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by gaius 8y ago
The US Naval Academy alone graduates 1000 people a year. Where do they all go? What do they all do? In the Star Trek reboot Kirk goes straight from Academy sophomore to commanding a capital ship in a matter of days. It is not like that. I
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by gaius 8y ago
You will notice it always coincides with when the techbros on the West Coast wake up.
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by gaius 8y ago
Sure, but it’s a gradual, iterative process, and each new feature you learn builds on what you already know, there’s no sudden cliff of obsolescence. When Oracle 9i came out there was still plenty of work for Oracle 7 and 8i guys and they h
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by gaius 8y ago
a lot of them simply don't have the intellectual capacity for tech work Well, neither do most tech workers. Why’s there another high profile breach seemingly every week? Why is software generally full of bugs? Because the devs lack b
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by gaius 8y ago
Just as webdevs are “full stack engineers” now
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by gaius 8y ago
IT skills have never had a long shelf life. But this isn’t true, outside of webdev. If your skill was “DB2” or “Oracle” or “Cisco” or “C++” you could have had a 30-40 year career in that, easily. There are plenty of others. Java has been
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by gaius 8y ago
A true senior isn’t even really thinking in terms of specific languages any more and if they were their knowledge is a decade old. They have been doing company-specific things for too long. Haggling over language minutiae is the hallmark of
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by gaius 8y ago
Realistically no one who is employed already has time to jump through all the hoops in the present day interview process, the quizzes and homework and blah blah blah, just for fun.
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by gaius 8y ago
There are 2 kinds of knowledge, e.g. “knowing python” and “knowing how we do things at company X”. As you get more senior the second kind takes over - but it is worthless outside company X. Always keep the first kind of knowledge sharp.
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by gaius 8y ago
Minimalism is the ideology of the rich - you don’t need to keep stuff if you know you can simply buy it again next-day shipping. Keeping stuff “in case” it’s ever needed again is the normal behaviour of normal people!
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by gaius 8y ago
Every decision WeWork made to lease new commercial space was made with board support So was every decision Theranos made...
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by gaius 8y ago
petty things such as avoid paying the cleaning staff any sort of decent wages or benefits.” It’s pathological. WeWork, Google, Facebook and all the rest don’t need to shaft their cleaners, catering staff, security guards etc. The cost i
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by gaius 8y ago
Don’t know why this is downvoted. When a bank stores a record of a cheque it’s a scanned image for that very reason.
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by gaius 8y ago
Looks like we both touched a nerve there but I’ve no idea why!
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by gaius 8y ago
He3 would be a very profitable export for the moon if we ever develop commercial fusion power on Earth
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by gaius 8y ago
mass consumption of virtual goods (software) seems to produce less waste than the mass consumption of physical goods. I read that bitcoin produces more CO2 than the global aviation industry... https://jalopnik.com/bitcoins
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by gaius 8y ago
Your TV could send telemetry via 3G - you’d never know. Or the manufacturer cuts a deal with your broadband provider and gets a backdoor out via your WiFi hub, if you use the standard one they gave you. Or a hidden app on an Android phone t
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s well known that tall people earn more, are promoted preferentially, as another example.
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by gaius 8y ago
How the Brazilian government allocates it’s defence budget is it’s own concern of course but consider that a comparable-role ship HMS Hermes was laid down in 1944, sold to India in 1985 and served until 2017. Ocean will never manage that. H
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by gaius 8y ago
The US Navy was tasked by the civilian government.
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by gaius 8y ago
This is why HMS Ocean had such a short service life, to “save money” she was built to commercial not military standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ocean_(L12)
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by gaius 8y ago
Sure, but Spolsky didn’t invent the concept. The idea is probably hundreds of years old.
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by gaius 8y ago
The irony is that MongoDB brought this on themselves. They created a market for “like MongoDB, but reliable and secure” but were unable to deliver it themselves.
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by gaius 8y ago
It was really the journals themselves who were the test subjects, not any specific named individuals. A journal is an institution, not a person.
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by gaius 8y ago
Teachers always forget: everyone has been to school. So teachers moan about how much time they spend lesson planning but I wonder how much planning went into putting on a video and nipping out for a fag? Or marking, but I wonder, when the a
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by gaius 8y ago
Is moving faster to evade taxes and regulations really something to encourage?
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s funny, my second biggest expense after the mortgage is my season ticket. I haven’t run the numbers but it’s possible that 75% of my salary without that and the other costs of working might actually break even!
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by gaius 8y ago
hey, design/build the thing, then fire those who designed it' type thing, which definitely happens That’s OK if you hire contractors and pay them premium contractors rates. It’s sleazy and underhanded to make people believe that
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by gaius 8y ago
it's a great opportunity to get rid of underperforming employees and restructure the company. Positions are made redundant, not people. Individual performance is irrelevant, if not the company needs to be taken to the cleaners at a t
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by gaius 8y ago
I don’t know that it’s the start, supposedly reputable news sources such as the BBC have been reporting on what happened on Twitter as if it was news for years

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