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by jstx1 4y ago
They had fewer options to choose from but they didn’t have discussion forums, stackoverflow, youtube and all the other wonderful resources to get help and learn from. And once you decide what to work on, most of those other options out ther
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by jstx1 4y ago
Maybe it's a clickbait title, or maybe you really feel old and confused, I'm just not seeing it - only 35 years old, experience in devops, backend, ML, getting good feedback for your work. It just looks like you don't know wh
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by jstx1 4y ago
Or with the toy programming language from Crafting Interpreters - https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html
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by jstx1 4y ago
Fundamentally a growth in supply could lead to deflation. But that's not specific to startups. And it doesn't mean that companies necessarily have an incentive to do it even if some amount of deflation / reduced inflation is
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by jstx1 4y ago
Nobody is claiming that most people make $400k. Take the median numbers by country from the article - $187k in US vs $108k Europe - that's still a significant difference.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> led me to think they pay way under market value in the UK. This isn't true; you can look up their salaries - they're one of the best paying companies in the UK.
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by jstx1 4y ago
That's a separate issue, the difference in the social safety net is hardly relevant to the people who work at the data jobs that the article talks about.
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by jstx1 4y ago
When granted, that's accepted quite widely when people talk about compensation.
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by jstx1 4y ago
European salaries are kinda sad.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Sounds about right. I don't really have a training budget and if I did it would still be hard to justify since I don't need to use Rust at work.
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by jstx1 4y ago
It seems interesting but £510 is a lot for 2 days of currently unknown content.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Maybe it will be worse, or maybe it will be much better by next year. Either way you kind of do the best you can in the existing job market, no point in panicking.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I mean there's resources that approach it that way. I can recommend CS50 - they have a web development course that follows up the main CS50 course, and shows exactly what you're describing about the different components fitting to
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by jstx1 4y ago
1. No. 2. These languages were never very popular to begin with. "I was seeing more HN posts about it in the past" doesn't equate to "the language was popular before and now it's dead.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Mayonnaise, NOT butter The internet told me this would be good and it really wasn't. Probably just different tastes though.
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by jstx1 4y ago
1. At least 2 different cheeses that work well together. 2. Bread shouldn't be too thick (so the cheese can melt). 3. Use butter (on the outside of the bread and/or in the pan). The only technique is to manage the temperature - lo
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by jstx1 4y ago
Of all the nice things to say about Julia, popular isn't one of them.
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by jstx1 4y ago
In the UK they still have next-day delivery, sometimes even same-day depending on what you're buying and at what time of the day.
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by jstx1 4y ago
"Ask HN: I don't like spending time here. Should I do it anyway on the off chance that it helps me make more money?" No.
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by jstx1 4y ago
You're right, they do. For some reason I thought that 13 was the first lineup that had a mini.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> However, I generally don't need to write the low level code that justifies the increased complexity of the borrow checker. Your criteria are so specific that it will be easier to just learn how the borrow checker works.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Does anyone need to be encouranged to do anything? Expose kids to programming when they're young, give them resources and opportunities to learn and the ones that are interested will get deeper into it; and some of the people who don&#
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by jstx1 4y ago
To be fair to Apple, the 1st gen SE came out in 2016 with a 2015 chip and a 2012/2013 body, supporting it for this long is very impressive. There's still the later generations SE (I'm very happy with my SE2) or the 13 mini.
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by jstx1 4y ago
You probably mean 13 mini.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Very - you can predict success to some extent based purely on people's yearbook photos: > Here the authors find that inferences of power from photos of the faces of the managing partners of America’s top 100 law firms significantly
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by jstx1 4y ago
Always? Pretty sure that there are also toxic people who just go about their lives without realising how they affect others. And even if you’re right, there should be some nontoxic people in toxic environments and they should able to talk
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by jstx1 4y ago
You're getting caught up on the word honest instead of giving practical advice.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I'm not sure about this. Given that OP is being managed out and the culture is toxic, their relationship with this company has an expiration date anyway, the question is how to manage things in the meantime. I don't see the point
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by jstx1 4y ago
> If your potential future employer is a friend of your boss he'll find out pretty quickly you are "a nice guy but an under-performer". This is so unlikely that it's not worth changing so much of your behaviour for it
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by jstx1 4y ago
> When your LinkedIn profile has keywords like "senior" and "lead" you start getting scraped. And some people still say that titles don't matter.

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