ironlake

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by ironlake 3y ago
Are you worried about "catastrophic population decline" or "upset children"? Scientific consensus (I have no citation) is that human population will start to decline in a generation or two, though I don't think anyo
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by ironlake 3y ago
Your premise appears to be that financial security leads to a lower birth rates. The inverse would mean that financial insecurity leads to higher birth rates. I don't know what weird narrative you are telling yourself that makes these
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by ironlake 3y ago
There don't appear to me any real technical challenges to social media. How do you attract a large audience and how do you moderate content to keep that audience around. So it comes down to marketing and moderation. Vertical video was
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by ironlake 3y ago
Why would anyone pretend to read Heart of Darkness? At 40k words it's one of the shortest novels ever written. The writing absolutely slaps. Anyone with any interest and experience in literature would find their first encounter with th
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by ironlake 3y ago
It's not a good book. The metaphors are tortured and unrelatable.
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by ironlake 3y ago
I read Code Complete twenty years ago and it was a revelation. Revisiting it recently, it seemed dated and bordering on irrelevant. It wasn't that the ideas weren't good, they were just incorporated into modern language and API de
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by ironlake 3y ago
You've climbed another level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and now the needs below are no longer interesting to you, they provide diminishing returns when fulfilled. Many paths are available to you now: some choose philosophy or
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by ironlake 3y ago
And think of all the money we'll save on jackets
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by ironlake 3y ago
I was laid off in 2016 and it took me four months to find another job. It was a month from the first screening interview to my offer date with the company that eventually hired me. I think of the process as taking months and not weeks.
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by ironlake 3y ago
iOS developer here. I have separate Apple accounts for work and home. My phone is on my home account, so I don't have access to Teams or Outlook on that. And I don't use iMessage on my work machine because pretty much all company
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by ironlake 3y ago
>watched every previous supposed threat to my career fade away after the hype cycle. Same. Some threats I've seen: Offshore development – in the early 2000's it was all anyone could talk about. The American software developer w
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by ironlake 4y ago
I think there's a very real opportunity for an AI manuscript evaluator. I don't think there's a solution that does this now.
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by ironlake 4y ago
I'm a software engineer and I also write fiction. (90+% of my income for SE, as you might guess). For the fiction, editors are getting flooded with submissions written or assisted by LLMs, so the competition has increased and editors h
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by ironlake 4y ago
Full-time software developer with a traditional employer (not a startup). I don't work nights and weekends. I would have no problem with the occasional extra labor in special circumstances, but if it was a regular thing I would just fi
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by ironlake 4y ago
I've been laid off twice: once in 2007, again in 2014. The first layoff was from a mid-sized company (150 employees). I didn't get much severance, but it wasn't a surprise since that company had competitive pressures they wer
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by ironlake 4y ago
>Are there any silver linings to this scare? Maybe the rest of us will realize that the investor class does not know what they're doing. Yes, all of them. Which is OK. They were "right" in the past and got rich. That doesn
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by ironlake 4y ago
You should ask your doctor. Not just a yes or no question, but have a conversation. If your primary care physician can't address your concerns, as you've stated them here, then get a second opinion. That said, myself and my family
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by ironlake 4y ago
So five years after cities collectively lost their minds trying to get Bezos to like them [1], Amazon is backtracking. The original search was for just one Second HQ, then they selected two: Virginia and New York. But when New York complain
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by ironlake 4y ago
From the NY State Bar: "Experienced attorneys must complete a total of 24 accredited CLE credit hours during each biennial reporting cycle (the two-year period between your attorney registrations)." No, they don't have to lea
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by ironlake 4y ago
I've been writing code professionally, full-time for over twenty-five years. I've never had a period of unemployment that lasted more than a few weeks. The truth about remaining an individual contributor and staying out of managem
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by ironlake 4y ago
So employees of seed startups should have higher equity if they work in the office even once, since apparently walking through the doors of a leased cube farm leads to much better results for the management class. From my perspective, as a
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by ironlake 4y ago
I clicked the link because it sounded interesting and maybe useful. But then I wasn't quite sure what it did. I wanted a before and after photo. It's a simple concept. The landing page should be equally simple.
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by ironlake 4y ago
As a parent, two pieces of advice. All babies are different. Yours my sleep a lot or not at all. May be sick or well or bubbly or colicky. No plan ever survives first contact with a baby. Also, it goes faster than you think. When you'r
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by ironlake 4y ago
In his biography of Jobs, Isaacson has some details that might be a start for you. It's focused on Jobs and not the company as a whole, but you'll get a picture of what it was like.
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by ironlake 4y ago
The new badge doesn't include any ID verification. It just indicates you are a subscriber to Twitter Blue. The old badge will look different but operate the same way as old verification. So, in effect, the new badge is just flair on a
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by ironlake 4y ago
My personal experience. I've been in the industry for over twenty years and never worked in a place where drug use was normalized. Most of the workplaces had a drinking culture to some degree: beers in the office fridge, regular happy
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by ironlake 4y ago
I graduated into a recession. It was fine. It never hurts to pay attention to the macro economy, but in the end, just live your life and pursue the career you want. Software development may eventually go the way of textile manufacturing (i.
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by ironlake 4y ago
Online advertising is a reasonably mature space. It's unlikely that it will have any radical changes without some external change. Apple made a big impact last year with their privacy changes, and maybe we'll see some shifts in ad
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by ironlake 4y ago
Surveilled doesn't come into play here. The text messages were ordered to be disclosed and the people involved complied. It doesn't matter that the conversation was encrypted, if you have a record, you have to turn it over. Using
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by ironlake 4y ago
Personally, I would rather type than talk when interacting with a computer. The only time I use voice interfaces are when the physical interface is so poor it's just easier to use voice. Apple TV devices are an example of this.

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