idoby

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by idoby 6y ago
Learning how to use the compiler and type system (if your language has them) to get as close as possible to "if it compiles, it works", is invaluable. Novice programmers just want the code not to error out, and compile, they just
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by idoby 6y ago
You wouldn't, to be honest, since I don't have a website, twitter or FB at the moment, and it's on the backburner. Besides, it's probably way too cynical and toxic to actually publish. Just look at the responses here. Al
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by idoby 6y ago
It might become treatable soon, but I'll be too old anyway. Good thing being a pilot was never a dream of mine :)
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by idoby 6y ago
I wish I could upvote you twice for the irony
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by idoby 6y ago
There's a certain truth to be considered that there are some things you will never be able to master, not even after 20000 hours. Usually people identify these things early on in life, but sometimes it takes a while. For example, I rea
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by idoby 6y ago
I've worked $150k/year jobs, the expectations of work pace/output are implied, but completely there. They'll pay lip service to mental health and work-life balance, but you'll see the real incentives in who gets bon
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by idoby 6y ago
I just read it as short for "cloud infra project with controls modeled after popular PaaS products"
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by idoby 6y ago
I've been doing this for a long time, rarely with good consequences for myself. So thanks for the positive comment. I'm actually writing a book about this.
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by idoby 6y ago
It's great that you know this about yourself and have been lucky enough to be able to make these kind of tradeoffs. You are in a much better place than a lot of others.
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by idoby 6y ago
True, but being able to BS is a great reason why people would pay you more.
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by idoby 6y ago
Higher paying jobs don't pay higher for no reason. One of those reasons could be that you have unique skills worth paying for. Another reason is as compensation for squeezing every last hour of work out of you. Not saying you can'
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by idoby 6y ago
Most people, even in tech, consider their job to be just that - a job. In the worst case, they hate it. Also, you seem to be content with being an individual contributor engineer, which is perfectly fine, but if you want to get ahead, you&#
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by idoby 6y ago
Only if you do it badly. It's very likely that the people at the top of this "small world" in your town have done exactly this to get there.
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by idoby 6y ago
They do it because it works. Yes, they're bad teammates but they will move up, and they don't care about you or how it feels to be their teammate.
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by idoby 6y ago
That depends on what you want to achieve with your time. Want to do something meaningful? Start your own business/startup, volunteer or become a cancer researcher (all debatable of course). Want to survive and get promoted in a corpora
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by idoby 6y ago
There's another issue to be considered: a manager whose employees constantly discover and solve problems by themselves or as a group without involving the manager, will generally assume no problems were to be had. This is very bad as t
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by idoby 6y ago
Man, you sure put a whole bunch of words in my mouth. All I'm saying is that unions are created in order to block change that they perceive to be in opposition to their interests. This applies to wages, automation and other things. Thi
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by idoby 6y ago
This is not ideological flamebait, this is historical truth. 18th-19th century trade unions, of which this union is a modern descendent, can be directly linked to Luddism and other forms of anti-progress mentality. Examples also abound thro
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by idoby 6y ago
So this is basically a bot that opens PRs to add contributors to your readme under different headlines. Nothing specifically about recognizing code or non-code contributors. Are we really too lazy to open vim and add a line?
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by idoby 6y ago
Because they're being hypocrites: they're not putting skin in the game, they're not resigning, they're just virtue signaling. So they don't actually care about what FB is doing. This is why they're being dism
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by idoby 6y ago
Disagree with the overall "do I have anything more compelling to do" notion. You can have a perfectly good and valid life as a human on earth without having set foot in a university. When you decide to attend a university, you alw
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by idoby 6y ago
Sorry to read that, mate. FWIW I don't think your government had a course of action that would have made a lot of difference. It caught everybody on the planet off guard and exhausted already-provisioned healthcare resources pretty fas
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by idoby 6y ago
I'm sorry you feel this way, but it kind of feels to me like you're linking everything back to a political landscape that you don't like, but which doesn't have a lot to do with the current state of things. I'm not
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by idoby 6y ago
As a non-American, why do you care about who is in the white house so much? How does it affect your life concretely? Try watching less talking heads/browsing Twitter less, maybe, and you'll feel better?
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by idoby 6y ago
With psych stuff, I can't help but wonder how much of it is shooting the arrows and then placing the target...
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by idoby 6y ago
True
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by idoby 6y ago
I love initiatives like this, but IMO if you're doing a self-study "degree" aimed at practical AI knowledge, I would: * Drop the compilers and database courses. * Add an intro to statistics course. * Pick one domain, since yo
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by idoby 6y ago
Couldn't find the info on the website, does the JS shown in the samples run in the client's browser? If so, I'd be coupling my client code to the implementation details of my server side DB. Nope, no thanks. Too many scars to
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by idoby 6y ago
If the language barrier is the only reason keeping you from applying to the Technion, or any other university in Israel, graduate courses in Israel will generally be given in English if a non-Hebrew speaker is present. It's standard pr
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by idoby 6y ago
I believe the author is referring to the year MMDCCLXXII. I have no idea where this 2772 comes from.

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