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by makk 2y ago
I'm pretty happy with how PIPs work. The first and last time I was put on a PIP I went into early retirement the next day. In doing so, I caught the VP Eng who did the PIP completely flat footed. It turns out they did the PIP against
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by makk 2y ago
Reminds me of expertsexchange.com before they put the hyphen in it (now experts-exchange.com)
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by makk 2y ago
Who is it for?
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by makk 2y ago
Yeah, boring old trope.
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by makk 2y ago
So frustrating. Keep trying! You’ll find someone who values your background.
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by makk 2y ago
Yep. Craftspeople take their craft seriously, sweat the details, learn the patterns, go deep. And that’s complimentary with marketing oneself as Ruby/Rails dev or whatever else the market needs at the time.
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by makk 2y ago
Choose different publications.
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by makk 2y ago
publishing != talking
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by makk 2y ago
Yes, this is seriously flawed for other reasons but is the best way when you can.
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by makk 2y ago
Yeah. And never mind debugging that codebase. How about being on call for that codebase in production.
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by makk 2y ago
> Categorizing yourself exclusively as "a Ruby developer" is a career trap. And a lucrative one at that.
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by makk 2y ago
What are you talking about? “The industry”? Securing the trust? ??? I’m done here.
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by makk 2y ago
<< And this is where it gets fun. Who is doing the regarding? MSNBC? Me? You? Their peers.
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by makk 2y ago
The internet has lost its mind.
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by makk 2y ago
If there is an equally well regarded academic who holds that contrasting view, then yes I agree with you have that lecture otherwise there is an appearance of favoritism. But none of us should feel obliged to conjure that lecture if no such
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by makk 2y ago
That is an unserious argument. Or, at least, one made in a vacuum. When making judgements there is following the letter of the law and then there is making equitable decisions, which takes into account both the letter of law and the context
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by makk 2y ago
I’m using the private beta of Solver by Laredo labs. It’s very early. That said, having tried Cody, cursor, copy/paste chatgpt… Solver is far and away the best. It’s a straight up pair programmer. Point it at your GitHub repository and
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by makk 2y ago
?
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by makk 2y ago
> I hate to say this… Then don’t say it. Do us all a favor.
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by makk 2y ago
Aren’t they a reference to Heinlein? Seems “grok” is on point for what it does.
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by makk 2y ago
> How to polish a turd over time. You mean iterating and pivoting.
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by makk 2y ago
It’s all in the names. Highest rates of other-driver deaths are caused by vehicles named “Ram” and “Gladiator”.
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by makk 2y ago
Not sure. Tell me about it.
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by makk 2y ago
> Who regulates the regulators? The voters and their representatives, if they put their minds to it.
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by makk 2y ago
> Notably, less experienced developers showed higher adoption rates and greater productivity gains. And that is why demand for senior developers is going to go through the roof. Who is going to unfuck the giant balls of mud those inexper
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by makk 2y ago
Why not start 10?
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by makk 2y ago
What if the test is irrelevant to the current times? “Those with ChatGPT solved 48 percent more of the practice problems correctly, but they ultimately scored 17 percent worse on a test of the topic that the students were learning.” So, in
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by makk 2y ago
Agree. Unless there is a breakup clause that pays the employee (er, contractor) for severance, it puts all the risk explicitly on the employee, which is horseshit.
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by makk 2y ago
I’ve yet to find a way to deposit social expectations in my bank account.
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by makk 2y ago
> a major commercial bank I work with couldn’t improve credit risk models because critical data was stuck in PDFs and emails. Great use case! Worked on exactly this a decade ago. It was Hard™ then. Could only make so much progress. Getti

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