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by madrox 5y ago
To reply to the title and not the article, tech companies do pay engineers to stay…just probably not you. That’s the point of RSUs, LTI, and other grants that are unlocked through retention. More get released to employees during their tenur
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by madrox 5y ago
This reads like a blog post I would have written ~15 years ago after giving up on Remember The Milk. It frustrated me that I still had to organize my own mind and the todo app didn't actually take responsibility for telling me what to
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by madrox 5y ago
I believe agile fails for the same reason devops fails. The people who did ops or waterfall project management didn’t go anywhere. They just got told they’re using a new buzzword with the same responsibilities. Try telling a classically tra
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by madrox 5y ago
Ed Catmull once pointed out that the movie industry is actually quite cooperative and wants everyone to succeed. The more successful someone else's movie was last week tends to positively influence whether the audience will come back t
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by madrox 5y ago
> The difference with the TV is that TV didn't have individual, high granularity demographic and usage data to conform to its users' most exploitable side that ultimately drives mindless "engagement". TV ratings had c
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't think I'm conflating them at all. One definitely drives the other.
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by madrox 5y ago
Having heard this call for years, I've come to the conclusion that this is the 21st century's "TV rots your brain." We've replaced channel surfing with doom scrolling. TV stations are mostly run by white men, too. A
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by madrox 5y ago
Copilot, to me, feels like a faster Stack Overflow. We already copy code snippets from all kinds of places across the web without thinking about how it's licensed. Sometimes, we copy whole functions and files. We're responsible fo
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by madrox 5y ago
I’ve once thought this way, but over the years I’ve come to decide that such formalization will never outpace frameworks. Frameworks are easier to grok and scale better than rigorous education.
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by madrox 5y ago
As a former Amazon manager, I don’t like how this characterizes management as a mustache twirling Machiavellian. I don’t know what they saw, but I totally believe they predict a third of people on pips to fail. I’m actually surprised it’s t
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by madrox 5y ago
We used to call this WYSIWYG editing, and it ushered in a whole generation of FE and flash devs. Editors like this went out of favor because, sadly, it can never quite keep up with the cutting edge.
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by madrox 5y ago
I haven’t had to do much interviewing over zoom, but none of these feel like dealbreakers to me any more than wearing casual clothes to an interview. This industry used to expect candidates show up in suits not many decades ago. What matter
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by madrox 5y ago
I've learned a lot about the internet by reading the history of the wild west. The open frontier where the only rule was what you could do with your own hands. Then comes the frontier towns where the ability to enforce law was difficul
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by madrox 5y ago
Because the genie is out the bottle. For better or worse, many tech companies have worked hard to make your workplace your social hub in an effort to retain employees and get them to work longer hours. That's already happened, so now w
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm not sure where we go from here, but not being able to escape anxiety-inducing situations in a workplace is the definition of a toxic work environment. I don't think the answer is a return to 20th century "no politics at w
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by madrox 5y ago
Ironically, I'd dismiss this if it wasn't PG saying it, but this has survivor bias written all over it. No one remembers the ideas that were dismissed by domain experts that did not make it. This is the exact same argument that sa
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by madrox 6y ago
Whenever someone expresses this, I think about Feynman talking about burnout. There was actually a post about it on HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874875 Beyond that, I’ll offer as a 40 year old who’s been there.
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by madrox 6y ago
I met Dan at BarcampLA, and his talks stuck with me. I’ve relived moments from those talks throughout my career, and I’m a more security conscious person because of it. He was one of those rare security folks that still retained his fundame
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by madrox 6y ago
Much like humans and apes, my experience as a games-adjacent engineering leader is that game dev and non-game dev practices diverged somewhere in the early 90s, and are now two completely different animals. The ideas that feel so elementary
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by madrox 6y ago
I'm nearly 40, and didn't relate to anxiety at all until I was 35. Until then, I would use lots of different words to describe how I simply wasn't good at being in a number of situations. I now believe that was a better way o
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by madrox 6y ago
If there’s anything different about GenZ, it’s that they’re crowdsourcing their plays, making them behave more like a distributed mutual fund than a bunch of gamblers. Time will tell if that performs better.
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by madrox 6y ago
"Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay
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by madrox 6y ago
As someone who does not engage, that has not been my experience.
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by madrox 6y ago
> When you feel yourself getting bothered, angry and you have to prove someone wrong on the internet, step away. You are taking valuable time from your own projects and quality of life. The insidious problem is that, by the time you have
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by madrox 6y ago
I honestly don't know where the power is better spent. There are quite a few industries I personally find superfluous in the world according to my personal set of values. Ironically for this context, I consider bitcoin to be among them
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by madrox 6y ago
Maybe this is the case, but when we start judging what constitutes unnecessary usage of power, we get in the business of telling people what they can and cannot do with hardware they own. Last I checked, the HN crowd really doesn't lik
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by madrox 6y ago
These are the sources I've used when I've gone looking, but it doesn't help that we don't actually do industry-by-industry energy consumption comparisons. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication&#x2F
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by madrox 6y ago
These are the sources I've used when I've gone looking, but it doesn't help that we don't actually do industry-by-industry energy consumption comparisons. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication&#x2F
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by madrox 6y ago
Do you play video games, then? Because arguably it isn’t NFTs that consume power...it’s the GPUs. GPUs do way more than NFTs, and there is data that shows that gaming consumes way more than blockchain. If my mom is any indicator, many consi
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by madrox 6y ago
I feel this way whenever I watch YouTube streams with live chat. It’s unwatchable. Unlike Twitch, the chat is an overlay on the video (not sure if that’s true everywhere or not). I’m positive some designer made a really beautiful looking st

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