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by grumple 4y ago
AirDrop to everyone seems like a great idea until your teenager gets airdropped genital pics on an airplane [0]. 0. https://jezebel.com/passengers-keep-airdropping-nudes-and-ai...
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by grumple 4y ago
> I can't tell you how many "normal users" ask me whether there is an open source equivalent they can use so they don't have to pay for X I don't think I've ever had a non-dev ask me about "open source&
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by grumple 4y ago
Pretty sure every site on IPv4 gets probed multiple times a day for common config leaks and other misconfigurations. Happens to all of mine.
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by grumple 4y ago
Verrry skeptical. They get hacked the same week that they go under and face regulators? For apps to be compromised, that means a dev was involved, either knowingly or unknowingly. And as a dev, that unknowing part would be very hard, way mo
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by grumple 4y ago
> Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, and Microsoft all add a lot of value to people's lives both through the products they sell as well as the tax revenue they provide for the greater benefit of all. That's a very bold claim,
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by grumple 4y ago
Both the previous administration and the current one have expressed issues with those companies, and they couldn't be more opposed to one another. Most of these big companies are anticompetitive at the very least. Every acquisition ove
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by grumple 4y ago
370k software engineer jobs listed on linkedin right now. So each person laid off from these companies gets to choose between 10 open roles at other companies. And that's just what's listed on linkedin; most jobs aren't.
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by grumple 4y ago
That is explicitly untrue. We have labor laws in this country and many others. Beyond that, all behavior is not reasonable just because it's done with ones own money.
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by grumple 4y ago
There are hundreds of thousands of new software jobs in the US every year. Way more globally. This is a drop in the bucket. Shit, I get messaged about a thousand software jobs per year and I'm just one guy.
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by grumple 4y ago
Using the API proves nothing. You can easily fake an embedded tweet - would take the average frontend dev very little time to do from scratch.
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by grumple 4y ago
The alternative is screenshots or direct quoting, both of which are actually easier than using the api.
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by grumple 4y ago
There's already a bigger org doing this - Amazon. They are constantly hiring and struggling to replace those who leave - even during their new corporate hiring freeze. Tech workers are still in very high demand. And the younger generat
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by grumple 4y ago
Business take: Companies that scaled up quickly in earlier days of the internet tend to treat their customers like trash. Today, as they reach the limits of their growth (hard to grow when nearly every person on the planet has had an accoun
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by grumple 4y ago
For the average SaaS I suspect this hurts sales. As someone who often gets to choose what services we pay for, any service where I have to send an email, or worse, involve our finance or accounts payable department and get non-technical peo
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by grumple 4y ago
This is not true. I don't know who told you this. All of these relationships are two way. If they make a demand to change the expectations of working hours and work time, you say no, I won't do that. They can fire you if they don&
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by grumple 4y ago
Wow, a whole weekend? Terminating huge amounts of the workforce when they have next to no knowledge of the inner workings of the company... well, it's going to be a disaster, and I think all the tech people here know it. I'm sure
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by grumple 4y ago
This headline is alarmist and the article itself is designed to manipulate people unfamiliar with the productivity metric or its recent movement. Note that the article and the graph are about the % change in productivity... which spiked sha
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by grumple 4y ago
I don't expect my employees to solve problems on the spot, why would I expect it of interviewees? I give them a short take-home challenge, and it has worked well so far - I have a great team.
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by grumple 4y ago
That might have had a big impact. I used to always look for it on the 1st of the month, many posters might have failed to find it and just moved on.
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by grumple 4y ago
> The data is obviously highly biased but when you look at top researchers, what % went to CC vs what % to top undergraduate programs? Right, it is biased. You need a control - two similar people with similar backgrounds. People going to
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by grumple 4y ago
Fitting both into your shoes would be easy... which I actually know from experience, having put batteries into shoes for other purposes.
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by grumple 4y ago
I saw this recently, so not only is it possible, but it's fairly simple: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/sockfish.html
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by grumple 4y ago
I disagree with your comment. I went to one of those high-tier universities and wish I had spent the first two years at community college. Low-level classes at big universities tend to be poorly taught, large classes, and I question their v
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by grumple 4y ago
An agreement between a worker and a company does not absolve either of their legal responsibilities. Structures made to evade or abuse the letter of the law while violating the spirit are what we're seeing cracked down on here. So that
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by grumple 4y ago
Democracies are equally as likely, if not more, to put horrendously unqualified and highly dislikable people into power. And I'm not just talking about the most recent president emeritus. Political debates in the US rarely have anythin
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by grumple 4y ago
They weren't unable, they were unwilling. They started out as a Rails shop, right? Probably have a very simple email field on their users table, any junior dev could easily change it. Probably any sufficiently privileged support user a
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by grumple 4y ago
The Peter Principle is just an idea someone had (and intended to be satire) and not an actual factual reflection of the way the world works.
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by grumple 4y ago
Is it that much more expensive? It's mostly opportunity cost imo, but that's basically a nonfactor for big corps that take ages to do anything anyway, and they are constantly hiring replacements. I can terminate team members with
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by grumple 4y ago
This is a hyperbolic article that doesn't reflect reality for most people. I use my smart tvs for two purposes: 1) to use the native apps for streaming services (and I never get ads except the internal advertising of the apps themselve
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by grumple 4y ago
They aren't paying thousands of software engineers for the work of a few dozen software engineers.

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