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by kermatt 7mo ago
Or maybe it's time for the rug pull.
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by kermatt 7mo ago
What local-first tooling are you considering to replace it?
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by kermatt 7mo ago
Are there any companies that are _not_ chasing short term profits? Current layoff trends would suggest there are few.
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The 49MB web page(thatshubham.com)
857 points by kermatt 7mo ago|375 comments
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by kermatt 7mo ago
So should browsers that allow it to be messed with.
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by kermatt 7mo ago
What I can't trust it to do is properly represent me as a candidate the same way a human recruiter can. I don't expect answers to random or ad-hoc questions. The A person can clarify a question that is part of a candidate screen.
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by kermatt 7mo ago
If company culture means anything, then the first impression set by HR matters.
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by kermatt 7mo ago
I encountered two of these in a recent search, and they put me off so badly that I started ignoring subsequent opportunities that started off like this. I don't mind written Q&A as part of a screening, but AI interactions, via voic
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by kermatt 7mo ago
Maybe a single person should not be able to override the decision of a jury + judge. Acting in opposition to the law because you expect to be pardoned indicates that the process may be flawed Both of the recent presidents have made some ver
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by kermatt 7mo ago
When I was in early school grades, a common question in math classes was "Why do we have to learn this, when we can just use a calculator?" The best answer was "How do you know when the calculator is wrong?", for example
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From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics(wesmckinney.com)
1 points by kermatt 7mo ago|1 comments
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by kermatt 7mo ago
> renaissance of re-exploring the natural world I wonder if there was a period of time where people who were inclined to do that were able to dedicate themselves to exploration instead of working to pay for healthcare. I know that's
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by kermatt 7mo ago
I can't speak to the time frames for the article, but I know that the current administration and its policies had a significant negative impact on our business across CY2025. I ran the team that maintained our business analytic data, a
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by kermatt 7mo ago
I come from healthcare staffing. Contracts were heavily affected by cuts in federal programs that are critical to some rural regions, and uncertainty caused by inconsistent messaging about the future of such programs. Some areas are very de
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by kermatt 7mo ago
On a side note, it is interesting to see Mark Pilgrim rise from the "dead": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim#%22Disappearance%... His Python books, although a bit dated, are something I still recomm
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by kermatt 7mo ago
https://archive.is/CIfdu
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by kermatt 7mo ago
> "Door Desk" "Dorsk" (not the Jedi).
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by kermatt 7mo ago
The right answers are usually something in the middle. Don't email spreadsheets (i.e. make copies that drift), don't use K8S unless it is a technical requirement. For some reason, this middle ground gets the smallest population.
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by kermatt 7mo ago
They failed him because of that one question?
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by kermatt 7mo ago
The linked page says very little. Before downloading something, is there a description of what we would be installing?
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by kermatt 8mo ago
$6,800 per person is absolutely absurd. If the event lasted an entire month, that's still $225 per person per day.
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by kermatt 8mo ago
If 40% of your company has ever been negative value than the problem starts at the top.
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by kermatt 8mo ago
> 24 hours is the longest you can leave a candidate waiting. You have been warned. Need to tell more recruiters.
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A tool for (Go) code clone detection(github.com)
2 points by kermatt 8mo ago|0 comments
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by kermatt 8mo ago
If you are one of the 2/3 replaced by a bot, will you be able to pay for those things?
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by kermatt 8mo ago
When talking about the economy, how much of these numbers consider secondary effects of AI? For example when there are large scale layoffs attributed to AI (which in some cases may be a smokescreen to reduce headcount), the people that are
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by kermatt 8mo ago
> Prefix caching can be done just as easily in either case. Any chance this API exists for the category of developers where caching is not obvious or familiar? In other words, those vibecoding their way through a project, where the resul
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by kermatt 8mo ago
In 3 decades of IT I have never seen such executive excitement combined with recklessness, and it is appalling. Testing new and cutting edge tech has always been a good idea, but this rampant application of it is the ultimate Running-With-S
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by kermatt 8mo ago
> Starbucks made headlines when it gave 2% raises to all corporate employees in an effort to reduce costs Maybe I'm jaded, but I suspect this is the only reason. Later points in the article about being more equitable don't seem
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by kermatt 8mo ago
Interesting config used a Scheme-like format. Any ideas on how that came to be?

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