jongjong

52 ms·

931.
by jongjong 2y ago
Some attributes I don't like in people: - Nit picking/pedantic thinking. - Snitching. - Keeping score/counting favors. - Blaming. - Attacking ad-hominem. - Latching onto words instead of principles.
932.
by jongjong 2y ago
Thanks. I'm considering getting into cyber-security. It's disappointing because I much prefer building stuff than trying to break stuff but the way the tech industry is going, I think there is a lot more money to be made in findin
933.
by jongjong 2y ago
Many outages can be summarized simply as "Too many clients attempting to perform an action at the same time." This is a common situation after a sudden crash or reboot... After recovery, sometimes clients try to reconnect to the s
934.
by jongjong 2y ago
I'm burned out currently so I chose a remote job for lower pay to allow me to reflect and recover... But unfortunately this job isn't as 'low stress' as I hoped and I don't seem to be getting out of this burned out
935.
by jongjong 2y ago
I can relate. I chose my current job with a pay cut because I needed something remote WFH and low-stress to allow me to process WTF happened to my career. After being highly ambitious for almost 10 years and literally moving across the worl
936.
by jongjong 2y ago
These days, you need to fake optimism in order to get or keep a job. Reality of this industry is that if you hit any hurdle at all during your career... Whether it is your own fault or someone else's, it may trigger a kind of avalanche
937.
by jongjong 2y ago
DEI has ruined many people's careers and lives. I'm not sure I can recover.
938.
by jongjong 2y ago
They could incorporate porn into each event so for example, they can have sex while racing at the same time. Maybe they can also eat while running and having sex. Might as well. In the pole vault event, they could try to eat a hot dog in mi
939.
by jongjong 2y ago
Oddly enough, I started thinking more like this. I think it's because I've felt discriminated against myself and thinking about ways in which I myself discriminate against certain animals such as cows, pigs and chickens helps me t
940.
by jongjong 2y ago
Maybe you meant getting a PR merged. Then 3 days seems possible depending on the approach. At my current company, the team is small so approval process is quite fast and not too fussy.
941.
by jongjong 2y ago
Same. I guess those who weren't laid off have to work harder to make up for the reduced work capacity and to give credibility to their managers' narrative that efficiency has improved by x%. This doesn't mean that all the wor
942.
by jongjong 2y ago
We can test and change them independently, some features just require changing just one repo but most features affect multiple repos. But yes, essentially, it's a ball of mud in our case anyway because the separation between the two mo
943.
by jongjong 2y ago
It sounds like one of those big companies that's just very well hooked up to the institutional money printers and the main challenge for them is making up narratives to justify the money that's flowing into their coffers unconditi
944.
by jongjong 2y ago
Haha yeah, in my experience, they use less JavaScript than most tech companies out there. Their image is very enterprisey, so Java, C... You don't think of JavaScript when you think of Oracle.
945.
by jongjong 2y ago
Not sure if you're serious. I can't remember working for any company that took more than a day to review a PR. I think this company took about 1 day to provide QA feedback and I was thinking that it's so slow. In startup land
946.
by jongjong 2y ago
Yeah, it feels like the system created all these jobs because it could afford to support all that deadweight, but most of those people were not creating value; they were not contributing to the company's success so much as merely mooch
947.
by jongjong 2y ago
I once worked on a large project in the past where it took 3 days to rename a field in an HTTP response because of how many services and tests were affected. Just getting that through QA was a huge challenge. Working in a large dev team, fo
948.
by jongjong 2y ago
I'm now working on a codebase which is quite large (13 micro-services required to run the main product); all containerized to run on Kubernetes. The learning curve was quite steep but luckily, I was familiar with most of the tech so th
949.
by jongjong 2y ago
Tough times. I feel like this is caused by massive capital misallocation over decades. The vast majority of tech companies should not exist, if not for the financial environment propping them up. Now with interest rates going up, there is l
950.
by jongjong 2y ago
How are they good? They literally helped my competitors to out-compete me using free money from a money printer. I had to work hard for my money to buy stuff from the same markets; whose prices they drove up using free money. If you factor
951.
by jongjong 2y ago
Advocating and lobbying for system change such as abolishing reserve banking and other such monetary manipulations. It's dystopian that some people have millions of dollars of passive income; easy money falling on their lap each year,
952.
by jongjong 2y ago
>> We must act now to keep the dream alive. Our family made eight $1 million donations to nonprofit groups working to support those most currently in need This kind of thing triggers me. Not because of the humble-bragging but because
953.
by jongjong 2y ago
OKRs and KPIs are scams. Human language and psychology are both vague and malleable. The kinds of people who are good at meeting OKRs aren't the kinds of people who can produce quality work. OKRs are mostly about lowering expectations
954.
by jongjong 2y ago
They should also make them in a small roll format...
955.
by jongjong 2y ago
As an open source dev, I like GPL for that reason. It was a kind of trick which kept some monetization paths open for the dev. It no longer works though because now most companies refuse to incorporate GPL libraries into their products. The
956.
by jongjong 2y ago
Of course, GPL and copyleft is a kind of trick which serves the interests of the one who owns the exclusive copyrights. GPL was a real gold mine in the early days because companies didn't bother to distinguish between copyleft and perm
957.
by jongjong 2y ago
The problem with simple silver bullet solutions is that the best ones can handle maybe 80% of reasonable requirements... But it's absolutely impossible to solve any problem which happens to fall in the remaining 20% of problems. This f
958.
by jongjong 2y ago
It may sound like it but I didn't name a specific political solution. I believe that what we have now is a horrible form of crony corporate socialism-capitalism hybrid; it literally borrows the worst parts of all systems. I think capit
959.
by jongjong 2y ago
I wouldn't say many because we can probably count them on our fingers. I personally don't feel so concerned about that sector though because it's a capital intensive industry. My take is that monopolies in such industries are
960.
by jongjong 2y ago
I find this to be an impossible problem because everything that any consumer could possibly want already exists. In fact, there are too many things and wealthy people are literally going insane trying to absorb the enormous supply and range

More ›