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geodel
1y ago
I am talking about aggregate distribution not individual motivation to do better. Of course some can do better, learn new things, update LinkedIn profile regularly, attend local networking events, take paid membership to enhance visibility
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geodel
1y ago
I totally agree that there are whole host of reasons for this. One of them I think is plainly a ton of work which was novel and custom in past is now subsumed in base infrastructure of today's world. Despite big tech and other vendor
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geodel
1y ago
Great points. Besides if one look around even today beyond people who somehow still succeeding at software hustle, there are already tons of people fallen off IT gravy train. A lot of manual testers who would make decent living are now elim
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geodel
1y ago
Your point is about as good as saying that "Is my life worse off at home since I can clean whole area in 30 min of mild effort with my cordless vacuum cleaner where as manual broom would've taken me at half day of hard work?"
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geodel
1y ago
It is not some very explicit threshold beyond which AI will take job but before it won't. What's already happening is long drawn attrition where tools at different level of code, low code , no code will keep creeping up. And it wi
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geodel
1y ago
I don't know if for Desktop App (most likely electron based) people expect any better.
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geodel
1y ago
Indeed. Programmers are holding Rust wrong.
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geodel
1y ago
Nah, as per this substack dude think of Burrito Now Pay Later as Quantitative easing so that one can make critical investments in strategic hunger management. So now it is everyone's duty to use BNPL so as to keep economy efficient
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geodel
1y ago
Please enlighten on "level of fraud". Whenever I hear this thing it is mostly that any fees/charge is evil and when there is no charge or fees then of course customer is the product.
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geodel
1y ago
Funny thing is I think Russ is working on AI stuff which leadership really approve of!
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geodel
1y ago
This mostly sounds like "Look I have made my money but don't let that stop me from shitting on leadership (which kinda enabled making money) on my way out. It kind of make sense also since people blasting management while leaving
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geodel
1y ago
Huh, who is stopping person of great brilliance to launch their own companies and preserve culture forever? If there are no large companies with original culture after few decades of their founding it would just imply it is nature of thing
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geodel
1y ago
So now this elongated doggy turd will try to shutdown USPTO.
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geodel
1y ago
I think they can constitute committee for RFC review process(in case there is none today) and based on recommendation multiple domain specific teams/ groups can be created to review RFCs in timely manner.
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geodel
1y ago
I can totally see here the headline "While millions sleep hungry in Asia and Africa Bill Gates throws away uneaten fries after dinner at a local restaurant like its nothing"
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geodel
1y ago
Considering the disdain for software which does not have a thousand external dependencies in form libraries and framework is it any surprise?
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geodel
1y ago
Its anuscale.
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geodel
1y ago
They can create business with closed source software. No one demanded of them to create Apache License software.
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geodel
1y ago
Seems at this point any low level code they concern them with is security because it can have legal consequences, or porting to new CPU versions, archs as it can have financial consequences. So C++ is slow? very well write some Typescript&#
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geodel
1y ago
Well I see it in schools, universities, hospitals, government offices, public companies and so on. Small businesses have full discretion on how to do things so they don't need it. Also I don't see it is the only reason but one o
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geodel
1y ago
I did not advocate fairness, neither I am berating nepotism. Maybe you don't read comment but feel urge to respond nonetheless.
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geodel
1y ago
Not good enough until I get to fire tens of thousands, turn their life upside down and gaslight them on their way out. And I am sad because these laid off people can 't even praise my genius while cleaning out their desk. So I am just
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geodel
1y ago
Indeed. So many things look meritocratic once one is born in right country, right city, right zip code , right family and so on.
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geodel
1y ago
> Really? Endless? Everywhere? “I can see” is doing a lot of work there. You seem to think it is just rhetoric. But ensuring fairness is one of the core job of bureaucracy. After all they are not supposed to be related to people they are
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geodel
1y ago
As usual I think it is combination of skill, luck and hard work. There are people who do enormous hard work but just do not have skill to create impact. And there are many highly skilled people but not motivated enough or likely they just n
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geodel
1y ago
> In my view, it's more compelling to solution the many downsides of nepotism The solution is endless growing bureaucracy to implement and enforce fairness at every level and it is happening everywhere I can see. > Are you saying
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geodel
2y ago
Might be busy in cutting amount of eggs consumed government offices.
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2y ago
> In India Amazon makes little sense. Neither does kindle nor does local book store. Of course! The number of books outside educational material sold in this country with huge population is insignificant. And it is not much surprise sinc
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geodel
2y ago
To be honest this loyalty thing seems to me was promoted by corporate management hucksters and now no loyalty phenomenon is getting promoted by alternate lifestyle peddlers. Most people I have seen at work and outside in all these years
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geodel
2y ago
I wouldn't doubt a bit you said. It is just I come to conclusion that people are essentially same by reading (fiction, non-fiction) literature etc. So I do not feel the urge to go and confirm nonetheless :)
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