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geodel
2y ago
It seems to me companies share these processes far and wide on this. I've had very similar experience and my work is nowhere near Amazon offices.
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geodel
2y ago
Make sense. You are indeed Opinion leader of your opinions and Thought leader of your thoughts.
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geodel
2y ago
> It's remarkable that language developers have set out to do clean sheet designs (golang, rust) and somehow managed to settle on gross syntax. You are talking of your opinion as some kind of facts. What you call gross syntax is go
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geodel
2y ago
'Hallucinating Notepad' feels like a band name.
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geodel
2y ago
Well executives are few and non-executives are many. So total outgoing money is more as per accounting department. Nothing funny or conspiratorial here. > A good friend of mine is currently getting their MBA from a fairly well regarded s
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geodel
2y ago
But you have data privacy, social net there. You win some you lose some.
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geodel
2y ago
Seems you are in luck today! All the boots available to you now.
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geodel
2y ago
I like that you called Benedict 'Cumbersome'. He is indeed cumbersome in so many roles.
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geodel
2y ago
While as much I empathize with tech workers (being one of them) at this point I feel automation and efficiencies they have developed in last 3-4 decades that displaced middle class jobs and skills are now good enough to displace large chunk
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geodel
2y ago
> Like, isn't this announcement a terrible indictment of how inexperienced their engineers are.. Well, Rob Pike said same thing about experience and that seemed to pissed lot of people endlessly. However I don't think it as ind
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geodel
2y ago
Indeed. "An update.." is a trend in lot of enterprises nowadays, probably taking cue from SV companies.
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geodel
2y ago
Held responsible for what? The what part is written in contract for execs, movie stars, sport persons. I have not seen in any category people not getting paid per their contract for poor performance.
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geodel
2y ago
Yeah, nothing to write home about until they pay inflation adjust salary till retirement age of 67 for all laid off employees.
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geodel
2y ago
I take full responsibility for completing task assigned to me . So resign?
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geodel
2y ago
Agree. But we are already in that loop. A 50KLOC properly written "Monolith, hence outdated" app is now 30 micro services of 20KLOC surface + 100KLOC of submerged in terms of convenience libraries with kubernetes, grafana, datad
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geodel
2y ago
Well it is volume business. <1% of advanced skill developers will find AI helper useless but for 99% of IT CRUD peddlers these tools are quite sufficient. All in all if employers cut down 15-20% of net development costs by reducing head
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geodel
2y ago
Thats exactly the point. Raise the price then customer can decide if they can afford it or not. With fake low prices customers may not know what they are getting into.
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2y ago
The funny thing is when people reasonably say raise the price to actual costs, the answers is "Customer may stop coming..". As if the whole point to scam customer with fake low prices.
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2y ago
Employer or customer? Since tipping is done by customers. It is like employers tell employees you can let customers know good service is for good tippers. Maybe car repair mechanic can pour sweet tea in instead of engine oil since customer
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2y ago
I think they are just getting started. Soon there will announcement on speakers for non-tippers "Congratulations! You won cheap ass of the day award"
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geodel
2y ago
That's why I think these premium additional services must not be offered gratis.
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2y ago
I think Seattle should introduce 18% tip on original 18% tip as it adds extra work for service workers in form of collecting tip, maintenance of tip screen and so on.
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2y ago
Agree. LLMs are really next generation requirements. Previously people would run a dozen docker containers in Kubernetes cluster on Mac or further before a dozen linux VMs etc and predictably but sadly macs never worked well for these requi
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geodel
2y ago
Indeed, can't wait to see teachers, firefighters, and other state and federal employees going to prison as their pension funds get invested in corporations committing crimes.
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2y ago
I am from country which has these standardized tests for all engineering, medicine, management and other competitive fields. The result is there is sprawling industry of "coaching institutes" which train kids for college admission
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2y ago
> People like R would be lost in the sea of averages because their genius would be kept shut by norms. Well norms were in place when R did his work. Even the most strict systems have made concessions for extraordinary people. It is just
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2y ago
So security checking is for passengers and their luggage. Others can just walk directly in to the plane?
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2y ago
Absolutely. In Indian hierarchy one can blast watchmen for not doing their work properly and CISF can blast a passenger for not doing their work properly. So they are indeed powerful. One can see that in their swagger. They are there to ser
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2y ago
Absolutely right. My mistake. CRPF is riots and all.
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2y ago
Good that guy is not in India, Otherwise he would be put behind bars for decades or just executed/hanged or encountered without any consequence whatsoever. No burden of proof on government ever. It seems to me this government is watchi
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