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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
I've never liked the craft aspect of software, but at some point I think you'll turn it around and find the intrinsic value for yourself again to keep going at it. FAANG will give you the perspective that software is just a hollow
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Would love for AI to kill the leetcode interview
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
>1) Do your work—do it on time and fully, if not early and overabundantly. I cannot overstate how absolutely hollow it must be that work is your #1 rule of living The next saddest thing is that the only mention of love is a fucking Machi
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Quite a lot of security problems are someone fucking up something they shouldn't have. But honestly I haven't a clue.
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
>I would like someone to mythbust this belief as it seems like it runs off nothing but anecdotes. It can't happen for everyone, which is why all wages need to rise to make living affordable and then some. Capitalists love these comp
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
>Is financing your lunch a sign of societal decay? Maybe, maybe not. I'd have no problems with BNPL if wages kept up with necessities like housing, tuition, and healthcare, or if those services were provided to citizens for free in
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
There's already skill issues in the field even with senior people and without AI. It's why we test people to witch hunt for those imposters. Lots of talk about how one bad hire can ruin the whole team or something. Even competent
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
D-Wave venturing into blockchain stuff raised a red flag for me as a layman investor: https://ir.dwavesys.com/news/news-details/2025/D-Wave-Introd... There are maybe other reasons to invest, but this caused m
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
The conclave had the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Hiring will need to change to stop resume-driven development (can't eliminate it completely though), because you're likely to only get monolith roles if you only work on monoliths. Only being able to speak about microservices puts
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Republicans will basically be undoing Democratic work from now on because that gets votes now, while skirting the law as much as possible with executive orders. Democrats may or may not do the same, but no one knows who the next generation
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Just go back to books or other sources of knowledge and restart from scratch. It shouldn't take long to get your thinking back. W.R.T. any large industry crash, no one's going to care if you can do your Angular (or specific tech s
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
I think it's fair to think of yourself as a carpenter. Devs talk a lot about this being a craft. You build to spec but point out problems when the spec is not possible or silly. It's the business's jobs to know how to explain
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
TBH I think Figma demos are going to win over actually developing and deploying something for apps. CLI and systems still need it though.
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
The real mistake is working for Elon
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Big bonuses if you can do small talk (I can't) and like a sports team (I don't)
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
I think we'll need more time off for workers if we want them to take vacations via railway
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
My guess is you will see more people try to move into the military/police for these benefits and pensions once they do the math. The military/police also suffers different image problems than corporate jobs, but advancement and be
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Narrarator: "There wasn't a choice after all"
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
What are the options for adding fluoride back to water for a home?
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
>When someone smugly says "micro-optimisations don't matter, networks are great, CPUs fast and memory plentiful", proceeds to make an app one degree more complicated than Hello World use 4 GB of RAM and drain half my batte
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
80% is good enough for like the bottom 1/4th-1/3rd of software projects. That is way better than an offshore parasite company throwing stuff at the wall because they don't care about consistency or quality at all. These proje
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Starfield fell on several levels, including gameplay mechanics, mediocre story, things to do, and raw content. Originally it was going to be a much smaller gameplay area which theoretically would have better content. FO76 is proof Bethesda
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
In the process of finding out what customers or a PM/PO wants, developers ask clarifying questions given an ambiguous start. An AI could be made to also ask these questions. It may do this reasonably better than some engineers by havin
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
>Adding soft deletes to a legacy app As an aside, I've never found this to be worth it since you have to change too much and re-test everything for minimal user benefit and time savings. The effort is way worse if the code is not gr
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
>And in other cases, maybe a rough solution is better than not having anything at all. POCs are better for customer-facing, product management driven work. This is because they can be bad at describing what they want. There's more r
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
As an adult, you develop the agency to force yourself to do things you don't like doing I can tell you as someone who was never forced into any extracurricular activities and was forced to go to church-schools that you probably should
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Making prices stagnant over 10-20 years would allow wages to catch up. This hurts speculators and finance way more than individual families and allows for a more gradual transition. It's probably only something you can fix across gener
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by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
Interest rates for individuals buying homes should be near zero. This needs to be subsidized by higher interest rates or taxes-on-businesses elsewhere.
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by hnthrow90348765 2y ago
>but I wonder how much of that is bro science and how much of it is grounded in reality It's probably bro science or contributing a small amount to any effort. The biggest problem is the food industry serving shit in large portions,

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