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by gregjor 2y ago
I call out contract/freelance work, and I believe custom dictates doing that, at least in the USA. A potential employer should understand that short-term contracting requires different skills. Contractors generally have to start produc
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.ph/2024.10.09-235022/https://www.wsj.com/pol...
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by gregjor 2y ago
The right answer. Tying your career to a small number of languages and tools seems short-sighted and self-limiting. I would interpret such a change as an opportunity to get my employer to train me (or give me time to train myself). Almost n
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by gregjor 2y ago
The Unix philosophy dictates that tools do one thing in a standard way. You accomplish more complicated tasks by combining tools rather than adding features to a tool, which makes it more complicated. You can diff two directories to find fi
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by gregjor 2y ago
Since bash scripts usually glue other tools together I think almost any shell script project will incorporate lots of “Linux commands,” i.e common standardized programs that use stdin/stdout.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I had to do this at a couple of logistics companies. I even got certified to drive a fork lift while doing “cross training” at a warehouse. The warehouse worker who sat in my programmer cubicle for two weeks did not learn how to program. I
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.ph/2024.10.08-204110/https://www.washingtonp...
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by gregjor 2y ago
An intro for programmers new to Unix/Linux. At first glance I thought this might refer to the ancient PWB Unix — the Programmer’s Work Bench. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have played with LLMs (and many IDEs). I won't say they suck, but they don't give me any huge boost either. Other programmers may get more mileage out of them, but so far no one I have worked with reports any difference that see
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have lived through several waves of technology and change that would supposedly make me obsolete as a programmer and system admin. Over forty years in the business now, I have learned to take those predictions with a lot of skepticism. If
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by gregjor 2y ago
Poor analogy. The farmer doesn’t learn new skills or get better at walking every day. When automation actually does equivalent work in less time or at lower cost it will replace human labor. Right now LLMs cannot deliver equivalent work com
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by gregjor 2y ago
No. Moving to cloud computing only obsoleted managing physical hardware. System admins and DBAs just as necessary as before. In my experience even more necessary because managers and programmers think they don’t need sysadmins or DBAs until
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by gregjor 2y ago
Almost trivially easy in a shell one-liner or awk script. I can't think of a reason I would want to display date/time for 418 unique named timezones, but to get the date/time in a specific timezone: TZ=Asia/Bangkok d
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by gregjor 2y ago
Don’t have enemies.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Triggered and traumatized. My mother died over 20 years ago, but "Never" or "Not any more" don't show as options in the "How often do you connect with your mother?" menu. Fortunately Google could tell me h
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by gregjor 2y ago
Good to hear this works for you. Your switch has little do with changing editors and more to do with changing everything else. You frame this as moving from vim to cursor, but I read it differently. Before, you had to read code, work to und
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by gregjor 2y ago
I doubt digital nomads have anything to do with that. Just like I doubt standing desks affect quality or productivity in a measurable way. I have worked in IT for almost 45 years. At no time have I thought enough programmers knew what they
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by gregjor 2y ago
Maybe every day you need a standing desk, chair, desktop computer, big monitor, etc. I don’t. I work on an iPad Pro from all over the world. I freelance for different kinds of customers. No one cares where or when I get the work done. I h
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by gregjor 2y ago
Very few DNs live in vans, or rely solely on public wifi. The places DNs tend to go usually have excellent and cheap 5G service, particularly in Asia. Executives and sales people have worked “on the road” for decades and I don’t recall anyo
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by gregjor 2y ago
We’ll see how long Twitter can bleed out. Even Musk can’t afford it forever.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not forever. Twitter costs a lot to run, and now has a big debt to service. Musk’s wealth comes from Tesla stock, not a growing revenue stream.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I suspect the conditions that led to massive over-hiring won't come back. A lot of software development got commodified. Lots of work out there on legacy codebases and in non-tech companies, but those jobs don't attract as much in
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think Twitter needs a new CEO/owner, not alternatives. Personally I don't use Twitter/X anymore, it has no value to me, but I understand some people find it valuable. Twitter cannot survive at current scale with any reasona
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by gregjor 2y ago
A blanket statement like that doesn’t have much value. “Digital nomad” labels a wide range of lifestyles and people and professions. Some may have unreliable setups and struggle to work remotely. Others may have perfectly good setups and no
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by gregjor 2y ago
You don’t need to speak much Thai if you live in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, or the more popular beach resort cities. You can get by with no Thai at all unless you intend to live in rural Thailand. Thailand does not have a remote worker visa like
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by gregjor 2y ago
Fixed Wireless Access. Just a Google search away: https://www.verizon.com/about/blog/fixed-wireless-access
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by gregjor 2y ago
> But then why are you here in this thread? Because presumably most of the people who might look at the site, or read this thread, do so because they want to get a job and have run into ghosting. If they want to "do something about
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think you misunderstand the screening to hiring pipeline. Companies have automated the process for their efficiency. When they get hundreds or thousands of applicants for every job they don’t need to bother acknowledging every applicant
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by gregjor 2y ago
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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by gregjor 2y ago
The stock market and need to maintain shareholder value and the illusion of growth — or at least relevance — creates the perverse incentives for posting jobs that won’t get filled. That has gone on for a long time. If companies cared about

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