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by jghn 2y ago
That's mostly what I meant by once in a blue moon tactical situation. Even then, I don't generally want someone hovering over my shoulder. And I don't love hovering over someone else's shoulder either. I'll usually
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by jghn 2y ago
My resistance to XP is mostly driven by me having 0 desire to pair program with any regularity. Maybe once in a blue moon for something very tactical. This was true when I first encountered it in the early aughts, and it's true now. No
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by jghn 2y ago
Java is an "it depends". Are they writing early aughts style enterprise Java, following early aughts patterns, and using early aughts frameworks? Or are they using fairly modern Java, doing things in a fairly modern way? I've
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by jghn 2y ago
Got it, that makes sense. And yeah, one place I worked tracked time in 30 min increments for instance and stuff like bathroom breaks were just lost in the noise of that. Current place is at the minute level, so stuff like that doesn't
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by jghn 2y ago
How much unbilled time do you have? If you're expected to bill 40 hours/week, right of the top that means you have a more than 40 hour work week because by definition you can't be going to the bathroom or eating lunch. Then i
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This does sometime become a red flag for some companies. Deserved or not, some people will view people with a lot of consulting experience with suspicion if they're a product company. The reasoning is that consulting groups tend to not
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by jghn 2y ago
It's more just that your day to day *should* change over the course of 15-20 years. What I'm referring to are situations like people who have current day to days that read exactly the same as it did in the early aughts. For instan
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There's nothing wrong with that per se, especially for a company. I'm only referring to hireability in new roles. If someone is staying in such a role that entire time, especially if their niche hasn't evolved such that it in
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by jghn 2y ago
It's not just the UK. As someone who is themselves in the same age range, as a hiring manager it's been eye opening to see the clusters of resumes from older candidates. It continues to boggle my mind how many resumes out there ar
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by jghn 2y ago
Are you talking about big companies like Accenture, Deloitte, etc? Or something else?
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Right there with you. The trend towards video content instead of written sucks so much.
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I don't disagree but people talking about current rates as if they're terrible distort reality. It really wasn't that long ago (aughts) that rates in the 5/6% range were viewed as historically good. And I'm old en
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by jghn 2y ago
Go down to Dunkin'. Grab a cruller, have an extra large, three Parliaments, take a big dump, that’s kind of the routine.
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Are you claiming that it's not possible to use bluesky without running into such content? I've been using it since early on in the invite era and have yet to come across it at all. Just like with Twitter, I only look at the feed s
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by jghn 2y ago
The military
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by jghn 2y ago
I had a debate recently with a colleague who is very skeptical of LLMs for every day work. Why not lean in on searching Google and cross referencing answers, like we've done for ages? And that's fine. But my counterargument is tha
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by jghn 2y ago
> it’s known that there’s no intelligence To you & I that's true. But especially for the masses that's not true. It seems like at least once to day that I either talk to someone or hear someone via tv/radio/etc w
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by jghn 2y ago
This is me as well. For me it's not "socializing = energy drain" or the opposite. It's more about situations. In most situations I find talking with people, being in crowds, etc to be draining. But plop me into what is a
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by jghn 2y ago
> The staff didn't know what to do and closed the store early. This was literally a bit in the Y2K episode of King of the Hill. Hank goes to buy a new "Y2K compliant" computer. The cashier couldn't ring him up and fre
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by jghn 2y ago
I would argue that Scala drove Kotlin. And over the last 10 years at least, it's been Kotlin driving Java. What I saw happen was Kotlin taking over the mantle of "better java" from Scala, and aiming for an 80/20 type lan
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by jghn 2y ago
> there’s blatant favoritism to star players This has always bugged me across all sports. For instance in baseball, while it's gotten a lot better over the years, the inequality of how strike zones were applied was annoying.
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by jghn 2y ago
> always-on high beams are now common or if SUVs + superbright beams I think it's a little bit of both. I believe the latter started the trend, and that confusion has led other people to just say screw it.
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I'm convinced that even at that time the effects described were at best the product of getting drunk off of very high proof alcohol, and probably some opiates in their daily routine to boot.
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> I can earnestly say Kerrygold (or Irish butter from ALDI) makes a real difference than regular butter. Was it Irish butter specifically or the butterfat %age? And if the former, did you compare to Normandy AOP butter?
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by jghn 2y ago
Agreed. I'm a big fan of that stance. Part of what irritates me about the Rust love train is this pre-exists Rust.
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I'm getting pretty tired of hearing about "safe" rust. And I love Rust. The language's promoters are pushing a vision of a world that's just not true. And while memory bugs are an important class of issues, logic bu
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by jghn 2y ago
Not according to General Beringer of NORAD! :) [1] [1] https://youtu.be/iRsycWRQrc8?t=82
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by jghn 2y ago
An anecdote regarding this bug that always cracks me up. My college roommate showed up with a shiny new pentium machine that year, and kept bragging about how awesome it was. We used some math software called Maple that was pretty intensive
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The problem is that the proposed solution made no sense. If the surgery is taking longer than expected, that is not something driven by the anesthesiologist. And yet the proposal would be complicating the billing/payment relationship o
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> you barely have the ends meet for essentials This exact debate showed up on another thread here the other day. While I agree with you, I was surprised to learn that many people view it to mean that tdon't have anything extra *afte

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