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by granshaw 3y ago
Do you get much stress in terms of sometimes not being “rapid” enough, not having anyone to rely on apart from yourself (assuming you’re solo), and finding business?
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by granshaw 3y ago
How’s the workload?
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by granshaw 3y ago
How often do consulting companies ipo nowadays tho… heck ipos in general have dwindled to a tiny number
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by granshaw 3y ago
Sadly most don’t have the time or energy to find that purpose, precisely cause it’s all been spent on work
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by granshaw 3y ago
Even for the “more enlightened”, there is a sense of Stockholm syndrome. IE I’m one of those who’d really love to escape the grind, but I’ve had to placate myself with all sorts of thoughts and “it’s not so bad”s in order to cope
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by granshaw 3y ago
Oh I can - I imagine it everyday… sadly it will always be a figment of my imagination.
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by granshaw 3y ago
That sounds awful, I’m so sorry to hear that and do hope that she can make progress. If I may, this is a point I’ve been thinking a lot of lately though - as in, is the “oh there’s many people out there who have it way worse, so be thankful
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by granshaw 3y ago
So what, they “get off” using their employer’s laptop as well?
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by granshaw 3y ago
Port forwarding doesn’t help when your public facing ip could change at anytime
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by granshaw 3y ago
Can’t upvote this enough. It breaks the original spirit of the internet and is lazy “security” with a huge negative externality
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by granshaw 3y ago
Slightly OT but I’d recommend just not doing any personal texting on a work device, whether encrypted or not With employers, you just never know - take the extra step and use your phone
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by granshaw 3y ago
Which might also help with the perpetually single part
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by granshaw 3y ago
Gets cutoff on mobile too
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by granshaw 3y ago
Get off your high horse. We should be thankful these parents even bit the bullet and had kids in the first place. With the way demographics are going, I’m only half kidding
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by granshaw 3y ago
What does the individual care more about tho, a chance at affecting change, or potentially getting fired? Really shows the limits of an individual when their livelihood depends on the source of the problem
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by granshaw 3y ago
Sounds like freelancing/consulting might be right up your alley. Maybe building mvps or working on relatively new products or codebases. Charge for your time and no pretend work. Yes, you’ll have to find clients. No, there is no perfec
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by granshaw 3y ago
This doesn’t sound like any university CS degree I know of, apart from maybe a single class actually called “software engineering”, which in many cases isn’t even required And even if it was, no, engineer personalities are horrible at desig
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by granshaw 3y ago
At this rate self driving cars won’t be approved until they can also cure cancer and bring world peace
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by granshaw 3y ago
A higher paying position than Meta!? Very curious to hear as much as you’re willing to share on which company this is
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by granshaw 3y ago
Well yeah, that was the tail end of the crazy times. I have seen an uptick in recruiter messages since August-ish tho
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by granshaw 3y ago
“Everything in the tech industry is driven with a very hardcore eye for profit and very little interest in anything else” What is up with the discourse lately - of course it’s all about the profits - we’re talking about companies right not
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by granshaw 3y ago
Very interesting and useful insight, thanks!
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by granshaw 3y ago
The US is one of the few countries in the world that HAS a fixed mortgage longer than 5 years... we're the exception not the norm
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by granshaw 3y ago
I’ve long thought of starting an agency where “we’re developers for marketing depts”, ie, we’re seasoned devs, hire us and we’ll jump into the dev side of things and the company’s codebase, make the changes needed that you want, keep us on
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by granshaw 3y ago
Would just like to say kudos for pulling the very complicated trigger on this This is exactly the kind of thing where 99% of people would like to do but revert to not doing cause the benefits are hard to justify in “traditional” ways (ie fi
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by granshaw 3y ago
The Blackrock issue is overhyped. Saw a post recently showing that the percentages aren’t actually that high, don’t have time to find it now but hope to do so later
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by granshaw 3y ago
Might be impossible to wake you up at that point
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by granshaw 3y ago
At the very least they could just not all-caps them
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by granshaw 3y ago
Seriously why don’t these Chinese companies hire someone for 30mins to come up with a more reputable sounding name?
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by granshaw 3y ago
What is this implicit contract you speak of?

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