fhd2 2y ago
I dunno about that. I'm regularly _flabbergasted_ by what hackers will do just for fun, and how they run circles around an industry veteran like me. Look at the modding scene for games (an extreme example being a 30 year old obscure Ge
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by fhd2 2y ago
While it could be that you and them work on different kinds of code, I believe it's just as likely that you're just different people with different experience and expectations. A "wow, that's a great start" to one c
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by fhd2 2y ago
Yes, though I personally don't use it, a weird fear of colliding with obscure existing or new tags down the line. But technically, name spacing them with a prefix should cover that.
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by fhd2 2y ago
I always thought laziness was a good thing, at least in our field. I'm pretty sure I'm lazy. When push comes to shove, I will do boring work very diligently, but if there's a better way, I'll look for it. Contrast this w
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by fhd2 2y ago
From my experience, those extra rounds and puzzles don't improve the quality of hires. But they: 1. Create objective consensus. In a small company, you can hire based on intuition - talking to a candidate once (and ideally seeing any k
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by fhd2 2y ago
True! I'd still argue when people want something like a "technical product manager", it often means "someone who can dive into the details of some complex system", at least from what I've seen. Hiring someone w
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by fhd2 2y ago
I tend to use "conceptional skills" to describe someone's ability to understand a complex system. When hiring - especially for roles like "technical product manager", I could care less about "coding experience&
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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, those are slightly separate concepts I think. I went to a "Realschule", and those still exist. It's a school form that ends after grade 10, where the majority of students moves on into an apprenticeship, to work in eith
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's bothered me every now and then that the word "technical" is quite ambiguous. In German, we have a separate word for skills relating to any particular field, which is called "fachlich" ("field-y"). And
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by fhd2 2y ago
Uh, that doesn't look nice, gonna keep an eye on that. This kind of stuff is usually a warning sign for approaching enshittification. Luckily I have a few alternatives in mind (like mailbox.org), albeit without neat apps.

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