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by kkarakk 8y ago
yup we're seeing product teams getting shit on all over every product space if they're not core. Amazon did the same thing to their UI/Search team with their sponsored results that turned web/app search into a massive cl
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by kkarakk 8y ago
you may not feel immediate effects but at a societal scale it does come back to bite you
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by kkarakk 8y ago
KaiOS is the new up and comer
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by kkarakk 8y ago
yup a lot of companies still require a degree with a good gpa as a bar for entry(even if you've passed the interview!) the question is would you want to work for these companies anyways? the rigidity is usually representative of system
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by kkarakk 8y ago
--health;profit++; have always been the rules of our world. healthy doesn't factor into it. you just have no option but to squeeze in a salad,hug and a pushup(or two) in between.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
on the other hand,the pdf manuals i see are all bloated messes of technical jargon that i have to google search to understand-ofc the only time i need to look at the manual is when i can't figure out some behavior, like oneplus 6t&#x27
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by kkarakk 8y ago
hey old man, devs can have hobbies outside of learning more about development so i don't know why you're making a dig at gaming. a quick 15minute session of fortnite in the middle of the day is quite nice
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by kkarakk 8y ago
closed source is the default. and where is the racism? you don't even get ethics lectures if you're educated as an engineer in a third world country. anecdotally i was educated from a pretty good private college and even there the
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by kkarakk 8y ago
remote services are already offering less pay to employees in countries with a lower standard of living. instead of lifting talented people up it's just adding to the sense of stagnation. the only options to get a "good life"
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by kkarakk 8y ago
i mostly avoid "smart" tvs as i don't want to have to replace them after 3 years when the firmware/software is no longer updated. Chromecast helps me stay free of that paid obsolescence cycle and upgrade according to a
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by kkarakk 8y ago
yeah i remember my cousin telling me about how she -an american citizen educated in private schools her whole life- had to study english for some reason as part of the requirement of becoming a doctor. the pre-med requirements are pretty mu
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by kkarakk 8y ago
Russia set the standard in interfering in the US elections and therefore the world...
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by kkarakk 8y ago
pretty much it, also azure is slightly better at pricing in asia
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>though we're working on this now beetlejuice,beetlejuice,BEETLEJUICE!
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by kkarakk 8y ago
yeah i visited g+ primarily for the active dev communities oriented around google products. def just once or twice a week and the activity on those "circles" was pretty slow
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by kkarakk 8y ago
also there are a lot of developers globally with looser morals because of different cultural values. in my experience anyone from a -stan country will make whatever you want as long as you give them a decent salary and a visa
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by kkarakk 8y ago
yup you can(surprisingly imo) make a pretty penny on freelancing just setting up static websites on wix for people making stuff is never going to go mainstream when you can just pay someone to do it for you
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by kkarakk 8y ago
automated zombie bot is still paid, automated zombie bot does at it is told
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by kkarakk 8y ago
how else are you going to feed a group of people in a big city? e,having people make their own food is irritating(and can't be included in "perks"), having a staff kitchen/canteen is a cost center. how would you do it be
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by kkarakk 8y ago
Can your whole online business be trivially replaced with a phonecall to a local service? congrats you're not a company that can succeed in the tech space because the competition is skyhigh. Nowadays i'd say a tech company is defi
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by kkarakk 8y ago
handwaves these are not the ideas you thought of
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by kkarakk 8y ago
they don't need to - your github/ side projects tell them all they need to know & you're probably required to submit them to even be considered. you think someone with a full time family is going to have the same output i
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by kkarakk 8y ago
haha guess what, the second piece of the puzzle is that you have to be rich enough to have time to study AND a place that is close enough that commuting to college and work doesn't mentally wipe you out everyday. why do you think silic
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by kkarakk 8y ago
i've seen twitch streamers get swatted and their viewers start their lights/play "fuck the police" via alexa via paid donation TTS software. this just removes one step in the process
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by kkarakk 8y ago
reminds me of pebble's "exit"
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by kkarakk 8y ago
most of the things i use for development on windows/linux are open source by comparison whereas buying a macbook led me to spend 200 bucks on utilities. definitely feels like an apple tax
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by kkarakk 8y ago
and they're not going to untrain themselves because you want them to. you're just going to get tagged as the email spammer
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by kkarakk 8y ago
how to become a social recluse 101: miss a couple of these facebook events, start getting known as an awkward anti-social person because you went to someone's launch event but not to their birthday party(coz bday invites only go out on
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by kkarakk 8y ago
but then you have to learn docker and how docker does networking is the overhead they're talking about.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
current gen skilled hobbyists grew up with fancying "physical" objects. a RPi is a physical object manipulating your data. a hosted VM(even if hosted on your own personal machine) doesn't have the same "tactility"

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